Baby It's The Weekend I'm About To Have Me Some Fun

Hey everybody. Three weeks down. Weeks are turning into days over here. Crazy.

I finally got my debit card and credit card. It was cutting it close there for a while, but all is good money wise…at least for the time being.

We’ve been pretty busy this past week with school work. Sunday was homework and then most of us went out to the pub. I met some guys from the Woodworking College in Letterfrack. They seemed like really cool guys so I’m sure we’ll run into them again. I found out that they serve coffee at both pubs. SCORE. Even though it’s not nearly as good as anything back home, I’ll take what I can get.

Monday we were supposed to hike Diamond Mountain, but the weather was kind of iffy. It has changed from sunny all day every day to cloudy and windy for the most part with some rain. Traditional Irish weather. Instead, we went for a walk around Tully Mountain, the mountain that we will all hike Easter Morning. Then, some of the guys and I decided to head to Letterfrack for something to eat. We made our way back toward Tully Cross and worked on homework for the night.

Tuesday we worked on homework for most of the day and had our Lit class. We finished reading The Tain; it’s Ireland’s epic. After that I spent the night in and watched some Scrubs and called it a night.

Wednesday we learned that there was a Disco at Sammons. So I spent most of the day working on homework so I could head out to the Disco later on. Before the pub, we had our culture class and we learned about the north for our trip next week. After that we went to the pub, where the DJ kept shouting “Aquinas 2011 put your hands in the air!” It was humorous. He tried to play the American National Anthem, but it didn’t work. So then he tried to play the Glee Version of Don’t Stop Believing, which also didn’t work. So we got the Journey Version. Overall it was a good night. We ran into the guys from the Woodworking College there too. Might have a place to watch the Super Bowl with them, hopefully.

Thursday was spent reliving the night before and getting reading done for our History Class that evening. The rest of the night was relaxing as we were getting ready to head to Galway the next morning.

Friday we woke up at 6:30 in order to walk to Letterfrack by 7:30. At 7:34, the school bus drove by and picked all of us up. BEST MORNING EVER. We got on the bus to Galway and were off on our adventure. We arrived in Galway and worked on getting Mike a phone, which still doesn’t seem to be working. Whoops. After we got the phone we found a restaurant called Couch Potato. It was so delicious, think of it like twice baked potatoes but with anything that you wanted in them. It was the biggest meal I’ve had so far since being here. After that we wandered around for a while. I found a Starbucks in the Galway University Cafeteria. Best Discovery Ever. Got myself a Mocha. Yum.

After that we headed to our hostel and rested for the night ahead. Some people weren’t feeling too well so some ended up staying in, but most of us made it to a pub to start off the night. We hopped to various pubs and clubs. The nightlife in Galway is a lot of fun, I can definitely see us heading back there sometime soon. Hannah and I went to the SuperMac afterward, the Irish version of McDonalds. We finally made our way back to the hostel, which was an interesting experience. Definitely a good way to break us all in for our Spring Break trips, but maybe next time we’ll get some private rooms.

Saturday we made our way back to Tully Cross. Once we were back I slept for four hours and woke up just in time for dinner. Our cottage went over to cottage six and played cards for the rest of the night and called it good.

Today will probably be uneventful. We went to church this morning and some of us are about to grab lunch at Sammons. Then we are all packing for the north. We leave tomorrow morning around 10 to go to the Inch House. I’m excited.

That’s all I’ve got for now. Pictures next time!

Peace. Love. Ireland.

Rob