Hey guys! So, I have been horrible the last few days at updating this with everything I've been doing! So, I have pictures on facebook from Galway and such, but I have a lot more! Galway was so beautiful! It's on the Galway Bay, so we can see Galway across the bay when we are at Burren and vice versa :) kinda fun. So, I got to see it from both sides! It is so funny to have a little pack of art majors (Suzanne, John, Janine, and I) taking a walk. One or all of us stop every couple seconds to take a picture :) There were just way too many photo opportunities there and everywhere in Ireland! We did homestays there and-did I already write about Galway? Maybe I did...no, I didn't! ok, anyways, on with what I was saying! So...the homestay was good. There was a girl our age in the house and she was funny, so that was nice and the mom made us lunches and stuff :) We will definitely be going to Galway a lot, it's about 45 minutes from here on a bus, I dooo declaaare. But! We are now in the Burren and it is great!!! I live in house with 5 other students: Suzanne (my roommate, who is amazing! I love her very very much already!), Brittany & Michelle (these two room together), and Brian & Max (also roommates-they go to the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, so kind of Minnesotans, even though they are not otherwise.) Our house has never been used for student housing before, it's a vacation rental home, so it's really nice! We have fun as a house! We've spent a lot of time sitting in our family room area by the fireplace and watching the show "Freaks and Geeks," which we already finished because they cancelled the progression of the show, which is lame. But house family time was great! Right now, we are making breakfast for dinner! Pancakes, hashbrowns, eggs, possibly some type of meat! Yay for food! I think I may starve to death while I'm here though...really. lol The first night at the Burren, all the students went to a pub to meet people and have dinner. Afterwards, I went out with a group of 6 others and we walked a long ways down a road in the dark and the thick fog (when we had no idea where anything was yet!) and we finally made our way to the near top of a huge hill, which we titled "The Mountain!" On the journey, we laughed about there being an evil man eating goat somewhere in the Burren, which we never encountered, and we climbed over/under a couple fences and ran into some cows. At one point, we came to field with a barbed wire fence and we crawled underneath it, not knowing what it was blocking. I spotted a cow in the distance but some of the guys decided not to believe me, sooo they continued and a couple others and I went back to the safe side of the fence. Of course, a couple moments later, they start flipping out, screaming and running back to the fence, flying underneath it! They claim they saw "The Demon White Cow." So, now there is not only a man eating goat on the mountain, but also an evil cow=GREAT! But, the journey was great and once, but once we got to the top, the stars were absolutely incredible! We could see all the star dust and shooting stars and every constellation imaginable! It was a great first night :) I am so lost with the days and how long we've been here, but the other day, we took a class fieldtrip to some different places that my facebook photos will illustrate; it was freezing! (one of the days, we were in Ennis, and we heard this awesome guy on the street singing a Neil Young song!) Today, we went to the school and spent our day in our own personal studio spaces!!! Then, we had meetings throughout the day for registering for our classes. I will be taking Independent Study Drawing, Mixed Media, Sculpture in Context II, Art History, and Irish Studies. Apparently, for Irish Studies, we go on a fieldtrip every week to a cool new place around the area!!! I'm excited. I decorated my studio space with a bunch of fabric scraps, so it looks all homey for me:) I will be spending a looooot of time in there, afterall! Oh! We built a fort in our house a couple nights ago, and it was awesome!!! We took down two curtains and tied them up around underneath the staircase using yarn, it was seriously a gorgeous creation, compliments of Brittany and Lindsey's fort building talents. So, Suzanne, Brittany, Brian, and I spent 2-3 hours in there on cushions we dragged in and listened to music and looked at pictures in the lamplight. Towards the end, we got really loud and silly-singing very loudly to funny songs they used to play at middleschool dances! It was much fun. However, Brid (the woman right next door who owns the house) freaked out when she discovered the fort and apparently the curtains were like 800 euro! Who the heck spends that much on fort building curtains?! My goodness...Anyways, we took it down, but I DID take pictures of it :) I am getting quite excited to eat breakfast for dinner!!! All the smells of overwhelming me right now as I sit here in the kitchen since we now have WiFi!!!!!!!!!! Ok, so I'm a little bit excited. We also have WiFi in our studios! So, I can talk to you guys no matter where I am...well, kinda. The time difference kinda makes things a bit more difficult, unfortunately, but I'll be in the studio late a night, so I can talk then :) Well! I think that is about it for now, if not, I will just make update edits on this post :) Love you and miss you!!!
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