Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Could it be... a post from Karola?
What's goin on? So I'm back. No I haven't quite fallen off the face of the earth, or been galvanting across the globe to far flung internet free destinations, as appealing as that sounds, I've just been taking a blogging sabbatical for a couple of months and livin life as it comes at home in Dublin.
It's been just over a year now since I moved back to Ireland and I'm quietly content for the most part, the odd itchy feet twitch is satisfied with long weekends in Europe and my upcoming South African adventure, and all in all I'm enjoying living it up in Dublin. When you're a student, you're supposed to have all the free time in the world, bollox to that, you've got your lectures and assignments, deadlines and exams, weekends were always gone to either part times jobs or Aiesec conferences ... not that there wasn't time for plenty of partying and gigs, but I don't ever remember thinking on a Sunday, wouldn't it be nice to head out to the market in Dun Laoghaire for lunch, or lets head down to Kilkenny for the Comedy festival ... hell, I didn't know Dun Laoghaire had a market on Sundays! Dublin really is a different city when you have time to slow down a wee bit and enjoy all the stuff that's going on. I'll have to enjoy it while I can though ... I got my college acceptance letter last week and from late September I'll be back in the homestead of DIT two nights a week and I fear the impact of assignments on my precious weekends. Excited though, I've actually missed an academic environment, yes I am a nerd!
I promised I'd do a bit of a photo update on the past few months that I've been AWOL ...
Bergio was my first Bratislava buddy to come visit me in April and I was uber excited to show him and Andrea around Dublin, perhaps a bit too much ... 7 hours of walking later, time to top off the day with a 45 minute hike up Howth Head, really I didn't remember it being that far! The view is fab though, and in perfect Irish tradition The Summit Inn was there to greet us with much needed cold beers!
Bergio getting friendly with Oscar Wilde
April - Hit the road to Portlaoise for Andrea's birthday, thinly disguised as a party for her mum's 50th.
May, I went back to Bratislava for a couple of days. I had missed it there so much and had been dying to get back for ages. It was so good to be back ... though inevitably it wasn't the same. It's always the people that make a place and your own unique group of mates. I missed my trainee group and all the usual suspects, and it's weird to be out with the whole trainee posse, and it's not yours anymore, just a few still left there. I had an amazing weekend all the same, Maciek was back visiting aswell so had fantastic catch ups with him, Santi, Dil and Iza, wandering through the city, getting to use my bits and pieces of Slovak again, having lunch in "the 99 korun place" who's real name I can never remember, catching up with friends and work colleagues, having Zlatys on Michalska, and Mojitos in Havana, getting incredibly mosquito bitten at a BBQ in the forest (not so fun!) ... and Dil having a gig on was a perfect end to the weekend.
Me, Santi and Maciek
July - Back in Maastricht for a weekend of chillaxing in the sunshine with my boy
July - More Slovak visitors! gAndy and bAndy came to stay for a couple of days. Aine joined me in giving them the tour of Dublin and after being initiated into Drenga in the newly reestablished MC party flat, we hit the city with a few trainees and random hangers on, the way it should be!
July - Road Trip! What remains of the DIT posse gathered in Monaghan to give our John Boy the mother of all send offs before he hit the skies to NZ on a mission to charm the entire female population in 12 months, John we salute you sir!
