ok so. i put up some pictures from the first couple days on fb...they are of a ton of rando things and people but i wanted to make sure that anyone who saw them got a feel for the entire city. it definitely reminds me of new york city..on a MUCH smaller scale, but still with the same general feel to it. theres some pictures of jake and i before we left...theres a couple in the pub called glimmermans the first and second day we got there...and then the rest are kind of from the bus tour we went on today around dublin. its great here..all my friends ask me if people are nice, and the irish people are, but about half the people here are international, and the international ones are the ones who arent friendly. everything is so expensive! like i was telling my mom earlier, breakfast [an amazing breakfast that it was!] today cost 6E, which is about 8 or so dollars. its really difficult to not eat out for every meal, because everything is such a far walk (and we walk EVERYWHERE) and americans have a habit of waiting until we're absolutely starving before we eat, which leads us to either snack on a ton of food while we wait to cook our food or leads us to grab alot of food on the go. this gets super pricey super quickly. i also noticed there arent any like 5 hour energy shots, no energy drinks, (and if there are, its probably an american targeted audience). its because no one stretches themselves as thin as we do. we need things like that and we need food on the go because we have a mind set that we got shit to do and cant be waiting on silly things like, you know, sleep. so jake and i are going to have to cook our own food, which in itself should be interesting....lol. but i figure if i buy in bulk and cook a really big portion of a meal i can eat for a couple days...i would need to cook my food right away tho because there is hardly any preservatives in anything so nothing will last. jake and i have been eating oranges and apples for every meal, and walking about 2-3 hours a day, so i/we should lose some weight! whooo! Dublin is EXACTLY how it looks in all the pictures and videos and things...keep in mind however that im in basically the new york city of ireland, so its a big city with a ton of taxis that seem to only want to run us over...(and it doesnt help we keep looking the wrong way before we cross!) sometimes walking is faster even when you're going about an hour's distance or two because of the traffic that prevents buses and taxis from going anywhere too quickly. our rooms are TINY. like...TINY TINY. its really not bad if you keep in mind the fact that we're in europe now, and personal space is never taken into account. (ha) the irish are very conscious of energy and wasting and things like that. they charge you for every plastic or paper bag you need at stores, and our rooms have these energy cards...its basically like an energy debit card, and it takes the money out of an energy account. we have to not only turn everything off but unplug everything, we even have to turn our heat off when we're not going to be in our rooms. our hot water heater isnt like in the states with the copper coils or anything,...its basically one big oven-pot of hot water. the water lasts about what is long enough for a speed shower and about one leg shaving. (ha!...no but seriously. only one leg) so it gets a bit uncomfortable towards the end. my roommate is super nice, and ive made a lot of friends already. all the people here are great and my two study abroad "mothers" have made us all feel so comfortable. jake and i are starting to figure out where everything is and kind of get our bearings when it comes to direction.
as to some of the pictures, theres one in there that i HAD to get for my daddy...the my goodness the guinness!one that jake and my friend ben are in. he has those things everywhere in the bar! the rest are from st. patricks cathedral and just driving around town, we drove past the guinness factory and everything. (side note about guinness, i had it here, i didnt get a full pint because its just too heavy for me, i ended up drinking bulmer's cider [amazing] instead. but the beer itself tastes ALOT fresher here, it doesnt have so much of the coffee-ish flavor that it does in the states, its alot crisper tasting too. i know thats hard to imagine just by me telling, but if you knew then youd know. lol! its also less expensive than say liquor or imported beer, its about E5 when a beer like coors light [yes, theres actually coors light] is like E7. one of my friends, who of course is a girl and made us all look retarded, asked for an irish, light beer. the barman just looked at her...ugh some people. ha. ) but ANYway, my favorite picture in this set is the angel statue one, you'll know which one im talking about. i was quite proud of my artistic skills ^_^. but thats all i have for now, its actually almost midnight here, so im going to put my things into my budget template and head to bed, i have a long day of cliff walking in Howth tomorrow that should be AMAZING!
love you all!
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