When it rains...

...it keeps raining.

Rain Rain go away, come again another day. I currently look like I just took a shower, not the case.Rain is one thing if you are driving places, it's a total different thing when the only way you know how to get from point A to point B is to walk. However, I now understand why Ireland is so green, so much rain and such mild temperatures. It's not cold, it's rainy. I actually find myself missing the snow.


Anyways, I went to bars last night. But first we attempted to find food and apparently after 4 o'clock, nobody serves food around here, just booze. That was extremely disappointing, all we wanted was some fish 'n chips. So we went back to the apartment, which happens to be the "penthouse" apartment in Victoria Station. Everyone is quite jealous of our accomodations. What's better is that we actually paid less for this apartment because Caroland and I chose to share a room. Biggest apartment for less money = Really Great Deal. So I made dinner, we had some spaghetti, spaghetti sauce and some chicken and I cut up the chicken and mixed it all together. Not bad, everyone liked it.

We decided it would be a good idea to hit the bars and see what Irish pubs are like. We left around 9:30 I suppose, which happens to be quite late in Ireland - something I will have to get used to. We tried one bar, where I had a creepy encounter of an Irish kind. Luckily Pat saved the day by making a quick discrete call to my cell phone, for which I am so very, very grateful. From there, which has a great acoustic singer, we headed to another bar, less expensive which was fantastic, but there were less kids our age there. But it was really nice, and they played good music. From there we went to one of the local hang outs, it was fun but I've got a feeling Americans aren't among the quickly accepted anywhere in Europe.

Everywhere we go, people watch, stare, listen, glare. There are sweet, sweet people that are so kind to you, and then there is the younger crowd which seems to be the most hostile toward us. One girl actually attempted to trip my roommate Sam on our way backfrom the bar, they also said something really awful to her which I feel no need to repeat. The point is that it was unnecessary and uncalled for, we hadn't even talked to them we were chatting between each other about whether or not to go out Friday. I am hoping that with more time here people will either learn to like us more, or we will learn where to be careful so that we don't aggravate the locals.

The older gentlemen that we meet are so nice and willing to chat. They greet us on the street and are helpful and everything. However, during our speeches yesterday in our orientation, there were probably 5 random "Bush sucks"-type statements. They didn't outwardly say it, many did the cough *speak* cough, thing. But it was definitely clear that they are not a fan of US politicians. Who can blame them, most of America isn't a fan of the current US political state.

We just found out the grocery store delivers, which is great because it started to hail. I hope everyone else made their way to their apartments before it started.