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One of the lakes we visited.

I know it's been a while since I've last wrote a blog. I know you are all wondering why because everyone is obsessed with me and consumed with my life. I'm only kidding, I promise. For the past two and a half weeks, I have had pretty bad luck with the electronics in my life.

It all began with my laptop. My MacBook started going psycho and was acting like Cybil. One minute, she would be working and the next she would hate me. It's difficult owning a laptop with multiple personalities. I ended up taking it to the Apple store on Grafton street. I dropped it off, payed 75 euros for them to figure out the problem and then two days later I got a phone call from them telling me my hard drive had crashed. Just my luck! I'm having a great time in Europe and my laptop dies. So, they tell me it's going to be 149 euros to replace the hard drive. So I'm thinking "Ok, cool. That's it!" Nope. Think Again. I go back two days later and they tell me that they also have to replace a cord inside of the computer and that it may not have been the hard drive at all. Fast forward another two days, I get a phone call from them and they tell me it was the cord and not the hard drive that was damaged. Luckily, they said that they would refund me the difference in price, which was 100 euros.

Finally, this past Saturday, I go and pick up my MacBook and I get my 100 euro back! Womp Womp. I thought the Apple store had geniuses working there. Just to let you know, they don't. Instead of refunding me the 100 euros, they charged me 100 euros. So, now they owe me a total of 200 euro! I realized this when I checked my bank statement Saturday evening when I got back to my dorm room. After brunch on Sunday morning, I went back with my bank statements and showed them that they owed me money. It took a while, but they finally refunded me my money, or so I thought. It is now monday afternoon and the 200 euro (which is about 275 USD) still hasn't shown up. Ahh, what luck I have. I suppose if it isn't there by tomorrow, I will have to go back for the 5th or 6th time in 10 days.

Words cannot describe the past few days. It's gone by too quickly. Time flies when you're having fun, right?

I'll start off with telling you about my new friends, Jenna and Whitney. The title of this post and dedicated to them, and me of course, as we are all Carolina girls. Jenna is from North Carolina and Whitney is from South Carolina. Both of them attend the University of South Carolina and these girls know how to have a good time, trust me. They can just go-go-go non stop. It doesn't hurt that their both hilariously funny either. I'm definitely planning on visiting and going to a Gamecock football game with them! Enough about those tramps (in this case, tramps is a term of endearment), I'll tell you about my week.

My new friends, Whitney (middle) and Jenna.
Here, we are holding our traditional Irish breakfasts!

Ahhh! I'm finally here. I really can't believe it. I've been waiting for this day to come for so long. Too bad I can't enjoy it too much because I'm so jet lagged. I mean, I've been tired before, but not like this. My body aches, my appetite is off and my throat feels like the Sahara desert-so freakin' dry. The only way to get over it is to stay up and try to get on a normal schedule. There is a 5 hour time difference between here and the east coast and they say for every one hour difference, it takes one day to get over...that equals 5 days. No good, my friends. I'm going to try and beat it by keeping myself hydrated and eating lightly. I'll be living on fruit and salads for the next few days for sure. Sorry, I'll stop complaining now. Instead, I'll tell you how traveling went.

Ok, so this is my first blog post! As many of you know, I'm studying abroad in Dublin this semester and, like many others, have decided to create a travel blog! I'll be filling everyone in on my life and how everything is going as well as putting a few pictures up each time (hopefully, but I'm kind of slacking with my camera game...I'll try and step it up these next few months).

Well, I leave for Dublin tomorrow afternoon and I have yet to pack. So, I suppose I should go do that now. Sorry about the boring blog post, but I need to get used to doing this at least once a week starting now!

P.S. this is blog will be very informal, so don't judge me. Mkay?