Day 10

I was settling in earlier today to write a post about the strange lull that has taken place over this adventure. What I mean to say is when you leave behind everything you know, settle into a place with limited comforts and no responsibility, it can feel like a nice vacation but now it would seem the vacation has gone on too long. I don't mean to say I am itching to come home, but I have exhausted my initial thrill and curiosity of the city. I know my way around pretty well, I know more than one place to go to pick up milk or cheap shoes or late night snacks. Its beginning to feel like home, a little less special, more ordinary. Which is nice but I can't (and don't want to) do the same things I use to fill my time back home. I am not going to work, I can only do so much school work and watching television feels like a waste. So until things pick up with societies, I figured a good way to keep busy would be to travel. So my roommate Norah and I decided we would find a place to travel for the day, at first we settled on Kilkenny "the medieval capital of Ireland" and we were excited, reading our guide books and picking the places we would go, until we looked at the train and bus schedules. It would take us half the day to get there, and anywhere else it seemed that had good sites to see. I will eventually travel to these places and stay the night, but we were hoping for a quick trip to break up our empty Friday. And our answer was staring right back at us from across the bay. We hadn't been considering the Aran Islands because the International Student Society plans a trip there, and it didn't seem far enough away, but its easy and filled with beautiful historical landmarks. So tomorrow Norah and I are taking the 10:30 ferry to Inishmore the largest of the Aran Islands. Let the adventure resume.