So I realize that it has been a really long time since since my last post...that is my bad technology and I don't always get along and I couldn't figure out why my blog account wasn't letting me sign in! But no worries it is all sorted now!
I suppose the most exciting things that I have done since the last post is taken a couple day trips to Dun Laoghaire and Howth. The trip to Dun Laogahaire was on the 29th and I was really excited, because after all it is where P.S. I love you takes place! There was a large group of about 10 of us and we took the Dart to Dun Laogahaire in the early afternoon. The town itself was very cute and we stopped in a nice cafe for lunch. After roaming around downtown for a bit we spent the rest of our day walking along the pier! It was so beautiful. We were able to walk along the rocks and get right up next to the Irish Sea and it was such an incredible experience! I just kept thinking over and over again..."i am definitely not in Iowa anymore" And walking along the pier at sunset was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen! As we neared the end of the pier there was even a jolly old man playing the ukulele :) It was absolutely wonderful! (*Fun fact: That night the group of us went out to a pub called O'Neills where there was live music playing and after the band was done they had me and three of my friends come up to the stage and learn how to Irish dance! It was good craic indeed!)
The next weekend I went with a few friends to a little fishing town called Howth. Honestly, I think I liked Howth even better than Dun Laoghaire! It was sooo adorable! There was this cute market that had all sorts of food, fruit, craft goods, and the best cupcakes I have ever eaten in my entire life. Honestly, they were more like works of art than food. It was fabulous! Probably the coolest thing about Howth is as you walk up to the water seals come and meet you! They just swim right by the edge! It is the coolest thing ever! My friends all thought that I was a crazy person because I was so excited about the seals but I have never gotten to be that close to them before! We named two of them Scuttle and Seamus. Scuttle was my favorite because we were standing off to the side because there were a lot of people watching the seals, but Scuttle came right over to us! And Seamus loved to get his picture taken! He would always be looking away but as soon as I put up my camera he would look my way! It was just so incredibly neat! And again, we walked along the pier and it was so beautiful, this whole country is beautiful!
That night was the Superbowl and I went to our usual pub to watch football, The Portebello, with a bunch of friends! It was so neat because my IES friends were there and my friends from Trinity so it was just a huge party! The place was packed and the pub even served hot dogs in honor of the event! Unfortunately we were not able to see the commercials and we had to watch the stupid British ones, but the whole event was fantastic! We had a blast singing and dancing to the Black-Eyed Peas halftime show and the place was pretty even between Packer and Steelers fans. The game didn't get done till like 3 a.m. but I was impressed by the number of people who stayed for the whole thing!
Last weekend was super fun! I stayed in Dublin and Saturday night, had a dinner party with a few of my friends from the IES program. As I am sure you all know, I am not a very good cook...however one of my jobs is making pie! Once my friends found out about they I was nominated to make the dessert. I was originally going to make apple pie but we had the hardest time finding a round pie tin! It was madness but I managed to find a square one so I just tweaked the plan a bit and made apple crisp instead! (I even made my own Dutch topping!) I was a little nervous about how it would turn out because I guestimated on a lot of the proportions for the ingredients! But when it was all done and we had it for dessert every said they loved it! (hopefully they weren't doing it just to appease me!) And I have gotten requests to make it again! So yes, it felt just like the good old pie days back home :D
So yes....that is pretty much what I have been up to in the past few weeks! Classes at Trinity are going well, and I am definitely not as overwhelmed as I was before now that I am getting into the swing of things! I have had a few presentations for a couple classes that have all gone really well! The teacher even came up to my group after our Social Theory presentation and told us how good we did! So yeah...everything is grand :)
Cheers!
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