Wednesday, December 28, 2005

I hate when sand gets everywhere, dont you?

So how are allmy poor sodden peeps back in the home country. I am on my way back up to the apartment and decided to stop into opne of these internet cafe´s. The weather is a little TOO hot here at the minute, around 30 i think, and i fear that my poor pale irish skin is going to get roasted so i am heading back up to the apartment with its pool and shade. I will have a wee bit of lunch and then probably do some study..thats right study. I have done more research for my FYP this week than in the last three months. Its surprisingly easy actually, there is only so much lying on te beach you can take and i purposefully onñly took school books with me so i have nothing else to do but read while absorbing some rays, who here can say they did two hours of study on Christmas day???

I hope ye are all having a good time earlier, i have been reading the Irish Independant and it turns out that freezing fog is expected, i think it is almost a certainty that i will catch a cold when i return. I have been eating pretty good since i came over, i have eaten more meat in the last 5 days than in the last year, i have either a hamburger, sirloin or fillet of steak every night. They do it quite well over here. I dont have much more news, i dont have time to write a big introspective piece, perhaps when i come back

ONe more thing, i accidently went swimming in the sea with my phone yesterday so it is now capute. Could ye all tell people ye know so that certain folk dont think they are being ignored. I will look into gettin a new one when i get back, more expenses hurrah.

Sunday, December 25, 2005

AFFLUENCE!!!!

So here i am in sunny Peurto Rico in the island of Gran Canaria. Actually my brothers have just been thrown off a bucking bronco after our Christmas dinner. We are just having a stroll around the promenade you know. I cant tell you how weird it is, its very much like a good Irish summer over here, around 23-27 degrees in the sun but when a cloud covers the sun you need an old t-shirt on. The place is nice enough, as tacky as expected, they ripped the island apart to build apartments everywhere, they have gouged into the cliffs and built right on the water front. Our apartments are grand, right in the town centre but i bought me some ear plugs so i hear nothing at night. Santa was good, got me a few wee things that i needed. Apologies for the very brief post, these internet cafe´s are cheaper over here but still i prefere not to spend my hard earned money. We went for dinner tonight, i had steak and wdges, the best steak i ever ate i may say. I have not much experience but it was far better than the one i had last night.

I will be off, i hope ye all had a good christmas and i will be back next Friday at 2, you never know i may even post again beforew then.

Monday, December 19, 2005

BLogging is for cool people

So i am finally finished college for Christmas, well i actually finished last frida. Twas a hectic last three weeks. I had an essay due in every Friday and all of them were late, in fact there is one i have yet to hand in, oops. We finished it off with a bang at the work-party on Friday night though. It was on in the Castletroy Park Hotel and it was well class. I am not sure about the meal as i ate very little of it but i did however eat beef and copious amounts of bread rolls. There was plenty of wine flowing and a good time was had by all, i may post up some pictures of it later. I was the drunkest ever at that party though and for the first time ever i had a complete memory blackout, i remember walking back to to estate but nothing after that, i have no recollection whatsoever of going to Liam's house and drinking more, none of returning to my house, none of bursting into my roommate and telling her to get up, i have no idea how my pants got behind the couch or when i fanally made it into bed. ON the plus point i completely emptied my belly before going to sleep so i had no hangover the next morning, just real tiredness from lack of sleep.

That night we decided to see King Kong just to make something of a day otherwise spent stagnating and watching Charmed. It was a good movie but perhaps going to see the 9:30 showing of a 3 hour movie in the state we were in was not the best idea. Like i said the movie seemed very long and had one of the most disturbing scenes i have ever seen in a movie, lets just say i would think twice about going to see it if you are quesy about creepie-crawlies. I am just stumbling around for the last few days doing nothing much. Louise is back from Spain so i will have ot see her soon and i went out last night to the Icon and had a very good time. I am only around for another few days as i am jetting off to the canaries for Christmas. I have not really paid much attention so i dont quite know where exactly we are going but it seems pretty cool and hopwfully it wont rain.

Apologies for the scatteredness of the post but i have nae posted in a while and have almost too much to say. i will try and do another before i leave on Friday and perhaps put up some pictures