This takes forever!!! Weekend #1

Last night I had anticipated catching up on the whole week at once and very clearly that didn't happen! It is just too hard to limit myself to only a few photos when everything is so gorgeous! Not too mention it takes forever to upload pictures onto this thing! So anyways this will clearly be a while. So here's where I left off...

Friday (June 18) we spent the day wandering around Dublin... nothing too exciting happened this day that I can remember, so instead of telling a long story I'll just put up some pictures of things we saw. We also went to an art show which was pretty cool and that was about it.

This is Dublina we didn't go inside but it's very pretty on the outside.

The connecting halves of Dublina

I'm not sure what this building was... but i thought it was gorgeous!

I love the intricate design on all of the old buildings! they were way cool

This is the fashion portion of the art show

Super cool photograph

This photo belongs to a whole mural that was dedicated to the poem and story in the beginning of Alice and Wonderland where the walrus lures the clams in and eats them. it was pretty neat.

This was the audio section of the show... it was just two speakers and a chair in the middle of the room and it looked kind of creepy to be honest. This is Maggie listening intently.

Saturday (June 19th) we went to a street fair for a short while. Well technically it was the national championship for street performers. So they had supposedly the best street performers from all over the world there. It was pretty cool. I arrived before the others and caught a juggling act. It was pretty cool.

He juggled fire... impressive right?

Then we got sausage dogs...what better way to enjoy the fair?

they had a kids playland that i really wanted to play in!

This is me and the other girls that met me there. We were sitting for the USA breakdancers.

SOOOOO..... My blogs are really out of order due to my lack of organizational skills and my inability to keep a journal :) therefore you'll have to go to another post to see the events for Sunday.  

Week 1 Continued (slightly belated)

Wow so I'm not so good at this. I just realized I haven't finished ANY of my blogs so far! ha ha I really need lessons on this.

I was looking through my pictures and realized that I left a lot out of the first week that was really great so I thought I'd just throw them in now with maybe breif explanations of what is going on. I didn't have to work this week so I had the entire week to prepare for work, sight see, sleep, etc. The week went really fast and I no longer really remember everything that we did. But fortunately I took over 500 pictures in the first week! Don't worry though I won't put them all up here. I'm not promising there won't still be an overwhelming

amount though!.

First of all I need to mention that I met some girls when I first got here that I have been hanging out/sight seeing with. They are really chill and come from all over. First of all there is Jenny and Rachel from Virginia, Maggie and Mandy from Wisconsin, Kim from Philly, Megan from Oregan, John from upstate NY, Julie from... I don't remember where, and then much later on my roommate Nicole will start to enter some of the pictures as well. I'll introduce them all in the pictures as we go. There is also John from upstate NY as well that comes around with us every once in a while. He's a really great guy.

Because I can't remember what happened when and why here goes nothin! (literally :))

!I take the Dublin bus everywhere I want to go. It can be annoying and frustrating because the routes and times are not really clearly designated and the city is not really easy to navigate because while you might start out on Swords road in less than a mile it turns into Drumconda and then to another name... I can't tell you how often i'm lost.

The first night here we took it easy and just went to pub just down the street from us.

This is Jenny

Jenny, Megan and Rachel

This is the Pub. Everyone here is super nice.

After the Comet we went to the Beaumont HouseLoved the "toilets"

The next day we hoped on the bus and went sight seeing in City Centre (downtown Dublin). Sight seeing involved getting lost as we walked around taking random pictures of cool places.

On the bus!Megan, Mandy, Maggie, Rachel

We're not in Utah anymore

Ah... cheesy

The architecture here is amazing!

I love the scenery!

This is part of a gov't bldg

The whole city revolves around the pub, Guinness, and gambling!

The next day some of us (not including me) had interviews and so we met up for a late lunch afterwards in City Centre. We went to this American style diner there! It was ok...

Jenny and Julie. Very cuteMeet Megan and Kim

Afterwards we went to Trinity College. It is just off of the main street in City Centre and is like a haven in the city. The College and all of the main buildings are really old. I'm not sure what era they're from but it's been around a while. The architecture is amazing and when you walk in you feel like you've left the city all together. We spent a few minutes walking around but weren't able to go into any of the buildings.

Ain't I cute?

Well folks that's a wrap for this evening! I'm beat!

Playing Catch-Up!!!

     So if you haven't noticed I'm not good at keeping this thing updated AT ALL!!! It is definetly one habit I don't have (that is keeping records). This week has just flown by and I can't believe I only have 5 weeks left! I simply do not want to come home! Well I'm going to break down some of the weeks happenings using pictures with a few short stories. I will however include A LOT from today's pictures however because I think it was fabulous!

   Sunday (June 20th)  I went to church at the Finglas Ward at 11:00 am.... well it was more like 11:30 because I got on the wrong bus and due to how slow the buses are I ended up kind of late :) but the good news is I found it! The ward is rather small and it is pretty multicultural. While there I met a friend! Her name is Michelle and she is from California and doing an internship here (through a different program) and will be here until mid August. After church I talked her into walking around the Glasnevin Cemetery with me. The cemetery along with a botanical garden are right across the street from the church and I was dying to go in there.

  

The cemetery is gorgeous! I took so many wonderful pictures here but so as to not overwhelm the common folk I will only put up a few on here.

(I just stared in awe at some of the head stones)

(where the family vaults are)

(ha ha)

(Isn't it just beautiful!)

(Old church on the grouds. pretty spectacular!)

So after spending about an hour in the cemetery we walked over to the Botanical gardens! It was soooo pretty! We spent nearly 2 hours there walking around and taking pictures and we weren't even able to make it through the whole gardens. There were so many good pictures to chose from I couldn't decide. But I hope you enjoy these.

(On almost every sign they have the Irish and English name)

(super awesome cactus garden)

(I love this picture)

So this is Michelle

(ha I thought these looked like ballerinas!)

(anyone remember the secret garden?)

(even cooler ballerina!)

I honestly felt like I was in Alice and Wonderland while in the garden! Soooo many things reminded me of the cartoon. Including the ballerina flowers.

(one of the super cool green houses)

(This tree reminded me of Grandmother Willow from Pocohauntus (sp?))

(Michelle and I... I love my chacos :)

(michelle again, very cute)

(Walking across the bridge I saw this!)

(You can't really tell but this is walking into the rose garden)

(I took tons of pictures of the roses but since you've all seen them before just chose this one to sum them up)

(Walking back to the entrance)

(Ijust like how this one turned out)

Ok so i'm almost done with the pictures from here I promise!

THrough the trees is a field of grass. very picturesque

(cool old tree)

I just really like this picture :)

So we have come to the end of the pictures from Sunday's activities! What do you think? It was a wonderful day and I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of it. I was planning on posting pictures of the rest of the week as well but This one took so long the rest may have to wait until tomorrow. There are just too many I want you all to see! Until tomorrow then!