Going to the Theatre

Trinity College was right up the street from our hostel. The campus was amazing, I can't wait to see UCC's campus!
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I did some more orientation stuff today, and learned quite a bit about Irish language and the vocabulary. One thing I love about Ireland is that they still use the old Gaelic language, but they also speak English. All of their street signs and shop signs have both the Irish and English letterings on them, so if I'm keen enough, I can pick up on some Irish. Although Irish seems like an impossible language to learn! The pronounciation of words is nothing like how it is spelled. For example,

I thought I would just throw in this picture of our hostel room. I shared it with two other American girls studying abroad, and it was quite comfortable.
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'Caoimhe' is pronounced 'cuva'. Where does the 'v' sound come from!?

I really enjoy it though. I love learning new languages and accents, and observing the way people speak. Here are some interesting vocabulary differences I've picked up so far:

• comforter means pacifier
• to chat up means to hit on
• craic (pro. crack) means fun, so people always ask you "where's the craic tonight?"
• hole-in-the-wall means ATM
• queue means line
• to slag means to tease (Irish people loooove to do this, esp. with Americans)
• second floor means third floor (this one I can't understand)
• yer one/yer man means girl/guy

After absorbing all this fun and useful information, I went exploring around the city for a place to unlock the cell phone that Michael gave to me. Didn't have much luck, but I wasn't trying very hard. We went shopping for groceries to make dinner again, but when we got back to the hostel, the kitchen was closed because people kept leaving a mess in there. I didn't want to go out anymore, so I took a quick nap before we met up for the theatre later that night.

We went to Abbey Theatre, which is the national theatre of Ireland and watched "Kicking a dead horse." It is a short, American play, starring Stephen Rae, who was in "V for Vendetta" I've never seen that movie, but people say he's the main inspector guy. It was a one-man play, and it was interesting, but I can't say I enjoyed it too much.

After the play, jetlag hit me again, and my body just crashed and burned. Everyone was going out, but I didn't want to do another night out with everyone, even though it was the last night in Dublin. I thought it was best to stay in and recover, and I was right! I felt a lot better in the morning, and got up early to have breakfast and start packing for Cork!!!