Well yesterday was a day for firsts here in Ireland. It started with our first trip into town on the city bus. It cost 1.70 Euros for a ticket that takes you from the University of the City Center. Once downtown we had fun trying to find the best stores for everything we needed. We found a Penny's which is basically like our JCPennys at home and they had really decent prices. Then we needed to find a grocery store, that took a little longer to find but we finally did. It was here we discovered that they charge you for plastic bags at the store, not sure if they do it to try and get people to go green or what, but yeah .20 Euros a bag. So not to self next time bring a backpack. On the bus ride home we ended up sitting next to another study abroad Student from Australia. On the ride home Josh (Australian) told us about his experience for the day which consisted of an 80 year old man collapsing in front of him. Here this old guy passed out right in front of him and Josh though he had had a heart attack. The guy was trying to say something to Josh so he was listening really close, thinking these may be the guys last words. When he finally understood what he was saying this is what he heard, "I think I've had one too many pints". Here this 80 yeas old guy passed out drunk on the sidewalk at 2:30 in the afternoon. Welcome to Ireland!! We then found out Josh is actually my next door neighbor, so he invited us out with some friends that he had made already, which actually were the neighbors on the other side of me :) So not only was it our first trip into town it was also our first night out with some new friends in Ireland. And during this first night out I partook in my very first Guinness, only fitting that my first was in Ireland! I will say it wasn't bad, but it's not something that I'll be drinking all the time.
Today was a day filled with boring orientation. Nothing exciting there, except maybe the fact that the Irish students that talked to us about clubs seemed to be more interested in getting drunk then the actual club activities. I knew Ireland was a big drinking country but I thought they were more of social drinkers, apparently not they like to get drunk, a lot. Don't worry to all the moms, aunties, and grandmas reading this I cannot afford to go out and get drunk that often and therefore will not be. I will simply go out and laugh at all the drunk people, who says you need to be drunk to have fun? After orientation we got to go on a tour of Limerick city. A bus took us all around the city and the driver told us the history behind all the buildings. It was really neat. Then we had our first meal out in Ireland although I don't think their food is all that different from ours at least not what they served tonight. I had a burger and Marlo had haddock. Pretty standard. We hung out with our new friends for a little while, Marlo taught them all how to Dougie :) Although they were all too amazed at her dance skills to really try it themselves.
Well that's all I've got for now. Love and miss you all <3
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