authority conflict

first we received a text and an email from UCC saying;

'...In view of the extent of the damage to core academic facilities the university has taken the decision to postpone all lectures and other teaching activities for the week commencing Monday, 23^rd November 2009 and to recommence classes on Monday 30^th November. ...'

and then the Medical School sent an email that goes;

'To all Third and Fourth Year Medical Students, further to the message you will have received from UCC in relation to the postponement of teaching at UCC next week, please note that teaching at our clinical sites (including rotations, clinics and lectures/tutorials etc) is going ahead...'

and then UCC sent another email saying;

'...Please note the confirmation below that ALL teaching has been cancelled until November 30th and ALL assignments have had a week added to their deadline.

This is the same for ALL students of ALL disciplines regardless of what certain departments have claimed...'


It's like they're bickering or something. Confusing.

In other news, Heba the Kuwaiti is stranded because her apartment is flooded so now she's staying over in my room for a couple of days - I'm providing a living space for a flood refugee! LOL never thought that would happen.

The flood here is purrrty bad. Especially since it's raining again today. It's funny though, how Cork town got into a massive flood after ONE whole day of rain. You would think that a country like Ireland, who's famous for it's rain after the leprechauns, would have a better draining system/infrastructure/plan/whateveryoucallit for floods.

To be fair, though, River Lee runs through the whole of Cork and the town is practically surrounded by the river. So when River Lee bursts its banks - terus sadaqallahul'azim.



xoxo
Atiqah
my house is safe because it's pretty high up.