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Fitzwilliam Square- A mini maze
I made it to the middle! No mistakes! 11 May 06 Today I acctually got to sleep in a bit! I got up to go to the interview at Grafton Recruitment. The lady that interviewing me was named Lisa-Marie. She was very nice. AND she got me a job!!! I'm just doing temp work in offices. That is fine with me; I would rather that then working in retail. What is even better is I start the next day! The only thing is I'm only in one place for a few days and then I have to go around and do something different. But its good in a way because I get to do something new and try different things. So since I had the rest of the day free since I had a job now I could take the day off. Geoff also had the day off so we met up and walked around. We came back to the apartment so I could show him the place and Jirka was there and we decided to go to a park. (it was beautiful outside!). The park we went to was a bit smaller one so there wasn't as many people there, but it was nice still the same! It
had fountains and a mini waterfall and tons of space to just sit around and enjoy the sun.
Later that night Geoff, Ashley, Greg (another newfie) and I went to a sports bar (THe shaggy sheep) because they were suppose to be playing a NHL game! but they were playing the world hockey games that were going on. However, Canada was playing and they were kicking Lathia's ass!! Go Canada! I then I had to leave and go and get some pants for work tommorow!! 😊
12 May 06 Today I started work! I'm working at Pernament TSB which is a bank. My job was to work through a lot of filling cabinets. I had to type the account number into the computer and see if it was terminated or not. If it was then I had to put it in a box and if it wasn't I had to put it back into the filing cabinet. So it was a pretty easy job. On Monday I have to sort through the cabinets and put everything in alphabetical order. They told me this job would take 2-3 days, but I think 3 days will definentally be enough. I acctually
knew someone who was working there. She is a lady from the hostel. Her name is Marion. It was good to know someone because then I went for lunch with her instead of sitting in the cafiteria. We went to Stephens Green (it is a park) and ate lunch there. The bank is very close to where I live which is good. It only takes me less than 10 min to walk. Later that night, Sarah, Jay and I went to Zanzabar where we met up with some people from the hostel. It was a good night! We danced a bit; note for anyone who comes to bars in Ireland/ Europe people dance very weird!! Also on a side not people here have no sence of fashion! I will never forget a girl I saw in Penny's who had black white pockadoted spandex pants which a black mini-skirt, a ocean blue white pokadoted t-shirt which lepord print shoes! All I could do was laugh and I couldn't help myself. Also when we went to Zanzabar I saw a girl with red spandex pants, a red top a white miniskirt and white shoes. All I could think of was Valentines day!
But enough about the bad fashion.. so it was a good night!
13 May 06 I actually wrote all about this day but I guess I didn't save it properly which is a huge pain. so my day started off by starting to work at Bewley's (the coffee place). I thought they were just trying to see how I caught onto the espresso machine but now I think they are going to keep me on. Now I don't really know what to do since I have the office job as well. I guess I'll have to see which pays better and who gives better hours. Maybe Bewley's will hire me on for part time?! I guess I'll have to see.
I never knew there was so much to know about coffee! Not only how to make it but just general information about it. It was interesting to learn; and I only know some things. I found it a bit hard to remember which button goes with which coffee but I guess I will catch on soon enough! I guess I did a good enough job because they asked me to come back the next day!
I then went home
Fitzwilliam Square
Geoff and I sitting on a bench waiting for Jirka to take some pics. I guess we were one of the pictures and met up with Jay later (Sarah was working). We walked around Dublin a bit and saw some more of the touristy things! It was really nice because now that I've been trying to find a job/working, I had no time to wander the streets and get a real idea of Dublin and the sites. We met up at Dublin castle and did a tour of the state apartments and the undercroft (the last standing part of the original castle). It was beautiful inside! I would love to live in there.. but I guess my apartment will have to do! lol After we then went onto see St. Patrick's Cathedral. It was huge but also very beautiful. We peaked inside but never did the tour. Well at least not yet. We then kept on wandering around and came upon a group of drummers behind the Dublin Council Court. It was really neat to listen to! We then kept on walking because we were going to go back to Dublin Castle and get a brochure about it but we came across people filming a movie by City Hall. The movie is about Jane Austen and it is called "About Jane". It
has Anne Hathaway from The Princess Diaries in it. I never got to see her though. I guess she had to stay inside. so if anyone ever sees that movie you will know that Kathleen was there when they were filming that part (look at the pics).
Sarah met up with us after and we were all going to go downtown later, but they ended up going to a movie (it was scary so I didn't want to go) and I stayed home. It was nice and relaxing though to just be able to sit there and watch tv.
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