Tomorrow I'll be 21 finally..
I have planned a pub crawl here in Limerick with some of my friends to tour the various pubs having live music tomorrow night, but the schedule is actually dependent on which pubs will really have music. A lot of them say they have music each Wednesday nights but which pubs will actually be having a session will be up to us to find out I guess.
We will try to go to Dolan's Pub, The Royal George Hotel, Nancy Blake's and finally The Locke Bar, all of which may have live traditional music tomorrow night. Then perhaps we'll end up going to Molly's which is the night club of choice of the erasmus students because its free entry. Actually a lot of us, myself included, have quite a bit of school work and essays due soon so we may not have such a late night after all
This weekend a group of 35+ of us are traveling to Belfast for a tour of Northern Ireland so we will continue the celebrations up north.
If any one wants to donate to the cause, there is a link for paypal donations on the top right of the page here. Thanks in Advance to any and all!
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Grand Slam!
On Saturday Ireland Beat Wales in the final match of the Six Nations Rugby Cup 17-15 to complete their first Grand Slam since 1948. Needless to say pubs all over the country went wild that evening as it happened. They let the match go right till the last second to confirm the win as they conceded a penalty to Wales in the last second of the game. Wales kicked a penalty kick from 48 m out (having earlier in the match scored a penalty from 49m) with only a few seconds to go which would have made the final score 18-17 for Wales however the kick fell short and Ireland Won!!!
I watched with a few friends in The Bank pub here in Limerick and the atmosphere was outstanding. Limerick is the Rugby center of Ireland and many of the players form the National team play for the regional team here, Munster, and thus do their training here at University of Limerick. So they should be coming to town soon to have a parade and celebration.
I watched with a few friends in The Bank pub here in Limerick and the atmosphere was outstanding. Limerick is the Rugby center of Ireland and many of the players form the National team play for the regional team here, Munster, and thus do their training here at University of Limerick. So they should be coming to town soon to have a parade and celebration.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Home Recordings
This is the first recording my friends and I have done while here in Ireland.
Agathe wrote the lyrics, the song is called Rastaman. Ben and I play guitar and Ben and Agathe do the singing. We recorded this in my flat with my Macbook.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
School closed!
Thursday at college it was announced that school would be closed and all classes canceled until the following Wednesday due to a viral epidemic causing many student to get sick. what was originally thought to be food poisoning from a dance the school hosted has now spread to the school itself making it unsafe until it has been cleaned.
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F1_0_s_4_0_t&usg=AFQjCNE29xm-3H0mvgpHEfKth3OY5t78MQ&cid=1314585741&ei=9hW9SajUJajAwAHf-N3FAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.ie%2Fnational-news%2Fvomiting-bug-strikes-students-1672773.html
unfortunately for me I have no Friday classes, only one class on Mondays, and Tuesday is Patrick's Day so there is no school anyway so I only miss one class due to the outbreak.
None of my friends were sick but there were plenty of people at the nurses office all day Monday through Wednesday before they decided to close school down on Thursday.
On a note unrelated to the current viral epidemic, I contracted a Staph infection somewhere along the line leading to Impetigo, which is a skin rash. It came out on my face about a week back. I was given a prescription for antibiotics and skin cream and all is well now.
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct2=us%2F1_0_s_4_0_t&usg=AFQjCNE29xm-3H0mvgpHEfKth3OY5t78MQ&cid=1314585741&ei=9hW9SajUJajAwAHf-N3FAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.ie%2Fnational-news%2Fvomiting-bug-strikes-students-1672773.html
unfortunately for me I have no Friday classes, only one class on Mondays, and Tuesday is Patrick's Day so there is no school anyway so I only miss one class due to the outbreak.
None of my friends were sick but there were plenty of people at the nurses office all day Monday through Wednesday before they decided to close school down on Thursday.
On a note unrelated to the current viral epidemic, I contracted a Staph infection somewhere along the line leading to Impetigo, which is a skin rash. It came out on my face about a week back. I was given a prescription for antibiotics and skin cream and all is well now.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Return of Troubles in the North
I'm not sure if it has filtered over to the news in the States yet or not but anyway:
The Trouble in Northern Ireland has started again, a group called the RIRA (Real IRA) has claimed responsibility for the fatal shooting of two British soldiers in County Antrim northwest of Belfast over the weekend on March 8th. The soldiers were leaving their army barracks to accept a pizza delivery when they were ambushed. 4 other people were injured including 2 other military personel and the pizza deliveryman.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/two-soldiers-dead-in-northern-ireland-army-base-shooting-20090308-8s5d.html
The Trouble in Northern Ireland has started again, a group called the RIRA (Real IRA) has claimed responsibility for the fatal shooting of two British soldiers in County Antrim northwest of Belfast over the weekend on March 8th. The soldiers were leaving their army barracks to accept a pizza delivery when they were ambushed. 4 other people were injured including 2 other military personel and the pizza deliveryman.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/two-soldiers-dead-in-northern-ireland-army-base-shooting-20090308-8s5d.html
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Snow!
Last night it snowed maybe 2 inches or so, which is quite a lot for Ireland.
The students in our housing complex all went nuts over the snow so of course a snow ball fight happened immediately and continued until security came to break it up claiming we were being obnoxiously loud.
The students in our housing complex all went nuts over the snow so of course a snow ball fight happened immediately and continued until security came to break it up claiming we were being obnoxiously loud.
London Awaits
Thursday morning I am flying to London with my friend Maggie who goes to UL. She and I are just staying in London for a few nights and will be returning to Ireland Saturday evening as I have water polo.
We will stay in a hostel Thursday night and then stay with a friend of Maggie's who studies in London on Friday night.
We will stay in a hostel Thursday night and then stay with a friend of Maggie's who studies in London on Friday night.
Unfortunate Results
Over the weekend I played in the Inter-Varsity Water Polo tournament with the UL water polo team. It was hosted by NUIG in Galway.
Unfortunately Our men's team failed to make it past the group stages and into the semi-finals. We tied our frist match 8 a piece with Trinity College Dublin, then we lost to University College Dublin 9-8. Then Trinity went on to beat UCD 9-7 or so, don't remember the final score, so we got knoced out of our group.
It was depressing because it was the best water polo we had played all season long. We were actually winning 8-6 over Trinity with 2 mins left to go in the game. Then we blew it. We gave up an ejection (man advantage foul) to Trinity with 17 second left in the game and the tied it up.
We were down by two points to UCD with 2 mins to go in the amtch, and brought it to a one goal defecit. We stole the ball or forced a turnover 2 times whilst UCD just tried to kill the time on the clock but we couldn't get the last goal to force the draw.
On a happier note, however, The UL Women's team took 2nd place in the tournament losing to Trinity in the final 6-5 havign previously lost in the group stages to Trinity 6-1.
This weekend we play Trinity for a league match sunday morning, so we will be looking for payback.
In the National League, we are currently tied for thrid place. We play the teams ahead and behind us this weekend, so we can possibly move into 2nd place in the League with two wins this weekend. However, the team ahead of us has one or two matches in hand so they will have to opportunity to regain the lsot points later in the season.
Unfortunately Our men's team failed to make it past the group stages and into the semi-finals. We tied our frist match 8 a piece with Trinity College Dublin, then we lost to University College Dublin 9-8. Then Trinity went on to beat UCD 9-7 or so, don't remember the final score, so we got knoced out of our group.
It was depressing because it was the best water polo we had played all season long. We were actually winning 8-6 over Trinity with 2 mins left to go in the game. Then we blew it. We gave up an ejection (man advantage foul) to Trinity with 17 second left in the game and the tied it up.
We were down by two points to UCD with 2 mins to go in the amtch, and brought it to a one goal defecit. We stole the ball or forced a turnover 2 times whilst UCD just tried to kill the time on the clock but we couldn't get the last goal to force the draw.
On a happier note, however, The UL Women's team took 2nd place in the tournament losing to Trinity in the final 6-5 havign previously lost in the group stages to Trinity 6-1.
This weekend we play Trinity for a league match sunday morning, so we will be looking for payback.
In the National League, we are currently tied for thrid place. We play the teams ahead and behind us this weekend, so we can possibly move into 2nd place in the League with two wins this weekend. However, the team ahead of us has one or two matches in hand so they will have to opportunity to regain the lsot points later in the season.
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