london has gone a little crazy. thursday 4 more bombs were planted in the tubes. the detonator went off but luckily not the bomb itself (made wrong or something) the papers said that the people that put this set together was the same as the first ones so they were planned to have the same impact as the first. luckily nobody was hurt. then friday cops chased a man they had as a suspect for the bombings through the tube station onto one of the trains, and shot him several times, killing him, then later found out that he was innocent. you can come to your own conclusions.
ireland was a great break from work and class tho! the quote of the weekend was 'the spartans love the irish!' i was on a tour that drove across the country to the west coast, followed the atlantic ocean, and back around to dublin. everyone on the trip was our age so we got to meet tons of cool people. there was a group of 6 loud law students that loved to prove a point on the bus with us that we all kind wanted to push over a cliff after a while, but luckily ive gotten use to those pre-law kids in the last year or so. (one of them looked like will farrel tho! if ron burgandy and veronica corningstone had a baby, this was him. and it only got better when he started singing 'afternoon delight') so heres what i learned about the irish:
1. they love the craic. pronounced like crack (which makes some interesting innuendos) it mean fun in a pub sense - good friends, good food, good music, good beer. so if someone asks u how the pub was last night u say 'ooOOo the craic was deadly/mighty/grand' or 'it was great craic'
2. lovey day for a guiness. the country is guiness crazy. by the end of the weekend i never wanted to see a guiness ad or souvenir again! that is literally all any true irishman drinks. they call it mothers milk. slainte! (cheers!)
3. theyre the friendliest and funniest group of people, very homely. very non-londonish. the people we met were the highlight of my weekend
4. pubs pubs pubs pubs pubs pubs pubs.ive never seen so many. we would drive through small towns and see 5 or 6 pubs in a row. u cant even imagine until you see them all. we stayed in a VERY small town one night with about 50 people living in it. our tour guide told us it had all the essentials - 3 pubs and a church. and thats exactly what it had.
5. music makes the world go round. classic irish folk music is my new addiction. so is attempting the irish jig!
6. you love sheep. 90% of the population lives on a farm and love every minute of it. theyre all so content living in the middle of nowhere in these gorgeous hills and grass, laying low, and drinking all day.
7. dublin is dirty and sketchy. tip for irish travellers - get the hell outta the city.
8. fairies are real! you love folk lore and story telling. you're superstitious about just about everything. you firmly believe in the luck of the irish, and anything else lucky or cursed
9. you may ask what luck will come to u if u kiss the blarney stone? you live. to kiss the blarney stone u have to climb to the top of the blarney castle, lay on ur back, dangle out over the edge of the castle, turn ur head upsidedown and kiss. so i better have some life changing lucky coming my way for the stress and danger i went through to kiss it!
10. the british are feckin eejits. (feck = NOT what ur thinking, its a polite curse words - u could say it to a priest or ur grandma. eejit = idiot) its a friendly neighbor rivalry, but def a rival. in london they had to get rid of 75% of the public trash cans because the irish would come over and put little bombs in the garbage cans all the time
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