“In Ireland if you don't like the weather, wait 15 minutes.” Going along with my weather-themed titles, here’s a quote by Some Person that pretty much sums up Ireland. It was cloudy but nice today for a couple hours, then cloudy and rainy, then windy and clear, then windy and rainy. And yesterday it was beautiful…until night fell. I just don’t even try anymore.
Some of you might notice the awesomeness my profile now contains (other than the fantastic blog posts, of course)—I added a bunch of stuff to the side, including a map of Co. Cork and links to other peoples blogs. Yaaay customization!
Monday night we went to see céilí music again at the pub An Spailpín Fánac. Fun fact: that translates to “The Wandering Migratory Farm Laborer,” or “The Wandering Scamp.” Personally I prefer the former haha. They again brought out free food, including chips, sausages, and white pudding. I, being somewhat brave and also weak of will, yielded to my friends’ encouragement to try the white pudding, which turns out is basically fried fat. Tastes like gravy, but I couldn’t get over the fact I was eating FRIED FAT. Luckily it was small and I convinced other peoples to eat some of it for me. I have to admit, I wish I had been able to take a music class here because it just sounds so cool! But by the time I figured out the biochem debacle, all of the classes I wanted to take were full.
I finally hung out with my roommates this weekend! The Quinnipiac ones (Sarah, Jenna, and Alyssa), actually. I really do like them a lot and wish we had classes or something together. But we were just talking over dinner on Sunday, complaining about the rain and such. They’re pretty hilarious, especially since the three of them were already friends so they play off each other rather well. They’re heading to London this weekend and I’m off to Belfast which means Jessie will have the apartment to herself this weekend. Should be fun for her haha. Actually, that reminds me…I need to pack…eek!
Rugby practice today in the rain again, though this time it was windy beyond belief. It’s funny how even the natives complain about the rain constantly even though it’s like this, well, pretty much all the time. I enjoy it though since I have people to complain with and I’m not just that whiny American. The girls are going up to Dublin for the women’s Six Nations match—Ireland vs. France, I believe. Sadly I can’t go, though I’ll be in Belfast so I’m not actually complaining. Next Thursday we have another match against Galway…I have no idea if we’re supposed to win or not. Apparently UCC is division 1 here (that means they’re pretty good) so we’re probably playing good teams. However, we were supposed to lose our last match and we upset so I guess I should toss expectations out the window haha.
I added more pictures (that I stole from people) to my album if you want to look. I also promise I’ll do captions one of these days, at least to tell you what something is.
I learned how to tell more time in Irish today. So if you’re saying “It’s 4 o’clock” you’ll just say Tá sé a ceathair a chlog but if you want to say “It’s 4:20” you would say Tá sé a fiche tar éis a ceathair (tah shay ah feh-he tair aysh ah cah-hair). That literally translates to “It is twenty after four,” since tar éis means after. The great thing about times is that basically you just substitute numbers and the rest of the sentence remains the same. For something like 4:45 you’d say Tá sé a ceáthrú chun a cúig (tah shay ah ca-her-roo huun ah coo-ig), as chun means before. And there’s your lesson for today.
To end this rather long post, GLEE IS BACK. Fina-freaking-lly. Now that I’ve found a free site with no time limits I’ll be tuning in to watch Glee every Wednesday. I’m so happy :-D
Slán go fóill!
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