I might get sick in the middle of this blog because talking about leaving Ireland makes me nauseous. I have less than a month left, and what is going to make it go faster is that every day is planned out. This could get emotional....
From tomorrow until Friday I will be studying. I have a final Wednesday and my last one on Friday. After our final, Shauna, a girl in our class is having a BBQ, so if we have time we'll make an appearance before Dόnal, Lorraine and I head to Clare. The half-marathon is on Saturday morning and Lorraine lives close to the start and is so kind to let us crash at her place for the night. Unfortunately, we will miss the last night out in Dublin with the class, but that's the way it goes. Then after the run we will either head to Cavan, where Dόnal, Lucy, and Niamh live, or back to Dublin for one last night out with Mooney. :( very depressing. She is heading to Cyprus on Tuesday. I was going to try and come visit her there for one last trip before back to the States, but the trips were too expensive with ridiculously long layovers.....but new word on the street is that Mooney is coming to America in January 2013!!!!!
Back to the itinerary: If I am not already there, Sunday I will be heading to Caaaaavan for a meal at The Olde Post, where Dόnal works, and a night out in the town I've heard so much about. I'm not positive of the crew attending this dinner. Dόnal, Lucy, Niamh and myself for certain, and maybe Iain and Colton.
Monday it is back to Dublin to get things together for my trip to Barcelona on Tuesday. We have a good chunk of people going with us. Originally it was Breda, Ciara, Fionnuala, Lorraine, Megan, and one of Lorriane's friends. Bittersweet, but Fionnuala had an offer for a really good job this summer and decided to take that, but would not be able to make the trip with us. Iain then jumped on the bandwagon, and just recently, as in yesterday, Dόnal is now going for a few days and possibly Siobhon.
We will arrive back in Dublin the next week on Wednesday and that night Dόnal and I are going to the Church Bar. Thursday Dόnal, Iain and I are heading to Wexford. Iain lives there, so he's going to entertain us and house us for the night. Then we'll all travel back to Dublin because Billy, one of the biomeds, is getting some people together for a night out at Messr's. I am assuming Paul, James,....and then whatever other diets are in Dublin and willing to go out. (Shout out to Rόisín, Shauna, Fionnuala, Ciara F, Siobhan)
Saturday will be a lazy day as well as start getting things packed and maybe one last night out after our last night out. Then Sunday I will finish getting things packed up, house cleaned, and everything sorted for my flight on Monday morning. I have an eight hour layover in Georgia, so I could actually drive home in the length of my layover. I'll end up getting to Loogootee around midnight Monday. LFR anyone?? except by that point I'll have been up almost 24 hours.
Officially depressed right now because I am just thinking about how I have to leave all the wonderful people I've met...all the good times. I don't know if I've ever had fun in a library before I came to Ireland. I can now say I've watched The Human Centipede...very scarring, so I won't forget that.... I have had 3 servings of spuds at one meal.... I have started to drink beer (still prefer spirits though)...I drink way more coffee and tea now....ran for pope....I've experience The Younga...I've wasted more time than I have ever thought I could possibly do.... been on a mystery tour...sandpapered a mushroom...celebrated St. Paddy's day in Dublin...etc
This is all for now too depressing and I need to get to bed. I need to get up early enough to work out before heading to the library tomorrow.
Blogging before I get back to the states will most likely be short and scarce seeing that I have so much planned. It would be a good break but I won't have anything to write about unless you want to hear about the knowledge I now know from nutritional science.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Lancaster LaLaLa Lancaster LaLaLa (Library LaLaLa)
When I started this blog it was last Thursday, but now it is two Thursdays ago I traveled to Lancaster, England to stay with Katie (a little slow, as usual). It was their Roses weekend, which is a tournament against York in all of their different sports. It was throughout Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. All the sports were worth different amounts of points. There was netball, basketball, rugby, american football, football, lacrosse, badmitton, volleyball, table tennis, tennis, darts, etc. Darts was actually a really big deal. We went to go watch it and there was a massive crowd. All the players would make big entrances before their turn. We didn't stay for the whole thing, but apparently it had to be called off because there was a beer fight of some sort.
Katie had her football games Saturday and Sunday, which she won both. Actually her game on Sunday won the whole tournament for Lancaster! Woot! Go Katie!! That were are so many American exchange students that go to Lancaster (~1/2 of their exchange students). I thought we had a lot in DIT (I think I've encountered/heard of 10).
The whole trip flew by! There was so much going we stayed on her campus for the most part. (Katie has a campus, but the city is my campus...my Irish followers may appreciate this). We went out a night, attempted a few more; a great time overall and depressing to leave. Now I won't see Katie until August because she doesn't venture back to the States until the very end of June. By that time I'll already be out in California working.
My trip back to Dublin was an exciting one. The earliest train I could get to Manchester from Lancaster was 5:45am and I had to change trains (waiting at least 10 minutes on the other). My flight out of Manchester was at 8:55 and I did not arrive to the Manchester airport until at least 8:30, which was supposed to be past when the gate closed (thank God Ryanair is so reliable and always includes extra time to leave late). I ended up running all over the airport and was just about the last one on the plane. All that matters is that I made it on and back to Dublin. My heart rate may have been 130 bpm for half the flight because I was so nervous I wasn't going to make it (and running), but sure it gave me a thrill
Once back into Dublin it was straight into study mode. I spent most of the last week in Kevin street library and a bit in Trinity library. A bit more banter in k st library because it's so easy to not get anything done (and maybe get a stare down from the libo-cop). I had my first exam today, we'll see how it went....in about 6 months when my grades get transferred.
Planning on posting another blog within 24 hours, maybe editing/adding pictures to a few...that part is less likely, but its a thought.
P.s. Colton, my fantastic roommate, told me to tell everyone HI
Katie had her football games Saturday and Sunday, which she won both. Actually her game on Sunday won the whole tournament for Lancaster! Woot! Go Katie!! That were are so many American exchange students that go to Lancaster (~1/2 of their exchange students). I thought we had a lot in DIT (I think I've encountered/heard of 10).
The whole trip flew by! There was so much going we stayed on her campus for the most part. (Katie has a campus, but the city is my campus...my Irish followers may appreciate this). We went out a night, attempted a few more; a great time overall and depressing to leave. Now I won't see Katie until August because she doesn't venture back to the States until the very end of June. By that time I'll already be out in California working.
My trip back to Dublin was an exciting one. The earliest train I could get to Manchester from Lancaster was 5:45am and I had to change trains (waiting at least 10 minutes on the other). My flight out of Manchester was at 8:55 and I did not arrive to the Manchester airport until at least 8:30, which was supposed to be past when the gate closed (thank God Ryanair is so reliable and always includes extra time to leave late). I ended up running all over the airport and was just about the last one on the plane. All that matters is that I made it on and back to Dublin. My heart rate may have been 130 bpm for half the flight because I was so nervous I wasn't going to make it (and running), but sure it gave me a thrill
Once back into Dublin it was straight into study mode. I spent most of the last week in Kevin street library and a bit in Trinity library. A bit more banter in k st library because it's so easy to not get anything done (and maybe get a stare down from the libo-cop). I had my first exam today, we'll see how it went....in about 6 months when my grades get transferred.
Planning on posting another blog within 24 hours, maybe editing/adding pictures to a few...that part is less likely, but its a thought.
P.s. Colton, my fantastic roommate, told me to tell everyone HI
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