So I figured I'd start this so you can read it if you'd like and find out what I've been up to since it's hard to tell everyone everything since I'm phoneless.
I sat next to the nicest older Irish man on the plane. He's lived in Limerick his entire life. I had trouble understanding him most of the time because of his accent and he spoke so quickly. He come from a family 0f 10! 7 girls and 3 boys. He gave me a list of a bunch of different places around Ireland that he recommended to me to visit. The sun was just rising as we began our decent into Shannon airport. It was the most beautiful sunrise I have ever seen! Everything is so green!
We took a coach bus from Shannon into Limerick. It was so weird that we drove on the left side of the road. Every time the driver took a left on red I got nervous. I'm still not used to it. It's also a challenge to cross the road because of the cars driving on the opposite side. Even though I know that's how it is here, I still look left to right, and have even almost stepped into the road.
My apartment is cute. I live with 7 other people. I have 5 american roomates, 1 german, 1 finnish, and 1 irish. We all share 2 bathrooms which is perfectly fine except there is only usually enough hot water for 1 person to shower every couple of hours. It's also coed which is less weird than I thought that it would be. I definitely think America should follow suit.
So far I've had orientation and taken a bus tour of Limerick city. Orientation was boring as usual but the bus tour was interesting. Limerick city is beautiful. The river Shannon runs right through it. Last night we walked the multiple miles into town for dinner, and ended up talking to the irish woman sitting next to us. She recommended this bar called Smyth's that has live music and she said was the place to be. Some of us from dinner walked over and it was just as good as she said it would be. The band was amazing, the bar was packed, and we had SO much fun. It's weird to be able to walk up to the bar and just order a drink. The irish guys are dancing fools! They were enough entertainment themselves.
It's true the irish are the nicest people around. I haven't met many girls my age...it doesn't seem that they are very fond of us american girls. The guys, as young as they are seem to be gentlemen. Much different from the ones back home :) Listening to them talk is fun. They speak so quickly, use different words, and pronounce things differently. Having a "good craic" is having a good time. They say "brilliant" a lot, a "dinger" is a good looking person, and three is "tree" It is also true that they can drink...A LOT. It is unbelievable how much they can drink, how they can mix between beer, liquor, and wine, and how well (some of them, and some of the time) can hold themselves after a night out. My roomate Kendra and I made the guys smores the other night. They don't have graham crackers, or hershey chocolate here so they've never had them. We bought tea biscuits with a coat of chocolate and heat up the marshmallows in the oven (we have no microwave). They loved them, and next we're going to make them mac & cheese. The guys here also love friends, the oc, and glee which we thought was kind of funny.
I can't really thing of anything else to write, and I promise my other posts won't be so long. I just had to catch up with everything that has happened in the past 4 days. It feels like i've been here forever, and have already made some really great friends. American and international. I put all my pictures up, and have yet to get homesick. I'm not really sure if I even will. I truely am already having the time of my life. Ireland is AMAZING
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