Another update

Where to start?? First off, all I can say is that my time here has been amazing yet has already started to fly by! Yesterday, I discovered that I am 4 weeks into this semester and only have 8 weeks left until classes are over/Spring break/my trip around Europe...so last night my roommates, and I started making dates official and booking flights with trips and now our schedule is nicely packed...This weekend Belfast(2/18), next weekend Galway(2/25), two weekends after that we have visitors for both(3/4 & 3/11), then were off to Dublin for St. Patrick's day(3/16), then London(3/24), a couple crazy last couple weeks of school with essays & exams, and then trip through Europe for 2-3 weeks(4/14), then back for some final exams then Scotland and Amsterdam, then home to America on May 25th!!!! It's about to be nuts but exciting!

Last weekend: Saturday, we went to Castlerock right here in Northern Ireland and spent the day there which was beautiful..We stopped first at a local bakery and got tea with a scone for £1.40(which is really cheap) then went and saw the Mussenden Temple, Bishop's & Lion's Gate, Downhill House, and ended our day/afternoon with a drink at a local pub. Castlerock is about an 30minute train ride from Coleraine, so an easy travel for a day trip, but along the coast which was an amazing view.

 Sunday, we took a walk down to the local beach, which has been my home away from home lately. It's a spectacular view of nature, and the ocean. Every time I go down there I end up taking a million pictures just because the conditions of the weather and the waves changes, and I feel as I just can't get enough. When we went down this time though we decide to walk as far as the beach would let us, kind of a good/bad idea since we really didn't know how far it was until the end. But to our surprise at the end was a pathway that went out to a lighthouse. We were able to get pretty close to the lighthouse but couldn't go the entire way due to the waves that day that had been huge. The waves were crashing over the walkway and I was scared either my phone/camera would be damaged if they got wet and that I had the chance to be swept away with the large waves that were coming up. I plan to one day soon to make it out all the way to see the lighthouse up close.

And then last night I made it down to the local beach to see the sunset...there is no better way to end the day of classes and a day in general then this view..in my opinion :)