First free Weekend!

Update on my weekend!  On friday we went out to an Irish gay bar called Dignity and it was interesting to say the least. WE HAD SO MUCH FUN! Irish people are crazy. I absolutely loved it. You can dance like a total idiot and no one cares what you look like. Well maybe they do but they don't show it. It was a pretty cool gay bar, there was a big mix of gay and straight. There was a singing competition. One girl was exceptionally good. It reminded me of susan boyle when she walked out on stage. Her look doesn't match her voice...but her voice was absolutely beautiful. She didn't win unfortunately but it's okay because she had all her friends cheering for her the whole time. Actually she had the whole crowd cheering for her. Anyways, they played new nicki minaj and played old school backstreet boys, hanson and even the YMCA. I've never danced so hard in my life. It was awesome, or brilliant as they would say here.

Yesterday Beth and I went with this other girl named Mary in our group to go horseback riding. There was a marathon running all across waterford and tramore yesterday so it was very hard to get a bus. When we were waiting, we met this other girl studying at WIT for a few months. She is German and her name is Ann. She is really cool and we talked to her for quite a bit, even on the bus ride. She isn't hanging out with anyone here so I think it was nice for her to get to know some people. The only reason she was going to tramore was to get a bike but talking to us, she came horseback riding with us! The horseback riding was really cool! I thought it was going to be on the beach but it was in the countryside which was awesome too. I kept imagining myself in lord of the rings. The music kept playing in my head. Cause I'm a huge nerd like that XD. Although, my horse named Marley, was a poker and I kept having to catch up and then slow down. And kept drooling and farting. It made me laugh. Not as majestic as Shadowfax....but what can you do.  We went by a beautiful lake and some mountains. All of it felt a little surreal, as does most of this trip to me.

When we finished horseback riding, a lady who's daughter was taking lessons there offered to give us a ride back into town because it was a bit of a walk. She was amazing. I wish she were my best friend. Her name was Amanda; she is actually British, who settled with an Irishman and has 4 kids as she told us, 3 dogs, 2 cats, a tank full of fish and 1 husband. She made me laugh. She showed us around the town, showed us where we could watch all the 'handsome fellas walk around in their wetsuits' at the beach  and where we could take surfing lessons if we wanted to. YES i want to, of course all the other girls think it was too cold. I mean it is too cold, but it has never stopped me before. Hahaha. Surfing in Ireland? Of course! My favorite line she used was when we said everyone has dogs here and she was like "yes! and they SHIT everywhere!" hahaha she was a riot. I loved talking with her. Anyways, we went down to a little surf shop/eatery and ate a good little lunch there. We then went down to the beach and i collected some sea glass and rocks. Girls were out there in bikinis! I know it feels pretty warm to them but still, are you crazy?! Alot of people surf over there. It was really pretty and cool to see the town. Ann came with us through all of it, it was nice to have her tag along!

It feels too surreal to be here sometimes.