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Beautiful day in Ireland!

It's the official first day of spring break and I couldn't ask for better weather. The sun is shining, there isn't a cloud in the sky, and it has to be at least 70 degrees outside right now. I'm sitting outisde with my roomate Steph right now. We're soaking up some sun and taking every advantage of this weather. We just had 3 straight days of rain, clouds and wind, so this is beautiful!

So St. Patrick's Day was two days ago and it was definately interesting. The morning had to have been the best part because we were in the town parade. Haha my first time marching in a parade and my professors decided to put me in charge of everything. It was all good though because we figured out what we were doing and where we were going. Everyone was dressed up in green, and white and orange (The colors of the Republic's flag) and we also had one of my professors kids dress up as a leprechaun. He had a lot of fun with it. We also did some face painting, and nails, and green eyelashes. We definately went all out. Of course everyone was totally trashed that day. Some of my classmates started drinking at 9am on St. Patrick's Day, and continued on drinking the rest of the day until midnight the official end of St. Patrick's Day. I wasn't really too enthused with getting drunk or drinking at all, so I hung out with some of the kids for a little bit, had a dinner with two of my classmates, then spent a quiet evening in the cottage doing some laundry and getting other things done.

On the 18th we had a little day trip planned to Castlebar. That was really nice. We went to Ballintuber Abbey, and then we had a couple hours to wander around Castlebar to do some shopping or whatever. My friend Melissa and I walked around together, had lunch and just... yeah shopped. Haha I didn't buy anything only because I'm on a budget until I get some money that my school is giving to me.

Most of our classmates are gone on their spring break trips now. Some are leaving within the next couple days. There are... about 5 or 6 of us that are staying in Louisburgh, so we'll have some company too. Steph and I might go visit some friends that we met when we were in Dublin. Some students from Michigan who are on a study abroad program similar to the one that my school does. Steph and I met a couple of the guys and girls in that group and we thought it would be cool to visit each other while we were here. One of the guys is really ncie. His name is Rob, and him and I talked quite a bit. Haha Steph likes to think that we'll find a romance story or something. But we'll see what happens.

I'm feeling quite better about everything now. I'm still really excited to go home, but I think the melancholy weather we had the past few days was making me a little depressed. But now the sun is shining, it's warm, and all is good with me. Soon enough this break will be done and it'll be time to get back to class.  I'd like to not think about that too much though.

So for now... I'm just going to sit back... and soak up some sun. It is a good day today.