Irish Girls vs an Aussie Girl

Well for the past week I've been working at an organisation called ESB international. I was a receptionist for an electiricity company. 'I'm excited about electricity even if your not' TXU ad, come on people!

I'm sure the people at the company are sick of me asking 'can you spell that?' when the irish speak their f's sound like d's s's sound like f's and d's sound like s's or something like that, no bloody idea what half of them want me to do. After tomorrow they can all rest at ease.

I've noticed a lot about the general public after being here for 12 days, half of dublin is foreigners due to their european work policies, and so instead of what I expected and people being like 'wow your australian' their more like 'oh another fecking forigner taking all our money.' Oh yeah they say fecking

I think I stand out though. Irish girls are very different from aussies. They are not very nice, many of them smoke, they are short, skinny and have no breasts. The fashion over here is amazing, people wear everything and anything and it always looks fabulous. Unlike my straight out of a rucksack appearence.

But on the plus side I'm in red head heaven. So many lovely red headded irish boys here it's brilliant! yay.

The Irish saying i've picked up on here is "thanks a mil" this is not just thanks but thanks times a million, thats how much they appreciate what you do. The problem is everyone says it so sometimes i wonder is a thanks really worth it when it's a million times over?

So latest plan....... I've got tickets to the international match on the 5th of November. My plan is to stick to Dublin till then, after the 5th jump on a tour bus and travel around Ireland, see some of the countryside, the smaller towns and the sites, after all that's why I came. Then when I return go to some of my favourite places and search for some work. I want to work behind a bar, or get some hotel work somewhere, so I may have to bend the truth on the experience, but we will see. After backpacking around and working here and there I should have enough savings to see the UK.

Everyone I've met has been travelling for a long time before, are older, and are total city slickers, no one wants to go outside of dublin. To be honest I'm missing home terribly, and everyone who's travelling say the first month is the hardest, so two weeks to go and I should be out of the rutt. I refuse to come home though!!! sticking it out till it gets better, otherwise I won't have good memories of Ireland, and that won't be good.

Wish me luck for my next career move I'm unsure of where or what it is yet but know it won't be far away.

To leave you all on a good note the beer is great here, I love it!