Welcome to the Emerald Isle

I'm finally in Dublin. I'm more scared now than I was when I first got to Europe, because now I have to stop being a silly party animal and begin my life anew. A big scary life, with responsibilities. I don't envy my parents, who moved countries and started a new life in Australia with two children, not knowing the language, or what lay ahead of them. I'm terrified because I don't have a job or a place to live, and I don't even have children or a foreign language to worry about.

Speaking about languages, it's so good to be back in an English speaking country. Things like catching the correct bus become merely confusing rather than insanely difficult. I made it to the hostel with relative ease, and proceeded to catch up on some more sleep (thanks to another late night in Copenhagen). When I woke there was a man in my room - which was ok since it's a 10 bed dorm. He was from New Jersey and we got chatting, and went out to get dinner and so on, till we finally made it to bed about midnight. About 1 am, a group of 9 Americans waltzes into our room, finds there's not enough beds, goes down to reception, figures that the other American guy (the one from Jersey) is in the wrong room, kick him out and go to sleep, after apologising profusely. We got chatting in the morning about Bush, sports, the educational system, Australia and so on. I'd love to live in hostels for the rest of my life, you meet the most interesting people! Can't wait to see who's in my room tonight. I've got an Irish SIM card now, I'll email the number around later, so tomorrow I will be jobhunting in earnest instead of this half-assed walking around I have been doing so far. But it's a little pointless applying for jobs when they can't contact you to tell you if you have them or not. Right now I'm anxious, but feeling kind of okay given that I've still got 11 more days to find a job and a house. Well, 10 after today. Keep your fingers crossed for me, please. I need all the luck I can get at the moment. I'll keep you all posted when I find something! Take care!