Well, it is officially 15 days since I have been in Galway, but it feels like I've been here for a long time. The city is easy to get used to. There are at least ten bakeries here...I'm in baked goods heaven, sort of. When I can carry it.
This picture is when we went on a Fairfield U trip to see the Burren and the Cliffs of Moeher. Well...I'm going back to the cliffs, because it was so cloudy you could not see a thing. We heard the water, but saw nothing. There was a stone wall, about four feet high, 3 feet of grass and then nothing. Literally, nothing but a thick whiteness. It could have been the end of the world and for that reason it still was beautiful.
Today it has been raining constantly - nothing strange about that! Living in Ireland is a little bit like constantly living in a cloud. Constantly. What baffles me is that the Irish just don't care. last weekend I was out in a pub and could not believe my eyes...the Irish girls wear heels and skirts and dresses...forget about it! I was told this is a sweater country, and I am going to wear sweaters!
I don't have class Mondays, and am currently deciding whether or not I want to have class on Fridays. It's either take a class I would LOVE that meets friday afternoons 2-3pm with 4 people, or take an okay class so I can have off Fridays. Isn't it funny how I'm actually caring about school...
I would just like to say, for future reference, that the euro and dollar are worst enemies right now. So when you pack lightly to go to Ireland for five months, you don't bring a lot of clothes. In fact, you bring very few. In fact, you have to do laundry a lot. IT IS A FACT THAT MY LANDLORD CHARGES 4 EURO FOR A WASH AND DRY CYCLE EACH. For everyone at home? That is basically $12.00 to do one load of wash and dry it. So today....
I did laundry in the sink.
Wow.
With my bare hands.
Laundry.
In the sink.
I'm so spoiled.
It was actually a money saving experience and I just kept thinking how that 8 euro is going to be so helpful in the future...that's 4 pints of tennets or 2 pints and a glass of guinness, or seafood chowder, or 8 quarts of milk. No worries, Dawson's Creek was on in the background (the one where Andie does drugs in a raver, incase you're interested) and now I can actually wait another 15 days with clean socks and underwear before I will probably run out of real clothes and submit, finally, to the 4 euro washer (no drying! i will hang it up!)
tonight i'm going to see STARS at the Roisin Dubh (row-sheen dove) with Kym. It is a pretty sweet music scene in Galway City, that's for sure. until next time!~
1 comment:
man your laundry is nuts! i dont think ours was even that expensive. i am proud of you for not being afraid of the menial labor and money saving activities. the burren and the cliffs were two of the places i actually did go on my 3 day ireland tour and they were 2 of my favorite places. its a shame it was cloudy for you...for us it was almost entirely dark.
i am so excited you set up a blog. i think you'll be happy you did so in a year when you can't remember all the fun stuff you did
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