The Journey/Day 1

Hellooooooo Dublin! I'm here and I've accepted that I won't have a good hair day EVER while I'm here. In the words of Patches quoting Al Pacino in that ridiculous movie: "Ooooh rah."

Anyway, after waiting in the delightfully festive and welcoming JFK airport for, oh about 5 fun-filled hours, and sitting on the spacious Aer Lingus plane with no crying babies whatsoever (haha uh huh yeah right), I stepped out and took my first breath of Irish air. It was DELICIOUS. No really, like Kyle's water. It was damp, cool, and smelled WONDERFUL (aka the complete opposite of the undoubtedly contaminated farty air plane air).

AND the sun shone for me. Just try to tell me that was a coincidence.

So after getting only 2 hours of sleep and running around doing official study abroad things, I'm obviously grumpy and tired, so please don't judge me for my grouchy complaining and lack of decent writing. I promise I'll do better.

Here are today's important/fun/Welch observations:

• During the taxi ride from the air port to the hotel, we passed 2 MacDo's & 1 BK in two blocks. I'M HOME.


• Irish people are the absolute winners at being friendly, approachable, and helpful.


• The size of the tv in our room is honestly hilarious. I don't mean that in the snobby "I expected better than this" kinda way. I mean, like when you walk into an American hotel, everything can be mediocre, cramped, and dingy, but you can count on having at LEAST a 30'' wide tv screen. This one...well...my laptop may be bigger than it...AGAIN. I'M HOME.


• I will lose about 20 lbs living at UCD because ALL the buildings are legitimately 900000 miles apart. Like seriously. <---(*hint*that's for you Pete)

Again, I promise tomorrow's post won't be this lazy. Love you all & miss you already!