What up people? I hear that Michigan is getting hit from every direction by mother nature right now. That’s sad. It’s been sunny here for the past three days and it looks like it will be sunny with little chance of rain for the next 5 or so days. Just so you guys know. J
The past few days have been low key. Not a whole lot to report. As I said before, Sunday evening was the official welcome dinner/party. I don’t know if I’ve ever eaten so much food in my life. Lots of mashed potatoes, (as there should be), and some other good eats. There were so many left overs too, which the students got to take back to the study cottage and have again the next night. Two free dinners, SCORE! After the dinner, it became the party, where too much fun was had and too many drinks were served. I met some more locals, taught a few people how to swing dance to some traditional Irish music, Brittany sang the songs she did at AQ Idol last year, and the rest of the night is history.
Monday I took a walk down to the beach and sat there for an hour. I’ve found that walk to be extremely relaxing and a good way to simply think. Like I said, the weather has been gorgeous here lately, so it really is a nice place to go and sit. I came back and read for the rest of the day for the most part. I think this is the most studious I’ve been in my college career, ever.
Tuesday the group walked to Letterfrack together. It took us about 45-50 minutes to walk the three miles. It’s the nearest town and has an ATM, and has a bigger grocery store, so I’m sure that I’ll be walking there a lot too. We toured the Wood Working School in Letterfrack. It’s a college for students who are going into carpentry. A lot of the students come to the Pubs in Tully Cross so we’ll see them a lot.
After that we got a tour of the community projects that are taking place in Letterfrack. Part of Connemara West, the area that we are staying in, is that there is a drive for community projects. The cottages we are living in were a community project for example. Another project is the radio station in Letterfrack, which we can volunteer at if we want. I’m going to look into that.
Tuesday night we went to a concert in Clifden, composed of Traditional Irish music. It was way different than anything I’m used to, but I enjoyed it. The flutes and violin together with the guitar sounded awesome, and the lead had a great voice. After the concert we went back to the cottages, continued to read and hit the hay.
Yesterday was spent working on last minute homework and in our history class. Today, we saw one of the nearby schools perform a show for us including Irish Music, Irish Dance, and an Irish play about a fishing tragedy in 1927.
Not too much else is happening until this weekend. There’s a birthday party on Friday at one of the pubs and a lot of people are thinking about heading to Galway Saturday to Sunday. Should be a good time. There's a baked potato restaurant in Galway which is supposed to be really good, so I want to check that out.
I'll have more pictures next time!
Peace, Love, Ireland.
-Rob
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