October 15, 2008 by admin.

after a few days of being here i have a bit of an idea how this all works; stress, freak-out, eat, calm, stress, sleep, wander, freak-out, drink a guinness, sleep, wake up, repeat. im finding it harder then I expected to keep my feet under me. I think I may be a little shell-shocked still.  Anyway I got to my hostel today a little before check in so I wandered and found the most amazing little coffee shop on the most amazing little street around the corner from the hostel. the coffee shop is almost directlty across the street from the James Joyce Center (closed unfortunately). I tryed to take pictures for you all but i just don’t think they will do it justice. I have found it hard to meet people. I have felt more self concious in the past 4 days then i have since middle school. There are some interesting people in my room though. I hope I get to know them before I leave on friday. I think this is the most time I have ever spent with the littlest amount of my voice

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October 15, 2008 by admin.

Tuesday October 13th

Ok so I have spent my first day in Dublin, and I stuck close to my hotel. Now after a nap and a shower I am at the castle lounge. Nice place. Guinness is definetly better here. Thicker, richer, boozier. It could very well be that I haven’t eaten much since the going away party but the one pint on guinness that I got went straight to my head. And the seccond I accademtaly ordered is sitting there laughing at me. I was
Hoping to meet some people tonight bit I think that that may have to wait till tomorrow. Wehen I got here I looked for a spot at the bar that was open and there were two the first one I went to one man said it Was open and the other coldly said it was taken, I felt that he didn’t like my accent. I hope that it war a fluke and all that I heard about Dublin and Ireland being nice are true. We will see.
My taxi driver from the air port was the best introduction to the country I could have ever asked for. He was cordule informatave and all arond a good use of €40.
And I must add that it is a large thought to get around of having it be 8:40pm here and knowing that it’s 12:40pm back home. I’m winding my day down and everyone I know are having lunch.
Very odd to think about.

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