We are at Hadden and Betty's for our usual Sunday evening gathering...and as usual I am anti-social so I decided to write on my long forgotten blog.


Today was good. It was our "friendship family" day. We went to our dear friends Karen and Karu (really long Indian last name)'s. They have two beautiful little girls Megan 7 and Erin 5. They have perfect little british accents and incredible dark skin. It's ridiculous. They fed us traditional Indian curry, ya I tried it. Last time I tried brussel sprouts, so I figured this had to be better. Of course it was fantastic. Elma and Desi from our first family day came over as well and she brought those amazing desserts. I'm getting the recipe and I am going to frantically learn how to make them. Bonoffee pie is heavenly.
Here's an interesting dessert fact... The Irish do not eat many cookies (biscuits as they are called here). I told them we would make them chocolate chip, snickerdoodle, and peanut butter and they would see what they were missing.

We had great conversations and unfortunately the girls remembered all the clapping games that I showed them from the last visit. So we sang "miss mary mac,mac,mac" a lot.


This week is our last week of assignments and thursday we leave for LONDON!!! We are in a bit of a crunch to get things done, but it's almost refreshing to have to manage my time. i'm such a nerd.

We had a good time in Dublin when we went. We weren't aware that we would have 5 hours of free time so unfortunately I didn't have anything planned. We were able to go into the National Gallery which had the painting that I've been studying. It was really neat to see. Also we visited Trinity College for awhile.

Thanksgiving day Luke and I ate Foo-Kin noodle. It was delicious... but it was strange. On Friday we celebrated thanksgiving and thankfully had the works Mashed potatotes and all. We all got completely stuffed only to eat 3 pieces of pie afterwards. woopsy.

Billy, the leader of this trip, is coming on Wednesday and I'm a little apprehensive of how to act. I want to tell him everything that needs to be corrected about this trip and want to explain to him all the ways that we were misinformed. Many agree with me on this, but it is my fear that no one else will speak up. I do not want to overly complain, but as we all know, I have to speak my mind.

It's almost over and i'm ready... but i'm sure as soon as i'm home I will want to be back. The grass is always greener you know.

that's all for now. bye!