All Good Things Come To An End

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.