A long time without internet!

October 10
Today we leave for London. We took a bus to the Salzburg airport. Our flight left at 5 and we got to England in two hours. The time zone is different, so I am now 6 hours off from Minnesota time. Once we got to the airport we took a bus for two hours to get into the center of London, where our hotel was. We didn’t have a chance to eat dinner until around 1030.

October 11
It was Sunday so we went to church in the morning. We went to a mega church at the Dominion. The music was great; it was like being at a rock concert. The preacher was from Singapore and a bit strange.
camden

October 12
We went to see the Camden market in London today. It was really packed and I didn’t want to stay long. We also saw Wicked, which was a really good show. I’d probably go see it again sometime.

October 13
I saw Avenue Q, which is a comedy show, with a few friends. I don’t remember what else we did. The show was funny but Wicked was much better.

October 16
Today we had a test for consumer behavior. I think it went ok, but it probably won’t be my best test of the year. Everybody was really nervous because this was the first test of the semester.

October 17
I woke up late and took the bus down to what we thought would be a nice beach but it was more of a shipyard. We walked through the mall there and got some food before taking another bus ride to the real beach. We took some pictures and walked on the beach for a little bit. There was a rugby match in town so we went and saw that. It was Edinburgh against Ulster and Edinburgh won. It was fun to watch a real Rugby game. Jake, Kelsey, and I had to try to explain the rules to everyone.
After the game we got back to the hostel in time to get some dessert, but no real food. We went to Wannaburger for some food and walked around town a bit.

October 18
Today we went to church at a small Baptist church. The pastor was American but he was away on vacation this week. There were probably 35 people there total and about 15 of them were from our group.
We grabbed a little lunch at Tesco, which is a cheap convenience store, because we were all running out of pounds.

October 19
Our taxis left the hotel at 6:15 in the morning. Our flight left at 8:20 to Ireland. It was a short flight, but then we had a 3 hour train ride from Dublin to Galway. Once we got there I did a little homework and relaxed a bit. We had class outside today. It was cold and uncomfortable but not too long. After we had class we were supposed to ask people on the street what they thought of Ireland being part of the EU and using the Euro. We got some mixed results but everybody said that everything costs more now that they are using the Euro.


October 20
Today we tried to have class in a mall but we got kicked out by security. We found a place right next to a fountain in the park to finish class. I had a lot of homework to catch up on so a lot of my time was taken up by that.

October 21
We were leaving Galway at 1000 so I got up a little early and went out to the bay for a little walk. I did a little shopping as well. The train ride was another three hours back to Dublin. Our hotel rooms are huge here. We had class inside my room. All of us fit inside fine but only 3 of us are sleeping here. We went to a really fancy restaurant. I took a peek at the bill and it was 543 Euro. That’s about $800. I guess it all fits in the budget but I doubt we’ll being going to more places like that. We have a take home test due tomorrow so I had to put an hour or so into that.