Céad míle fáilte go hÉirinn

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"A Hundred Thousand Welcomes to Ireland"

I write this latest blog from my dorm room at the Dublin City University! We arrived in Dublin around 9am and got to the apartments shortly thereafter. I unpacked my things and then went with Megan, Lindsay, Tara, and ‘Cornell’ (still need to find out her name!) to get some coffee. We were also joined by one of my suitemates, name not remembered, who is really great.

The apartment is as follows (see the pics too!) We have five bedrooms connected by a long hallway.

There are two people in each bedroom and then we all share a common room that has a kitchen.

The common area.

But each of the bedrooms has its own bathroom so all in all its really not bad!

My bedroom.

Unfortunately, our housing was already decided for us so Megan and I couldn’t room together like we’d hoped. She’s not in my suite either, but is instead on the floor below me. However, I’m rooming with a girl named Neesha who seems really sweet, though we haven’t had too much time to talk yet. (She’s currently taking a nap on the bed behind me!)

We got a chance to see a bit of the university on our quest for coffee and we talked some more about what types of side trips we’re all interested in. My suitemate (Why can’t I remember her name?!) and I are both interested in taking a day or two in London. Megan wasn’t interested in that trip but its something ‘Suitemate’ and I may do.

Megan, Lindsay, ‘Suitemate,’ and I all want to go down to western Ireland as well. Megan has been to Ireland twice before and she knows some great places down there. All of us want to go to the touristy places too, such as the Blarney Stone. We were thinking of staying in hostels to save on hotel fares- plus we know this would be a much more ‘real’ experience than staying in some hotel. Plus who doesn’t love saving money?! A couple of us also talked of side trips to Scotland and Paris. But I’ll be the first to admit that my bank account funds are currently pretty low so my trips will have to be kept to a minimum. :(

Given my lack of sleep I’m actually pretty awake right now- though that’s no doubt due to the coffee and excitement currently in my system! We have some type of meeting at 2p but then I’m not really sure what else we have to do today. My guess is that most of us will probably be going to bed pretty early since we basically skipped right over Wednesday night because of the time difference.

I sent out an e-mail to my sister earlier telling her to go online if she got the e-mail relatively soon. Then I realized it was only 6am her time even though it was noon here!! So I had to send her another e-mail saying, “Never mind, you’re probably asleep!” Like I said- it will take a bit of getting used to.

(Wooh- I just found out that ‘suitemates’ name is AMY! Yay. Now I just need to figure out “Cornell’s’ real name!”) Oh and I just saw some of the other girls rooms and mine is a lot bigger- yay! Haha.

Okay- done for now I think. I’ll write more either tonight or tomorrow. Don’t worry, once classes and the internship start up I won’t have as many blogs up each day to bore you with!

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kmr788 on May 28, 2009 from Dublin, Ireland

from the travel blog: Dublin, Ireland

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