Globetrotter Hostel...

Hey guys! Sorry it's been awhile. I've had a busy few days and today's been my first chance to post a blog. My Literature final, despite my uneasiness before, actually went real smoothly. This past weekend was "Raceweek" in Galway. It's the famous "Galway HorseRaces" that started on July 30th and go through today actually. Thursday was "Ladies Day" and everyone in the town was all decked out in their fancy dresses and big hats, and the guys were all spiffy in their suits, it was pretty neat. Friday was a pretty chill day during the day, but I had to make sure I left enough time to pack. I was totally freaking out that I wasn't gonna fit everything, but somehow it all worked itself out. Friday night the program director held a banquet for us at the Forster Hotel and we had one amazing final dinner, it was awesome. Unfortunately it was raining last night so we couldn't do all the walking around we wanted to do on our last night, but it's okay. I woke up early this morning, finished some last minute packing and headed over to Colleen's with Amee for another breakfast. BTW...Mom and Dad it was hell carrying my probably insanely heavy bags!! I really hope it doesn't cost too much! In retrospect, I guess I must have looked funny, having the most difficult time out of all the girls trying to get my luggage in and out of shuttles and buses!

The morning started out great...but it was quite long...we started off carrying all of our many bags to reception and called a van taxi to take us to the bus stop, unfortunately we couldn't fit all of ourselves as well as our luggages in the taxi, so we had to take 2 trips, which is fine. Then we were about 10 minutes late for missing our bus, so we had to chill for about 45minutes waitin for the next, which is fine too....then, there was a real meanie on the bus when asking for our money to buy our tickets, which I got over, but kinda annoyed me. Then as I was uncomfortably trying to sleep all of us girls got rudely awaken by the mean bus driver once we got into Dublin from Galway, which was a 4 hour bus drive and a REALLY COOL bus....btw, sarcase at it's best:)....to hop of the bus and onto a new one for some unknown reason. Now I'm pissed. There were 5girls and probably 10 bags of luggage, hence, not a quick hop off and hop back on manuever. Not only had no idea that they were gonna switch us midway, our bus driver was late so along with the "no help" from the first bus driver, the second bus driver was especially frusturated with us girls cause first off we had SO much luggage and secondly miscommunication between bus drivers means, laugh and be rude to the cute American girls who have no idea where the are goin. Oh and a little side note, both of my bags were so heavy, that my taxi driver asked if I had a body in each bag...ha ha....Then he dropped us off at a random corner and we had to wave down a taxi, that Amee and I did perfectly, but the other 3 girls got mad because only Amee and I could fit, and i guess they had no idea how to wave down their own taxi, so Amee and I had to do it....Amee and I booked a hostel for 3 people, turns out a fourth wanted to try and get in without letting the hostel know ,which made me, the credit card holder look like and idiot...anyway it worked out and we're stayin at a really neat Hostel, called the Globetrotter. In a little while us girls are gonna go get some dindin, because we haven't eaten since breakfast and it's now....630pm....hence, i'm grumpy. There's actually about 10-15 people from the group who are in Dublin tonight, so we're all gonna get together....last night, there were a couple of sad goodbye's but all in all it was good.

This post, despite the rushed kinda crappy day is meant to make you all laugh, because I'm now out a point where I'm done venting and, like noted earlier, in retrospect, it's pretty frickin funny...haha

Mom and Dad, thanks for helpin me out....:) I really miss you guys today. Had a mini breakdown on the bus, not a bad one, but like I've told you Mom, I think about Jimmer and Miah more than I ever have over here and sometimes it's tough not havin the fam around. All I know is that I'm super stoked to get home and see you all and also...come baring gifts....:)

I hope you all had a less frantic and more relaxed Saturday then myself, hahahaha:)

God bless you, I Love You!