Quite another long post...these weekend trips catch up with me. I need to preface this with if you are a family member who doesn't want to read about escapades in Ireland, the beginning of this will be about that. I need to record the events of Thursday evening for my own diary but feel free to skip to Saturday if you will. Thurday night: Our only night in Galway began with our group visitng Tim's girlfriend, MaryLiz and her friends to play some drink...

Today we set out to Galway. On the way we stopped at Clonmacnoise. Its this old school monastery, surprise surprise. Its pretty much the religious center of Ireland. It was cool it has alot of different sections and it bulit upon in every century pretty much since they converted the pagens. But now we're heading out for our only night in Galway.

This is going to be an extended post because I haven't posted in a while. I think I'll post backwards and start with this weekend, which I spent in London. It is an incredible city and I completely loved it. When Jess, Katherine, and I arrived on Thursday night we went to the Famous Three Kings to meet Julie. It was a very chill evening and they went back to the hostel and I went back to Julie's apartment. Friday morning, we met up again to go to th...

So I haven't posted in a few days. I'll begin with the Welcome Party that the Marino students threw us. The Irish are big on the spontaneous musical moments. And usually I am too. They asked us to sing " American" songs. We realized we know only the chorus to 'New York, New York,' 'Born in the USA,' 'Sweet Home Alabama,' 'A New York Minute,' and plenty of other songs we should know by heart. We had our fifteen min...

So I haven't posted in a few days so I'll try to recap. Classes are going well. Sean (there are all kinds of accents on that) is our English teacher. He is all about mythology and proved the existence of leprechans. If you put matching sock in the dryer one always goes missing and that is how we know they are real. I don't know how I feel about that. However, he also taught us the Irish philosophy of life. Either you're sick or you're well. If...