Taking a Little Cork Break Soon!

Hello! Well today is pretty much my last day in Cork until next week. I have the most exciting week planned!! First after class tomorrow we are leaving for Galway and are going to be there until Sunday. Then Monday night we have a Dinner and a Play with Mary, then we leaving Tuesday morning with our class to go to Dublin. While we're in Dublin were going to walk the steps of James Joyce's novel "Ulysses," which is a novel that describes a day in the life of three different people in Dublin. After Dublin, Mary gave us Friday off so we are all traveling to London together!! I am soo excited!!

Since not much has happened since the last time I blogged I will just mention some of the rules and phrases I have learned in Cork. When eating at a restaurant you do not tip, and you MUST ask for the bill or they will literally never bring it to you. When ordering a soda, they still ask you if you want it in a pint or regular. "Get great craic" means have a laugh, absolutely no references to drugs of any kind. "Piss" means being drunk. The whipped cream they give you is not sweetened (this was a big disappointment at first). One more very important thing, when eating fish and chips beware that the skin can still be on the fish that they serve you! These differences seem very small, but they are definitely something one must know before going into Cork.

Also I decided I would post some pictures of room here in Cork so you can get a feeling of where I am living!!

This is my bedroom, the bed with the purple sheets is mine, and the bed with the green sheets is Kathleen's. We are the only two people in our apartment building that are direct roommates, and we love it, of course!!

Here is a picture of our common room, its a really cute area with a nice view of the River Lee and a little TV. We seem to already have created some sort of assigned seats for ourselves, Diana and I in the chairs, and Kathleen lying down on the couch. 

This is the view of the River Lee that we have from our common room, the river is so beautiful when it is at high tide. Unfortunately when the river is at low tide, it is not a pretty. The low river shows off a lot of moss and even an old rusted shopping cart.