Last Weekend in January

This week went by in a blink of an eye. Im starting to get a better grasp on what is expected of me at work as far as my role in the classroom is concerned. I am suppose to be a teaching, but last week the teacher basically introduced me to their students and said have fun. This left me with my jaw on the floor wondering what they students have previsouly been working on, what level these students are at, what standards I am suppose to be meeting, etc. Luckily there were a few meetings during lunch time this week that I was able to attend that gave me an idea of what I should be working on. Although I find it difficult to make sure all of the students in the United States complete all of the standards expected of them each trimester, its even more difficult when there are no standards and everyone does their own thing, such as the case is here. As far as getting out of the city this weekend and exploring, the only thing that the girls and I explored were the pubs! Goodness gracious it was out of control (in a good way of course). On Friday night Sarah and I went to my favorite pub, Taaffes, where we became friends with a stag party (a bachelor party) Needless to say there were 30 of them so we did not buy a single drink all night. The downfall to this was that we drank everything under the sun from Bulmers to Tequilla.This resulted in a really bad hangover the next day. Aside from the stags we met a couple people from Australia and some girls from the states (Eastern US). After Taaffes we went to The Front Door, which was absolutely gorgeous! By far the biggest pub I've been to thus far.

On the bus headed into town.


The "stag" he knew how to swing dance. I was quite impressed!



The Aussies

Inside the beautiful Front Door pub.

After a couple hours Sarah said to heck with the high heels she was wearing so I swapped her boots.

After a great night of staying out until 6am Sarah and I slept well into the afternoon only to get up and start all over again. Saturday evening was low key compared to the night before, but a lot of fun. Another girls night out (plus the German guy - Tomas). Michelle and I had met him on one of the tours last weekend. A couple of us went to pick up Tomas up at the bus station and then we all headed for a bite to eat at the local pizza parlor.

Following the scrumptious dinner we met up with the other members of our group. 8 people in total, including myself, decided to start the night off by going to the greyhound dog races. What fun!! There is a little thing (not sure what it is called) but its on a high speed track and the dogs chase it. For the warm up races I was standing right next to the track, and you could hear the power of the dogs running when their paws hit the sand. Those dogs are absolutely amazing creatures! I bet on a few dogs, but was not successful in making any money. One dogs name was Whatever Rosie, of course I had to bet on it, a whole 2 Euros :)





From the races we all headed down to Taaffes again only to be followed by The Front Door, AGAIN. The night was much more low key than the previous night, but that was alrght with me, I was ready for bed after the dog races. Overall it was a good bonding weekend with the girls. This was the first time we all went out together. Here comes another work week... can't wait for Friday to come :)