Blogs from County Cork, Ireland, Europe - page 32

I am officially now allowed to reside in Ireland. It even says so on a cool stamp on my passport!! Well technically two since one says till March and now the new one says till september. I got my fingerprints and picture taken (which made me realize my hair is getting frecking long! its like a half inch past my collar bone- yikes it hasnt been this long since high school) and everything and even have an official card that I have to travel with :) Ya I'm cool (haha not really) I took some pics for you guys so you could see the other side of the city. I think I even got a pic of city hall :) And despite my total tourist vibe, I got asked for directions (and new where to send ... read more

Today was just a hoot. Just thinking about it makes me laugh. First off it has been raining all day and yesterday too. Not the nasty downpour but the light happy rain that just makes me want to sing. Needless to say even though I was soaked most of the day, I was in pure bekah heaven!! Anyway, I'm going to start at the end of my day and go to the beginning because I don't want to forget what happened. The coolest thing ever happened: In my class today my teacher actually used the phrase "in due course." YEAH! For all of you lovers of randomly old british things (cough, moose) it just tickled me to death and I wanted to share. I kind of giggled and wrote it down so that I wouldn't forget ... read more

This is the last message for a few days... remember don't call my mom and tell her something is wrong with me. She will be freaked out enough I'm sure. I will return on Sunday and leave a message about my weekend. So on that note I will tell you what I realized today: this city is SO beautiful. It is under a near constant cover of fog, which rather than making the city seem unapproachable it just seems charming. There is a mist that just sits in the air and makes it smell like rain in every breath. I have never lived in a place where it stayed this cold or this wet for more than a few days, and all the green and mist is just the most magical thing I have ever seen. ... read more

AMAZING AMAZING DAY!!!! (I feel very positive on this thing, I guess I need to start being the negative-nancy all of you love?... maybe tomorrow??) 4 big-amazing things happened today which in no particular order will follow. First off, I got to do my laundry today for the first time here. Let me just say that was an experience! And just for the record, it takes two hours to JUST wash clothes here. The drier, we were told, takes two times and still leaves the clothes wet. Which was proved when my roommate tried to dry her's yesterday. So I just washed and oh man my clothes smell good!! they are still wet but are all over the living room drying as we speak. YAY clean clothes!! I have a few clothes I manged not to ... read more

Weather recap: sunday it was snowing; yesterday it was sunny and kind of cold; today it was raining. God has definitely been in play for a few days and will probably continue to be mischievous (or maybe its the faeries?). So ya raining today so I donned my polka dotted rain boots and london fog rain jacket and hopped around in the rain to my morning class. Id like to say I stayed dry but I think any time you have to walk about 15 min, you are bound to get a little wet, I definitely got a little wet, but am dry now. This morning like a miraculous spring our water started pouring out of the turned on faucets. It was a little scary cause I was actually just waking up and it was brown ... read more