You know a place was amazing when you get homesick for it after only a week of staying there. I'll definitely miss the Avalon House in Dublin- waking up every morning and meeting travelers from every corner of the world, musicians, actors, students, families... and of course I'll miss all my buddies who took me in for the week and showed me a FANTASTIC time.
For my last days in Dublin, Sini, Tina, Chris, Dez and I went to Howth, a fishing village (no one knows how to pronounce it. Every Irish person we found made fun of us for our current pronunciation and gave us a different way- so now it is spoken only as what-the-fuck Ireland). The sights were breathtaking, the seafood and wine delicious, and the Sea Lions seemed to have quite a thing for Sini!
My Avalon friends then proceeded to make sure that me and my Stanford friends had an amazing last night- Dez was already in celebration mode from GETTING A MULTIMILLION DOLLAR MOVIE DIRECTING DEAL! (go dez!), which only added to the celebration that swept up all the regulars and a new addition, a nice Swiss visitor who taught us German drinking games (incidentally, best of luck to his friend who tried out for Berkelee School of Music this morning!)
It was sad to leave such an amazing place, but it was time to move on! I'm currently living in a house and room that you can probably best imagine my watching Pride and Prejudice, with a wonderful woman and her dog (the first thing we did was go out for a celebratory Indian food dinner- what more could I ask for?) I tried my first stilted German conversation (Heute ist das Wetter sehr gut, ja?), and then had a lovely three hours (english) talk with my host, who works as a psychiatrist to children here (Perfect!). Her dog, Corie, has already taken a fancy to cuddling, which I, of course, am quite happy about- I've missed having a pet around!
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