thursday, 1:45 pm, dublin

last day of school! its amazing. yesterdays final went so-so...hey i wrote what i knew what else could i do? it wasnt as bad as i thought it would be, but we still have literature which i think will be easier. i havent heard from your blogs in a while -- i hope you got my flight info email. write me to let me know what time sean should be at our house. im very excited to come home! have i mentioned that already? well, ill probably call you tomorrow to make sure everything is smooth for pick up. talk to you soon :)
miss you
bridget rose

wednesday, 1:45 pm, dublin

well our history final is in 1 hour and i cant wait for it to be over. yesterday was a shopping extravaganza...everyones presents have been purchased :) then we ate dinner together (the roommates and i)...molly made pasta for us and i scrubbed the dishes for about 45 minutes. the other 2 just kinda sat there (i guess thats what it takes to make things work) then i just sat around, made some phone calls and went to bed. im very excited to come home. today im just in a bad ireland mood, im not sure why, but i just want to come home! i hope you got my flight info email...what time are you leaving/what time should sean be at our house? i am very excited to see everybody! this has been a very long six weeks, but these past few days and the ones i have left are the slowest and longest days ever encountered. when this summer is over, its gona be written down as the best one yet :) laur, are we still down for the shore? i hope so..tell everyone at kiddie academy that i miss them all so much and ill be over on monday to say hello...cant wait for our vacation guys, its gona be awesome. dad, how bout if i came to q o p one day to help out and whatever before we go away again. would i be allowed? id like to see the new place. hopefully you guys are having a great summer too...i will see you soon thank god!
love and miss you
bridget rose

tuesday, 9 am, dublin

ok its officially time to come home. i am so ready. this weekend was fun, we stayed in dublin and im really glad i didnt spend $350 to go to rome. friday i visited st. brigids cathedral in kildare and did some shopping by myself. saturday was very busy-jameson tower, st. michans church with mummies and coffins and i touched one! picnic in the iveagh gardens with the girls and guinness factory, where i had my first sip of guinness. it wasnt too bad actually. sunday we took a bus to malahide, a coastal town with a castle and a huge park and just hung around in the beautiful weather. then monday was a lazy day, just sat around, packed a little bit, did nothing. today is our last real class day, we are reviewing the course. tomorrow starts final exams :( wish me luck! after class molly and i are going shopping again--i hope everyone likes their present(s). im really excited for our vacation and really just to come home. cant wait until saturday!
cya soon
bridget rose

thursday, 9 am, dublin

oh man the time is just fading away...yesterdays class was so boring. however, most of the class skipped to go do the papers that are due today. everyone was freaking out and maureen was crying about hers so i went to margaret (the head lady) and told her to talk to the class and reassure us that this is just summer school and we will all do well. she did just that. she told us not to worry, that they are not expecting phd papers. the only thing they can grade us on is whether or not its 1500 wds, does it answer the question and did she use 4 sources. so i dont care. i was worrying but now im like hey its not like ive always gotten a's right? anyway, im sure we will all pull an a in both topics. last night the roommies and i just hung around because we were all done our papers. we chatted about our first kisses and what our houses look like. it was special. they are all leaving for killarney and dingle peninsula tonight, although maureen cancelled and shell be staying behind with me. tonight were gona have some pizza downstairs to celelbrate no more papers. and i think tomorrow ill hop on a train over to st. brigids cathedral and then just relax. so im pretty sure that i have the vacation figured out! the whole mini-vacation that you keep telling me is throwing me off though (i hope its not a ploy!) i talked to mr. durkin and he said they have lost every game :( oh well! mom im glad you told me what present you want, how about meg and laur? any suggestions? i will be shopping this weekend so let me know. soon we will have to relay my flight info again just to double check--im so excited! yesterday i talked to everyone from work and they made me happy but homesick :) i miss everyone a lot...but ill be home before you can say bunreacht na heireann. (thats the irish constitution) alright i will talk to you all soon!
love you
bridget rose

wednesday, 11:30 pm, dublin

good morning everyone! yesterday we had a lot of fun. our acting class went well again, and we had our class picture taken (it looks so cute!) after school we were invited to a potluck dinner at 3 of the girls flats. everyone made meals, cookies, soda, desserts, everything. mostly everyone came and we all just hung out and told stories and really had fun. then a few of us girls went to another flat to watch sex in the city together. it was just a great night. today is week 5! only 1 and a half left. this weekend we are just exploring dublin, i think im also gona start on the packing so i know how much room i have for presents! the whole program is involved in figuring out my vacation...im investigating but i need more hints! everyone is really excited to find out where im going. i tracked the package but it said no record of this account. ??? anyway, mom, i would like everyone to come and pick me up at the airport. i was thinking since you dont want to go to the mets game maybe meg could drive you and sean up and meet dad and lauren there. i think sunday i will be passed out most of the day, since on my time ill be getting home around 5 am. anyway, im very excited to come home. dublin is very boring now that ive been to paris! papers are due friday (but i think ill hand them in tomorrow if i get finished) tell carmen i will try to look for jen at orientation! p.s.-tell suzanne i saw like a million ladybugs at tour de france, i videotaped one for her! :) ive been thinking about her a lot on this trip so let her know. any requests for presents let me know! this weekend will be all about shopping. hope everyone is having as much fun as me!!! i will see you all soon...
love and miss you
bridget rose

monday, 9 am, dublin

what a wonderful weekend! we got to brussels around 11 pm, i didnt see much of the city though because i left friday around 7 am. i took a train for about an hour and a half to paris and met a kid named steven at the platform. he took me everywhere-hes kind of cocky and annoying, but he knew exactly where to go on the metro. so we went to the louvre and mona lisa, arc de triomphe, picasso museum, rodin museum (where the thinker is) champs elysees, latin quartier, notre dame cathedral, river seine, sacre couer chapel, ile de cite, montmartre and the hard rock cafe for dinner. we got home at like 11, just in time to see the eiffel tower light show right outside the hotel window. saturday i was up early to meet my arcadia roommate and her friend at the airport (i got there all by myself too!) unfortunately, we lost kate on the metro, so we waited like 2 hours for her at the hostel. by the time we got out, it was around 5 pm. we went to the eiffel tower and stood in line for the lift. finally we got to the top. it was amazing! it was just so cool to be standing on the eiffel tower. when we were coming down all these firefighters were rushing up and when we came down everyone was pushed back. we looked up and there was some crazy guy scaling down the tower! they had to shut it down for like 3 hours while he made his way down. the girls and i took a boat tour down the seine and when we came back around 10 pm, he was still climbing. we went out to dinner and came back to see the sparkle show and finally they let everyone back in around 11 pm. i met up with maureen (who i came with) back at our hotel and everything was wonderful. sunday was relaxing. maureen and i went to mass at notre dame, the organ was heartstopping. then we found the tour de france on the rue rivoli. we found out they would be coming around at 4 pm and they would circle 6 times around. so we waited about 2 hours for them and finally they came around..it was so exciting! they went by so fast, but i got a really good picture of lance (check it on the site) then we just went shopping for some souvenirs and got on a train back to brussels. our plane left monday morning at 9:15 and we were back at home around 11:30. i had such a great time! the weather was amazing, it was 87 degrees and sunny. i wasnt jealous of lauren anymore! i really got by with the french i remembered from dougherty. i did pretty good actually (that french award came in handy.) now we are back at school and have to go to our acting workshop again (a lot of people are skipping it, but i really liked it last time!) anyway, i will be home so soon its not even funny. i cant wait!
love and miss you
bridget rose

thursday, 9 am, dublin

brussels here i come! i am leaving today at 6:55-i gave the rest of my flight and hotel info to dad. wish me luck! i have a feeling that something is going to go wrong, like me and my friends wont meet or i wont be able to see what i want because of something. but oh well, im gona go with the flow. yesterday was so much fun! we had our acting class and i loved it. the guy was really great. i volunteered to do this thing where i had to pull something out of a box and answer all of his questions about it, like stream of consciousness. it was really funny, everybody is asking me if i ever took acting before :) then i finished my paper, ready to be handed in. last night we went to see the shaughraun? at the abbey theatre. it was really funny, but i still dont really get the plot. something about a guy who was a british rebel and they had to save him from being arrested again, i dunno i was laughing too hard to follow anything. the one part i enjoyed was that the main escape scene took place at st. brigids abbey! i was happy to hear my name again. this morning i was trying to call brussels to extend our hostel reservation and my roommate like yelled at me that i was dialing wrong so i told her to just chill out, and i was just trying all the buttons because weve had so much trouble getting in touch with them. she liked freaked out and was like your not dialing 011! i dont know what her problem is today...oh well! im still in ireland and i still dont care! we are running so short on time now...everything is just being rushed to go see. i think the long weekend we are just staying in ireland, maybe even just in dublin. i really wanted to go somewhere, but i think ill be able to get some reading and packing done for that week. ill also be able to see the things we havent seen yet. so that will be ok. any more hints for me mom before i leave? i will be sending an email this wknd instead of calling because the rates over there will eat up my money. hope lauren had fun down the shore..i cant wait to come home and see everyone!!
love you
bridget rose