I think I like how the day sounds.....

October 17^th, 2010

I think I like how the day sounds…..

                So I am starting to find it progressively harder to start writing. I am going to chalk this up to the fact that it feels normal to be here now. What does that even mean? Well, I am finding day to day life to be just that day to day life. The things that seemed to be so different four weeks ago such as riding the bus to go places, buying all my own food,  new people, new city  and of course being in another country, it all seems to be normal. All of those things have just become what my life is like. What a bizarre thing. I feel like, for now, I belong here. I am not so sure that I look like I belong here but I definitely feel like it. I love the fact that I have places that I know what I want to order when I walk in or feel comfortable walking around the city by myself.  I guess it is good I feel so comfortable here now because starting this week I will be traveling a lot and exploring new places. It will be great to come back to a place where I feel comfortable. It is not home, but for now it is the next best thing.

                This week Jackie and I booked our flights to travel to Europe. Our first destination is Oslo Norway. Why Norway? It was a total impulse decision to fly there. Neither of us really know anything about Oslo or Norway for that matter. This may scare a few of you, but I am thrilled about it. I can say that this might be the only opportunity I have to go and I can’t wait to explore a new country. We will spend four days there, be in Dublin for a day then fly to…..Milan, Italy. We will spend another four days in Milan. I cannot tell you how excited I am to see Italy and eat their delicious food. I know that it seems like I should be in school and not frolicking about Europe but for the week I am in Norway and Italy it is reading week. This is a week the school takes off from lectures so students have the opportunity to catch up on reading. I plan to read on the plane rides. After reading week, I will take a week off from traveling and then we take a field trip to Belfast in Northern Ireland. The weekend after thanksgiving I will be spending in London England. And finally the weekend before I come home I will spend in Paris, France. I am thrilled to start seeing the rest of Europe, but like I said before it will be so nice to be able to come back to Dublin. 

                Besides booking flights this week was fairly uneventful. Classes went well. I had, I am

sorry; I got to make my first trip to the library. It really is a beautiful library. Once I figured out how it works I loved it. Needless to say I will for sure be making many more trips there. My internship also went well this week. I am starting to get into the heart of what I will be doing. I am getting ready to start analyzing information for the organization; which is far more exciting that imputing the information into the computer.

                This weekend I had full intention to head south to Cork. So I looked up online when the train times were and what the fare would be; ten euro each way. So Jackie and set out to the train station. When we went to purchase our tickets they were 71 euro. As it turns out the tickets are only ten euro if you get them online. We decided that was a bit much for a day trip and bought tickets to Kilkenny instead. Kilkenny is south west of Dublin about an hour and a half. It was a beautiful train ride over and I discovered that I love riding trains. Neither of us knew anything of the town so we just started walking around. We ended up going to the Kilkenny Castle. It was beautiful; my favorite castle so far. It was also a beautiful day which made everything that much better. We ventured around the town, found a great lunch and spent time in music stores and book stores. It was a great and relaxing day trip and it was good to go see somewhere new. We are planning on going to Cork but we are going to wait and book our tickets online.

                I am really excited for this week because on Wednesday we (all the students in the same program as me) are going on our field trip to the west of Ireland. We will be staying in Westport and seeing things that we have learned about in our history of Ireland class. I am really excited about the trip. I will be sure to take lots of pictures to share with you guys.

                I miss you all very much. Thank you for reading my blog and sharing this with me.

Cheers,

Keely