Free day for me!!

Everyone went somewhere to go hiking today and I'm just kinda getting sick and was in an awful mood from last night still so I didn't want to go. Also, everyone knows I can't stand hiking!! I'm all about trying new things here, but hiking is hiking no matter where in the world you are haha. Plus I'm having an awesome day with out everyone from the group. I think I needed time off from everyone to just go explore campus and stuff by myself. Plus I get to do a blog before I don't for awhile because I think we might head down to Dingle Bay and Cork this weekend since I don't have class till wed! ANYWAY! LAST NIGHT! AAHHHHHHHH! We ended up walking about. And the walk during the day is sooo pretty and I really like doing it because its right on the river. BUT at night time there are SOOOO many bugs. It was disgusting how many there were, just swarms of them! I am NEVER walking home again hahaha. Plus they close the gates at like 8 or 9pm (the ones from campus to our village) so we had to walk all the way around. So our 15 minute walk turned into an hour walk which none of us were to happy about. But the bugs! I RAN through them it was so nasty. I must be on a trip full of tomboys or everyone else was drunk (I was very much sober since I only could afford to drink water after my €30 seafood meal!! That's like $50! It was good, but they gave you that fancy place portion size and I guess I'm just a fatty because I was still way hungry after...I had the monk fish in a garlic cream sauce, it was pretty good! and a side order of fries THIS PLACE HAD KETCHUP! I guess you have to pay $50 for a meal if you wanna find ketchup out here...anyway on with the story!!!) because I don't think anyone else was having such a hard time. My friend Jessie was nice enough to walk me through but I freaked out and did that laugh/cry thing, where you kinda start to cry but I knew it was so freaking stupid that I was laughing too...so she starts busting up and kinda pees here pants cause she thought me freaking out was that funny. Well she is laughing so hard at me that she leave hers mouth open long enough for some bugs to fly in and she just goes to the ground and almost throws up. I guess its extremely funny now and even so then. I'll have to post the video they got of me at some point because I guess Heather recorded me freaking out at the bugs and running through them. ANYWAY. We get home and I just feel like they are crawling all over me still (I got bit a lot :( ) so I'm trying to calm down in our living room. Me and one of my flatmates (Laura) are talking when someone throws a rock at our window! Thank god we are on the top floor because its some creeper and he waves me to come down stairs and I just look at him and run away from the window. Well next thing we know he is walking up to our room and knocks on our door! So I just yell GO AWAY! And he starts with this crap about how he is security or something, so Laura opens the door (don't worry Grandma there were 3 of us home so we could have taken him) and he asks if we were the ones who called about the mice (or nic?? we couldn't even tell what he was saying because of his accent!) but we said no and shut and locked the door. I still don't think he was a security guard even though he had a vest on and stuff...because what security guards throws rocks at someones window? So I was freaked out the rest of the night. But now I am fine. I think the lack of sleep and food just had caught up with me last night, and then bugs and fake security guard in the same night was too much! Thankfully I got a bunch of food to make in our kitchen and I've food some frozen food here that's pretty good.

PICTURES!!
1. Me and Heather at the "Living Room"...this was RIGHT AFTER I accidentally snorted some of my cider! and oh m y god did it burn! So they thought it would be funny to take pictures with me while I was trying to recover.
2. Heather, Jessie, Me and Monica by the swans!! I wanted to pet one but I think they probably would have attacked me...
3. Me and my favorite person on this whole trip! Jessie! She is an Internet nerd I love her.
3. Live music at this cool pub called "Monroe's" We are actually going there tonight to celebrate 4th of July!! They are having a bunch of Indie bands and calling it INDIEpendence day ahahaha. How clever.
4. Me looking over this wall that I think is really cool, it looks like castle walls. That's the entrance to our village we are staying at. very pretty.
5. Me and Monica at the pub Monroe's...I don't know why I am making that face. I don't think I knew we were getting our picture taken haha.
6. SWANS!!!!! I think its insane how close we can get to them. I am going to go this week with bread so I can feed them. I guess a long time ago there was like a Queen of Ireland and something happened where she turned all of Galways children in swans and that's why they hang out today. Heather told me that.
7. Yes, its a Dragon penis. It was at the Gardens and I thought it was sooooo funny.
8. I was in the middle of talking when Jessie took this picture...she doesn't really wait or count so I have terrible faces in almost all of them. This is at the sat market where we got the crepes! MMMM!
9. Me, Monica, Heather and Jessie at Finnegan's traditional Irish food! This place was really good and had cheap cider.
10. Downtown Galway
11. Heather, Jessie, Me, Lauren (she is the hippie one I mentioned in the previous blog, super funny) and some Irish guy's arm (that was noooot cute at all) at the "Living Room" again.

Ok well I am going to go take pictures of the campus since its sooo pretty. I think we are on the river but they have really cool mini forests here and all the buildings are really tiny houses its pretty funny. Sorry about my grammar and spelling. Apparently Ireland doesn't have spell check either hahahaha