as i said last time, it's a bit more difficult to take pictures and come up with interesting stories now that i'm settled in and becoming more comfortable in my new country.

i've been working lots, which normally would be a bad thing, but i'm really enjoying my job. yesterday someone (yes you, henrik) asked me why i would come to a completely different country just to work pretty much the same job i was working at home. and frankly, i think this is a subject worth exploring.

it's because it's not the same job. whether i'm doing the same thing or not is not the point. it's the fact that i've successfully left a job that made me feel underappreciated, and moved on to a job that may not be my lifelong dream, but it's teaching me a thing or two about living in this fantastic country, and allowing me to live here comfortably.

so who am i trying to convince? i don't know. it's just that so many people ask me why i'm here, and what my purpose is. so i start thinking "what AM i doing here??". obviously i know why i'm here, i wouldn't have moved to a country i'd never been to without a reason for going... but i guess it does seem a little strange to some people.

it's almost been two months since i left home and i'm really starting to get a bit nostalgic about the whole experience. i miss home because i miss knowing a lot of people, knowing where i am at all times, and having my family to fall back on when i need them. i also miss breakfast at joe's, and skim milk... but that's another story. but at the same time it's an interesting adventure and test of my sanity. even though i do miss home, i can't imagine being ready to go home in ten months.

anyway, enough about that and more about halloween in dublin. last night, morten, preben, louise and i went for a night on the town to experience halloween weekend in dublin.

it was pretty much the same as any other night in dublin, but a little less busy, and a few more fake spiderwebs. it's a long weekend here, so most people go away and the bars were actually less packed than a normal saturday night... which ended up being really good because we could actually breathe in the bar.

i made my way to morten and preben's house for a few warm-up bulmers, then we all took a cab to the city. We went to the porterhouse, which is a bar i heard about from some guys at work. they had it all decorated for halloween, and the bar itself had about 4 floors and on the second floor there was a live band.

the bar was pretty packed, but it was nice to actually be able to move and breathe inside, unlike an average saturday night at a pub in temple bar.

we met a fabulous british couple who had been traveling by motorcycle for the past few months, drank some interesting tequila flavoured beer, had one too many jager-bombs, and left at a reasonable hour (about 2:30).

there weren't very many people dressed up. there were a couple devils in the bar, but nothing very exciting. not until we walked through temple bar and met up with the pimp, the sumo wrestler, and the... umm... sexy lady?

the pimp actually handcuffed louise to herself and made her "motorboat" the guy dressed in the fat sexy lady costume before she let her go. that was quite amusing.

we ended up losing morten and preben on the street at some point, we ran into my roommate and a bunch of the people from my building and started some sort of strange sing-a-long in the street, then i finally caught a cab home.

a great night, if you ask me. i could be feeling better today, but at least i don't have to work so i can lie around, watch movies, eat popcorn, and lounge around in my jamjams.

missing all of you. it's almost time for visitors! who's first? and if not, could you please send me an omelette from joe's, and a glass of skim milk... thanks.

written by  girlbits on October 29, 2006 from Dublin, Ireland
from the travel blog: a britt in ireland.
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Just wanting to see a bit more of the world and meet and interact with people outside of your normal circle is reason enough to travel. It can only be a good thing. And turns out that we all learn something. Like I just learned what "motorboating" is!!

written by  pops on October 29, 2006

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i finally found the blog! miss you love!

written by  prince kyle humperdink on October 29, 2006

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OMG! is that my MOM!?

oh....

no....

that's just a man dressed as a fat sexy stripper lady. my bad.

written by  ang-tacular! on October 30, 2006

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i sent the skim milk last week. should be arriving any day now.

let's open a Joe's franchise in dublin.

written by  Professor Paula Van Beaverhusenberg, LLB on October 30, 2006

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