At the dock on Flickr.

* red indian head dress

* hunter wellies

* nose re-pierced

essential for leeds fest.

GeorgiaHorsley1Jooonnnnes Sandwich! The best kind of sandwich! Even better than ham and egg! X http://yfrog.com/kg4w9ypj

At the dock on Flickr.

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This photo was taken during autumn in Hameln, Germany, which is the birthplace of the infamous Rattenfänger—or Pied Piper, as we Americans know it.

This shot is actually on top of the last few hills that soon sink into the state of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony).

This area is essentially lowland plains—hence the name Lower Saxony!

Photos: German zeppelin crash
The pilot of a zeppelin was killed and three passengers had to leap to safety when the aircraft caught fire and crashed in central Germany Sunday evening, a police spokesman said.

The accident happened at the Reichelsheim aerodrome, near Friedberg in central Germany as the aircraft was coming in to land. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

Das Team.

SO, I've decided Fall 2012 I'm going to directly apply as an International Student to British Isle Universities

I am going to marry someone Irish for their accent.

“I can’t even remember what answers I got it’s all a blur at this stage! But I don’t care anymore I can’t change it now and everyone in the whole country thought it was a pile of crap so maybe they’ll be forced to compensate by marking it easier. Roll on paper 2 so I can be finished maths forever.”

And it sounds quite calm and forward thinking but after the exam I was quite upset. It would have been bad enough for it to go so badly and that to be the end of it, but I still have to try and do paper 2 on Monday.
Some colleges have it as a requirement to pass maths to get in as well so if I have failed, I’m looking at limited options as even if I do really well on Monday (ha!) you have to pass both papers to pass overall.

I’m just gonna stop thinking about it now and hope for the best.

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Ireland does not do sales tax. When I bought my phone, the price was 20E, so, being an American, I had out a 20 note and some change, thinking that 20E would not be enough to pay for something marked 20E, because it wouldn’t be in the states. When he said “twenty euros” I handed him the bill and he took it. It felt really strange to me. In American, when something is $20, it’s really something like $20.13, so you have to hand them a twenty and a one and get a bunch of useless coins back. I’m so used to that kind of payment exchange that it felt really bizarre to just hand the guy one bill and have that be it. It’s hard to explain how twilight-zone that felt. If you had told me before I left that I would feel very strangely out of place when paying for things without sales tax, I wouldn’t have believed you.

I was so startled by the whole thing that I said “is that all?” and he said “what?” and I asked “there’s no sales tax?” and he said “what is that?” and I said “well in America when something is 20 dollars it’s actually 20 dollars and some cents” and he said “why?” and I said “the government?” and then he got this look of recognition on his face and said “oh, we wondered when we were in America why they always wanted some extra little bit of change, it was annoying,” and his buddy said “yeah that’s an American thing, we don’t do that” and I said that it was so fantastically convenient to just hand over one bill and have no one counting out change and he smiled and said yes it was grand. Score one for Ireland. Later I bought something else and it was the same deal. It feels so much cleaner and neater to buy something for 10E, hand them a 50 note and just get two twenties back.

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- Slam Dunk Review - Glasswerk Ireland

I’ve got a 4.0, or 98-100% course grades. 

I’m a Sociology major. 

I’m not very competitive in extracirricular activities since I don’t participate in sports and I volunteer mainly within Catholic Charities.

I’m looking for somewhere with tuition under $30,000 a year if possible

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The Champ

Howdy, y’all! *Ahem* Top of the morn- …eh, evening to you! Suppose I need to retire my Lutz/Land O’ Lakes lingo to something with more of an Irish flair. However, I don’t plan on actually saying anything that would basically be the equivalent to tattooing, “TOURIST” to my forehead…

 Welcome! Or Fáilte, as the Irish say. On July 21, I’ll be flying to Chicago. I’ve never been to Chicago (or anywhere in the Midwest for that matter), so that will be exciting. BUT, the real exciting part is after I partake in some deep dish pizza, I’ll be boarding a connection flight to Dublin, Ireland.

I’ll actually be taking this journey with fellow college-aged students, as I will be studying abroad.

[Thanks to irishways.com for the lovely photos.]

For the most part, I’ll be here. Spiffy, eh? That’s Trinity College - right in the heart of Dublin. I’ll be taking 2 courses while on my journey and this here blog will be my way of keeping in touch. I’ll be keep a tradition journal as well (you mean they still manufacture things to WRITE in?), but my Mommy taught me how to share, so I do hope you enjoy! Now, please excuse me whilst I go daydream about this natural wonder - The Cliffs of Moher.

[Credit goes to http://blazingatrail.es/ for this beauty of a snapshot!]

Sláinte,

Rebecca

 

Taken from on top of the Guinness Brewery in Dublin

larne 4.

thanks for indulging me. and because it’s interesting, satellite image of this exact spot courtesy google maps—

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larne 3

larne 2

So, I’m in Ireland with my boyf and his lovelyyy family for the weekend and today his auntie lent us her Peugeot 206 convertible to drive about in. It’s friggin’ lush, just like the country to be fair! :) this is it parked up on the beach earlier.

Elliott saw his first ghost when he was five years old.  He was put to bed early and was trying to relieve the boredom of his own company by counting the spots on the counterpane, when he noticed the door-handle move.

Gradually it opened and an extraordinary figure shot into view—tall with long arms and a head too big for its body—“Its eyes were of a yellowish green and sphinx-like. There was indeed nothing in the face to denote this thing’s attitude towards me, whether hostile or friendly, or ,merely indifferent,” After some minutes, it left. When he told his mother the next morning about it she simply said he was having a bad dream. Much later, after his mothers death, he learned that members of the household had seen it too.