Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Hello from Dublin

So i know i emailed everyone yesterday but i have a chance to post so i'm gonna do it! i'm still at my aunt una's house, i'm leaving for belfast tomorrow. i am somewhat over my jetlag, although the new sleep schedule i have is one that is only convenient if you're living in the house with a two year old (i.e. i fell asleep at 9:30pm last night and woke up this morning at 7:30am....) yeahhh. but i did get a chance to walk around dublin yesterday, which was fun. the weather was pretty good, a little chilly. it rained after i got home so that was nice. i went to a museum and i saw the famine memorial and i got info about the bus to belfast, and i also got lost a few times. i was trying to go to the jameson distillery (even though i have been there before, it was fun, so i wanted to go back) but i got lost and so i ended up just wandering through sketchy neighborhoods. haha! i may go to the distillery today if i get around to it. I am definitely going to kilmainham gaol (jail) because i've never been there. it is supposed to be a cool place to go, it's where lots of republicans (here that means catholics who wanted ireland to be independent) were imprisoned and executed.
i was in a bit of an awkward position because the cleaning lady is here this morning and she didnt know i was here, but that seemed to work itself out because she knocked on my door and i had to answer, so now she knows i exist. haha... awesome. i think i will go out for breakfast so i'm not in her way.
oh, and i checked the results of the primaries, jeeeez!! kind of unsurprising though, obama winning more states, clinton winning more delegate votes. i guess he can still pull it off?? btw if you wondered, people here are following the pre-election stuff, but they don't quite understand primaries and all that. i told them that neither do we! :) they seem to be happy enough with clinton and obama as far as i can tell.
hmm shall we have a word of the day before i go? how about an irish word of the day...

taoiseach: prime minister (pronounced tee-shach)

talk to you all later!

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