Another Catch Up

Saturday November 14th:  I did homework and hung out during the day.  That night we had a group activity doing the most American thing we could think of in Ireland....bowling.  Ok, so we didn't sit down and brainstorm the most American thing, it just happened that way.  BUT--bowling was awesome!!  We had like 5 or 6 lanes to ourselves and it was...cosmic bowling :)  WE had a great time just hanging out with everyone and getting pitchers of beer.  Even our directors were drinking with us.  It was an overall great time and I'm glad that we went. 

Sunday morning I went into Galway to get groceries and also sat and talked at a coffee shop with a roommate.  Then when we got back, we all did a ton of homework.

Monday was again 6 hours of classes.  That night, however, there was a meteor shower and about 18 of us went down to the ocean at 1am to see it.  The shower was awesome, as well as being with everyone hanging out on the ocean.  The boys tried to start a bonfire for us--but Ireland proved to be too windy.  But it was an overall great night.

Tuesday:  4.5 hours of class.  Then homework and hanging out.

Wednesday we had family meeting as usual, and then that night we had a dessert potluck.  After dinner every cottage brought a yummy dessert to the classroom and we all shared.  It was, of course, delicious and it was nice having lots of yummy treats.  After dessert, and during I guess, we watched the Ireland vs. France soccer game.  They were playing in order to get to the World Cup.  Unfortunately, and with some questionability, Ireland did not make it to the World Cup.  After the game we all hung out in the hotel pub with JP, his fiance, and our directors.  It was good craic as usual.

Thursday morning my cottage mates left to go to Paris for the weekend.  I traveled to Germany this weekend and didn't leave until very early Friday morning.  So, Thursday I slept, packed, and got things organized.  That evening cottage 6 had some people over for some after dinner conversation--that was nice.  Then after that I took the program bus into Galway for the evening.  There was about 8 of us from the program and one guy that had done the program 3 years ago.  He actually moved out to Ireland recently and is trying to live out here.  He knows a guy on our trip, so he came out and hung out with us.  The night was fun, we mainly just sat at a pub and conversed, pretty chill.  The 7 other people called and took a cab back to the hotel around midnight.  I stayed in town because I had a bus to catch to Dublin airport at 2am...  John stayed with me, because he lives in Galway, and we sat and chatted at Supermac's for a while.  At 1am I headed to catch my bus...