I'm here! And now must pay 2 euro to the euro dealers caus i went past my 15 minutes here on the computer...but so it goes...everything here costs so much anyways and besides euros aren't real money right? it's like Euro Disney and how it isn't really disney world right? uhuh. So I thought i could do a semester without music but that was just too painful so i bought speakers for my disc man today on my solo journey into galway. It's not that big a city but i still feel like i haven't really found my way around. It took me like an hour to leave my apartment today i was aprhensive about going into town by myself. Not caus its unsafe just caus...well i don't know--caus i didnt really want company anyways.

Walking around its so interesting looking at people's faces caus friends and aquaintances from home now look SO IRISH. LIke, i never knew their featurs were irish but they so are. Alice, Erin, Caleb, Random dude from my fiction class last yr--i feel happy whenevr i see a friend look alike:)

We had our orientation yesterday and besides for the fact that my classes all seem to fall on mondays they look fantastico...but ha we had like 4 people tell us that we shouldnt really be here to study so yeah interesting...

Now for random story from last nite--I'm at a pub with some interstudy kids(all girls save for marc) and this girl who lives across the hall who knows claude!!! her name is abby and her irish bf and his friends and we seem to have lost one IS girl, Tess who's perty cool, from UVM, and last evening SO DRUNK

i went to find her to see if she's okay and she's talking with this guy gary and also this guy who keeps telling her that he's going to be the next mayor of galway--right--and i'm wearing a blue scarf(will be important in just one moment and yes of course other clothes dirty mind heads) and so he turns to leave after talking with us a bit--and yeah he's like 40 and balding somewhat charming i suppose but 40 and balding and pulls my scarf to the left and gives me a kiss on the right cheek, then pulls it to the right and gives me a kiss on the left cheek, then turns to me and says, "actually this is better" and pulls my scarf straight forward and well you can imagine. I was just so flabbergastered and like uhhh what just happened? Yeah, just got smooched by the 'next mayor of galway'. Mental note--must be better prepared for these irish lads next time i go out ie: tonight:)

cheers all!

p.s the first phone number for my phone is wrong(house line) its really 011-353-91-4175