Sorry it's been a week! Blog fail. Honestly, Monday through Thursday of this week were rather uneventful. Except that on Tuesday, we visited Carr Communications and got to hear what they're all about. It was actually really interesting to see how far behind Ireland is compared to the U.S. Their PR tactics and communication models are about 5 years behind ours. Very interesting. Also, we watched a few commercials from one of their clients, Road Safety Authority, which were graphic, to say the least. Here's a link to the least graphic of the two. I couldn't find the more graphic one, which was actually shown during the USA v. England match last night. It was horrific.
Seriously, just be prepared for what you're about to watch!
After our site visit on Tuesday, Rachel and I did laundry for the rest of the day. No joke. It took like 4 hours because we picked the bad dryers. Awesome. Then we went out to Q bar that night and had a blast as always! Wednesday and Thursday were pretty lowkey and I honestly don't think we did much. I remember sleeping for the majority of Wednesday, and maybe watching an episode or two of True Blood somewhere in there! :)
Friday. Now, Friday was a big day! My roommates plus Krysten and I woke up at 5 a.m. so we could catch our 7 a.m. bus to Galway! Needless to say, we slept the majority of the 3 hour ride there. We arrived in Galway around 10 a.m. and immediately boarded our tour bus for the Cliffs of Moher. Oh. My. Lord. I can't even describe how beautiful the cliffs were, so here are some pictures! :)
Breathtaking.
Oops! We did.
...and the view was worth it!
Our group, minus Cindy! The water was so blue. Beautiful!
Warning!
Unfortunately, these were the only pictures I was able to take all weekend because my camera died! BUT, I will be stealing everyone else's pictures soon. The rest of the weekend consisted of much walking and a little shopping here and there. We had planned to go to the Aran Islands today (Sunday) but the weather was NOT ideal. So we just went into town and hung around because we had to check out of the Holiday Hotel at 11 a.m.
Oh man. The Holiday Hotel was adorable. The owners were Australian and SO helpful. It wasn't actually in Galway, but it was in an area called Salthill, which was about a 20-minute walk outside of the city. At one point, we visited St. Nichols church, which is the church where Christopher Columbus and his men went to pray before beginning their voyage to the new world. That was pretty neat!
Saturday night we went out to a pub to watch the USA v. England match! We stumbled into a pub called Richardson's where a bunch of Irish guys were singing a ton of different songs along to a guitar, which they brought. It was hilarious because they tried singing "Sweet Home Alabama" and "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" and completely messed up the lyrics. The Irish should probably give up trying to sing those correctly! After that we met up with 3 other people from our class who were also in Galway. Definitely fun!
I wish I had more pictures, but I'll try and steal some other ones soon. I'm exhausted and we have another site visit tomorrow morning. We'll be visiting the Edelman group, a huge international PR firm. It should definitely be exciting!
Goodnight,
Hillary
I was just catching up on your blog. SO fun! I want to go!! I love all the photos. You are stressing me out not listening to the signs! And how can I get one of those uniforms for Emma--hat and all! SO adorbs (as you would say)!
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