And We're Off!

It is now officially my 10^th night in Maynooth, Ireland! It has been a long 10 days to say the least. Seeing as so many things have happened already in this very short long week and a half I will share a few!

A few things that I have learned thus far:

·         I love accents

·         French fries=chips and chips=crisps

·         The Irish know more about American politics than Americans do

·         Potatoes are part of the EVERYDAY diet

·         It’s okay to skip class to go to the pub (at times)

·         They don’t have real Mexican, mac and cheese, peanut butter, or ranch

 

The pub is the place to be so it seems! I am currently lacking nutrition and sleep because everything is so expensive and apparently the week days are the days everyone goes out here while on weekends everyone heads back home. Instead of GTL (gym, tan, laundry) Irish life consists of DES (drink, eat, sleep) and probably in that order. It is pretty much a lesser version of St. Patrick’s Day everyday.

 

Maynooth is such a great little town! It’s about a 40 minute train ride from Dublin and a 10 minute walk from campus (in normal shoes). There are three main places to go out and they all have student night which is “the night” to go there.

·         Mantra ( a dance club )

·         Brady’s ( a pub which seems to be everyone’s favorite )

·         And The Roost ( another pub)

I’ve always loved Chicago but Dublin may just have bumped it down to #2 on my list of favorite cities. Dublin is so high tech, clean, has great shopping, fun pubs, and some of the best food. What could get much better? Being in Maynooth is perfect because you get the best of both worlds: living in a smaller cute town and being able to go into the city! It’s just grand!

 

Classes have started and the year is finally getting rolling.

Time to make the most of it! (as if I haven’t been doing that already…)