Just to give a quick sense of what it's like to be here, the sun has been out a whopping 2 whole days in the past week and a half. Today was one of those lucky days, and it got up to about 2 degrees C, which I believe is close to 35 degrees F. It never gets overly cold, like it does back home, and apparently this is the coldest it has been in a long time. But it is always wet. The ground is never dry. However, I've been lucky in that it has not rained but once.

As my professor said before I arrived...the sky is gray,

but the grass is green,

and the sea is sublime.

When I first arrived, the weather was what I (and my sinuses) noticed, so that's the first thing I'll tell you about. It's supposed to warm up in the next couple of days, with some rain. Finally.