Yikes! It's been a long time!

Sorry all for not updating this for the last 2 weeks or so, life has gotten a bit busier. Which tends to happen when I'm in Med Ren, Mountaineering, Gaelic Football, and classes...

Anywho, I'm not going to through every single day because a) I think that would probably bore you and b) it would take forever to write. Yes, I am that lazy...sorry. Ok, now on to the highlights:

Day 22- Hiking in the Comeragh Mountains in County Waterford with the Mountaineering club. It was beautiful and hard but so worth it. I have a bunch of pictures up on facebook so you've probably already seen them (since I think everyone reading this has facebook...)

Day 23- Learned a song on the Uilleann pipes and got praised a lot for knowing my scale and being able to do it with a sustained sound :) Had my first Irish Gaelic class and it was so fun! It's nice to be taking a language other than Spanish, though the spellings don't match the pronunciations at all! Since when did a "bh" make a "v" sound?? I also went rock wall climbing with the Mountaineering club and it was great. The people in the club are really awesome and scaling walls is fun ^.^

Day 24- First REAL downpour since I've been here. It was cold, wet, and nothing like rain in California.... :)

Day 28- MASTERED THAT UILLEANN PIPE SONG!!! Boo yeah ;)

Day 29- Hiking in the Gougane Barra with the Mountaineering club. This time around it was much more what I expected hiking in Ireland to be like: ridiculously muddy, chilly all day and lots of heather. It was fun but I enjoyed the Comeraghs more because, personally, I thought the views were prettier. Not that Gougane Barra wasn't pretty, it was just a lot of the same once we got to the top of the mountain: heather and mud everywhere you stepped. Feeling like you're going up into the Mists of Avalon though, priceless.

Day 30- Ahhh crazy day of doom!! I played my Uilleann pipe song and learned another song (yay!) and got praised for playing my first one so well...I love all the praising going on ;) Anywho, after my 5 hours of class I had my first Gaelic football practice (I believe I explained how this game works in an earlier post, so I won't bore you with it again). Good grief this game is tough! Luckily a lot of my soccer skills came back, though those are only useful for soloing the ball (bouncing it off my own foot back into my hands whilst running at break neck speed...well ok,while trying to run at break neck speed) and punting it. There's so much coordination involved, it's ridiculous. Buuuuuut a ton of fun.

Day 31- My friend Bethany and I decided to try out the "all-American" restaurant called Eddie Rockets because neither of us eat out very often and we felt like having malts :) Wow is all I can say. It was sooooo good. The malts were absolute heaven and I don't think fries have ever tasted so good. Though that might in part be because I haven't had fries in about a month at this point....*shrug*

Day 32- Owww. There's a German girl in Med Ren who has absolutely no freaking clue how to wield a spear, and it's really starting to annoy the hell out of me. She whacked me across the head twice and nearly took my head off or poked an eye out more times than I can shake a fist at. She's dangerous and gave me a scrape on my left shoulder, a huge bruise on my thigh, a bruise across my stomach and a bump on the head...freaking idiot. It's also frustrating because I would sometimes lose to her if we were sparring one on one because I didn't want to, oh, I dunno, DIE. (And by die I mean have serious pain inflicted upon me) *sigh*

Day 33- Gaelic football practice again, though much much harder this time. They had us do so many drills that involved sprinting as fast as possible for extended periods of time I thought I was going to fall over. It was exhausting...

Ok well that's the last 2 weeks in a nut shell and a taste of what my life has been like over here! Hope you enjoyed reading!