So today we have arrived in Dublin and it is actually sunny and rather warm. I wouldn’t say hot because Canada is hot right now but warmer than we expected. Saying farewell to Galway was hard but saying Dia duit (pronounced dia gwit) to Dublin. That’s hello in Irish by the way, and while we are not in the parts of Ireland when it is commonly spoken we often see it on signs and other such things. I will miss corrib village, their key cards had a fish on them where as these one are just red and silly. Corrib was a lot smaller and quainter, everything was closer and easy to find. I fear that I may get lost in this monster of a campus. It’s a little out of town, the campus, not out of city limits of course but far enough away that the idea of walking to O’Connell Street makes me cringe. But Knowing Mama Sue, it is unlikely that we will take the bus, and I hope it’s not as far as oxford was. The thing is we walk and walk during our free time till was can’t stand the pain in our feet and legs any longer, and then we have to walk home.
Any who enough of the complaining, I love Dublin! Although I have been here once before it was still so exciting to see all the shops and street, everything is so much smaller in Europe I love it. I have family who live here and it is awesome to see them again, they come to Canada sometimes but they can only do that so much. We started work on our ISU’s (or at least I just started) and they are due Saturday, understandably every one is a wee bit stressed. It helps that we have had a fair amount of class time, today and all of next Saturdays class, dedicated to it especially when the teachers have every right not to. They did however pull a mean joke by telling us they would drop the ISU just to see our faces. From their perspective it must have been funny but to us it was just disappointing. We only have a few days left on the trip and wow has time flown, Dublin is the last leg of the trip and we will enjoy it.
- Shelagh
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