One of the great things about going to school in Cork is amount of international students you come in contact with. There are 2000 international students at UCC from 98 different countries.
Some fun facts I have learned...
1. In Ireland, to dissect a body you have to get permission from the Church.
2. In Quebec, if you live with someone for a year, you are considered common law married. However it has to be 12 months consecutive, so if you take a week long vacation apart each year, you are not married.
3. In Holland, they ride bikes a lot. A friend of mine here said they used to have fights because everyone wanted to ride their bikes to elementary school and there was only so many bike racks.
4. Germans make fun of Austrians. French make fun of people from Belgium.
5. In Germany, you have mandatory either civil or military service for around 9 months after graduation from high school.
6. In Quebec, you have a mandatory two year program after high school if you want to go to college in Quebec.
7. An American girl I met said someone came up to her and was upset that she wasn't obese, wearing knee high socks with flip flops.
8. In Spain, a drink is to mix wine with coke.
9. In Ireland, you have these mystery tours where you are picked up by a bus, driven to a undisclosed small town and have to drink the bar dry before you get back on the bus to come back home.
I like #9, have you done that yet?
ReplyDeletePerhaps we shall have to try #9 on our visit?? :-) Interesting "facts" though...
ReplyDeleteThe trivia queen is at it again. Dad
ReplyDeleteI want to do number 9. oh so much.
ReplyDeleteWhy am I not surprised :-)
ReplyDeleteNah, I haven't done number 9. My roommates did it but I was sick. They said it was an event and they saw a guy chug an entire small bottle of vodka in front of them. The small bottles come in sizes, this one was a noggin. Slightly larger is a shoulder.
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