Time to back-track...

Right. So that last blog was kind of filling you in on my thoughts as of lately but now I'll try to fill you in on the actual events that have been going on since i last chatted with you all. Alright...i think I'm gonna start with last Friday. Which was the last time i can remember (love my acute memory). It was sunny. Legit sunny. I was on the south campus which is the historic part, equipped with old churches and buildings, sculptures, and green grass. So pretty and on this particularly unusual sunny day it was breath-taking. I remember thinking that this must be the days they filmed movies like "P.S. I Love You" that make all us Americans fall in love with this normally cloudy/rainy country. Nonetheless it was a beautiful day and the first moment i had realized i had made a good decision coming here. Lovely! That evening i took my first train into Dublin. Read the whole way in and switched stations and all. For a pretty naive, directionally challenged individual i was proud of myself. And it was nice to get out of college-town maynooth and get into a bigger city. My fist time into Dublin! Amazing! Andy picked me up at the station and we walked through Trinity College which is in the heart of the city. For any of those who still have time to study abroad and in Ireland go there! Well we walked through the city then and met his brother and friend for a couple of drinks. Ended up going back to Mallahide and drinking too much (very unlike me :) Woke up the next morning and watched the Six Nations. This is a rugby tournament between six nations, hence the title. Ireland was playing Italy and beat them pretty easily. It was my first rugby match and i was lucky to have andy and his friends there to explain the game to me. They didn't even seem bothered by my question-master ways (but no doubt they probably were). That night we went out to their local bar/club and actually met a couple of the Italian players from the match. Holy hugeness!!!!! So funny and so much fun. The next day was followed by greasy sausage and chips. Chips, chips, and more chips!!! Aka fries. They really do love their potatoes here...I'm afraid my idea of becoming a skinny cute European might go down the toilet with this love of starches :)