February 27, 2011

I had written a really long blog about the last few days, and when I went to click Publish Post, the frigging thing deleted itself :/ Guess I'll just have to try and remember what I wrote!
Well I havent been very consistent with my blog writing with the last few days, but I promise to improve this!!
Let's start with Thursday...Myself, Trisha and Janna decided to go to the Erasmus 80's Party in Lucerna Music Club that night, and it was a brilliant night overall!! However, the volume of alcohol that I consumed was quite disgusting..never again!! I do think that the games of Kings and Black or Red were what tipped me over the edge though, but sher look I'm only young once! We made some lovely friends that night, including a very nice American guy, David...great night overall!
Friday was therefore spent with me nursing quite a severe hangover on the couch for pretty much the majority of the day..the only positive was that I had an amazing 12 hour sleep Friday night, which had me mentally prepared for Saturday night!!
Saturday night was another disaster in the drunken nights category, as we decided to go to the Glow in the Dark Erasmus party in SaSaZu...I decided to drink vodka beforehand in the house, and our friend Emma also came over to pre-drink with us...Again, the card games were a disaster, particularly the waterfall card in Kings!! Ugh, nightmare!! I was pretty wasted when I got to the club, but thankfully Emma got me some water, so I sobered up after that!! It was a pretty good night overall, but I still think that Thursday night was much better!
Today I found a HUGE bruise on my left thigh, and I've no clue as to how I got it...Its rotten :/ We're heading to the Dubliner bar here later to watch the Six Nations game between Ireland and Scotland...I'm predicting an Irish victory, but I cant wait to watch Tommy Bowe..yum :)
We officially start college tomorrow, and as sad as this sounds, I'm kinda looking forward to it!!
'Til next time :)

February 23, 2011

Oops I havent written here in a while...the tiredness is really catching up with me!! We headed out last Saturday night (February 19) and we got chatting to a group of guys from England, who had the cheek to say that my accent was made up!! I can categorically state that it IS NOT; however, we had the banter with them, they were great fun!! We also got chatting to a guy from Scotland, who told Janna that she was the poster Irish girl - red hair, freckles and the surname of Murphy - another great laugh there!! When we were on the tram home, we were talking to some American dudes, they were really nice as well!! Saturday night was super overall!!
On the Sunday, I dont think we did very much..Monday was our first day of college, and of course it decided to snow!! It was -10 Monday morning, and it was fairly slippery when walking...However, we successfully made it to college and we got our forms signed from our Erasmus co-ordinator. Our student cards should be ready soon, so we will go in to collect them either today or tomorrow, as we need them when applying for our student travel cards. We were also sent the list of modules being taught through English this semester - to be fair, there is a great choice, including Drama Production!! Excited about that :)
Tuesday was also a pretty normal day, myself and Trisha went to the shop to get stuff for dinner...pasta and meatballs were yum!! Trisha and Janna headed out to an American party thingy last night then..they're still asleep :)
Til the next time :)

February 19, 2011

So I've been in Prague now since Tuesday, and I'm really liking it!! We went out last night to The Dubliner, which is an Irish pub in Praha 1, and we had Magners..yum :) We then went to another pub to meet up with a few of the Gaelic football team so it was nice to get to meet them!! After that, we went to a local club..it was crazy!! It was small but it was pretty packed! We grabbed some food before getting the tram home, so it was all good! we're hoping to meet up with Rachael, one of our classmates from back home tonight as she's here for the weekend from Vienna, so we'll see where we go for that..I'm thinking an early night though to be honest, these 5am bedtimes are a shock to the system :) Myself and Emma went for a stroll to Sparta today so I saw the football stadium, and then we got the tram back into Stare Mesto and I got my Czech number!! So I'm happy out :)
No other real news apart from that...
Til next time :)

February 17, 2011

So I'm STILL sick...great!! I'm relying on the good old Panadol solution and Strepsils to rid the cold, and its working again I think! I think I just need to wrap up more..no more denim skirts and leggings for me for a few days! In other news, myself and Eli went to a foodstore called Albert this evening, its pretty cheap!! However,  the lady at the checkout got pretty annoyed when I couldnt speak Czech..I guess I'm going to have to get used to that! Its still pretty cold here at the moment, but its still pretty bearable!! We also had our international meeting with the college which was interesting!! We learnt that our college is a private university, and there are only 17 Erasmus students in total..so we think, anyway!! We need to pick our modules now early next week, but we can sit in on some lectures to decide whether we would like to study them or not!! Hoping to do a bit more sight-seeing tomorrow, along with trying to find the huge Tesco in Praha 1..its four floors high!! I think that's pretty dam impressive :)
Night :)
x

February 16, 2011

So today was my first full day in Prague...I love this place even more now!! Myself and my two other friends from UL took the metro into the main city centre to see some of the historic sights of both the Old Town and New Town. Some buildings are just beautiful, almost gothic in design..one thing to note though, meals and food can be quite expensive in the main city centre as the area would predominantly attract tourists! The main centre though has some fabulous shops and a few fantastic shopping centres! We also said we'd sample the McDonald's here too...it tasted EXACTLY the same as the McDonald's here..what an anti-climax :) It's cheaper though, plus all meals in McDonald's over here tend to automatically come in a large size...all the better for less than €5!! There are also some Tesco stores over here, as well as Vodafone, 02 and many more..it's like being at home, except the buildings are much prettier :) We went to a pub down the street tonight, cocktails were just over €2...just beautiful :) I must get to like beer though as it's so cheap here!
Anywho, better call it a night..we've got our international meeting with our college tomorrow!!
Bye :)

I arrived in Prague!

So I'm finally in Prague!! I flew out from Dublin yesterday morning, leaving behind two quite emotional people..Mam and Dad..I know it must have been hard for them, as I've never gone away for so long, but the time is going to fly!!
Prague is beautiful though, and the apartment is just perfect!! We have wireless internet and  satellite channels, which is pretty cool!! Planning on doing a bit of sight-seeing today, check out some of the famous churches and such!
Will write again soon!
:)
x

Countdown is on...

So there's less than two weeks to go before I fly out to Prague for my Erasmus as part of my college course..Up to now I haven't really been thinking about it that much, but the past few days, I've thought of nothing else! Anybody who knows me will know that I love my camogie and ladies football, so to not be involved with that back home in Clon will be extremely weird to say the least! I just hope that I wont forget anything important when I go to Prague..that would be typical of me! OK I guess that's it for now..I'll write again soon....Peace out!