Boo Photobucket and Flickr

I'm going to have to figure out the photobucket and flickr thing because they are both kinda making me mad right now and I can't get them to put picture on here without posting ALL my pictures. Anyway I'm in Galway now and we are having our class orientation today at noon...so in like 50 minutes. I'm sure it will be awful and boring but oh well HOPEFULLY it will go by fast but if I've gotten any sense of the people that run this program it will probably take FOREVER. I just found out I am going to be learning how to play the Irish tin flute...or pipe or something in the music class too which I think is really funny!

Pictures:
1. The river that runs near our campus that we walked along yesterday.
2. Swans that you can just walk right up to along the river...there were like 20 of them and you could go stand right in the middle.
3. Me and my friend Jessie standing along the river.
4. Another swan haha
5. Thats what their walking guy looks like here and I just thought it was funny.

Weird Food things

They keep their eggs unrefrigerated...isn't that gross? I guess they have a special casing on them but I still think its nasty.

kittensoft toilet paper!! Awww! I just thought it was sooo cute :)

Tayto chips hahah

Weird ketchup that took me forever to figure out that one was spicy.
They have a really small selection of mustard which I didn't like, and they don't have any of the teas I drink back there. They also have pre-made pancakes in the bread section that you can buy. The grocery store is in a department store too which I thought was funny.

Dad's favorite fashion

For some reason is won't let me rotate that first picture...but I thought I'd share the fact that I've seen TWO guys in cut of pants. How terrible haha.

Christchurch

We went to Christchurch in Dublin. It was ok...as you all know I'm not really into touring let alone churches. PLUS! There was dead bodies here that you could see but they made it private so I was super dissappointed. The first picture is of the outside of it and the 2nd is me holding hands with some dead guy. This was the first day we got here so I think I had been up for almost 24 hours by this point...very moody

Dublin, Ireland

So this is the first time I've really been able to use a computer. We just got our log in info for the school computer labs.
Dublin, Ireland was pretty nice. I like Galway a lot better even though we've only been here for a day now. Dublin had too many tourists from other countries and people from the European Union that just came over here unannounced who I didn't care for as much as the Irish people.

We went and saw Three Sisters a classic Russian play...maybe Czech. I'm sure there is a difference but I fell asleep for one act of it (as well almost everyone in my group). It was one of the worst plays I've ever seen and it was from 8-11pm. Very long and very depressing. Basically about 3 sisters who all hand bad lives so they cried about it the whole time. But they also happened to be like the richest people where they were...soooo.

There are about 30 girls on the trip and only 2 boys. We have not met the other boy yet since he didn't come on the Dublin tour but they one here is a cowboy from Arizona. All the girls seem really nice so far, but I always like everyone the first time I meet them so that might change in a week or two hahaha. I really like the other Chico State student that's on this trip (not the one a came over here with either) and I met a girl from LA that's really fun so we've been hanging out the whole time.

We went to McDonald's here and it was just the worst thing ever. And not bad like the American McDonald's but even worse (We only went because after that awful play got out Burger King and McDonald's are the only 2 places open, Irish people don't really eat past 8:30pm). It was also really expensive too, almost $10 for a burger and fries. All the fries over here taste like they have egg in them as well. We went to Quiznos one day for lunch too because so far everything hasn't tasted great and I wanted something I knew was good but theirs over here is awful.

We went to the Guinness Factory one day in Dublin too. They have a really nice gift shop and at the top of it (which is like 6 or 7 stories high) they have the gravity bar which has one of the best views overlooking Dublin which was cool. The Guinness taste a lot better over here but I still don't really like it.

Once I get my pictures uploaded I'll go into more detail about the places we have toured so far.

Weird facts: they don't use ice or toilet seat covers.

Contact Information

Address:
Sarah Delucchi
Corrib Village
Newcastle
Galway
Republic of Ireland
(no numbers or anything? How weird!)

Skype:
sarah.delucchi

Irish Cell:
0879631696

Getting ready to leave.

I leave this sunday morning and will get to Dublin, Ireland Monday morning. I will be staying in the Mercer Court hotel which is in the Dublin City Center. Here's a picture of the hotel I found online since I am not over there yet to take my own pictures! Hopefully this blog will be easy to update with photos and what not.

Some information I got on where I am staying:

"Mercer Court is located on the original site of the Royal College of Surgeons, located on Mercer Street just off St. Stephens Green, near the top of Grafton Street, Dublins main shopping district. The Colleges beautiful main building has stood unchanged on the corner of St Stephens Green and York Street since the Colleges inception in 1784. The Mercer Court building is one of the neighborhoods architectural and historic landmarks, notable for its remarkable stonework and for its distinctive clock tower and blue-faced clock looking up Kings Street toward St. Stephens Green."