I'll have to do more of this in the morning when I wake up because it's about 3am here and there is no way I can type for a long period. We just got back from a night clubbing in Temple Bar and I'm exhausted. It was a wonderful day and an especially wonderful night! We had so much fun! Go elbow crew!
we did find a terrific taxi driver who we tipped well and gave us some tips about the bars. no more creepy creeps.
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I'm coming back to this post today to give more information about my day!
I took it pretty easy on day three, Wednesday. I woke up on my own without an alarm to make sure I was closer to getting over the jet lag. After I got dressed and cleaned my room a bit, I made a list of things I needed and headed over to the Omni Plex, the large shopping center about 10 walking minutes away.
I did a little bit of clothes shopping, mostly looking for shoes and a safer, smaller purse, then got food and a few odds and ends at Tesco. I found some good looking produce, but I'm definitely on the look out for fresher markets to get my food. Also picked up some supplies to make myself lunches for work so I won't have to rely on the availability of veg and picky eater friendly foods.
I got home and cleaned the apartment for a few hours, wiping down and disinfecting surfaces and filling out our apartment inventory. Then I got out my travel steamer and located the iron and got my suit and work clothes ready for my interview.
When Kayt got back from her interview, which went really well despite being very far away, we figured out what we wanted to do for the evening. We settled on going out to the Temple Bar area (which actually has a bar called Temple Bar, it's kind of confusing). We invited our friends Andrea, Caroline and Kelsey to come out with us too and headed out on the buses to Temple Bar.
Temple Bar is a street/few streets of your typical tourist "Irish Pub," filled with Irish folk music played by small bands. The prices are high and the people are mostly all foreign. I think we met more Greeks, Spaniards and British people there than Irish.
Regardless, we had some Irish beers, Carlsberg, Smithwicks, Bullingtons Cider (so good!) and of course, the Guinness, and had a great time navigating the crowds and having a good time. We ended up going to a different club, called Fitzsimmons, to go dancing. It was wonderful to hear music we knew and dance to some Lady Gaga!
All in all, it was fantastic. I'm getting more confident in the city and dealing with situations that are a bit different. The people I've met from the other schools in our program are great too, I think we really have a wonderful little group of girls who are both fun and sensible.
