Spoiled Girl

Orientation made me feel very spoiled. My days in Limerick have not in the least been lacking in food or interest. I feel like all I did was eat all the time in Limerick. I was probably the most awake, refreshed person because everyone either arrived the day of orientation or the night before, not that everyone was a zombie, but where a lot of people wanted to sleep I felt really invigorated. We were stationed in a pretty luxurious hotel; we all had a nice view of the water and the city. We even had orientation in the penthouse in another nice hotel and had this fabulous lunch with leather seats in the restaurant. Coming from hostels where large groups of Germans wake everyone up at 7 am and where you have to use your cell phone as a flashlight in order to not wake anyone up I felt like I was at some five star hotel. A couple nights ago (still in Limerick) we went to Bunratty’s, a little tourist spot full of traditional music, food, and dancing; essentially it felt like going to a luau in Ireland in terms of the atmosphere and entertainment (in a good warm fuzzy way.) I had a feeling that the tourist trap wasn’t the cheapest thing to do in Ireland.

I feel extremely and wholly spoiled right now in Dublin. I am sitting in my apartment right now located on a river with this great modern art piece with red straw things that light up in the night and reflect on the water. We also live right next to a pretty swanky pub with free Wi-fi, which I predict I will be frequently as the year progresses. Lucy, my roommate, hit the nail on the head when she called our area “yuppie town” because it’s full of well-to-do thirty-somethings. It’s a lovely peaceful place though, and it’s a good place to come back to at the end of a long day in a hustle-bustle town. We were told that we didn’t even want to know how much it normally costs to live in our flats.