Well everyone, I have excellent news and beautiful pictures to show you all! It's official....I have a job AND a place to live! I've totally lucked out and I am so excited that it's been a little over a week and I'm already getting settled in. I was hired by a recruitment company who sends temporary office workers to outside clients and I start next week at my first position; printing financial reports for AIB bank. I'm a little nervous, but can't wait to start taking in some cash! A Canadian girl who is leaving Ireland this week needed another renter for her roommates and it just so happened that I was looking for a place just as she was leaving. So I officially put down the deposit on the apartment today and I'll be moving ... read more

Hi everyone! It's been a few days since I've had a chance to get on here; my first week has just been a flurry of activity! I had thought that my first few days would be purely looking for a place to live and jobs, but my fantastic German friends made sure that I still had to go explore the city and have some down time. We've thoroughly explored Temple Bar and I'm pretty sure I've been in almost every pub down there ha ha! Don't worry however; our main goal was to hunt down the best Irish bands in the city and we definitely found some pretty impressive ones. The Temple Bar plays some fantastic traditional Irish music and we went into this cool little pub called the Palace which was really fun. Yesterday, I ... read more

Well....all of the official trauma and difficulties are over (3 different airports and 2 planes) and I am lounging safely in my hostel in Dublin. I have to say, Heathrow is probably the coolest airport I've ever been to and it's incredibly user friendly with happy gigantic purple signs telling you where to go like every 2 feet. They also have buses that take you everywhere because it's so huge and it takes over 25 minutes to walk from one end of the terminal to the other. My poor Irish seatmates almost missed their flight since we didn't anticipate this lengthy walk, but luckily I made it through ok AND my luggage actually arrived on time! After squeaking in on my 23kg weight limit and having my pack be classified as oversized, I had no clue ... read more