Dublin, Ireland

Thursday Oct. 1

So Thursday afternoon mum and I sat in the USIT office as I updated my CV and cover letters, I had to phone Urban Outfitters to get the number for the Benefits Department to add to my CV reference section and my manager said she'd call me back with it so I left her my Irish cell number and then waited, and  never heard back from her and I was starting to wonder why,

 later I went on Facebook and a co-worker had given me the number and mentioned that when Tracy tried to call me somehow she was connected to a number in Hong Kong instead of

 mine....

With most of the day gone by the time I updated my CV mum and I decided to go grocery shopping for dinner because there is quite literally a mob of thirty germans in our hostel and in true German fashion they cook EVERY meal so you either have to eat early or eat late because they take up all the seats in the kitchen. So early dinner it was! After dinner Hugh(one of the Aussies) Levina and Matt (two Canadians that just got into Ireland) and myself went to Quays Pub to hear some amazing Irish music, they were a guitar and fiddle duo. That's one thing that I'm already so in love with this country is the music, I don't know if I'll ever use my IPod here  because the streets are already filled with amazing music. At the Quays myself and the two other Canadians had our first pints of Guinness; it wasn't bad but it's so filling I don't know how ANYONE could get drunk off of that.

Friday Oct. 2

Yesterday I finally gave in and did something unbelievably touristy with mum. It was called the hop on - hop off bus tour, meaning it stopped at 14 or 15 different places in Dublin and you could get off at any stop for any amount of time and then just hop onto the next bus coming around every ten minutes.

Our first stop was at the Guinness Brewery which was actually so much fun, you wander around the brewery in a self-guided tour and they tell you all about the history and everything.

Once you get half way through your tour you get to something called the Tasting Bar, and well these photos say more than words every could...

After the Guinness Brewery we went to Kailmainham Goal which is the old Dublin prison where they kept all the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising before they were all executed by firing squad in the stone breakers yard of the prison.