Day 1

I have to preface this by saying that I walked a total of 9 miles today. Needless to say, my legs are killing me. I believe I will be taking the bus tomorrow. Anyways, I made a lot of interesting observations today. The reason for all the walking was that david, miriam (the married couple i am staying with) and I walked into the city centre today from their house in a cute little suberb called Crumlin. One thing i noticed on the long walk was that the movie rental stores have tanning beds inside. What a novel idea. I was also told that residents of this city have to pay for their trash, yet not for recycling. So you pay by the weight of the trash and how often you put it out. So, people have a real incentive to recycle. Would that ever work in the states? I doubt it. Well, we walked all over the centre today and I got to finally see Trinity. Wow, it is a breathtaking campus. I only wish they had graduate housing there. Finding me an apartment was part of the reason for the long trip. I put a note on the graduate housing add wall, so maybe someone will e-mail me from seeing that. I even bought a 2 Euro sunday paper to look for lettings, but there were none. I've got to find a place soon! Hopefully tomorrow will be easier, yet it is suppose to rain tomorrow, so we'll see how that goes!