Blogs from Cork, County Cork, Ireland, Europe - page 12

I have a few photos to post from Strauss Ball, which was March 5th, and it gave me a reason to update. Also in the vein of dancing, I attended a hafla last night! For those of you who don't know what that means, a hafla is like a bellydancing party. I finally got to the UCC dance club bellydancing class on Thursday, and the teacher invited me to workshops and a hafla on Saturday. I couldn't afford the workshops, but I did go to the hafla. There were massive amounts of food (homemade guacamole, Lebanese bean salad, pomegranates, all sorts), and a very small crowd. We ended up going until half twelve or so, and I stayed to clean up because the people were all so nice. It was an evening of dancing crazy! I ... read more

sorry about yesterday, i was feeling to lazy to write. yesterday i finished my requested scarf and started on a bunny. I had this idea: one of my friends has a daughter and so i am going to make the daughter a bunny and give the mom a scarf for mothers day. oh ya i dont know if you know but mother's day here is 14 march rather than in may. i thought they were just getting prepared early like they do for Halloween or christmas but then i saw an actual sign with the date and then asked some of my irish friends what the deal was. They were actually shocked that ours was in may rather than in march. ahaha oh cultural differences! So i was planning on having an early night and just ... read more

hey guys, sorry i forgot to blog yesterday i forgot with all the excitement of lara's bday :) so saturday we were able to sleep in till almost 12 which was SO lovely!! and then lara and i went on a shopping trip provided by her father :) it was SO much fun we just wandered around the city centre and went into random stores and tried on a bunch of randomly amazing things. pictures are included :) we went into a few really american stores and then also went into some accessory shops, we had a great time. we ended our adventure with a trip to vibes and scribes. which i dont know if ive mentioned the name before, but that is where we have our knitting group and its also the best little craft ... read more

So today was awesome!! first off it was sunny and second off i dont know it was just great! I went to class this morning both irish and postmodern and learned a bunch of random new stuff. in irish we continued to talk about describing people. And in postmodern we finished the lecture from last time and started to talk about Gerhard Richter. The whole time during that lecture i was just like wow, i have seen this before. ahah i guess only a few of you know that my painting teacher back home is OBSESSED with gerhard richter! ahha so i have seen probably every single one of his paintings at least 3 times, as that is how many classes i have had with that teacher! it was interesting though to see it from the ... read more

So today I went to Kilcrea with this lady that I met at church on sunday and a few people from california. I was thinking they were going to be an older couple or something, nope. actually they were just a year younger than i and actually know a few people at poly (dominca, heather and kelly). haha it was so strange to meet them here, so far from home! it was great but made me a little homesick. Not terribly so but just a little bit of missage on my part for things and people back home. I realized that after this month i will pretty much just be traveling and being able to hang out without the pressure of school, at least until exams. and then i am home. so before i know it, ... read more