Dodgy Dublin

Hey all.  Quick post update as I am feeling especially fantastic this evening.  I went to Dublin this past weekend with the UL frisbee team and played 4ish games in soggy soil all day Saturday.  We lost all of our games, but I was just glad to play outdoors in February without having snow flurries block the disc.  I landed hard on my shoulder and was out for the second half of the last game, and it’s still quite sore so who knows what I did to it.

I ended up staying in Dublin Saturday evening with Aussie Dave, Jeremiah and his St. Norbert buddies in an apartment in a super dodgy area.  We literally had to go through at least three types of security blockades to get to Becca’s apartment.  The apartment itself was wonderful (minus the shower, which Jeremiah made it blantantly obvious that the water turns ice cold after a mere five minutes when we heard him cursing through the bathroom door).  We ended up going to two pubs (one was called Hogan’s?) in the trendy district by downtown.  The inside of the first pub looked like a huge house party with convenient bars (with inconvenient prices) located in half of the rooms.  It was so packed we could barely move.  We moved on to another pub down the street with multiple levels, with a spacious dance floor in the basement.  Aussie Dave made new friends with some older Irish guys, but I was too timid to talk to any new people, especially since the Dublin accent is quite a challenge to decipher in a loud bar.  On our long 30 minute walk back to Becca’s, we picked up some delicious late night burgers at a place called Rick’s.

On Sunday, Jeremiah, Dave and I went shopping downtown.  When I say we went shopping, I mean that Jeremiah bought a much-needed belt and Dave examined the remote controlled tarantulas, while I perused the sale rack at the expensive shops.  I had to hit up H & M, but my new favorites are A/wear, River Island and Zara’s.

On the 3.5 hour bus ride back to Limerick, Jeremiah and I played Truth or Dare on his iTouch.  Of course we couldn’t do any of the dares, as the prompts consisted of “Bite somebody’s toe,” and “Kneel and kiss the hand of the person next to you.”  When I chose Truth, it asked me what I would do if I had 24 hours to do whatever I wanted.  When I thought about it, I instantly realized that I WAS doing what I would want to do for those 24 hours…except I had a whole 4 months to do it.  My typical answer would definitely be something about traveling the world in a spontaneous way, and doing crazy things in random places.  I haven’t really done anything crazy yet, but I’ll let you know when I do.  It was unreal to realize that I was having the time of my life only three weeks in to a short four months.  I somehow have to bottle up this feeling and sell it on the black market.  Then maybe, just maybe, I’ll have enough funds to travel the world.

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