Greetings from Ireland!

To those of who who didn't know, I currently reside in Lousiburgh Ireland, County Mayo. I've been living here for a couple weeks now and am enjoying it greatly. I will be here until the begining of may so roughly it'll be about 3 months and a couple weeks that I will be here.

As I write to all of you now, I'm sitting in an internet Cafe in Galway, a city that is almost the size of my hometown, Duluth MN. It's very wet in Ireland, and right now it is a little cold. But I am thankful for my rain jacket and my water proof shoes. Though I wish my jeans were just as waterproof too.

It's different over here that's for sure. I'm still getting strange looks from a lot of people, but I hope that as time goes on that will wear off and I will get to meet a lot of people while I'm here. I am not in Ireland alone to begin with, however. I am studying with a group of my own classmates from my own college. I know all of them, but not well enough to call them my friends. They're just some classmates. I do have one friend who is one of my roomates while I'm here. So it is nice to have a friend wtih me, as well as to have other pople I know with me.

So... I will have internet where I'm staying very soon, and I hope to get the chacne to chat with all of you as soon as possible. I need some contact with the outside world. (My outside world to be exact). So don't be afraid to drop me an email, because I will check i as often as I can, and once I get my internet hooked up where I'm linving, I will be on even more.

I miss all of you!