Update

It’s been a while since my last post. A little update wouldn’t hurt. So, we attended some parties, some sight seeing, we moved from the house into a penthouse, I’ve finished my first course, Darse worked, again, long hours, and we kept an eye on the financial turmoil developing around the world. Ok. This is the abridged version of what happened last two months. I will develop.

Parties rocked! – This is everything you get about parties, and maybe some pictures.

Oh, and we went to see a show during the Fringe festival. It is called La Clique and it has all the possible seasoning: circus, fun, outrageous, inspiring, sexual, beautiful, amazing, and even uncomfortable. You can look for glimpses of it on YouTube.

Thanks to Morgan and Diane we finally went out to visit some of Ireland. We visited Powerscourt Gardens, Killiney/Dalkey Hill, Glendalough and this weekend we visited Irish National Stud (;-)) in Kildare. I hope I will have soon some pictures posted on Flickr, not only Morgan’s but mine as well.

Darse had a post about some of them. Here are some of my thoughts.

From the top of Killiney Hill you can see all Dublin South. The hill is a big park that has built paths and a monument on top. I can see it from my window and even though it is only a couple of hundred meters high or less, sometimes it is covered in clouds. It’s like a mini mountain, if you want.

Sunday, it was a beautiful weather in Dublin. I checked the forecast and there was no rain over Ireland, so I figured out that we might be lucky to have a nice day anywhere. Kildare is a commuter town at 40 km of highway from Dublin. Here there is the Irish National Stud, Japanese Gardens, Saint Fiachra’s Garden and the horse museum. I didn’t have very high expectations but it turned out that it’s very rewarding if you are a romantic type. The Japanese Gardens are very interesting too. Both grown ups and kids will enjoy it. The colours of autumn were wonderful, even though, when we arrived, the place was wrapped in mist. Actually, it made things more interesting, like the grass and spider webs were full of water droplets. There we found out that the most expensive stud does it once for 75,000 euro. Wow! I don’t think humans reached that record!

The move:
So, we moved from Shankill in a newer development close to Darse’s work. Moving is never easy and involves a lot of work: finding the place, do all the formalities and changes of address, pack and unpack, clean the house and clean again before moving, and so on. Thank you Diane so much for helping me. If it were for Darse, we would have done everything a day before handing over the keys. Luckily Darse was very busy that week so I could plan things ahead.
Now Darse doesn’t have any reason to whine every evening that his bus is late. We would have liked to find a place in Cabinteely village which is only two or three bus stops from here, but at the end, we preferred the sea view, bigger rooms and balcony, and the convenience to be close to the office.
Of course, moving meant a disruption in Internet access. Hopefully, tomorrow somebody will come to install it. The wireless is good for small browsing, but when it comes to movies and pictures, it is pretty slow.

Learning:
I ended the fist course of the two that I intend to take. Initially, I signed up for a psychology degree, but since things changed a lot lately and I found more and more disturbing news about the future of the planet, I’ve decided to do first these courses that can count also for a certificate in sociology. Even though many times I did not really enjoy this course, I’ve learned a lot from it. Incidentally, many of the issues were part of my understanding about economies and how the world works. Plus, I had the chance to practice essay writing and test my ability to learn in English.

Learning about the world was… traumatic. I will talk about this in my next post.