I finally fit in!!!!

P.S. Reason for the title is because for the first time I didn't get strange looks because I had light skin and red hair. Oh it felt good!

Irlanda – amazing! I currently have a great passion to live there. I don´t know why I just love the people, the culture, the music, the countryside, and everything. So maybe I´ll start checking on some opportunities there. OK, the trip. It was soooo much fun. We arrived in Dublin at 7 at night on Friday. Throughout the plane ride the pilot would inform us about the flight. It was the strangest thing because Sydney and I literally could not understand a word he was saying and it was in our own language. It was crazy! The accent was sooo thick. Anywho, we were staying at a friends house of Sydney. His name was Javier and he´s is really from Spain. Our stay in this house was the most interesting thing I have ever witnessed. There were 2 italians, 1 spaniard, 1 japonese girl, and 1 pakistani living in this house and the best part was that they were all speaking their second language, English. The commentary was amazing!! They loved to immitate each other and the ways they speak their native language. My favorite was everyone immitating the italians...oh i wish you could have seen it. OH, and 3 out of the 5 housemates worked for IBM in Ireland. This will have some significance later.

The first night we went out on the town to Temple Bar which is a section of the city with many bars. We went to three different bars and had so much fun. We met so many new people but we started to notice the ongoing theme, everyone seemed to be from other countries and everyone seemed to work for IBM. It was crazy! Still hadn´t met a real Irish citizin...hmm?

Saturday we headed off to see Trinity College, Graften Street, and St. Stephens Park. It was a good day to see the city. My favorite part of day was when we went into an antique bookstore to look at books. I asked the lady if there was a good place to eat nearby. She said in her very Irish accent, ¨There is a good craps place just around the corner.¨ I replied, ¨Oh, you mean crepes,¨and she replied a little annoyed, ¨yea, craps.¨OH, we had a good laugh, and there were many jokes to follow like, ¨Oh, did you have a good crap?¨ Well, I guess it´s one of those things that you had to be there to understand. Anyway, all of us decided to go out that night to a club and see what Irlands´ night life is all about. Oh it was hilarious, some of the dance moves seen that night.

These pics are part of Trinity College which was founded in 1542 by Queen Elizabeth I.

These pictures were from St. Stephens park, it was sooo pretty.

Sunday, we bought a ticket to the Dublin bus tour that took us around the town to see all the main sights. We got to see an art museum and take the Guiness tour and get a free pint. One of the housemates, Keith from Pakistan, decided to join us to see the town. That night Sydney and I decided to make the boys hamburgers and french fries for dinner...oh and brownies. They had already done SO much for us, it was so nice of them. After dins, we watched a movie and got some sleep.

Keith, Sydney and I on our Dublin Bus tour.

The different Guiness bottles over time.

Monday, we woke up super early to catch a bus for our tour at 10:00...yea, that didn´t happen. As we ran through the wet streets of Dublin, we arrived to see that the bus had left only minutes earlier...LAME SAUCE! So, I decided I wanted my Starbucks more than going to a Whiskey tour. It was good to get away on my own. Sometimes those are the best times because you can do what you want. I had my coffee and read. It was relaxing and necessary. I did a little shopping and met the two others for our tour at 2. We saw the northern coast area and Mallahide castle.

These are pictures from our coastal bus tour. There were some really pretty sights!

The trip was a blast and I loved every second of it. I love the atmosphere of Dublin. All in all, we hung out with spaniards, italians, pakistanis, tunisians, portugues, polish, french, australians and japonese. Perfect!!!

Here´s us on our last leg of the journey. Yea, our train broke and we had to take a 3 hour bus ride instead to Seville. We caught a train from Seville to El puerto and arrived at 11. Long day!