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Published: February 2nd 2010
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Frost again
frosty morning again Day 14
Well I regret a little that I didn't go to Galway with my group, but I had a good weekend nonetheless. I got to hang out with my roomies and it was cool- saw their mall and it looked very much like a mall. The weird thing about their malls is, first they are very small compared to malls I'm used to and second, many malls have a grocery store setup with the check-out or "tills" set on the inside of the mall. So if you're in the mall, you walk into the grocer at the check-out area. Very interesting. They have a place called Dunnes which is like a HEB but the bigger one is like a Wal-Mart with other things than food. Sat night Kiera and I made sghetti :D had to clean the kitchen badly- ugh it gets so nasty...after she left I cleaned our kitchen while my roomies sat around and we watched The Day After Tomorrow. I don't mind cleaning, it's just gross. There was a bowl with a piece of chicken in it that had sat for about 4 days...I tossed the whole bowl with the chicken plastered to it. Ew. I
also swept the floor. Though it sounds nice of me, I admit I do it for myself and my own sanity of some sense of cleanliness. I love my roomies- they're a good bunch, but they're messy. Though compared to some houses, these are pretty good, for which I am thankful.
Sunday I woke up early and walked to the Stables where I was told a cab would meet to pick me up Limerick Baptist Church at 11 and other students would be there. So they were. Though our bus was very late and we didn't get to church until 11:20 but we made it. Interesting crew: 1 Irishman Chris, 2 Chinese girls Jess and Sara, 1 Moldavian girl Inga, 1 American me. We ended up talking about foods from our home countries and Chris decided he'd like to make sushi that night so Jess tried her best to explain how and what to make it with. The sermon was good, from 1 Thessalonians 4 how sexuality and spirituality are linked and why it does matter- it was a wonderful sermon. Afterwards, all of us stood around had tea, coffee, and biscuits (cookies) -not lunch... I was starving. Though
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my walk to school- actually nice I was told I'd have to get a bus home, the woman Louise offered a ride to 4 of us, Sara volunteered to walk home...she likes to walk home? She didn't mind though Chris offered to ride in the boot (trunk) of the car. Louise piled us into her car (4) and Chris wanted to go to the Chinese shop in the middle of the City Center, but Inga said she'd go with him since she needed to stop at a meat shop I said I'd get out too since I needed lunch- pronto, and Jess got out too and said she'd help Chris with the sushi. After we got out Chris headed to Penneys first and the girls (and me) went to this Russian meat shop down an alley way. It was interesting hearing Inga talk in broken Russian which she said there are two dialects and she is not good with either and the meat shop keeper seemed to fill in her sentences (or so Inga said, Jess and I would have never known otherwise). We finished quickly and went to the McD's across from Penney's to wait since it was very cold. We decided we were hungry
Sunday morning
pretty walk :) and we got Mcd's- yum. Admit it, they have good fries. Admit it.
Chris met us and we talked more about international food and then movies. Inga had a good movie and said we should watch it and that we should all learn to make sushi. So the plan: get sushi supplies and go to Ingas for sushi and movies.
We went to this chinese supermarket which was VERY cool. I got duck flavored ramen...interesting. According to my three new friends, duck is very common in their countries...I said er...we eat deer sometimes? They were all shocked- deer is practically extinct in areas of Europe- I told them to come smuggle deer from TX...and they were even more shocked when I said professional hunters would kill deer...interesting, yes?
Got to Inga's and went straight away on making sushi- I'll let the pictures tell you the story. It was actually very good- esp adding soy sauce, which usually I am not crazy about, but it was very good! Watched The Lovely Bones- very...peculiar movie. Need to read the book.
Today was fun- class, ate, got 200 euro from Elaine- woohoo! Setup my bank account and will get
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Jess is making sure we don't mess this up a bank card that will actually be accepted here! Had the BEST hot chocolate ever with Meghan- do not debate me on this- went to the Christian Union for worship which was very refreshing- met a girl named Anne from Canada- we're both baptist- yay! She's pretty cool- and we figured out the Nightlink bus together- so yay! No walking home after dark 😊
As rushed as Monday sounded- that's how it went. No crazy details. I have SO much to do this week before I go to Brussels, Belgium! That's all for now!
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