Friday, March 30, 2007

I Can't wait till next semester

Despite all of the work that'll I'll be doing, and the lack of money I will have. I am so excited for next semester. I decided on my nutrition class instead of art. Im pretty excited, its all about the part of biology that I actually enjoy!

And we got our townhouse. A15! Im so freaking excited.

Ok thats all for now. I have a paper to write.

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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

50 days

Today is the start of the 50 day countdown till I come home. Ah! Thats so crazy. I've been here 87 days already. This time is flying by so fast. I want to come home but I also want to stay. Not for the people, but when will I ever get to live in Europe again. Other than that, I'm ready for home. Like if I could, I probably would come home tomorrow.

Things with the roomies are a little better. We had a little switchero, Im with Rose and Beth and Sarah are together. So it seems to have helped some. Tomorrow is super homework day. I need to get a 2500 word paper written. I hope I can do it.

I register for next fall's classes is today. Yipee for being considered a junior for registration and that I get to do it a week earlier than everyone else. I can't decide between art class or nutrition. Its very difficult. On one hand if I start taking nutrition classes now I can probably get a minor in by the time I graduate, that would make me a Chemistry/Biochemistry Double Major with a minor in Nutrition. Which I think would look pretty good on a resume. But that also means alot more hard work. My other option is a Digital Art class, which I think would be so much fun, but wouldn't look so hot on my resume. So if you read this in the next 20 mins, let me know what you think.

Im really excited because IHOR picks the townhouse for next year on friday! Yea. We will be absolutly official with a place to live.

O yea...I'm done with classes for the semester. Ireland's got on thing going for it.

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Monday, March 26, 2007

Blah

I'm in such a mood lately. That isn't my fault. I hate that people can bring you down when you know they shouldn't be able to. I'm having major roomie issues, that I did nothing to bring on, and I'm being targeted through passive aggressiveness. Now I know I am not god incarnate on earth, but I see myself as a pretty nice person, and I'll give everyone a chance. I'll be nice to you even if you have screwed me over a thousand times. I just hate that I can't do anything about this because they won't bring the issues up to me, they'll just talk behind my back. And as you all know, I don't do confrontation. So I just have to wait this out. I basically have 1 month left with the roomies, other than Rose(who I actually like). So I will survive. I just hate that I am letting this get to me and it's ruining my time. I need to be happy no matter what.

In other news. I had fish and chips the other day. It was actually really really good. I haven't had fish in about 10 years so this was a big jump for me. I'm proud of myself for trying it. I've gotten over a bunch of my weird food things, I eat peanut butter and jelly now, which I previously didn't do. I also eat my cereal with milk. That's huge for me because I have never done that. And I had fish. I'm just knocking everything out.

Other than that I still miss home, a lot. I'm excited because my family will be here in less than a week. I'm so excited to see my mom. Like really excited. And Ivan turned 18 on Friday so that means he can drink legally in Europe, which means I can take him out!! So I just have to get through this week, which is also the last week of classes, and it should be fine from here. I just want the drama to end. Blah

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Thursday, March 22, 2007

yes...they do cut hair in ireland.

For those of you who dont get the reference, before I left Pam asked in all seriousness if they cut hair in Ireland. Which all of us responded to with utter silence to the silliness of the question. Anyways beyond a doubt they do cut hair. Check it out. I was getting so fed up with the long hair that I cut it all off!

Thats it for now.

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

i forgot something

there is a cryptosporidium outbreak in galway. meaning we have to either drink bottled water or boil water. we can't even brush our teeth with the bad water. the other day i looked in one of cups and it had stuff in the bottom of it, it looked like an agar plate with a culture growing on it. how nuts is that? one of my roomies got really really sick and another one was feeling bad. i really hope i dont get sick. silly galway.

heres to hoping I dont get sick.

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a deserted island and hail

So Laura is here to visit. Yipee Skipee its so nice to see her. We have been having so much fun. Yesterday we went to Inis Oirr in the hail. It was a very interesting trip. Fun but everything was closed on the island so it was hard to really enjoy ourselves becuase we were starving. We were so loopy from the hail excellent quotes insued, including Laura "Sutable for vegetarians, but wait it has vegtable oil in it?" and me "Shipjacking, hahha he's trying to steal the boat" o so funny. Some LaSalle ladies also visited from Rome. It was so nice to see LaSalle faces even if I only knew one of them but the other girls were very sweet and nice. We had a good time. Makes me miss home alot. I just got my exam scheduale. Im done, like complelty finished everything inculding exams on the 3rd of May. Afterwards I have one trip to London and thats it. After that im gonna be bored as hell and really really anxious to get home.

But before home, I had St. Pattys Day. Which was alot of fun. I enojyed it in the typical Irish fashion, a parade and then alot of time in the pubs. Wow what a fun time. It was crazy here rediculously packed in every pub. But I think its nothing crazy when compared to the states. I think it is definalty crazier there, but I mean I cant complain, I had St. Pattys day in Ireland! Yeaaa!! Ok Im off maybe i'll go to class later. Miss you all!

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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Im a momma and a wife!!

Again this is for masquies. If you arent one than you will not understand this at all.

Anyways!! Yipeee Skipeee! Im so excited. A wife and a kid all in one day, this is so much to take in. Yea for wifey kate and baby liz. I wish I could be there for this. I miss you all so much. And baby week is only going to make me start missing more and more things, like the show, formal, and then kiss the wall. booo.

Side note: Everybody let me know who you have! I know Val is chris and amy's kid. (Val thanks for letting it be known on facebook!) Everybody else get on it!

<3 you all!!

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Monday, March 12, 2007

Feeling Accomplished

I am very happy today. I got a B+ on my first Irish assignment. Apparently I'm not going to fail out. I also discovered that I only need a 1.0 to maintain my scholarship. Yipee. And I went to all three of my classes today!!!! I havent done that in ages!

I also found out today that I have to take classes at LaSalle this summer. Like no choice, I'll be there. I'm excited about it. I'll have the first half of the summer with home friends and then I'll be able to spend time with my LaSalle kids. It's the best of both worlds.

And I talked to 4 of my lasalle favs last night. It made me very very very happy. O ya and I'm giving birth tomorrow:-D And Laura arrives on saturday. This is going to be a good week I can tell already.

Miss you all like whoa!

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Sunday, March 11, 2007

O-la-la Paris

Paris. Wow. It may be the most beautiful place that I have ever been. It was absolutely amazing. All of the things I have seen in textbooks, that I never thought were actually real. And then to finally see them with my own eyes. There is no way to explain it. It is by far the best place I have visited. Ok now on with the whirlwind 39 hours that was my Paris trip, again this will be super long.

So we arrive in Paris, to the smallest airport ever, and take the hour long bus ride into the city. So we arrive in a plaza, that we have no idea where it is. It’s not on our map. Yikes. Then we find a metro and a map and figure out where the hell we have to go. At this point it is 12:15am. We have to catch the yellow train and then the purple one and find our hotel, by 1 am otherwise we cant check in and we have no where to sleep. So we get the yellow train, but by the time we get to the purple one, it’s not running anymore. So we go back up to the Paris streets, find a map and then proceed to walk the fastest couple of blocks in my entire life. Me and Gina make it to our hotel in time, 10 minutes to spare. We get up to the receptionist, and the guy looks at us because we are sweating to death and because we are freaking out that we made it in time.

Now for the real fun. I tell him my name and who we are and he says, “You were supposed to check in at 11am, I have already given away your room.” So I freak out. Not like yelling or anything. But in my head my mind is racing like wild because OMG we don’t have a place to stay. So I tell him that I am positive that I put 1 am on the thing and he told us that he could help. He had one room left and we could have it for just a few more dollars then we had originally thought of paying, however we didn’t not have a room for the next night, but he would find it for us. How nice. So we get up to our room, and it was gorgeous. It overlooked a cute city street and we had two double beds and a shower inside of our room. How nice. So we sleep. And the next morning we get up to conquer Paris in a day.

So we start by walking to find a croissant. I mean hey, we are in Paris and we can have a pastry. We find delicious ones. Omgoodness. So amazingly delicious. As we eat our croissants we walk to find the Pantheon to find Lauren. We get there walk around and she finds us. And it was soooo exciting. You know how you and your friends from high school are always like one day we will meet up in Europe and travel together. It was so cool to actually do it. So we meet up and head off to Notre Dame.

Notre dame was absolutely gorgeous. The windows, the rose ones, you all know which ones I am talking about, were stunning. We walk all around inside and then decide to climb the bell towers so that we can see the view from the city. We climb the thousand billion stairs to the top and the view was gorgeous. You could see the entire city. I think it was really cool because you could see the Eiffel tower in the view. After taking in the view we walked down the stairs, which was super scary because they were really tiny and it was a spiral staircase. It took a lot not get really dizzy.

After Notre Dame we went back to the hotel so that we could find out where the receptionist had found our new hotel. We get there and he found us one right up the street that was only 16 euro and had a toilet en suite. Whoopieeee. So we go and find it and it was so nice. Very pretty and cute. We then decide it would be cute to have a picnic in front of the Louvre. So we find a super market and buy Wine, strawberries, brie and a baguette. Then we walk to the Louvre, find ourselves a nice little grassy spot. It was so cute. We felt very European. We sat and talked about our lives, and caught up a little because we hadn’t seen each other since Christmas time.

After our picnic we decided to walk to Sacra Coer, which is super super far. We walk and as we do so, we see the Opera house, you know the phantom one. It was so pretty. As we continue on we see Moulin Rouge. It was a very cool walk, until we hit the hill. Now Sacra Coer is located on the highest point in Paris. Now this hill was intense, like super super steep. We climb to the top and see this cute little town with an artist’s square. Really beautiful stuff, of the city and the various monuments in Paris. I bought a print of Sacra Coer, with a city street in front of it, and then proceeded to leave it in the airport. Boo, but my friends still haven’t gone to Paris so I am going to have them buy me one. The church was so pretty inside. I think it might be prettier than Notre dame. You just walked in and you were struck by the mosaics and paintings. It was gorgeous.

After Sacra Coer, we decided to take the metro to the Louvre because we were really tired at this point. At the Louvre, we saw all of the famous paintings and sculptures that you only ever see in textbooks. The Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, Madonna on the Rocks, The coronation of Napoleon. It was absolutely amazing. You could never believe that they were real until you actually see them. I got goose bumps just because my mind couldn’t grasp the fact that I was seeing them for real. We did quite the abbreviated tour, because well the Louvre is huge. You can’t imagine all of the works in this museum. It took us like two hours just to see what we wanted to see, we had to pass over so many other things.

Following the Louvre we walked back to Lauren’s hotel to rest our tired feet a little. After a little break we went to McDonalds to get big Macs because we were starving. So delicious. We chowed down, bought a bottle of wine on our way back to the hotel, and proceeded to have some before we went to the Eiffel tower. Again we were against the clock. It was like 11:15 and the subway again closes at 12:15. So we get to the Eiffel tower. It is amazing. During the day you are just kinda like wow it looks nice, a symbol of Paris and all. But once night falls, it just looks so beautiful. I was completely awestruck. We stayed for like 15 minutes. Enough time to see it twinkle, which it does every 15 minutes and then we headed back to the metro. On the metro me and Gina had to depart from Lauren. We said goodbye on the subway as she got off to transfer trains and we continued on to the hotel. It was so nice to see her. I was so happy that we had the opportunity to have an amazing day in Paris.

Again me and Gina were basically running to catch our next train, which we did. Afterwards we walked quickly to our hotel so that we could get there before a curfew, which we weren’t sure there was one or not. Then it was bedtime, we had to get up early the next day.

The next day we get up and get another croissant and take the metro to the Champs Elysses. Again absolutely amazing. We bought crepes and walked up to the Arc de Triumph. Again amazing, it so hard to believe that you are seeing those things when they are right in front of your face. After the Champs Elysses we found our bus to take us back to the airport.

Even with our flight being delayed almost two hours, and me losing my poster in the airport it could not dampen such a wonderful trip. It was stunning and so much fun. It is by far the best trip that I have been on so far. I loved it so much. And would love to go back some time. It so different traveling with people you know so well. I also think that is a reason why I loved it so much.

So that’s Paris. I’ll post later about the trip me and Gina made to the Aran Islands. And the rest of her week here. It was so nice to see someone from home. I can’t even describe.

But anyways I miss you all like crazy. Pictures of Scotland, Paris, and Aran Islands will be up on facebook today.

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Monday, March 5, 2007

To masquies:

To my masquies who I love (If you're not lasallian this post probably has absolutly no importance to you.)

I just have some advice. I know I'm not in the country and you all can take it or leave it. I've been being a creepo and spying on all of you and getting emails about stuff that is going on. I know I'm not there so I dont know the context of everything. But it seems everyone is beginning to hate each other and I hate that. People have differences thats true, but everyone in general in the Masque are pretty good friends, and I hate that things are falling apart. I want to come back to this organization next fall with things at least running and people being able to be in the same room.

Eboard elections seem to have destroyed everything. I admit last year I wasnt around for them so I dont know if the same free for all occured after them. But it seems this year the 'shit' is hitting the fan. Can't you guys all just have a big meeting and talk and get over this.

So heres my advice. Looking from the outside in. It seems to me all of this is petty. Who is running things doesnt matter. The point is the Masque is there so we can all do things we love; act, direct, do tech type things, and in general have fun with each other. Dont let stupid things get in the way of everything we all hold so dear. You dont all have to be best friends, but be civil.

And that ends my motherly type rant. I miss you all so much.

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Friday, March 2, 2007

Another quick one....

Gina is coming to visit. In less than 48 hours. She will be the first person from the USA I will see in 2 full months. I am so excited. And I'm going to Paris on tuesday to see Lauren. Goodness Im so glad its March.

Tonight me and the roomies are making sloppy joes. I am sooooo excited.

Ireland is beautiful today. I didn't have to wear a coat. Its sunny and warm.

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Thursday, March 1, 2007

The strange and the absolutly adorable

Two posts in two days? Is it the end of the world? No, I just decided I wanted to update a little more. This probably won't last very long so enjoy it.

First for the strange. Today I was walking to the supermarket, because I was absolutely out of food. Literally I think I had half a loaf of bread and an egg. Not exactly the sustenance needed to live on huh? I diverge, anyways, I see this man as I am walking, with the worst comb over.....ever. No really, I don't think anything, anything will be able to beat this. The comb over consisted of maybe 20 hairs, maybe, I might be exaggerating. And these hairs were not long enough to stretch over this mans bald head, they stopped short of the half way point. The poor man looked ridiculous. His wife needs to help him out there.

Next, for the adorable. I meant to include this in yesterdays post, but I figured it was unnecessary. So when I was at the Glasgow airport preparing to come back to Ireland, a younger man, and his two children came and sat down in front of me. The little girl had a Ribena juice box (kinda like Ireland's juicy juice) and then set it on the table. When she wasn't looking a mean cleaning lady came and threw it away because she thought it was trash! Shocking I know! So the little girl goes back for it and its gone. She gets all upset and her dad is like I'll phone the guards. So he pretends dials his phone, and talks to them. And he says to the little girl 'They're going to find it, no worries love' and the little girl answers 'Please don't let them take me away.' Which I found to be absolutely adorable. So freakin cute, I couldn't help but crack a smile. I love little kids with accents.

Anyways today as been blah, I only have one class a little later and then I think we are going out to the pubs tonight. Yea :-D!

I did see a rainbow on the way to school. Ireland is pretty.

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