(In an English Accent) "Is the building really on fire? Because that would be a shame."

Twice while we were working with Nigel the Museum's fire alarms went off so we had to exit the building for obvious safety reasons. One of the times when we exited Alice came with us. Alice is this adorable women, probably mid-twenties, from England. She came to Ireland about a year and a half ago and is actually moving to CHICAGO at the end of the summer with her boyfriend who's going to be working at the planetarium. Anyway, were all standing outside and in her adorable accent Alice looks at the building and says: "Is the building really on fire? Because that would be a shame." Haha, too cute! Luckily the building wasn't on fire! but the alarms did take up about ten minutes each from our work day!

Tuesday was a lot of fun because Nigel took us to the museum at Collin’s Barracks for a meeting they were having there. About ten of the “bosses” got together to walk through the museum and look at the signage- what worked well, what was confusing, what was too wordy, what had too many colors. We spent over an hour just looking at the signage and only made it through two areas of the Museum. It was really nice though because they also asked Blair’s and mine opinion so we were really able to contribute to the meeting!

Blair was sick on Wednesday with strep throat so it was just me and Nigel for the day. We went back to Collin’s Barracks where they were hosting a school class that had one some kind of contest, which gave them a day in the museum. It was fun to get to see Nigel and some of the other people work with this group of ten year olds. I could really tell that Nigel had his own children and grandchildren because he worked with them so well. Matthew, the museum geologist, on the other hand was obvious that he didn’t often work with kids! Still though, he did a really good job with them. Katherine was also there and she’s the head of the Museum’s educational programs so obviously she worked great with them also!

It was funny because once I spoke they could obviously tell I wasn’t Irish. At lunch I saw a bunch of girls whispering around their table and then finally one of them came up to me and asked if was American. I said yes and she skittered back to her group where they whispered some more. Than another girl came up and asked where I was from. Once they realized I was open to asking questions about seven or eight of them came running up to me asking me all sorts of things. It was actually a lot of fun- they were so adorable!

We spent most of the conversation talking about the differences in our language. Such as the Irish calling it “toilets” while we call them “bathrooms.” The kids were really perceptive too and noticed things that I had missed. For instance, they always call stores “shops” while we often say “store” – I’m heading to the grocery store.

Our day ended around two-thirty and Nigel knew I had class that evening and normally left early anyway so instead of having me head back to the Natural History Museum for an hour and a half he just let me go home, which was really nice. This gave me some time to catch a nap- the only problem, however, was that I woke up from my wonderful nap with a wonderfully awful migraine!

Class was pretty brutal and I had to force myself to make it through the first half of class, which was the lecture portion. Luckily the second half was watching a movie and when Caroline (our lecturer) saw how sick I looked she told me to just go home and get some rest.

I was hoping to knock my headache out overnight but I woke up this morning to find it was still there! I forced myself to go to work but we were cataloguing all day and looking at a computer screen for hours on end wasn’t exactly conducive to getting rid of my migraine. I actually wound up leaving for the day around one and came home to nap. My headache’s probably a little bit better but I’m definitely not heading down to City Centre tonight! It’s just so annoying because obviously I don’t want to be cooped up inside when I’m here in freaking Ireland!!

I have class tomorrow morning but no internship, which is good. I’m hoping one more good night of sleep will be enough to knock this headache out for good so I can at least go out tomorrow night and enjoy my weekend! Here’s hopin’!

written by  kmr788 on June 18, 2009 from Dublin, Ireland
from the travel blog: Dublin, Ireland
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