Wet Ireland

I've arrived in the land of the green!! And unlike New York I never got lost finding my hostel. I left a nice hot sunny Seattle early Saturday morning, and flew to Dublin at 8.30 in the morning on a Sunday, being greeted by grey sky and rain, hip hip hooray I must be near the UK!!!!

The Hostel seems to be a little dodgy compaired to previous accommodation. The showers are cold, the dorms are like 16beds, and I could not check in untill 2pm, so had to walk around the streets of Ireland with no shower& no sleep.

But thats OK! I figure I'll give myself a week to set myself up. First a Job, then a house, got my priorities straight??

As it is a Sunday everything here seems to be shut! So tomorrow I begin my new life as a backpacker finding any work I can.

A french girl in my room is doing the same as me, she has a job, and had a flat but something happened and now she doesn't. So I guess we could work something out with another couple of people, average looks t0 be between 300 and 350 euros a month, Dublin seems kind of expensive. Don't really know how long I'm going to be here, not really a city girl, but I'll give it a go. Hey, I'm the girl who ate Buffalo.

Great things about Ireland:
-They don't try to disguise the toilet as something else, americans called it a bathroom, canadians washroom, for gods sake people it's a toilet!
- The drive on the aussie side of the road in the aussie side of the car. Can't get run over in this country by looking the wrong way!!
-Nothing is automatic thank goodness. In the US everything was Toilets, showers, taps, handdryers, pedestrian crossings,I can push buttons again hurrah.
-I brought a loaf of bread, 4 bananas, pasta sauce and pasta for just over three euros, what cheap food.

Hearing nothing of news from home slack bumbs, come on pick up and let me know some things that have been going down in Ballarat/Beaufort.

One last thing since I left home I have been eating an average of two bananas a day, my reputation on the last trip was monkey girl, and I'm loving the price of bananas, I could send them home to you for cheeper then you would be paying woo hoo bananas.

Well hope to year from you all very soon

Luv Carmen
xxxooo