Fried rice represents all that is good in this world

         Tomorrow morning I leave for Belfast, so I thought I’d get up a post before so that the next one will be all Belfast, all the time. I am missing some classes but I’ve talked to the profs already—it’s apparently very alright for visiting students to miss class for a field trip or something. They do keep telling us that we’re here to learn, but also stress how important it is to explore Ireland (and Europe). All of the IFSA groups are going to Belfast so I’ll get to meet kids in school in Dublin, Galway, etc…wherever there are other schools. Should be fun…yaaaaay friends!!

         Tonight we went out to dinner to Wagamamas to celebrate Katie’s birthday. 21 yay!! It was really fun, and omg the noodles are still incredibly good. After, we went back to her and Rafa’s apartment to have chocolate cake and ice cream, my favorite combination ever.

New awesome place: Café Depeche. I’ve heard about this from multiple people but had never been there myself, so after Archaeology last week I went over to hang out until my Irish class at 16:00. I got a hot chocolate, and it came in this amazing glass that looked far too pretty to eat. (Rebecca took a picture which I’ll post as soon as she posts hers.) And it was so good! One day when I have money I’ll go back haha.

We booked our flight to London and our hostel there, which is so so so exciting for me…I’m like a real person, planning vacations and such. We did failblog pretty hard, though, since we booked our flight out for 6:30 in the MORNING instead of in the EVENING. Well, that just means we get a whole extra day in London! We’ll be there from March 3-7, leaving early Monday morning and getting back to Cork at 7:30am, just in time for my Archaeology class haha. We’re staying in a hostel righti n the middle of London for about 70 euro total for all 4 nights, which is rather good compared to most of the prices. There’s internet too so I’ll be able to go on my iPod to update ye, since I won’t be bringing my computer. From what I hear it’s rather expensive there, but IFSA has lots of tips for cheap food; it seems that I’ll be eating Vietnamese food a lot there, which I’m totally ok with!

I did keep my promise- pictures are now in order and captioned, for your viewing pleasure. So exciting! Ask Jeff—I was up really late captioning them because I couldn’t sleep until I’d finished haha. Thank goodness for 14:00 classes…love ‘em.

My fried rice! Arborio rice (cooked before), onions, red peppers, egg, and soy sauce.
I don't remember how much of each is in there...I really just threw stuff together haha.

Tonight we went out to dinner to Wagamamas to celebrate Katie’s 21^st birthday. It was really fun, though we didn’t have enough people to use my coupon so I just decided to eat when I got home. After, we went back to her and Rafa’s apartment to have chocolate cake and ice cream, my favorite combination ever. We ended up buying a caramel ice cream cake to precede the chocolate cake…what a fantastic idea. When I got home I was craving fried rice so obvs I made some—check it out above. I eyeballed everything and didn’t use a recipe, and it actually came out quite good. I’m eating it now…om nom nom nom. Well, off to pack for tomorrow!

Slán go fóill!