First Days!

I am officially on day three of my four month visit to Cork!! The city is the CUTEST place I have ever seen. All of the store fronts are bright colors with the most stereotypical Irish names (Baileys, Bradleys, MacSweeneys). The first day we were taken on a tour around Cork to help us set up our rooms and figure out our surroundings, then we went to Luigi Malones for dinner. Kathleen and I caused a scene when we ordered the knickerbocker dessert, on the menu it said that this item will bring a sparkle to your eye, so there literally was a lit sparkler in the middle of this weird ice cream, fruit combination. Not going to lie, not a fan of the knickerbockers. Then later that night we went out to two bars, Baileys and Reirdens. Reirdens had a live band that played lots of fun American songs, like Journey, Little Lion Man (made me think of Christopher and Ray), and other music.
Then on Thursday we went to the Barryscourt Castle, which looked huge on the outside, but once we got inside it was pretty disappointing. It was only three floors with just one room on each floor. After the castle we went to the Middleton Distillery which is the Jameson factory. Kathleen and I could not stop laughing because the way they were speaking of the whiskey you would think that they were describing the process of making some time of precious, rare artifact. At the end of the tour 8 of us volunteered to do the whiskey tasting, where we took shots of Jameson, Scotch, and Jack Daniels, I hated ALL of them. The only relief we had from the harsh, disgusting whiskey was water... because that really helps. We received certificates after so I guess that made it all worth it in the end.
Today we made it over to UCC for orientation the campus is beautiful and the buildings look like castles. All of the teachers that spoke seemed really nice. Alright well we are off to go food shopping now!