So since i have class in like 10mins and i have other things to do i'll make this quick. last night was so cool. we went irish dancing. now when i say went, i mean we watched. it was so intense maybe i'll join in next week after a couple of pints. but it was so cool. i took some pictures and i'll upload them on to facebook soonish. other than that not much has happened. tomorrow is my roomies bday, she'll be 22, so we are throwing her a bash where we wear fancy dresses. im wearing my little black dress...o lala:-D i'll let you all know how it goes. i think this weekend we might be going to connemare(probably spelled wrong) so that should be cool. ok im off. miss you kids!
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Invincible
Hey guys! you all are probably thinking...wow another update how exciting! or not whatever but the reason for all of this....i have internet acess at school now. so i can get online for free!!! what a concept i know. anyways along with that exciting news last night me and the crew watched invincible. yes the one about the eagles. and yes becuase i brought it with me to ireland. everybody appreciated it but most people here are not eagles fans. there is even a cowboy fan in my midst. yuck. but i guess i'll deal he's a nice enough guy so i will forgive. watching inivincible was another momentus occasion. it was the first night i had not gone to the pub! i was proud. 6 days in a row..i felt it as time for a break. it was nice i was in bed by 12 and got 8 hours of sleep. a first to happen here. another first this morning i had a hot shower. it was amazing not to be absolutly shivering while trying to shower...what a concept. what else i had 3 classes today, and all of them actually taught. scientific revolution was first, a history course on galielo and newton and such pretty interesting. next was another history course, this one on politcal ireland in the 20th century, it seems pretty cool. and my last class which i just got out of was english, a history of genres. i think i will like this one a lot becuase the professor is very interesting and he is an american so i can atcually understand him without trying to get past an accent. So thats an update on classes. tonight we are going irish dancing at one of the pubs, should be fun i might need a pint to get me in the dancing mood though. miss you all!
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Monday, January 8, 2007
Let the classes begin....
Hi all! i hope everyone is doing well. Im quite fine hanging out in an internet cafe hopefully for the last time because tomorrow i get my password to finally get on the computers at school. so no more paying like 2 euro for a half an hour or something absurd like that. yesterday consisted of some shopping, nothing exciting i got slippers, ketchup, and milk. and of course my boys played. thank god i found a pub that shows the games. they played ok, could have done better but they won and thats all that mattered..o and the cowboys lost so its a good weekend all around. let me just say though the games here suck. th picture kept going out so we would miss whole drives. like i missed most of the 4th quarter with the exception of the final 2 mins, which was the important part. so it all worked out. more exciting than that those is while we were watching the game, some eagles fans came in and i asked them where they were from, guess where...philly...they attend st.joes. so it was nice to talk to people who were somewhat familar. this next statement is for all masquies...guess where there favorite place was....lynarch! so we talked about the new managment and our favorite things to get there. it was very exciting.
in less exciting news classes began today. i attended calculus II which all he did was introduce himself so it was like 10 mins. and then i went to a history course that doesnt actually start till tomorrow and then in about 45 mins(5 here time) i have an english class. something on genres and there history, shouldnt be that bad. cool thing here though is classes are only 2 hours a week. and i dont have any thursday or friday...so i will be traveling!!! the classes dont sound that hard...i would just prefer not to sit in them. however this school is like 4500000 times bigger then lasalle and i got soooooooo lost like seriously lost. so confusing. but whatev i'll survive. ok i think i will head out now cuz i dont knw how much this costing me and i only have 5 euro. miss you kids lots!
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in less exciting news classes began today. i attended calculus II which all he did was introduce himself so it was like 10 mins. and then i went to a history course that doesnt actually start till tomorrow and then in about 45 mins(5 here time) i have an english class. something on genres and there history, shouldnt be that bad. cool thing here though is classes are only 2 hours a week. and i dont have any thursday or friday...so i will be traveling!!! the classes dont sound that hard...i would just prefer not to sit in them. however this school is like 4500000 times bigger then lasalle and i got soooooooo lost like seriously lost. so confusing. but whatev i'll survive. ok i think i will head out now cuz i dont knw how much this costing me and i only have 5 euro. miss you kids lots!
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Saturday, January 6, 2007
A croatian man, rain, and general ramblings...
Hi guys! How is everyone? Im doing just fine, loving Ireland missing you all. We started orientation this past week and i figured out some of my classes, i think i am going to have off on thursday's and friday's and i'll be finished classes because they are all lectures by the 1st of april, including exams. soooo the rest of that time i'll be traveling europe. should be super fun. ok so what have i done since the last time i have updated...the pubs of course.
haha every night so far we have gone to different pubs and visited with the natives. i have met so many nice people, drank far to many beers and had some very memorable moments thus far. we have been going to manly americanized bars, still have their irish flare but not super traditional. last night we went to a very traditional bar with music and had a blast. i had blumers again, but for me this time by a sweet old irish man who said i had a pretty smile. then i talked with a croatian man! super exciting his name was ivan, like my brother, and he had heard of my last name. he also understood me when i said goodbye in croatian! it was super cool. so the pubs have been fun we will prob go out again tonight.
In other less exciting news the apartment is pretty cool very pretty(there are pics on facebook). Our shower, one of them stopped working boo but that land lord fixed it. however i still have yet to have a hot shower. i think the irish are just used to the cold all the time. haha. but what else. the food. very similar to american food, but a lot less flavor. it tastes very bland...good but bland. the cookies are good though. i think sometime this week we are going to try and get traditional irish food. i'll let you know how it tastes.
ok i think that will be all for now becuase i still am in an intrernet cafe and this costs money! but i miss and love you all and i'll talk to you soon!
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haha every night so far we have gone to different pubs and visited with the natives. i have met so many nice people, drank far to many beers and had some very memorable moments thus far. we have been going to manly americanized bars, still have their irish flare but not super traditional. last night we went to a very traditional bar with music and had a blast. i had blumers again, but for me this time by a sweet old irish man who said i had a pretty smile. then i talked with a croatian man! super exciting his name was ivan, like my brother, and he had heard of my last name. he also understood me when i said goodbye in croatian! it was super cool. so the pubs have been fun we will prob go out again tonight.
In other less exciting news the apartment is pretty cool very pretty(there are pics on facebook). Our shower, one of them stopped working boo but that land lord fixed it. however i still have yet to have a hot shower. i think the irish are just used to the cold all the time. haha. but what else. the food. very similar to american food, but a lot less flavor. it tastes very bland...good but bland. the cookies are good though. i think sometime this week we are going to try and get traditional irish food. i'll let you know how it tastes.
ok i think that will be all for now becuase i still am in an intrernet cafe and this costs money! but i miss and love you all and i'll talk to you soon!
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Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Wow it really is super green....
hi all! im alive. right now im at an internet cafe so i am going to type as quick as i can in the next 10mins. ok so the flight over wasnt that bad, a little turbulence(thanks dave for the bad wishes on that one) but other than that not bad. and golden girls you know how we talked about sitting next to cute boys on planes. well i got one. alex he is studying in galway and get this he is a theatre major. he is studying in galway for the semester so maybe ill see him again. we landed they announced that we would be staying on the plane instead of getting off. and you know what i realized, they really do have accents. you know how you alwasys think that maybe they overdo it on movies or that they really dont talk that way....they do. its pretty cool. so me and the 20,000 other study abroad kids on the flight stayed on the plane while we dropped people off in dublin and then took the 20 min flight over to shannon. as we were flying over we realized just how green it is. like really all it was, was green for miles and miles, now i know why they call it the emerald isle. afterwards we landed in shannon we all lugged our luggage up to the bus stop and took a hour and half bus ride up to Galway, where we then walked 10mins with all of our luggage up to our house. let me tell you if you guys visit, pack light. it was a longish walk and my stuff was heavy.
so we get to our apartment, and let me tell you, disorginization is not the word for it. the landlord had no idea who we were staying with so me and my room mate, Sarah, ended up with two girls from marquette named Rose and Beth. They seem very nice. After we finally arrived we walked to the grocery store so we could buy cell phones and some food to get us through. Next we went and got dinner, guess where we got it....McDonalds. I know McDonalds as my first Irish meal. it tasted different but whatev. Following that we walked back to our apartment and unpacked. Next was the pub.
So me and my roomies, and some people they knew from Marquette all headed down to the pub. Called Kennedy's it is just one of many on the square by our apartment. I got a bulmers which is an irish beer, kinda tasted like cider very good. i wasnt quite ready for a guinness i'll get there. but we stayed and talked very cool pub feel. then we went back to our apartment and played catch phrase. awesome time. finally we went to bed and i slept for more than 12 hours because i was so tires. i went to bed at 22 and woke up the next morn or afternoon at 23:15. a very nice sleep.
after i got up though i took the coldest shower known to man. i literally could not stand being underneath it. then we made a shopping list and i am here. so thats it for now, i think today we are going to try and go to the school. and then maybe a pub so it should be fun! i miss you all so much and thanks for the comments on the last post! love you allllllllllll!
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so we get to our apartment, and let me tell you, disorginization is not the word for it. the landlord had no idea who we were staying with so me and my room mate, Sarah, ended up with two girls from marquette named Rose and Beth. They seem very nice. After we finally arrived we walked to the grocery store so we could buy cell phones and some food to get us through. Next we went and got dinner, guess where we got it....McDonalds. I know McDonalds as my first Irish meal. it tasted different but whatev. Following that we walked back to our apartment and unpacked. Next was the pub.
So me and my roomies, and some people they knew from Marquette all headed down to the pub. Called Kennedy's it is just one of many on the square by our apartment. I got a bulmers which is an irish beer, kinda tasted like cider very good. i wasnt quite ready for a guinness i'll get there. but we stayed and talked very cool pub feel. then we went back to our apartment and played catch phrase. awesome time. finally we went to bed and i slept for more than 12 hours because i was so tires. i went to bed at 22 and woke up the next morn or afternoon at 23:15. a very nice sleep.
after i got up though i took the coldest shower known to man. i literally could not stand being underneath it. then we made a shopping list and i am here. so thats it for now, i think today we are going to try and go to the school. and then maybe a pub so it should be fun! i miss you all so much and thanks for the comments on the last post! love you allllllllllll!
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Monday, January 1, 2007
So fitting.....
1:32 chicago time....only 6 more hours till i am on the flight to ireland. wow. i cant believe its real. it didnt even hit me last night when everything was packed and i was falling asleep. it didnt even hit me when i was on the flight to chicago. but now as i sit and wait for this plane to arrive its hitting me. my room mate will be meeting me here in about 4 hours and we will start this adventure across the pond. so today as it was hitting me that i wont be in the u.s.a for 5 more months, how would i commerate this day? i did it in a way only an american could, i got mcdonalds. as i enjoyed me chicken mcnuggets fries and a drink i embraced it because for the next five months im not american im irish. not the kind of irish that justs likes to boast that they have irish descent, im one of these as well, but an irishman(actually woman) who lives there. this is so exciting. how many people actually get to have an experience like this? not many i guess. i've known all along that this expeience is going to be amazing and i was excited but now with it actually upon me i feel like a five year old who just found out that she is going to disney world. i think finally the excitment is outweighing me missing everyone. not gonna lie im gonna miss you all like crazy but its finally dawning on me that in order to enjoy this experience i need to take full advandtage and not miss home too much. so thats what i am doing from now on im looking at this as "live these 5 months to the fullest that way when i come home i'll be able to tell amazing stories". this way i wont look back with regrets. i have only a few regrets in my past and i really prefer if not living this experience to the fullest was not added to the list. so im out cuz the battery is about to die on my laptop. but as stated in previous entry im excited. thanks to amy alot for the words of wisodm, i really appreciated them they helped to calm some fears and get me more excited. so here's to the last post from the u.s.a the rest will be from the emerald isle. love you all and happy new year.
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