TWENTY-ONE (tomorrow)



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Happy Sunday all! I don’t have much to report on so this will be short and boring. Here are some things I did this week and some plans that are in the works:



I finally saw the Book of Kells! Even though my student card gets me free admission, the queue is often so massive that I have been putting it off. Still, it’s one of Dublin’s biggest tourist attractions so I figured I should get to it eventually. The book is an illuminated manuscript of the four gospels from roughly the year 800. Trinity doesn’t advertise this but in my Understanding Ireland class over the summer we learned that the text is actually pretty careless—there are mistakes, omissions and repeated passages. The illustrations are what make the book remarkable. They are laboriously intricate and have set the precedent for what people imagine “Celtic art” to be.

• I held a python and a tarantula! Freakyyyy. On Wednesday the Zoology Society hosted “Dave’s Jungle” (essentially a reptilian petting zoo in the ZooSoc senior lounge …all the animals are Dave’s pets).

• I took a really, REALLY cold shower! It is beyond me that I can willingly swim in the Irish Sea in September, but the thought of a cold shower makes me cringe. So it goes …not fun my friends, not fun. I speak for all of Rathmines Square when I say thank God the hot water is back.

• I worked on my Halloween costume! The name of this game is bling on a budget. Can’t say anymore on that just now, I’ll post the pictures next week!

• I booked my accommodations for Paris! Olivia did actually, but nevertheless it was a HUGE relief to put that ordeal behind us. November 1^st we are off to the City of Light. More on that to come…

• I received my first birthday card! It is a picture of an elephant’s butt, and the inside affectionately reads: “Nothing says Happy Birthday like a Big Ass card”. And that is why I love my aunt Patricia <3 Thank you!

So all in all, not the most exciting week ever (despite the excessive number of exclamation marks in this post). Very nice all around though.  I was also in Belfast last weekend which I completely neglected to write about, but maybe I’ll come back to it.

Have a lovely Sunday everyone and a great week!

 

Cheers,

Lauren

 

You know the blog is weak when I include pics of my dinner.
Carrots, peas and rice (I am so broke). Tricolour?
 



 

 

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