Catchin' Up Here! Yesterday and Today's Shhhhedgwool.

Hello again! So right now, I am laying in my bed at the hostel, tucked under my blanket after running around outside in the cold for a while! I realized that I haven't done too well the last couple days at updating everyone on what I've been up to here in Dublin. Yesterday, we slept until around 9:45 and then got ready for the day, dilly-dallied, went to a coffee place a little ways down (the same one I went to with Suzanne on the first day) and then we met up with the whole group for lunch at a place called Luigi Malone's. The study abroad program paid for the meal, so that was great! I had BBQ Chicken pizza=delicious and mighty fulfilling. During the time while we waited for our food (our table was very very last!) Suzanne and I talked and got excited to get to the Burren and see our art school out on the countryside! After we finished lunch, we were free to do what we pleased, so a group of us girls (there are 6 in my hostel room) went to the National Gallery (art museum). It was free and pretty cool! Later that night, we went to the Port House restaurant, which had tapas and amazing desserts! I got this adorable little mini sirloin steak, it was smaller than my palm and was on an itsy bitsy piece of garlic bread!!! So funny! I laughed out loud (llol, mom) when they put it in front of me. For dessert, Natalie and I split an order of chocolate mousse and an order of churros con chocolate=whoa, yum, give me more.

Today:
We were up bright and early (meaning when it was STILL DARK!) at the lovely time of 7:45. Ew. We quickly got ready for the day, went next door, to a pizza place, and got a free continental breakfast(weird a bit? yes, we all thought so) and then we met outside the hostel with the entire group, hopped on a bus, and headed to a hotel, where we went through a bunch of orientation stuff like safety precautions and blah blah blah, some of which was fun cuz the Irish are just cute with how they talk and the words they use, like hicklety-picklety and might'nt. :) Then, they gave us tiny tea sandwiches for lunch (we were not pleased about that! lol) and then we went on the hop-on-hop-off bus tour. During this, Suzanne and I stopped at the Kilmainham Gaol (Jail). We took a tour for 2 euros, which was not bad! It was really cool and interesting! It was actually literally cool, the jail was freezing! But it was a really really old place that shut down usage around 1926 I think, I may be wrong, most like am, but it was something like that...It was sad, they told us the story about this man who was sentenced to be executed, but he and his fiance were married in the jail's chapel the day before. Very sad. They used to do public executions here, also. I am very glad that those no longer take place! Kinda funny though, the tour guide said that U2 has part of a music video filmed there, what a goof-ball! Let's see...then we just came back to the hostel and chilled out with our trusty laptops. I think I'll be going to a pub next door for a late dinner around 9 tonight. Otherwiiiise....hmmm....yeah! OH! We found out about housing and homestays. Apparently, Suzanne and I are probably roommates in the Brids House, which is close to the village of Ballyvaughan. Our 2 homestay nights are comin up, and Suzanne and I will be staying with a family with 4 kids! Three boys, and one girl, we do not know the ages yet. So, hopefully that will be a fun experience. Yep! That's all for now! It's been pretty cold here, how cold is it there in the midwest? I heard it was -20!!! Ahhhh!!!!! Craziness.