Life has been craziness since tuesday! I started getting sad that I eventually have to go home and face reality so Melissa and I went for along walks around the city and reminisced! That night we started giving our farewells to our french roommates in our flat and had our farewell dinner with just the americans and our professors. We ate at a nice restaurant and went to this really neat apartment bar. Then we went to our favorite tuesday night club to see the frenchies.
Wednesday and thursday we finished up our final exams and presentations! One of my presentations was with Hadiren, Zoe and Thomas and we were selling hidden valley ranch dressing to our irish professor, it was great they loveeed it! haha classic. Then after school thursday we went to Trinity College to enjoy a pint in the sun! They have a great pub on campus and there were literally 2000 students just sitting out and hanging out with friends, weird. Good friday everything was closed but Melissa and I took the train to Dun Laoghaire to walk the peer and see the lighthouse. It was a really pretty yacht club and peer walk. We came back from the peer and had to start packing up our apartment... saddddddd dayyyyy. The french girls came home shocked because we took our maps off the kitchen walls and had our suitcases packed. Saturday we met our friend Sam and his mom and went to the farmers market and explored Dublin even more, it was a gorgeous day!! At night we got classy and drank wine, cheese, fresh olives and grapes in their luxury hotel, we felt great haha.. a step up from Griffith Hall id say. That night we went out and celebrated Sams last weekend in Dublin :(Quite the experience at the Gaelic football matches Sunday!! Melissa and I thought the match started at 12:30 so we woke up early and headed to the stadium. After an hour of walking we found Croke Park and it was silent.. haha the match didn't start until 2! So we walked around a while and then finally went it. As the players started warming up on the field we realized this wasn't the traditional football (soccer) game we thought it would be.. they were throwing the ball, bouncing it, nearly tackling each other, and punting the ball through the rugby field goals or into the soccer net! It was a totally awesome sport. A mixture of rugby and soccer but with virtually no rules.
About halfway through the game more people started pouring into the stands and we realized it wasn't Cork vs Dublin on the field, rather Donegal and Louis haha.. the Dublin game was at 4pm! Soooo naturally we stayed and the fans packed into the stadium, in our section alone 12,000 in baby blue. Their chants were hilaroius "we love the boys in blue the mighty boys in blue, the mighty boys, boys in blueee" and they kept repeating it dragged out with their fabulous accents haha. very creative. Dublin was up by 8 and then let the lead slip away and lost by 1 in the very end. The fans literally just crowded the streets after but were totally calm, just walking in the middle of the road, no one comes to the games in cars.
The car rental fell through for today because ended up having hidden fees that we couldnt fork up, so we decided to take the train to the Dingle Peninsula tomorrow! We are renting bikes and doing the ring of Dingle (30 miles) by bike instead! We will be there for 3 days, then coming back and our french friends are throwing our last dinner party thursday night, celebrating our french friends birthday friday and our farewell dinner for the entire program friday night, most likely a crying day saturday, then taking melissa to the airport sunday and picking up jason!!
I'll try to keep you all posted, otherwise see you soon!!!!
xoxo mo
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