1 Month

I have been in Ireland for a month now. It has flown by. but continues to be the best experience ever. Tomorrow morning we leave for the North and will be in Belfast for three days two nights so i wanted to post for Mom before i left. We have to get up early and are out the door by 7 AM. I am a little uncertain about the bus trip to and from because every time we have been in a bus i have been getting motion sickness kind of. it is weird. but i am going to take some medicine tomorrow before we leave. Ireland is just so hilly. which is a great thing. especially good for hiking. Which is what i did a lot of this last week. On Friday we went to Glendalough, Ireland which has like one of the oldest monasteries in Ireland. So that was neat. and we hiked there and it was boss. Here is Glendalough (Glenn-duh-lock) Oh, and these are just pictures off Google, i forgot my camera...

And so then on saturday me and a few other people went to Howth which is like an hour away from Greystones and is a huge seaport town. It was easily one of my favorite days since ive been here. we walked all along the peer and the weather was so nice. It was a great little town with all these different seafood places. some were expensive but i want to go back for a nice dinner one night. However we went to this incredible fish and chips place. and with all the restaurants, its the type of deal where they serve you the fish that was caught that day. so good. but the main thing we did when we were there was go on a 3 mile hike along the cliffs of Howth. it was one of the most incredible things ever. here is another google image of Howth. it was sooooo boss. It was a great day.

And then this morning for one of the local churches here called Hillside they had their family service where Taylor students usually come and help out. So i actually ended up speaking at church this morning! it was awesome. I had them laughing. I told them that when i was born i weighed 11 1/2 lbs and i basically looked like a rugby ball with a face. And that my Mom was still accepting sympathy cards if they wanted to write her. so they were laughing at that. and then i got real and talked to them about da gospel and stufff. it was super great. and then i encouraged them to all get in the Word in the morning. And i told them the line that Dad always says, "You have to fill up your coffee cup in the morning because the whole world is just going to try and pee in it the rest of the day." the place lost it. it took a minute for everyone to regain composure. because coffee and tea is such a big thing here, i think it really struck a bell with them hahaha. so that was great too. We are starting to kind of get into classes a little bit. but it still is money compared to actual school so thats great. Im still loving my life. but missing home too. I have never been so excited for a Kansas City Royals season in my life. so i cant wait to keep up with that. But i will blog after our trip north and it will be SUPER LEGIT!

I love everybody.