whoops, it's been a while

well, i have almost forgotten about ireland already. it was only 2 weeks ago, but school has been hectic since. It was a fabulous time away and well, Ireland was a beautiful country to travel through. AMAZING. And since then Rach has gotten herself a job (congrats) AND a place to live just down the road (congrats again! praise God) and i have had reports due, but loved every minute of school, even the hard days. I love it when the kids start giving you grief about things you have no control over... and then the teachers start too... ha. I have been a little stressed out with organising a school singing club performance at the last moment and a few other fun things, but the weather has been beautiful and at the minute I am sitting outside in the backyard in the sun, so it's not all a stress. (although these stupid big dark clouds keep coming over and blocking the sun looking like it will rain, and then sun out again... crazy).

I am still enjoying the work i do with homeless people on mondays and on thursday a few of us went to see billy elliott... FABULOUS musical. I really enjoyed the dancing and the songs and i didn't know the story but at one stage i had tears streaming down my face... it was truly fab.

this sunday i am starting my first day at helping out at sunday school at my church which will be interesting. I am really looking forward to it. but that will mean less travel for me as i will be committing to sundays there, but the timing is right... i really want to start serving in my church, so a good opportunity for me to do this.

hmmm, what else? I'll just give you a quick rundown of ireland... so, all the free stuff... haha, met some dude called toby (great to meet you buddy) and gave him a lift from Doolin to Galway and rach and i hung round with him a bit. so what was it?? drove from dublin airport to waterford, (via Kilkenny where i had a kilkenny in kilkenny) stayed just outside waterford at tramore and rach was quite sick at this stage. ummm, went from tramore to killarney via cork and blarney castle (where of course we kissed the stone). From Killarney we drove the ring of kerry, stayed again in killarney (which is where i wrote my last posting) and then viewed the beautiful cliffs of moher (nothing on the 12 apostles, but not bad) and stayed the night in doolin. (where we met toby and went out to a pub dinner). then drove to and around galway, from galway drove through the connemarra and tried for another night in galway which was packed due to a long weekend (and so the prices jumped heaps to like €26pp), so we tried for a village between galway and dublin called... ummm, aughrim (i think) and stayed there for €17... bargain! then drove onto dublin which we weren't very impressed with. from dublin stayed the night in a hostel with some more interesting characters, went out to the temple bar area which was nice enough, but a whole heap of drunken people (particularly hens and stags weekenders) so we went back for an early night. next day bummed around and then flew home.
oh and we did tick off the guinness and baileys too (maybe the baileys a few times!)

i will put some piccies up soon, but unfortunately they are not working today... grrrrrr.
apart from that, i am going well (as usual). looking forward to a lazy night and a lie in tomorrow... i am just exhausted. I have burnt myself out this week, so it will be nice to be lazy (and finish off those reports that were due today, but they won't be working on them over the weekend, and i did check with the head teacher that i could hand them in on monday.)

ok, well, i should probably make some way on them... i am way over half-way, just got to finish them.
love to you all!
deev
xx