Ireland!!

The weirdest (and most incredible) thing about Europe is that conversations like this are totally normal:

"Hey! What did you do this week?"

"Oh ya know, just went to Ireland, it was alright. What about you?"

"I went to Belgium, the waffles were phenominal!!" 

And the reason Ireland was just "alright" was because I was sick and therefore did not go out much (boo!) However my birthday was awesome! We went out to a pub (obviously) and I go seafood chowder. Seriously delicious!! I didn't do much else though, roamed campus, crashed a few classes, made some friends. It was nice, low key. The traveling to and from was definitely the scariest part, and the most beautiful. If you ever need something to do, take a bus through the irish country side. Stunning. However coordinating train, plane and bus is hard. Especially when you are traveling alone and do not have a cell phone that works in said country. It was nice though that at least once I go to Ireland everyone spoke english, although that helped only a little because the irish are actually pretty difficult to understand. It didn't help that since I was used to speaking french, every time I had to ask someone a question I would get it all ready mentally in french then have to stop myself and switch back to english. My favorite things aobut Ireland was how it always smells like fresh rain (usually because if it is not currently raining, it probably has or will within an hour) and having a real sized coffee!! Coffee in France is great, my problem is that it is the size of a shot and I'm one of those people who likes to get a large coffee and do homework or procrastinate homework in a cafe somewhere for hours, that is not possible with a shot-sized coffee, therefore Ireland was amazing. I definitely would looove to go back and see a bit more of it, I hear Galway is one of the most beautiful places! So we shall see, my list of places to go is looong.