Yesterday we woke up at 1015 due to arrival of roommate from New York, named Billy. I would have liked to sleep for more, but i suppose 13 hours is enough. We went and walked around for a bit later, and found UCC. It is very large and very nice! The quadrangle is not as big as you would think from the pictures, but the Boole library is really big! I may have to spend a bunch of time in there reading books that I cannot find in America. Matt and I were standing outside of a food place when we were approached by a British girl for directions on how to get to the city park! She must have thought we were irish. But hey, that’s a good thing I guess. Also, when we walked towards UCC, we saw a pub that had a sign that said “No darts until the thongs are returned”. It was really funny. I made some tesco brand pasta with tesco brand sauce, and it was actually pretty good. The whole dinner cost probably 1.2 euros. After dinner I saw Marybeth in the hall. She told us about going to a church where an irish guy was telling us about how barrack obama is destroying the usa. Seems interesting that the irish are up on American politics. Then we all went to the Franciscan Well for a pint. It was awesome. They had a guy on fiddle, one on guitar, and one on accordion that played live music. They mainly did blues and classic rock, like clapton’s crossroads, but we got to hear a couple irish tunes. It was really fun to sit and bs with the group, which actually consisted of all of the csbsju people except for 2. We decided that every Monday night we are going to hit up the Fran well. I had a Friar Weisse, one of the beers they brew at the Well, and it was really good! There was a hint of banana flavor, which added a nice touch. Right as we were getting ready for bed, Billy stumbles in completely trashed. We talked for a few minutes about our pub experiences, and he told us about how the Irish get pissed off if you tip them. And, they get offended if you order an irish car bomb. He then stumbled out to go get kebabs, saying “Damn European mother******s, don’t take a tip…”
