It's definitely getting harder and harder to update everyday, so I'll do my best to do it every couple of days! The title of this blog is definitely referring to how different everything tastes here. Even my Frosted Flakes taste funny. And it's increasingly difficult to find skim milk here. I've had to start drinking low fat milk, and even THAT tastes funny. And I cannot find GRAPE jelly ANYWHERE! Apparently the Irish only like jam, and strawberry jam for that matter. It's the little things I miss, like my Frosted Flakes... and Chipotle. But don't get me wrong, the food at restaurants are ridiculously delicious. Enough of that, on to the past few days!
Day 10: June 5, 2010
Saturday was SO much fun! My suite-mates and I (all six of us) went to the Docklands festival that afternoon. We weren't entirely sure what to expect, but it was definitely fun! There were probably a hundred or so vendors in tents along both sides of the Liffey river, which runs straight through Dublin. I ate a piece of ham, spinach and onion quiche, and Rachel got an Irish sausage hot dog. So delicious!
Me and the dutch vendor! Haha! Such good quiche.
Rachel and me enjoying Krombacher beer;
a German beer, which we have yet to find in any pubs.
And it's hands down the best beer I've ever consumed.
View of the carnival part of the festival
After the Docklands Festival, the roomies and I headed back to our room and just relaxed for the rest of the afternoon before heading out to Temple Bar in the evening. It's definitely expensive to go out here.
Day 11: June 6, 2010
Sunday was definitely a lazy day. It started raining pretty early, and it has continued raining since then. So I woke up rather early and decided to start watching Season 2 of True Blood since I haven't yet! But it took me like 2 hours to watch one episode because these foreign TV show web sites only allow a certain number of minutes at a time or something strange like that!
Then around 1 or so me, Rachel Q, Tracie, Cindy, Krysten and Ana went to Eddie Rockets for lunch. Yes, Eddie Rockets! It's exactly like Johnny Rockets back home. Pretty much identical, except our waitresses were Polish and hard to understand. We were definitely just craving some good old fashion American food at that point. Then after that, we went shopping yet again at Penneys and Dunnes. But this time, I actually had success! I spent 58 euro total for a blazer, a pair of jeans, a going-out top, package of socks, and a linen skirt. AMAZING!
Then we came home and napped again before heading out, since Monday was a bank holiday here and class was cancelled since all the buildings on campus were closed. So we unexpectedly had a 3-day weekend! Woohoo!
Day 12: June 7, 2010
Monday was even lazier. Rachel and I decided to do laundry (which I desperately needed to do by then!) in the afternoon. It took us close to 3 hours since we chose a bad dryer that didn't work. I probably spent 12 euro doing laundry today, ridiculous. Even doing laundry's expensive. After laundry we hung out with a few law students we met who also live in our dorm. It was raining ALL day so we were perfectly content with staying inside and on campus all day.
I'm getting increasingly worse at taking pictures, too. I'm really trying to work on that! Well, it's 8:30 in the morning and we have another site visit this morning at Carr Communications, so I must get ready!
Love and miss you all,
Hillary
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