So here's the summary of week two in Dublin:
On Tuesday, the study abroad centre at the business school set up an inauguration party for all the American students, at which they thematically served us Budweiser and onion rings. The national news came to cover the event.
Over the weekend, my friend Brittney came to visit from Galway with her roommate, Sam. Galway is due West of Dublin, on the opposite coast of Ireland, and is home to the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG). They arrived on Friday afternoon, and we spent the evening exploring Dublin by night. The city was beautifully lit up, and following dinner at our favourite new creperie, Lemon, we met up with some of my friends at a bar in the Temple Bar area (= touristy entertainment district).
Saturday was spent touring St. Stephen's Green (a beautiful park akin to Central Park), Grafton Street (shopping district), and the Quays (the streets adjacent to the River Liffey). We stopped for tea and scones in a tiny, obscure cafe. In the basement of the cafe we ran into four fellow Tufts students, who have been studying in Paris since September. I feel as though I am a magnet for coincidental meet-ups. After walking around the beautifully old Trinity College campus, we bought groceries and headed home to make dinner. That night, we met up with some of my American friends and headed to a pub in city centre.
On Sunday, we returned to Lemon from brunch, and went to check out St. Patrick's Cathedral. The Cathedral is enoromous, super old, and has a great little park attached to it. I then dropped Britt and Sam off at their bus and headed back to campus to study and make further travel arrangements. I purchased tickets for Barcelona and Budapest for the coming weeks!
That's it!
Love,
Erin
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