February 9, 2011

Last night after I posted my blog, when I was doing homework and Ellie's sister Rachel was watching t.v. in the front room, her dad came home and he took Rachel and I out to a modern pub owned by one of his friends. The pub was called FXB's, it was two stories high with a formal dining area upstairs, and the bar and lounge downstairs. The walls were covered in local artist's masterpieces, and I even met the owner, he was giving out these little stuffed teddy bears with a devilish theme for Valentine's Day, we got one. I ordered an open faced spring chicken sandwich with a side salad which was very tasty and had very fancy, hard, dark bread underneath, Rachel got orange chicken skewers with a side of chips and Ellie's dad got a huge plate of fish'n'chips. One thing that I learned at the meal last night was that Irish people put vinegar on their chips, luckily I love vinegar. We then visited Ellie and Rachel's grandpa who is really funny and easy to talk to. The quick visit concluded our rainy and cold night. Today wasn't a very busy day at all. The sky was filled with heavy grey clouds spilling out rain all day so I wasn't able to admire the sunrise. Every Wednesday we have a speaker for around an hour come and speak to our grade, today we had a French man who volunteered at a program for elderely people called ALONE based in Dublin. He very much enjoyed working for the program helping the lonely, depressed, and elderly of Dublin county. I have nothing else planned for tonight except for studying and for homework so goodnight Ireland and have a good rest of the day California.