Irish Firsts

1st day fencing with UCD's club!!

What fencing always looks like ie tight butts flying

A few things I learnt:
1. I am going to have muscle ache tomorrow
2. There are pentathletes trying for Olympics training with us and one other exchange student from the US who's been fencing 9 years (ZOMG)
3. Ok so the Irish aren't all red heads. I've only seen one Irish guy with seriously ginger hair hahahaha still buying the red wig from a tourist shop for St Pat's day though
4. The Irish say "fuck" as "FOOK" and "shit" as "shite" (always a necessary cultural lesson)

The ultimate domestic Goddess

Also, it's only in Ireland that I am learning what a domestic GODDESS I am.Yesterday for dinner I made salmon steaks pan fried in butter and served with a white wine sauce, and today for lunch was the most amazing panini in the world. Cherry tomatoes and button mushrooms fried in olive oil garlic and basil, in between bread toasted with ham and cheese, some fresh lettuce and drizzled with olive oil.

FWAH. No photos unfortunately, was too hungry by the time we did the groceries and cooking. Tescos is about a 20 minute walk away - not cool when carrying 3kg washing powder amongst other things and the night winds are glacial.

Haha classroom looks exactly like this from my POV, this googled image was taken from the seat I was in today

It was the first day of lessons today, too. Not such a great story here, the class was half-filled and not a single Irish student in sight (recovering from Black Monday?). I'm in a group with a New Yorker and a French, and we have a presentation due next week. This should be fun.


Eh this new layout was a bit of a bo pian situation. Retardedly I went exploring new templates without saving my old one with my tagboard code and links. So... hum.