Pictures from London will be posted soon

Sorry for not blogging the past two weeks. I was actually waiting to talk about London after I got back from my trip to Germany. Unfortunately there were some turn events that caused me to be in Ireland for the weekend. Friday night I had planned to try and stay up for my 5:45 am bus to Dublin to catch my plane to Munich. Well I had set my alarm for 4:30 because I was exhausted and got about 3 hours of sleep. I hit the snooze and woke up 15 minutes later, thinking I would only rest my eyes for another minute I turned off my alarm. The next thing I knew it was 6 am and I missed my bus. I called my parents frantically trying to figure out what to do, I was also the only one going to Germany this weekend and there was home alone. See I was supposed to go and visit my older cousin Christine, who was in Munich on business, but because I made this mistake of thinking I was fine without an alarm I missed the only bus that would get to Dublin Airport on time to catch my 9:30 flight, which was the only flight out to Germany. I even looked into changing my flight for today and I was already too late, I had to be 4 hours before departure in order to change my flight and I was only 3 by the time I thought of it. This was just the icing on a very bad week!

It’s the middle of November and that means at Providence its housing and class registration. Both of which I dealt with abroad. This only makes things ten times worse when things go wrong. So if you are planning to go abroad make sure everything is settled, housing wise and course wise before you leave. Have an idea of what you want to do and if you’re on the second day of registration, like I was, make sure you have a secure back up plan. If you see a class you need already over-enrolled days before you register get in contact with the professor and see if you can over-enroll, that way you are not as frantic about getting all your classes. Also work out housing before you leave, make sure you have a plan, even if your friends do not like to plan. It’ll make life easier on you; trust me I had a plan and then things changed a few days before housing was due causing stress and it was hard to get in touch with my friends at the moments I needed to and vice versa due to the time difference.

As for last weekend with London, it was absolutely amazing!!! The city was spectacular and I went just about everywhere. I had three full days there with a girl in my program, Christy. Friday we went over to Waterloo and did the London Eye. The view was absolutely amazing; we saw Big Ben and the Parliament from it. Right next to the London eye was a Movieum, inside there were so many different objects from all sorts of movies. They had the Dinosaur from Night at the Museum, a whole room dedicated to Harry Potter, and a Beatles section. There were so many different costumes from so many movies, props, and set designs. Inside the Beatles section was Ringo’s original drum kit, though I wasn’t allowed to take any photos, which I was upset about. I really only went there was because Christy is obsessed, but more importantly my dad is like a Beatles freak. He would have killed to see this stuff! I was more interested in the Harry Potter section; they had the Nimbus 2000, the some of the outfits the characters wore, and some of the props from the movies. It was so cool I had like died and gone to heaven. That night we went to see Billy Elliot the musical, it was really good. I remember watching the video in either my junior or senior year English class back in high school, the dancing was just incredible!

Saturday we ventured out to The All-England Club. This beat Harry Potter in the Movieum by like everything. I unfortunately had to go in alone; Christy is not a tennis fan and did not want to spend the money. I really wanted to do the tour, but I opted to see the Wimbledon museum instead. Inside I saw the trophies they give the winners and runner-ups! I saw how Wimbledon all began, I was seriously in heaven. I have dreamed about going to Wimbledon and watching the tournament and after I finished at the museum I walked around the grounds for a few moments. Long enough to see the actual standings board, it was incredible, but the best part was I actually saw Centre Court! It was a lot smaller than I thought, but it was still the greatest thing I had ever been to. After that we went to King’s Cross to see Platform 9 ¾! I took all the crazy touristy photos that Christy was too embarrassed to take. That night was Bone Fire Night for Guy Fawkes Night, I am not really sure what it was, but there was this huge fireworks display. I felt like it should have been the 4th of July, but this was crazy. There were a sea of people at Alexandra Palace along with rides and food venders. Inside, which we didn’t go to since we were too tired from our very busy day, there was a beer festival and other crazy activities. But the fireworks were incredible and I particularly enjoyed how they were set to music.

Sunday we went to Abby Road and found other people taking the touristy photos walking across the street. I even took a video of my feet as I walked across the street for my dad. We saw London Tower and both Tower and London Bridge. Since we were going to the airport that night we just spent the rest of the evening walking around Piccadilly Circus, which is like shopping central, looking at all of the Christmas lights that had been put up. It was absolutely incredible. The whole trip was.

Sorry for the long post. This weekend also happens to be a very big weekend for juniors back at PC, JRW (Junior Ring Weekend). I was upset at first I was missing it, but after talking to my aunt who is a PC alum and also missed her JRW because she was abroad; I realized I’m in Ireland which is amazing! So I just hope my friends had a spectacular time at JRW!

Two weeks of classes left! So I won’t be traveling until after these next two weeks, but next week’s blog shouldn’t be boring. Nothing here ever is! Have a good week!

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I never thought that Halloween could be crazier than at PC, but I was wrong. It was definitely the most anticipated event so far. Everyone was dressed up starting on Wednesday and celebrated right through the weekend. Though I only celebrated on Thursday, it was a ton of fun! I went as a nerd. My glasses I think made the whole ensemble as well as my backpack. My housemate Aine, went to see Up in 3D and I used her glasses and just popped out the lenses. These glasses looked like the ones the old man wears in the movie.

Gort 70 all dressed up

Friday I booked my flight to Italy! I leave on November 30 from Dublin and will be going to Rome for about three days. My friends Julie and Elise are joining me on a weeklong adventure. Our original plan was to go to Switzerland and Amsterdam for two days each after Italy, but Julie found out she has a paper due on December 3rd. So were just going to stick to Italy, but I am still so excited! That night a group of us went to the Connacht Rugby game. It was so much fun! Connacht is the Galway team and one of the four teams Ireland has. Each region of Ireland a team and Connacht is Galway’s! The best part was that the field was about a twenty minute walk or so.

We're the green team, naturally

The mascot, I am pretty sure I heard his name was Eddie

Saturday I booked my trip to Germany to visit my cousin! I also went down to Shop Street, it was complete mayhem, but I was able to get a bit of gift shopping done. Other than that I spent the weekend trying to get work done, since I am leaving for London tomorrow. I will be returning from London with loads of pictures on Monday. So expect another post either Monday or Tuesday of next week.

With the holidays drawing near it is a constant reminder of all the delicious foods I am missing out on, for example my mom’s apple pie. She usually makes on over Columbus Day weekend and since my birthday usually coincides with it, it makes for the best birthday “cake”. Also I have been having a huge craving for the best chocolate chip cookies in the entire world. My auntie Ro makes the best chocolate chip cookies and my friends at Providence can attest to it. Whenever I get them in the mail, I hate sharing but I do because my friends enjoy it when they arrive! These are just some things I am looking forward to most when I get back home!

Hope everyone had an awesome Halloween! Check back on Monday or Tuesday of next week when I talk about my adventures in London!

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This past weekend was a Bank Holiday, which means we had Monday off. WOOT!!! The week itself was very low key, after my weekend in Paris. Our program took us to Cork for the Jazz Festival over the weekend. Though they did not have anything planned for us, except dinner on Friday night, which meant we had the entire weekend to ourselves to explore Cork.

We saw everyone from our orientation and other IFSA Butler students we had never seen before, but we mostly hung out with the people from our orientation. Part of the festival took place in our hotel! In the bar there was a “stage” set up and that is where the jazz band played. We initially went out and explored the area, but went back to the hotel and saw the jazz band playing Friday night. I really enjoyed myself and the music was amazing. My dad would have absolutely loved every minute of the weekend, seeing he is the biggest fan of music that I know. Saturday I joined some friends to the Old Jameson Distillery in Middleton. This is where the original and current distilleries are located, it was very different from the tour I went on in Dublin, but all the facts were the same. Then that night we stayed at the hotel all night. After the band a DJ came in and there was a huge dance party going on! Finally on Sunday it was a three hour trek back to Galway.

Over the weekend my roommate Lindsy, from freshman year at PC, was in Galway with her study abroad friends. We met up for dinner on Sunday night and hung out for a bit. It was really great to see her and catch up. I took her to my favorite place, Kelly’s Kitchen! Great food and just great craic! Monday, the bank holiday! Casey and I spent the entire day lying in bed catching up on all of our American TV shows and then proceeded to order Chinese food for dinner. As Julianne, so accurately put it, “sounds like your kinda day baby girl,” I miss her and all my girls back at PC, love you! Those days are the best though!

Well Halloween is just around the corner and people are already going crazy! Tonight my roommates and I have already creeped on the crazy costume parties that were going on outside our window. It was complete mayhem; I can only imagine what tomorrow night is going to be like. My Irish roommates told me that tomorrow night is the night to go out, especially in costume.

Well that’s all for now, hope everyone has a safe and savage (wicked awesome) Halloween!

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Continuation of the prevous post, pictures are posted

The week itself was filled with birthday festivities, because yes I am finally 21!!! The best gift I got had to be the double stuf Oreos my sister told my parents to bring me!!! The OC and double stuf is a great combination! On my actual birthday my housemates and I ordered Chinese food and watched Dancing with the Stars! I was so excited to hear they had it over here because it is one of my all time favorite shows, right behind Friends and the OC of course.

This past Friday a group of 20 of us from my program went to Paris for the weekend. So far it was the best thing I’ve done! We went and saw just about everything. We didn’t actually get to our hostel until about 8:30 at night. On Friday’s the Louvre allows anyone under 26 in for free so Laura and I took the Metro over to the Louvre and were there for about a half hour. We did not even make a dent in it, but all we cared about seeing was Mona. So after we raced to see her, since it closed at 9:30, we spent what time we had left exploring the wing she was in. Everything was just so breathe taking, and I am not that into all that stuff.

Outside the Louvre

Saturday was extremely full of things; we woke up early and spent three hours at Versailles. It was incredible just to see a place that I had learned so much about in high school and in DWC. I saw this fountain in the gardens that I vividly remember seeing pictures of during a DWC lecture, it was so weird. The architecture of the palace was so amazing and the gardens, wow they were just gorgeous. Standing at the edge of the palace looking out towards the gardens looks like it should be fake it was so amazing. On top of the natural beauty, we had spectacular weather. We even stopped and had lunch at the sandwich place in one of the gardens. After Versailles, we saw the Eiffel Tower during the day and took your standard pictures in front of the Tower. Though my camera had died while we were at Versailles, Laura took pictures for me!

Versaille

Sitting in the Gardens of Versaille

Karyn,Casey, Laura, and I infront of the Eiffel Tower

We also went to the Arc de Triomphe on our way to Champs Elysees, it was incredible to just walk down that street and see all the shops. We then took the metro over to the Basilica and walked up all the steps, which was worth it because you could see the entire city from the steps at the entrance of the church. Inside was incredible too; it was not as amazing as the Notre Dame, which we visited on Sunday. But Saturday night Laura and I met up with one of her sorority sisters and all of the people she was in Paris with at the Eiffel Tower. Yes, I went to the top and had champagne!!! It was the best part of the night! I was just thinking to myself “Happy 21st Birthday to ME” honestly nothing will ever top this birthday.

The Basillica

Celebrating my 21st on top of the Eiffel Tower

Under the Eiffel Tower at night

In front of the Notre Dame

I am going to Cork this weekend for the Jazz Festival so I will be sure to post Sunday night. I will have pictures from both weeks as soon as possible. That’s all for now, hope all of you are having good week! Slainte!(cheers)

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Sorry for the delay in posting! It’s been a very busy, yet eventful two weeks my parents came to visit me and I went to Paris! So I made two separate posts so they wouldn’t be too long!

On October 9th, I rose early to go and meet them at Shannon Airport. When I left my house at 7:30 it was still pitch black out, I had never been out of my house that early so it was really weird. My bus was late leaving and arriving so I was delayed getting to my parents. From Shannon we went straight to Kinsale where we had lunch at Old Head, it is a golf course that is like on an island of its own! It was absolutely gorgeous; while my dad played golf my mom and I explored Kinsale. It is actually a really small town, we must have walked around the town about four times before we decided to go and just sit in a pub at 6pm. It took my father about five hours to play golf, but he enjoyed every minute of it. After dinner at Jim Edwards, the pub my mom and I went to, we went back to our hotel in Cork. We think we got a free upgrade in our room because it was amazing!

View in Kinsale

My Dad and I at Jim Edwards

My parents and I infront of our hotel

That Saturday we made our way over to Galway while hitting all of the touristy places along the way. I kissed the Blarney stone and climbed up the Cliffs of Moher. My friends, who went the week before, told me that since we had been to the Aran Islands I would not be as amazed. But we still had a good time, while waiting in the bathroom I ran into Karyn, it was so weird she was under the impression that she was not going to see me all weekend! The driving tour of Ireland was really nice, I actually slept most of. I was somewhat tired, but also I am like a baby, the motion puts me right to sleep! Out of all the years we have been going down to the cape, I fall asleep every time and that drive is only about an hour and half, so I think I missed some of the sites along the way to Galway.

Blarney Castle

View from Cliffs of Moher

I took my parents to some of my favorite places while in Galway to eat and walked up and down Shop Street. Last Sunday I did more of a tour type thing with them, after lunch at Griffens’ we went down Shop Street where I finally bought my new Claddagh ring from the Original Claddagh Ring store. It was the only thing I planned on buying; it was my birthday gift to myself! Something I will always have and remember everything about being here!

First of the two posts

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Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't updated in two weeks, my parents were in town last weekend and I just got back from Paris about an hour ago. I will be sure to post tomorrow!

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This week was pretty low key. I was supposed to go and register with the Garda on Wednesday but my friend Preston and I were unable to go at a time when the Garda was open. So we plan on going this Tuesday instead.

Tuesday I tried out for the basketball team to only find out that I wouldn’t be able to play varsity because I am only here for a semester. The plus side is that I get to practice with the varsity and still play in the Galway League, which is basically town league.

So this weekend I spent it in Dublin, my aunt Tricia was in England for work and came over for a visit. I met up with her and all of her old friends she made fifteen years ago when she was living in Ireland. She took me to all her old stomping grounds and it was amazing!! I absolutely had the time of my life and enjoyed every minute of it. We drove over to where she worked in Newbridge, late we went to her friends’ house for lunch. I should mention that I have met all of her friends before; they use to come to the Cape when I was younger. We had a big dinner on Friday night and we went out with all of her friends. We went out for a drink before dinner at this hotel, like she did when she was living here. Then after dinner we went to their favorite pub, Slattery’s. It was absolutely a wonderful time; unfortunately my camera was not working when I got to Dublin so I have no pictures. Yesterday was again a low key day and night back in Galway, we all just hung out at my place.

Classes are going well, I just had my first computer science lab which I found easy, but I am not getting my hopes up. I am sure that it was just because it was the first assignment, but we shall see. Other than that no major assignments, which is weird, but I am not complaining.

Well the countdowns to my parents’ arrival and my 21st birthday have begun; I am really excited for them to come so I can show them around. I just can’t believe I have been here for a month this is crazy, I am happy I have three months left, but honestly I have fallen in love with this place and do not want to leave. Ahh, well until next week, have a good one.

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After a full weekend at the Aran Islands we took it pretty easy this week. Our program director came for a visit and took all of us out to dinner on Tuesday. Wednesday was societies’ day, societies are similar to clubs. There are so many different societies, for example: dance society, international students’ society, food and drink society, and Christians’ society. A group of us went to Christians’ society Wednesday night, it takes place in the college’s chapel basement and that night was just a meet and greet. There were so many different people there and I was surprised by the number of international students. On the societies committee board there is a girl from Boston. She studied abroad last year for the entire year and loved her time in Galway so much she transferred so she could finish her undergraduate degree in Galway. After being here for a month I honestly can say I am finally into a system and it feels real, for those first few weeks it felt like I was on a vacation.

My classes are nothing like they are at home. People just walk into class like twenty minutes late and the professors are not even fazed by it or the students just do not go at all. Thursday was Arthur Guinness Day and at 6:00pm there was a huge uproar in the pub and everyone went crazy that night, so much so that the next morning my 10:00am class consisted of two people. After the Irish had a crazy Thursday night, they all went home and we all had a party Friday night for my friend Christy’s 21st Birthday! We had a big dinner at my place and I made stuffed peppers, granted they were not as good as they are when I make them back home, but they were still good. Then we had all of our friends over and just had a huge dance party. Everyone was just having a great time together and Christy had an amazing time. We had visitors this weekend as well, who helped us celebrate. Our friends from Dublin and Limerick game for Oyster Weekend, though none of them went to the festival. All of people who came to visit, we met through our program orientation, so it was really nice to see them again. And we will be seeing them again soon when our program trip to Cork happens!

So this week has just been a week of relaxation and going to class since I am to try to fight off my cold. With the Irish being at home this weekend I was able to watch the Red Sox/Yankee games on my laptop live! It was no fun to watch them lose, but hopefully today they can pull out a win and not let the Yankees sweep them. I’m going to Dublin to see my aunt for the weekend so tune in Sunday to hear all about that!

*Tip: Put all small loose change in a separate place and when you need to go and do laundry use it. You’d be surprised how quickly it adds up and then it doesn’t feel like you are spending more money on laundry!

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Pictures have been posted of the Aran Islands, but they do not do it justice

Sorry everyone for not posting on Sunday. I went to the Aran Islands with everyone this weekend and came back with a cold, so I went to sleep right when I arrived back to my humble abode. This past week was jam packed with fun. Tuesday was Jeff’s 20th birthday and he made all of us dinner, the chicken he made was so delicious and moist!! Wednesday we had Taco night and decided to invite two new people to dinner, our friend Mike and his roommate Todd. After dinner we met up with other people in our program who were at a pub, they had a live band playing. Though it was not traditional pub music, like I have been looking for everywhere, it was still a ton of fun.

Thursday we made trout (because they were out of salmon) and invited our friends Preston and Erin to dinner. I enjoyed everything but the trout, I kept getting bones and it was way too fishy, yuck! But dinner all in all was good craic! Some people stopped by advertising for a pub; they gave us free admission cards and cards for free pints. They told us that there were promotions going on that night so the first 50 people were going to get a free Bulmers. We met up with a bunch of our other friends at another apartment and went out to get our free drink and danced the night away!

Friday was very low key as it usually is; the Irish usually go home on Fridays for the weekend. Since Casey had been sick, Karyn, Laura and I decided to have a girls’ night over in Menlo. We ordered Chinese and watched Bride Wars and packed all of our things in preparation for our trip to the Aran Islands the next morning! Waking up was an issue seeing as we had stayed up late that night, everyone had met back over in Gort (where I live) to walk over to the bus stop at 8:30. Well of course we were running late and I still needed to grab a few last minute items from my apartment as well as Casey. When we arrived to the bus stopped we realized that bus did not leave for like another half hour so we were fine, the bus ride to the ferry was about an hour so I just slept. The ferry ride was awful though, I never get motion sickness, but this was just torturous. I was not the only one feeling this way, everyone for the first few minutes after arriving could only talk about how that was the worst ferry ride they have ever been on.

After checking into our hostel and figuring out where everyone was sleeping, we all went outside to have lunch and then rented bikes to tour the island. I will say about five hours biking up and down hills hurts a lot the next day, but everything we saw was just amazing. We all started out as one big group but eventually ended up breaking off into smaller groups and went and explored the island in our own way. Those that were with me went up to the lighthouse a different way than most, since the path we took no longer had a bike path we decided to leave them behind at the site we were at and walk all the way to it. I was looking forward to this adventure, when I went on this trip I said to my mom that any opportunity that comes my way I am going to say yes to it because it’s an adventure. I am here to find myself and by holding myself back I feel as though I will not get the same experience as I would have if I just completely dove into the unknown. The hike to the lighthouse was unbelievable and we saw so many amazing things along the way.

Climbing up stone walls

View of the lighthouse we hiked to

Christy, Lindsay, and Amanda at the top of the lighthouse

View from ontop of the lighthouse

The beach I put my feet in at

I fear heights, but while on this hike I conquered that fear. I climbed up everything just wanted to get the best view possible. Later that day we went to these cliffs and if you look over the edge straight down there is water crashing against the cliff’s edge and it is a pretty good drop from the cliff to the water. Normally I would have been petrified and not wanted to go anywhere near the edge, but I sat there just staring down, it was the greatest thing I had ever felt. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, this trip has made me grow as a person and I cannot wait for more adventures.

Saturday night was a gorgeous night, after we ate dinner we decided to go and watch the sunset at a different set of cliffs. The view was incredible and we were there for quite some time. Though on our way back Jeff, Preston, Lindsay, Christy and I decided to go to the beach and star gaze while we waited for the live music to start at this pub everyone was going to later on. This pub finally played some traditional pub music that I had been looking for; I was so excited to sing along! The next day I woke up at 7:30 and realized it was sister’s 18th birthday and wanted to call home then, but the girls in my room were like “um Liz its 2 in the morning back home, you should wait”. A bunch of people, mostly non-Roman Catholics, were interested in going to church and the mass was extremely fast and in Irish, it was really interesting, but I didn’t understand a thing, I just had an idea of what was going on. After mass we set out to find the smallest church, which was at the top of this mountain full of cows. While Preston and Jeff were off exploring, the girls and I decided to take a nap at the top of the mountain. Well Julie decided to get up and say to us “I don’t want to alarm you, but there is a cow headed right this way”. So naturally the other girls freak out and then when it started to moo very angrily, I got worried. Jokingly someone said what if it called over its friends and sure enough I saw two more cows headed right for us. They were moving at a pretty fast pace so Lindsay thought it would be a good idea to go and run into this little tiny church made of stone, her reasoning was that cows can’t get through stone.

Cool little church we found

What straight down from the cliff looks like

Sunset on the cliffs

After being chased by mad cows the day was pretty much uneventful, I did talk to my sister and wished her a happy birthday. As for yesterday, I went to class and had a low key night with all my roommates. We laughed about the differences between Irish and American cultures. It was really nice because it was the first time the five of us had just sat around and talked, it was a good bonding session.

Well that’s all for now, I’ll be sure to post next Sunday! Hope everyone has a good week!

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Before I get into this week I just wanted to say that if you see (*) throughout the rest of my blog entries, look at the very end of the entry for tips about studying abroad.

So this week was filled with classes, but fortunately no homework just yet. The way it works here is they have a window of time in the very beginning of the semester to figure out their timetables (schedules). You attend classes, but you’re not registered for classes until the second week. Registration, which I have not done yet, is extremely different from back home. Here you fill out a sheet, bring it to the library, and stand in a queue (line). According to other students you pretty much get whatever you request for, except for English seminars. For these we were advised to get in the queue extremely early in the morning, the advisors said that Irish students often go straight from the pub to start forming the queue because the seminars are only about 20 students. Lucky for me I am a Computer Science major, so my schedule is full of math and cs classes. I tried to get Fridays off, but the cs and math class that I need to take for my major met on Fridays. So as of right now I have Wednesdays off, but that could change because some of my classes require lab times and they work these around everyone in the classes timetables. After one week of classes they did not seem to be too bad, but we will see how the semester goes.

Casey’s birthday was on Wednesday and we thought it would be fun to throw her an American themed party! Our Irish roommates loved it, they had so much fun. At one point we had a huge dance party going on in our house; it was just some really good craic. Craic is an Irish term to describe the atmosphere and the people, so if you ever heard an Irish person say “How’s the craic?” or “What’s the craic?” do not be confused with the American term crack.

make a wish!!

Sarah(Fionnuala's friend), Me, our Irish Roommate Fionnuala, and Casey celebrating!

This week we ate pretty well and cheaply. Friday has definitely been our favorite meal so far, I made everyone grilled cheese and ham sandwiches on this bread we found for a euro a loaf. We had a garlic spreadable soft cheese, cheddar cheese and deli ham and chicken that we put in them. Saturday I made a salad my aunt Debbie would be very proud of; it had all the colors of the rainbow in it. I didn’t even need to make my olive oil, pepper and garlic salad dressing because all of the vegetables marinated together because I made the salad two hours before dinner. Along with it we had these spicy chicken legs that cost each of us a euro and they were huge! So two nights worth of dinner cost eight of us three euro each! We expanded our family dinners, but now I think we are going to have to add a table since it is beginning to get cramped. *

Photo taken by Jeff

The past four days have been gorgeous with NO RAIN!!! Almost my entire program group was suppose to go to the Aran Islands for the weekend, but since we were all too slow to sign up the trip became full. So instead DJ and I went for a walk into the center to check out the market to see if we could get any deals on vegetables for dinner yesterday. Since we didn’t find anything cheaper than in the grocery store we go to, we went to Griffin’s Bakery for lunch. This place is the oldest bakery in Ireland. The food was amazing, well portioned, and of course cheap! When we were walking out the bread smelled amazing, but if we had stayed any longer I think I would have gone broke on the baked goods. Everything looked so delicious. After lunch we went on a two and half hour walk around Galway, we walked out to this jetty and the view of the ocean was breathtaking. I took some pictures, but they do not do it justice. If Jeff had joined us the pictures would have been amazing. While on our adventure saw this event going on called National Canoe Polo Committee. It is similar to water polo only they are in canoes and violent. It was definitely one of the coolest things I have ever seen. Right across the way at the cathedral we saw a wedding, the bride looked so beautiful and she had a great day for it!

Canoe Polo

View from our walk

After dinner last night a group of us went out for ice-cream and then came back to my house to watch P.S. I love you, only the greatest movie EVER!!! Naturally the guys did not stay long, but us girls had a blast! Well as you can see was my week was jam packed and eventful, which helped get rid of homesick for PC feeling I had.

Tune in next week when I talk about my trip to the Aran Islands! That is if we sign up on time this time. If you have any questions about the experience feel free to ask!

*Tip: Make your own dinner and cook with your friends! It’s a huge money saver. Also buy dinner on a daily basis that way you can incorporate things you have leftover from the night before.

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