I'm done with junior year!

Rather fantastico, no? Caus for celebration me thinks so--After my last exam, I went out for a pint afterwards with tess and my irish friend sarah and these two guys robbie and ray(mond) who she knew and who were in our class...then tess leaves and we go to another pub and sneak our pint glasses outside and go down to the spanish arch*it's by the river...there are lotsa swans there and ducks* we dangle our feet over and its warm out and we're smoking cigerettes and its terribly european and irish and fantastic. I LOVE hanging out with irish kids.

They are all--witty, clever, sarcastic, and inventive...like it's not a bonus but a necessity. Then we go to another pub and the next thing i know its 9:30. Sarah has to go but i dont have a phone and dont want to go home so i keep hanging out with robbie(every word out of his mouth is "it's Fan-FECKIN-tastic!" and Ray who is really quite cute...with light brown curly hair and blond highlights...;-) i told him that i like to write and he asked if i was a "lady of words?" sigh oh the writers get me EVERY time..

So, we go back to robbie's and his place is typical irish boy house with trash everywhere and he uses his floor as an ash tray--stupendous. Oh, and we're chillin in his living room and people just keep climbing in and out of the window. Oh and of course we buy "cans" ie beer and keep drinking. Robbie bought an entire bottle of buckfast just for HIMSELF..which is like toxic drinking levels... Then we head over to my place so i can get a jacket and the vague plan is to go to a club but at this point we're all mildly wrecked...well robbie is majorly--he keeps pointing to trees saying, "I used to climb that--and that one--oh i feel outta that one..OH NOSTALGIA!" Apparently he and ray used to live here last yr so they had the wise idea that we should go back to their old apartments and visit...the poor souls who live there now had left their doors open so we just kinda jaunted in and out and perhaps borrowed their soccer ball.

Then we go to robbie's friends place who's "FAN-feckin-TASTIC" but isnt home..As robbie would say he's out "LIVING THE DREAM!" But as his roomate is apparnetly not and thus home we just chill in his living room and i put on some cds and we watch tv. Then, we decide to go back into town..and try to go to a club but robbie keeps getting turned away caus he's too drunk but eventually we get in...and then robbie just wants to dance but Ray and I didn't so let's just say the night went on from there...

On a somewhat side note, the nightlife in galway is truly incredible...i went to an african music concert last nite at the Roisen Dove( a well known rock venue that's really just an awesome pub) and the band was called AFRIKO and everyone just danced danced danced....i love it here.

twill be very difficult indeed to leave...

love love for now

Hiya,
so it's been a bit of a stretch and not without cause. I recently returned from sojourning in Amsterdam and it was...quite the trip. Ahem! As many of you have probably seen, I went to the most amazing flower garden--pretty much a theme park for flowers, called the Kukkendorf. They even had a polka band playing justin timberlake. EVER so hot i tell ya. But, of course it was great seeing Max and all the luny antics that go with that:) And, amsterdam for all its rap is quite a pleasant city. The canals straddle most of it, like yarn around fingers with bridges weaving about and about every which way.

And, of course the coffee shops were interesting too.

And the little waffle cookies...yum

Additionally, they have the largest collection of Van Gohe's in the world. I should have figured he was dutch...

Okay, i have a confession. I have a final tomorrow that i haven't studied for at all yet. I'm a bit scared.

Oh and yes--i'm a comin home june 2! And will then be in Boston for most of the summer...so whoever ya are, wherever ya are--hopefully we can get together yeah yeah yeah.

~alissa