Happy April Fools everyone. I hope you all scared the bejeezuz out of someone today. We certainly tried to. This morning I walked out of the bathroom to find Emma and Caroline giggling on the stairs. They were planning an April Fools joke on the rest of the roommates- to scream "FIRE!!!" and run out of the house. I agree to go along with it, because.. why not? I thought we were going to talk about it a little longer when Emma says, "Ready?" and just starts screaming this high pitched scream and runs me into the wall. It was hilarious. She opened all our roommates' doors and Matt freaked out and jumped out of bed. Kate didn't even stir, and Andy ran out the shower with a towel on and razor in his hand (he thought we were being robbed...) The 3 of us run all the way out the front door and out of the courtyard. No one follows and from the top of the steps we hear Matt getting all frustrated because we woke him up abruptly. Dear God was it funny! Such an adrenaline rush early in the morning!
In other news, One Tree Hill was good today, HAHA, and I just saw a chick in the bathroom with THEE biggest hair ever- on purpose. SICK.
Back to homework and this thing called "motivation"
Wednesday, April 1
Monday, March 30
Okay, now for the worst...
So while Thursday and Friday were awesome days, Saturday was, it's safe to say, the worst day I've had in Ireland. I don't think there has ever been another day in my life where my timing was more off and the communications lines were more down.
Matt and I awoke at 4:30a.m. to walk the mile or so to the bus station downtown. I still have to buy our tour tickets for the Giants Causeway and Carrick-A-Repe Rope Bridge, and I have to go to a hostel nearby the bus station to get them. Note: I did not look up EXACTLY where the hostel was, but I did know the street name and I knew it was less than a minute from the station, so I wing it. (Matt wanted to kill me...) We get to the bus station (not the hostel) by 5:47 a.m. Note: We don't have our tickets. We must catch the 6:00 bus in order to get to Belfast by 8:30 for the tour to pick us up. At 5:54a.m. I find the hostel FINALLY.. The man there gets all huffy with me, rightfully so, because I'm late and now making him rush. I give him my Visa and he charges me. The receipt was jammed so he charged me again on another machine. Now I have to go back to the hostel to make sure my credit card was not charged twice. UGH.
Now it's 6:00a.m. exactly. Matt is nowhere to be found, he was in the station using the toilet. Buses here don't have bathrooms on them... The bus driver is now REALLY MAD at me because I am making him late. This is was too much for me before dawn. Matt runs out of the bus station- 6:05a.m. PHEW. We board the bus and we're on our way. I fall asleep and Matt is passed out, when at 7:30 we stop to switch buses because our bus's door was flapping in the wind. This makes us 20-25 minutes late. NOT GOOD. I called the hostel/tour company to let them know what the situation was. She said she would call the tour driver and he would wait for us. PHEW- I go back to sleep.
8:50a.am.- We pull into the bus station. We are supposed to go to Victoria St, but there are no signs directing us so. We find the way, no food or drink in our tummies, and there's no bus outside. So, I called Deirdre again, the nice lady at the tour company. She said she will call the driver again and make sure he gets us. HOWEVER, since we were in the UK, all these calls I had been making costed way more than they do in the Republic. I was then down to 16 cents and incoming calls cost 25. (Insert panic and mild cursing..) I used the payphone instead, letting her know that my phone is out of credit. Long story short here-- we corresponded until 10:00 about this bus. The bus was nowhere to be found and she couldn't call the driver directly, so she was corresponding with some hotel owner in Belfast to get to the driver. It took the longest time just to figure where he was. So at this point, she said that she was going to organize a taxi to pick us up at no additional fee, so that we can meet up with the tour bus in the north. WOW! We were so relieved and grateful!
The taxi pulled up, asking us if we were 2 of the 7 who needed to be picked up to go to a castle. Well, we said No because as far as we were concerned, we weren't. It turns out that that taxi was ours, and that Deirdre assumed the whole time that the entire group of 7 missed the bus too. NOPE- just Matt and I! (Insert more cursing..)
The taxi driver tells us to get out, because now Deirdre can not do anything for us. We found out later that the taxi driver was rude to her too- he just hung up on her after she tried to ask him how much it would cost for us to go up there on our own.. whatever..
NOW, I'm depressed. I wanted to see the causeway and the bridge, and I wanted Matt to see it before leaving Ireland. UGHH.. I just wanted to scream. All the while, I was freezing, the wind was whipping at 70 m.p.h and I was wearing the most uncomfortable and bulky coat because it's STILL NOT WARM HERE. Not to mention we had been awake since 4:30 and Belfast isn't much to see anyway. So it was depressing and frustrating, and the fact that I didn't have any phone credit did not help. I just wanted to cry. It might not sound that bad in writing, but it was BAD. Thank God Matt stayed positive, because without that (you know me..) I would have ruminated on that for hours and hours!
Anyway-- keep on the look out for pictures from the Cliffs of Moher and St. Paddy's!!
PICS: (of st. paddy's..cliffs are below!)
Matt and I awoke at 4:30a.m. to walk the mile or so to the bus station downtown. I still have to buy our tour tickets for the Giants Causeway and Carrick-A-Repe Rope Bridge, and I have to go to a hostel nearby the bus station to get them. Note: I did not look up EXACTLY where the hostel was, but I did know the street name and I knew it was less than a minute from the station, so I wing it. (Matt wanted to kill me...) We get to the bus station (not the hostel) by 5:47 a.m. Note: We don't have our tickets. We must catch the 6:00 bus in order to get to Belfast by 8:30 for the tour to pick us up. At 5:54a.m. I find the hostel FINALLY.. The man there gets all huffy with me, rightfully so, because I'm late and now making him rush. I give him my Visa and he charges me. The receipt was jammed so he charged me again on another machine. Now I have to go back to the hostel to make sure my credit card was not charged twice. UGH.
Now it's 6:00a.m. exactly. Matt is nowhere to be found, he was in the station using the toilet. Buses here don't have bathrooms on them... The bus driver is now REALLY MAD at me because I am making him late. This is was too much for me before dawn. Matt runs out of the bus station- 6:05a.m. PHEW. We board the bus and we're on our way. I fall asleep and Matt is passed out, when at 7:30 we stop to switch buses because our bus's door was flapping in the wind. This makes us 20-25 minutes late. NOT GOOD. I called the hostel/tour company to let them know what the situation was. She said she would call the tour driver and he would wait for us. PHEW- I go back to sleep.
8:50a.am.- We pull into the bus station. We are supposed to go to Victoria St, but there are no signs directing us so. We find the way, no food or drink in our tummies, and there's no bus outside. So, I called Deirdre again, the nice lady at the tour company. She said she will call the driver again and make sure he gets us. HOWEVER, since we were in the UK, all these calls I had been making costed way more than they do in the Republic. I was then down to 16 cents and incoming calls cost 25. (Insert panic and mild cursing..) I used the payphone instead, letting her know that my phone is out of credit. Long story short here-- we corresponded until 10:00 about this bus. The bus was nowhere to be found and she couldn't call the driver directly, so she was corresponding with some hotel owner in Belfast to get to the driver. It took the longest time just to figure where he was. So at this point, she said that she was going to organize a taxi to pick us up at no additional fee, so that we can meet up with the tour bus in the north. WOW! We were so relieved and grateful!
The taxi pulled up, asking us if we were 2 of the 7 who needed to be picked up to go to a castle. Well, we said No because as far as we were concerned, we weren't. It turns out that that taxi was ours, and that Deirdre assumed the whole time that the entire group of 7 missed the bus too. NOPE- just Matt and I! (Insert more cursing..)
The taxi driver tells us to get out, because now Deirdre can not do anything for us. We found out later that the taxi driver was rude to her too- he just hung up on her after she tried to ask him how much it would cost for us to go up there on our own.. whatever..
NOW, I'm depressed. I wanted to see the causeway and the bridge, and I wanted Matt to see it before leaving Ireland. UGHH.. I just wanted to scream. All the while, I was freezing, the wind was whipping at 70 m.p.h and I was wearing the most uncomfortable and bulky coat because it's STILL NOT WARM HERE. Not to mention we had been awake since 4:30 and Belfast isn't much to see anyway. So it was depressing and frustrating, and the fact that I didn't have any phone credit did not help. I just wanted to cry. It might not sound that bad in writing, but it was BAD. Thank God Matt stayed positive, because without that (you know me..) I would have ruminated on that for hours and hours!
Anyway-- keep on the look out for pictures from the Cliffs of Moher and St. Paddy's!!
PICS: (of st. paddy's..cliffs are below!)
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| St. Paddy's Day..er...Week |
Sunday, March 29
The best and the worst days ever in like, 72 hours..
Thursday, Matt and I set out to Galway on the train (3 hours) to find the cutest B&B location. Salthill is just 2 miles outside of Galway on the Galway Bay, and it's where we stayed for the night. That night we had dinner at a nice wine bar, and the dinner was pretty awesome. Salmon cakes with leek and the sirloin patty with onions and chirizo mashed potatoes! Dear Gosh, this was awesome! Petra- the chirizo mashed tasted EXACTLY like the sausage your mom uses in lecho. I was so excited, and it made me think of you and that awesome Hungarian food. I ordered a pot o' tea and we sat there an extra long time, because, me thinks, we were being ignored due to our American-ness. Probably not, but Matt was convinced. It didn't help that twice that night we were laughed at by taxi drivers for being American. Who knows..
So the next morning we woke up early to the B&B's breakfast. Matt ordered a full Irish, which he loved (Heinz baked beans mostly.. haha) and I had cereal and eggs. Good stuff. We hopped on an O'Neachtain bus tour afterwards to the Burren area of County Clare. The Burrens are so cool because the earth is covered completely in limestone, which is a very porous rock filled with minerals. The tour driver told us that livestock do well in this area because the land on which they graze is filled with minerals and vitamins because of the limestone. They don't do as well in Connemara (my first Rutgers excursion) because the stone there is granite, a non-porous rock.) Anyway, it was actually pretty beautiful seeing the land covered in rock. Many farmers dug up the limestone so their livestock could graze..
We took a tour of the Ailwee Cave after that. It was discovered in 1940 and kept a secret until the 1970s. It was a huge cave with waterfalls and tons of calcite stalagmites inside. It was SO cool!!! The water was the purest you could get, so Matt had a sip.
Then, drum roll please, we came upon the Cliffs of Moher. These are the cliffs you see in the Princess Bride, and they were absolutely spectacular! Wait till you see the pictures!! Woo. The views of the Atlantic Ocean and Galway Bay the entire tour were breathtaking and other castles and tombs we saw along the way were so old and awesome (Poulnabrone Tomb (5000 years old..) and Dunghoire Castle).
When we arrived back in Galway we stopped for a pint and then hopped back on the train to Dublin. We were pretty tired, so we just relaxed that night.
This was the "Best Part" of this 72 hours... Read the next blog for the worst part...
So the next morning we woke up early to the B&B's breakfast. Matt ordered a full Irish, which he loved (Heinz baked beans mostly.. haha) and I had cereal and eggs. Good stuff. We hopped on an O'Neachtain bus tour afterwards to the Burren area of County Clare. The Burrens are so cool because the earth is covered completely in limestone, which is a very porous rock filled with minerals. The tour driver told us that livestock do well in this area because the land on which they graze is filled with minerals and vitamins because of the limestone. They don't do as well in Connemara (my first Rutgers excursion) because the stone there is granite, a non-porous rock.) Anyway, it was actually pretty beautiful seeing the land covered in rock. Many farmers dug up the limestone so their livestock could graze..
We took a tour of the Ailwee Cave after that. It was discovered in 1940 and kept a secret until the 1970s. It was a huge cave with waterfalls and tons of calcite stalagmites inside. It was SO cool!!! The water was the purest you could get, so Matt had a sip.
Then, drum roll please, we came upon the Cliffs of Moher. These are the cliffs you see in the Princess Bride, and they were absolutely spectacular! Wait till you see the pictures!! Woo. The views of the Atlantic Ocean and Galway Bay the entire tour were breathtaking and other castles and tombs we saw along the way were so old and awesome (Poulnabrone Tomb (5000 years old..) and Dunghoire Castle).
When we arrived back in Galway we stopped for a pint and then hopped back on the train to Dublin. We were pretty tired, so we just relaxed that night.
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| Galway and Cliffs of Moher |
This was the "Best Part" of this 72 hours... Read the next blog for the worst part...
Wednesday, March 25
Traveling, visitors!
Hello!
Haven't posted in what feels like forever! My apologies. I have been SUPER busy though. Wednesday the 18th I hopped on a plane to Zurich, Switzerland, where my friend Maggie (studying in Konstanz, Germany) picked me up at the airport. We headed on a train to Konstanz and the relaxation began. Konstanz is a small summer getaway town with a university in the middle of it. Maggie has only been there a few weeks but she knew her way around quite well. I had good German food like Frickadella (a German version of a burger-- minced meat with onions, etc stuffed inside) and I also had some Turkish food. Good stuff! There is a huge population of Turkish in Germany. Apparently back in the day the government brought the Turkish over to work all the jobs the Germans were "too good for." Of course now, the Germans want their jobs back. It's kind of like what goes on in the USA with Mexicans. I also had Weinerschnizel (not as good as Petra's grandmother's, but still quite good...) I tried a couple German beers, which are much different, and just more enjoyable to drink. Maggie showed me Konstanz, through which the clean and beautiful River Rhein runs. And Saturday we headed to Freiburg to see the Munster Cathedral and the cute marketplace they are known for. The whole trip was really relaxing it was so good to hang out with Maggie. Monday I left to come back to Dublin, and Tuesday morning Matt arrived.
Yesterday Matt and I had lunch at a cute hole-in-the-wall cafe called Queen of Tarts, went to see Kilmainham Gaol (Jail) and had dinner at a pub called Foley's. The Gaol was AWESOME! It was a guided tour through the place where so many important figures in Ireland's history were held. The tour gave some great information on Ireland's history and focused primarily on the Easter Rising of 1916. The rebel leaders from the Rising were all held in this Gaol and the conditions they described were crazy awful. Like, WOW. If anyone ever comes to Dublin, you MUST go to Kilmainham.
Today we went to the Guinness Storehouse, which lived up to my expectations (i.e.- not worth the money to go...) But it was still good to see. I don't like Guinness so it didn't matter to me to taste much of it. However, I did taste the "Foreign Extra Stout" which isn't sold in the US, and again, not good. But I could see how a beer connoisseur would like it. It was a good day, and we just walked around the city after that. Tonight we are going to eat dinner on a barge and tomorrow we head to Galway and the Cliffs of Moher to see all that good stuff! I am SO excited!!! :-)
Will update soon, and pictures to come!
Haven't posted in what feels like forever! My apologies. I have been SUPER busy though. Wednesday the 18th I hopped on a plane to Zurich, Switzerland, where my friend Maggie (studying in Konstanz, Germany) picked me up at the airport. We headed on a train to Konstanz and the relaxation began. Konstanz is a small summer getaway town with a university in the middle of it. Maggie has only been there a few weeks but she knew her way around quite well. I had good German food like Frickadella (a German version of a burger-- minced meat with onions, etc stuffed inside) and I also had some Turkish food. Good stuff! There is a huge population of Turkish in Germany. Apparently back in the day the government brought the Turkish over to work all the jobs the Germans were "too good for." Of course now, the Germans want their jobs back. It's kind of like what goes on in the USA with Mexicans. I also had Weinerschnizel (not as good as Petra's grandmother's, but still quite good...) I tried a couple German beers, which are much different, and just more enjoyable to drink. Maggie showed me Konstanz, through which the clean and beautiful River Rhein runs. And Saturday we headed to Freiburg to see the Munster Cathedral and the cute marketplace they are known for. The whole trip was really relaxing it was so good to hang out with Maggie. Monday I left to come back to Dublin, and Tuesday morning Matt arrived.
Yesterday Matt and I had lunch at a cute hole-in-the-wall cafe called Queen of Tarts, went to see Kilmainham Gaol (Jail) and had dinner at a pub called Foley's. The Gaol was AWESOME! It was a guided tour through the place where so many important figures in Ireland's history were held. The tour gave some great information on Ireland's history and focused primarily on the Easter Rising of 1916. The rebel leaders from the Rising were all held in this Gaol and the conditions they described were crazy awful. Like, WOW. If anyone ever comes to Dublin, you MUST go to Kilmainham.
Today we went to the Guinness Storehouse, which lived up to my expectations (i.e.- not worth the money to go...) But it was still good to see. I don't like Guinness so it didn't matter to me to taste much of it. However, I did taste the "Foreign Extra Stout" which isn't sold in the US, and again, not good. But I could see how a beer connoisseur would like it. It was a good day, and we just walked around the city after that. Tonight we are going to eat dinner on a barge and tomorrow we head to Galway and the Cliffs of Moher to see all that good stuff! I am SO excited!!! :-)
Will update soon, and pictures to come!
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| Germany |
Thursday, March 19
THEE most chaotic week of my entire life...
I can't even begin to explain the insanity that happened in Dublin from about March 12-17. Ireland has a 5 day celebration, which is crazy in and of itself. The town was completely overturned, but in a good Irish-fun way. Every pub was packed and the sidewalks were really crowded. On St. Paddy's Day, they had a parade and then everyone continued to drink until God-knows-when. My roommates and I headed in early because the past 4 days had wiped us out. Plus, I had a flight to Germany on the 18th that I was afraid I was going to be miss from lack of sleep. At one point, between my friends and all my roommates' friends, there were 21 people sleeping in our house. It was like a youth hostel. Absolutely ridiculous!
I had a great time though, my friends studying in Florence came to visit from the 11th-15th, and we had a good time in the clubs and around town. We also took a 6 mile walk through some small villages in County Wicklow and ended our hike in Glendalough. They seemed to really like it, so I was glad to be a tour guide for the 4 days.
I wish I could give more details on the St. Paddy's Day extravaganza, but it was just too insane to give all the details. Just know that I had a blast and that no other St. Paddy's Day will (probably) never match up to this one.
Anyway, I flew into Zurich, Switzerland yesterday to visit Maggie, who is studying in Konstanz, which is an hour train ride from Zurich. Already I have gotten more sleep here, so I can tell it's going to be a relaxing trip. We are going to some smaller towns around Konstanz and Frieberg on Saturday; possibly Stutgart on Sunday. I won't get to see Munich because I think it's 5 hours away. Although, Stuttgart looks far away too. She is super far south, so every huge city is far. Apparently Konstanz is a summer getaway town, so that's cool. Germany is MUCH bigger than Ireland, so it's not like every city is a hop, skip, and a jump away.
Still, last night we went out for about 2 hours to this place called Die-Cocktailbar. HAHA. it was the club-iest place in Konstanz, so it reminded me of Dublin. It was cool though- had all these brick archways. It was weird not knowing a lick of German and being in a German bar. Maggie kept having to speak for me.. But a good amount of people know English.. still, I felt rude not knowing the native language. That's why I didn't study here I guess! This one kid last night was reprimanding me- saying, "why did you come to Germany and not know German?? Why don't you have a German name??" (German doesn't have a sound for "J") It was very funny! I just kept saying my name the French way so it would sound A LITTLE more familiar. He wasn't accepting of the English pronunciation.
I'll try to update soon with all my pictures from last week. Cheers!
I had a great time though, my friends studying in Florence came to visit from the 11th-15th, and we had a good time in the clubs and around town. We also took a 6 mile walk through some small villages in County Wicklow and ended our hike in Glendalough. They seemed to really like it, so I was glad to be a tour guide for the 4 days.
I wish I could give more details on the St. Paddy's Day extravaganza, but it was just too insane to give all the details. Just know that I had a blast and that no other St. Paddy's Day will (probably) never match up to this one.
Anyway, I flew into Zurich, Switzerland yesterday to visit Maggie, who is studying in Konstanz, which is an hour train ride from Zurich. Already I have gotten more sleep here, so I can tell it's going to be a relaxing trip. We are going to some smaller towns around Konstanz and Frieberg on Saturday; possibly Stutgart on Sunday. I won't get to see Munich because I think it's 5 hours away. Although, Stuttgart looks far away too. She is super far south, so every huge city is far. Apparently Konstanz is a summer getaway town, so that's cool. Germany is MUCH bigger than Ireland, so it's not like every city is a hop, skip, and a jump away.
Still, last night we went out for about 2 hours to this place called Die-Cocktailbar. HAHA. it was the club-iest place in Konstanz, so it reminded me of Dublin. It was cool though- had all these brick archways. It was weird not knowing a lick of German and being in a German bar. Maggie kept having to speak for me.. But a good amount of people know English.. still, I felt rude not knowing the native language. That's why I didn't study here I guess! This one kid last night was reprimanding me- saying, "why did you come to Germany and not know German?? Why don't you have a German name??" (German doesn't have a sound for "J") It was very funny! I just kept saying my name the French way so it would sound A LITTLE more familiar. He wasn't accepting of the English pronunciation.
I'll try to update soon with all my pictures from last week. Cheers!
Monday, March 9
Out of the Tree of Life I Just Picked Me a Plum
Today was quite the relaxing one. I woke up early to a sunny sky and ate my banana and peanut butter oatmeal, watched some One Tree Hill, and then headed off to the train station to catch some transportation to Malahide. With life's soundtrack in my ears (consisting of Van Morrison and Frank Sinatra mostly), I was on my way! Malahide is this small town on the coast north of Dublin. It was cute, but not any cuter than the small towns I've been to thus far. Howth and Adare were just as cute, if not cuter. But I had a nice day walking around myself- just people watching, taking in the cold fresh air, and drinking tea in a small cafe called Coastal. I wrote in my journal over a Pot 'o Tea and a bagel with cream cheese, just staring out the window to the quaint shops that lay across the street. The cream cheese on that bagel was gooood! Cream cheese in Eire is actually like cheese, and it's not nearly as sweet, so it was a nice and different bagel-y snack! I walked down by the harbor and watched over the stone wall for some fish to pop their heads up- with no luck, and then took a stroll down to the Malahide Castle. It was pretty expensive to go inside, and I really didn't even walk up to it. I just looked around the area.
I really just wanted to get out of my apartment today. Saturday I went jogging in THEE cutest part of Dublin- down by the canal, but after that I haven't down much aside from cleaning the apartment and rearranging my room for my visitors. Yesterday was pretty uneventful, and there a wee bit of a storm a-brewin' outside me window! (my apologies..haa)
Anyway, tomorrow night my two friends Jill and Jes wil be visiting from Florence, Italy, with their two other roommates. Then the 12th of March begins the 5-day St. Paddy's Day celebration all over Dublin! Merrion Square, which is conveniently a block from my house, is holding the city's carnival for the 5 days. I think I'm going to take the girls for a hike down the Wicklow Way, in the Wicklow Mtns. in County Wicklow! Wicklow, Wicklow, Wicklow! I'll give more updates, but until then, have a grand Monday :-)
I really just wanted to get out of my apartment today. Saturday I went jogging in THEE cutest part of Dublin- down by the canal, but after that I haven't down much aside from cleaning the apartment and rearranging my room for my visitors. Yesterday was pretty uneventful, and there a wee bit of a storm a-brewin' outside me window! (my apologies..haa)
Anyway, tomorrow night my two friends Jill and Jes wil be visiting from Florence, Italy, with their two other roommates. Then the 12th of March begins the 5-day St. Paddy's Day celebration all over Dublin! Merrion Square, which is conveniently a block from my house, is holding the city's carnival for the 5 days. I think I'm going to take the girls for a hike down the Wicklow Way, in the Wicklow Mtns. in County Wicklow! Wicklow, Wicklow, Wicklow! I'll give more updates, but until then, have a grand Monday :-)
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| Me Journey to Emerald Isle! |
Tuesday, March 3
Some things I've noticed along the way
Heyhey!
I'm bored and procrastinating writing this paper, so I thought I would write some things down here, letting you all know the different lingo and slang they use in Ireland. There's a lot more than I thought!
"maths" = math
"Do you have credit?" = "Can I use your phone?"
"For Let" = "For Rent"
"Off Licence" (different spelling) = "We sell alcohol"
"Carpark" = "parking lot"
"GP" = "Doctor"... stands for General Practitioner
"Tuna (or chicken or egg) Mayo" = "Tuna Salad"
"Ramp" = speed bump
"Notes" = "Bills", like "I have a 50 euro note" or "I have a $20 bill"
"Beer Mat" = a coaster
"Boot" = trunk
"Brilliant" = "cool"
"Crisps" = potato chips
"Chips" = French Fries
"Digestives" are these round graham crackers.. good stuff too
The "first floor" is actually the second floor. "Ground floor" is a first floor.
"Garda" = Police
"Grand" = good; like, "Yeah, everything's grand"
"Hen Night" = Bachelorette Party; my roomies have encountered a few..
"Holiday" = any old vacation...But a "bank holiday" is a legal holiday, like Labor Day or something...
"Jumper" = sweater
"X, Y, and Zed" = "X, Y, and Z"
"A Pitch" = playing field, like, "The rugby pitch is a kilometer away"
"A rubber" = AN ERASER!!!!
"Sellotape" = Scotch tape. When I had to buy scotch tape, I just crossed my fingers that what I was buying was correct, because yes it looked like it, but Sellotape totally threw me off.
"Quay" (pronounced Key) = waterside street
"Queue" (pronounced CUE) = line
"A tick" is a check mark
"To top up" = to refill ANYTHING- a drink, your phone credit...
"To wee or to poo" = to pee or to poop
"Clearway" = the highway
*They use shredded cheese on sandwiches, where there would usually be slices of cheese.
*Exit signs in buildings are Green- makes sense I suppose.
*You could be charged 150 euro for spitting out your gum.
I'm bored and procrastinating writing this paper, so I thought I would write some things down here, letting you all know the different lingo and slang they use in Ireland. There's a lot more than I thought!
"maths" = math
"Do you have credit?" = "Can I use your phone?"
"For Let" = "For Rent"
"Off Licence" (different spelling) = "We sell alcohol"
"Carpark" = "parking lot"
"GP" = "Doctor"... stands for General Practitioner
"Tuna (or chicken or egg) Mayo" = "Tuna Salad"
"Ramp" = speed bump
"Notes" = "Bills", like "I have a 50 euro note" or "I have a $20 bill"
"Beer Mat" = a coaster
"Boot" = trunk
"Brilliant" = "cool"
"Crisps" = potato chips
"Chips" = French Fries
"Digestives" are these round graham crackers.. good stuff too
The "first floor" is actually the second floor. "Ground floor" is a first floor.
"Garda" = Police
"Grand" = good; like, "Yeah, everything's grand"
"Hen Night" = Bachelorette Party; my roomies have encountered a few..
"Holiday" = any old vacation...But a "bank holiday" is a legal holiday, like Labor Day or something...
"Jumper" = sweater
"X, Y, and Zed" = "X, Y, and Z"
"A Pitch" = playing field, like, "The rugby pitch is a kilometer away"
"A rubber" = AN ERASER!!!!
"Sellotape" = Scotch tape. When I had to buy scotch tape, I just crossed my fingers that what I was buying was correct, because yes it looked like it, but Sellotape totally threw me off.
"Quay" (pronounced Key) = waterside street
"Queue" (pronounced CUE) = line
"A tick" is a check mark
"To top up" = to refill ANYTHING- a drink, your phone credit...
"To wee or to poo" = to pee or to poop
"Clearway" = the highway
*They use shredded cheese on sandwiches, where there would usually be slices of cheese.
*Exit signs in buildings are Green- makes sense I suppose.
*You could be charged 150 euro for spitting out your gum.
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