Oh the weather outside is frightful here in Dublin town today. It's about the low 40's with additional freezing rain. Sort of makes me miss the South Carolina heat (something I never thought I would say). We depart for Galway tomorrow morning and return to Dublin Sunday night. We are taking a ferry and bike tour of the Galway shores on Saturday and there is also their big Arts and Music Festival going on right now which should be a fun time. I'm taking my laptop with doubtful hopes of finding some Internet in our accomodations. I am learning that I have such a great dependence on Internet now after basically not having 24 hour access to it for almost a week. Next week is more lenient schedule-wise so hopefully I will have a bit more time to keep you guys updated before I head home (only 9 more days!) After no longer being jetlagged, the time seems to fly by here. I actually got a full night of sleep last night (probably the last I will get until Sunday or Monday night) and I have never appreciated sleep more (even though it's basically already my favorite thing).
Yesterday we toured the W.B Yeats exhibit at the National Library and saw the play "Molly Sweeney" at the Gate Theatre. Tonight is a free night which calls for cooking dinner in the room and then most likely hitting up one or two of our regular pubs. I'm noticing there's really not a lot of good places to actually eat around here which may come as a shock to most. The pubs don't really serve a lot of food and if they do, it's only lunch. I've really been shocked with my overall perception of Dublin. So not like I thought it was going to be and even if you talk to some of the locals, they even agree that the city is somewhat going downhill. A beautiful and quite cultural place nonetheless, but just a little different. Definitely makes me appreicate my American roots even more so. I've already told Coleman that when he picks me up from the airport next weekend to bring me a double cheeseburger from Wendy's, a Chick-fil-A sandwich, and the largest sweet tea he can find. Until then, it looks like it will be chips, crisps, pasta, eggs, and ham sandwiches until then.
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