It's been a while since I last posted. That's probably because nothing uber exciting has really happened. I've fallen into a semblance of a routine and now days just seem to be passing like lightning and I don't have a chance to blog.
So last week after the ceili was pretty uneventful, went to classes. Continuing to improve with the uillean pipes and the tin whistle. Dan has been teaching me more tunes, hopefully I'll have built up a respectable library in my head by the time I get back. I don't believe we did anything particularly Ireland-y that weekend. It was so long ago, I honestly don't really recall. I do think the weather was bad, perhaps it was a stay inside weekend, as many seem to have been recently. I do know that on Sunday I trekked the two miles to a friend's apartment to cook dinner. I was sopping by the time I got there, but it was worth it, we baked a pie and cinnamon rolls. In the process we had some misadventures with the conversions of liters and grams into cups...oh Europe. But everything turned out delicious.
That was Sunday of the Superbowl. We stayed and watched for a little while, but there were absolutely no commercials, there were just british commentator people telling us about how the game of football works. And it's actually just pointless and uninteresting to watch football because they stop every two minutes for a TV break. So I headed home in the downpour.
This past week was also relatively uneventful...man, I've become so boring, this is not supposed to happen in Ireland. Anyway, it turned out that a lot of people had a birthday or people coming to visit this past week, so I had a bunch of hanging out to do. It was Katie's birthday on Wednesday and we went out to eat at a restaurant and spent most of the time discussing our upcoming weekend to London, it sounds like it should be a lot of fun. We're going to be there for a long time though, we better not run out of things to do! Then after dinner, my friend Christine had a friend from Rome visiting, and it was also Dan's birthday, and though I'd been invited to dinner, having just eaten, I went over for dessert. Dan made delicious butter cake (something like that) and Christine made Guinness floats which are phenomenal. I honestly enjoyed them better the plain Guinness.
Thursday we went to see Black Swan, and though I'd already seen it (free on the internet) it was definitely better on the big screen. Friday, I wasn't planning on doing anything, but the rugby team got a bus to go up to Dublin to see the women's national team play France in the Six Nations Cup. The men were playing France at the same time, but where the tickets to the women's game were 5 euro, tickets to the men's were 150! So we went to the women's game. The bus ride up (3 hours) was kinda crazy. They Irish girls on the team were a hoot, they started drinking the minute the bus started moving, and this included the coach, who is not that much older then us. They did this thing where they drank large cans of beer and then taped the ones they'd finished to the bottom of the one they were currently drinking, and the person with the longest "wand", while not really winning anything, definitely was given a lot of respect. By the time we reached the pitch, after getting a little lost in random fields in the dark, they were completely smashed. And this only served to make them rowdier as the game commenced. It was cool to see a real game live, though Ireland did lose, but just barely. It got really rough, there were actually a couple fist fights, the French were uber aggressive.
The ride back was a lot less exciting, I think most everyone passed out. We finally made it back at 3 am and I just came home and crashed. Yesterday, after sleeping in, I did some homework then headed downstairs to learn some tunes from Dan. It turned out there's a beer festival going on this weekend at the local brewery, the Franciscan Well, so a bunch of us headed over there. The beer was really good, and we just sat around in the heated tent and chatted about some intellectual things. I decided to invite everyone over for dinner, so we stopped in at the English Market to grab some fresh baked bread, I love that place! I made taco soup and an apple pie, which was a big hit, woot for making friends through cooking. We ended up chilling and drinking some wine, then headed out to An Brog, a pub close to us that has a lot of space for dancing. It was good fun slash, always an interesting experience to watch
people.
Anyway, that brings us up to right now, sorry to ramble about day to day happenings, but nothing really exciting has been happening. I do have my first quiz on Tuesday and I'm thinking about quitting rugby, it may just not be my sport, and it's taking away from other things I'd like to do, like go to more music sessions on week nights and so forth....we'll have to see.
Irish proverb of the day:
There are two versions of/two sides to every story & (at least) twelve versions of every song.
Bíonn dhá insint ar scéal agus dhá leagan déag ar amhrán
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