7 March 2007
Only a quick entry for today… I have a plethora of reading to delve into. I’m enjoying it here immensely and though my search for peanut butter has come up short, I had rice for dinner today! Hooray! It was delicious.
Today I actually got lost for the first time in Ireland. Oddly enough, I felt completely ok with it. I enjoyed the wandering and the spontanaeity. It was so freeing! I know that I have homework to do, but I don’t dread it. I don’t dread my meetings or my appointments or my lessons or anything because I have no comittments. Initially, I thought I’d hate the lack of structure, but I am finding that I actually feel so much freer, so much more relaxed. It hit me sometime while I was wandering about somewhere downtown Dublin with Ann and Devin, knowing that we were lost, but not caring one whit about it. I knew where the Liffey was, and I knew where the Grand Canal was, and I was able to find my way home from there eventually. I love it. I feel like a different person. I’m looking forward to getting out into the country, since Dublin is said to be quite different from the rest of Ireland, being a very international sort of city.
No squirrels yet, but a guidebook to Irish wildlife said that both eastern grey squirrels and their red tufty-eared counterparts are supposed to reside in Ireland, if I have the patience to watch for them in the trees. I have yet to see a single wild mammal in Dublin, though… I bet the swans got them.
Only a quick entry for today… I have a plethora of reading to delve into. I’m enjoying it here immensely and though my search for peanut butter has come up short, I had rice for dinner today! Hooray! It was delicious.
Today I actually got lost for the first time in Ireland. Oddly enough, I felt completely ok with it. I enjoyed the wandering and the spontanaeity. It was so freeing! I know that I have homework to do, but I don’t dread it. I don’t dread my meetings or my appointments or my lessons or anything because I have no comittments. Initially, I thought I’d hate the lack of structure, but I am finding that I actually feel so much freer, so much more relaxed. It hit me sometime while I was wandering about somewhere downtown Dublin with Ann and Devin, knowing that we were lost, but not caring one whit about it. I knew where the Liffey was, and I knew where the Grand Canal was, and I was able to find my way home from there eventually. I love it. I feel like a different person. I’m looking forward to getting out into the country, since Dublin is said to be quite different from the rest of Ireland, being a very international sort of city.
No squirrels yet, but a guidebook to Irish wildlife said that both eastern grey squirrels and their red tufty-eared counterparts are supposed to reside in Ireland, if I have the patience to watch for them in the trees. I have yet to see a single wild mammal in Dublin, though… I bet the swans got them.
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