From Dixie to Dublin: Learning the town

I'm officially posting from Dublin!

So yesterday my flight landed around 6:45am Dublin time. The airport was absolutely empty, besides the passengers that were on my plane. Apparently, the sun doesn't rise in this part of Ireland until around 8:30am so the day starts a lot later! My school days start at 9am!

Once, I got to Joyce's (my hostess), I was already extremely exhausted. I didn't sleep very well on the plane, because I was so overcome with different emotions. I was sad to leave all my family and friends, nervous traveling so far away on my own, yet excited to see what the next two months were to bring me! Joyce showed me around her house, and we sat at the kitchen table chatting for a while over coffee. There are two other students living here too. There is a Brazilian girl (Daniella) who is absolutely gorgeous! She's is studying business at one of the local colleges. The other student is a Japanese boy named Ryo. I haven't met him yet, because he is in Norway skiing!

Today, I walked around the town trying to grasp my bearings! I went down to the school I'm teaching at and just became so much more excited to start tomorrow! The town is so quaint, I love it! There are people walking everywhere, and moms and dads walk to go pick their kids up from school. As I was walking to my school, there were tons of little kids running around on the sidewalks! I just walked around the town for like 2 hours looking at all the shops and markets. One I went into I got a fruit smoothie and peanut M&Ms for 2.53 Euros, which is like $3.20. Things are fairly cheap! In the same market, you could get the fresh soup of the day for 1 euro! Also, at one of the salons, you could get your hair blown out for 20 euros, which is like $25. I sent H.L. a picture of the advertisement!!

Obviously, the cars drive on the opposite side of the road than back at home; however, I've realized people walk on the opposite side of the sidewalk as well. That's something I'm going to have to get used to! I'm super anxious to start tomorrow at the school! I will post again tomorrow and let everyone know how it went! Here are a couple pictures from my walk earlier....