Dun Laoghaire!

It's been a while since my last update, so...here we go, another one. (I actually don't know how long it's been. Time gets a little out of joint here....)

All my classes are going well. Movement is going to be really hard, in a good way; I have a dance to practice that is really confusing my neurons. Acting looks to be fun, and the teacher is really lovely. Devising was a little iffy--I wasn't sure exactly what was going on in it--but now I adore it, and the teacher is so cool. The reason I know this is that I, plus five of my classmates, was a part of Dublin Culture Night 2007. And when I say a part, I mean we were actually part of an event. Antoinette, our Devising teacher, put on a workshop at the LAB on Foley street, and she invited us to come be in it. It was essentially like class; a lot of work and exercises involving group work and physical space, sensing group members, that kind of thing. Most of us didn't know each other (there were about sixteen people there), but by the end we basically created a performance just from the work we did that night. It was fabulous.

That was Friday night. Saturday some of us (Kate, Lee, Katie V and me) went to Dun Laoghaire, a coastal town outside Dublin, for part of the day.



I pretty much love everything to do with trains. Including stations.



The coast around Dublin Bay is gorgeous:





Um. There really are no words:



(Okay, I lie. There are a lot. This was an ad at the Dun Laoghaire station, for an eatery that we found later. I especially like the part about booking Christmas parties...)

We got off the train and wandered around the harbour for a while:





This was the pier that we walked along before lunch:



And this was our goal, the lighthouses at the end:



This was our view, as we sat in the shade and ate lunch:



And this is what we did after we ate lunch:



After that we wandered around the town a little, got ice cream at a corner shop, and took the train back.




Today Cozy and I took Katie to her new hostel (she is visiting at the moment--SO much fun), and then met up with Meghan and Lee at O'Neills, where we watched the 2007 all-Ireland football championship. (This is gaelic football, mind; the sport that makes NFL players look like pussies. Even more than rugby. I'm telling you....beautiful, and brutal.)

Tomorrow starts the second full week of classes. Already!