Three Lectures= A long Day

Today we went to the University College Cork and attended three lectures today. The first one was on viking settlements on the Faroe Islands the next one was on viking remains in Dublin. The last one was about the vikings coming to Ireland and the people here before them. The lectures all kinda blurred together today because I was really tired and the first two were back to back. The last one was interesting because the guy was a historian and knew so much about the vikings, it was incredible. He knew the Old Norse and Old Irish languages. When I saw Old Irish I mean really really old. We had almost two hours between the 2nd and 3rd lectures, so we all went to the student center and had some lunch and some of us played Hearts. After the thrid lecture we all went our seperate ways, some went to the markets and some went back to the apartments. We really didn't do much of anything today, just the lectrues.

Tomorrow we go to Blarney Castle, I'm really looking forward to that. Yesterday we went to Cobh (pronounced Cove. Cobh is the old Irish spelling) and saw the museum for all the Irish who emmigrated from Ireland. They also had sections for the Titanic and Lusitania, since Cobh was the last port of departure for the two liners. It was really interesting and the weather was great. It rained at first but then the sun came out and when it bounced off the water is was blinding. We also saw a memorial for the victims of the Lusitania at a cemetary just outside of town. It was a sad thing to see and the rain added to the mood of the event. Before leaving Cobh we stopped by St. Coleman's Cathedral. It was very interesting, but seemed like all the other churches I've seen while on the trip.

Last night we all went to a pub to listen to bluegrass music. It was interesting, until we met some Austrailians....then it got more interesting. The one girl was traveling around Europe and had been here for 6 months already. She was extremely loud and annoying. She was with some of her guy friends traveling around. They were also kind of loud. They were told a few times by the bartender to quiet down or he'd kick them out. We left shortly after the second warning because they were talking with some of us and we didn't want to be associated with them and get kicked out.

Tonight we are going the the same pub and listening to a different type of music, I don't remember what style they have tonight, but I'm looking forward to it.