The
best way to meet local people is to head out to the pub on any night of the
week. Every time we go out, it seems we come home having had a good
conversation with someone we didn’t know before. Because classes are only once
a week, you don’t really have time to get to know people unless you’re super
outgoing. But a pub is the perfect atmosphere to meet new people.
I
haven’t really made too many big purchases while abroad. As I’m not really that
much of a spender as it is. The different currency isn’t all that much for me
to get used to. It only takes a couple of weeks to be able to pick the
different coins from your wallet without having to look at them. However,
keeping within a budget has been hard for me because of the constant rate of
change as far as exchange goes. The economy at home has been fluctuating a lot.
So, the amount of the dollar has seen better days. With this, it makes it
harder to keep track of the exchange rate because it changes on a near daily
basis.