The past few days have not been very exciting. Nothing has been going on besides checking out the area with some friends and chilling in my room while watching some movies. The most exciting day was probably the one I headed out to Coleraine to run some errands along with that night at Kelly’s bar.
First, Coleraine and bar. I needed some school supplies that I could not get at the small grocery store near me. An Irish friend of mine named Lauren went with me to Coleraine where she said I had a better chance getting what I needed. The bus ride there was a little longer than the normal ride but was not bad. Once we got there, we sorta aimlessly walked around in the rain trying to find places to shop buuuuuut we were hungry so we stopped by subway. It is very interesting to see the differences in chain restaurants like Subway. For example, there are no peppers or ranch, but they do have sweet corn and some meat called . They also have some hash browns that are pretty good with the chipotle southwest sauce.
After eating we headed out, still raining but not hard, trying to find a place for me to get a local phone contract. It did not take long since it was right around the corner in a walking mall area where cars could not drive. From there we went to the dollar shop to get some agendas, folders, a trash can for the apartment, and a few other things like playing cards and a wall calendar. It was actually very hard to find an agenda that worked because most of the planners (diaries as they call them) were for the 2019 year instead of 2018-2019 school year. The rest of the time in Coleraine went by pretty smoothly and nothing exciting happened till that night.
Boy was it a night. Part of freshers week is going to different bars throughout the week since all college students can drink in Ireland. Kelly’s, a well known bar to everyone in the area for years, is a dance club with different rooms and different music throughout the place. THE PLACE IS HUGE! And maybe that is just because I have not been to a dance club before, but this place was like no other place I have seen; I got lost walking around. I was in the main room with the DJ for half the night dancing with friends going back and forth between my international friends and Irish friends. At one point, we made a big circle for people to go to the middle to dance or just do something goofy. The second half, was not so much fun.
My friends I came with started to walk off saying they were getting drinks and not coming back. Two ended up going home since one girl was not feeling well but did not tell us till later. Another left with her sister but people kept forgetting and worrying about her all nigh. Another friend had a little too much to drink and ran off for about an hour with me and another girl tried to find her which turned into just me. Turns out, after wondering around looking for her and talking to random people who had come up to me in the meantime, my friend had past out on a couch. She was sloshed to say the least. She was tired and wanted to head home but the others wanted to stay till 2.
Another hour and a half… I did not want to pay for the taxi by myself so we waited it out. My friend laid on the couch while I watched over her giving her water when she needed it. She almost fell off a couple times but I caught her with my feet. It was not very exciting besides her trying to sing to the music but after awhile, she started to lean her head over the edge of the couch and spit a little bit. I am sure everyone knows what comes after that. I got a trash can soon enough and luckily left right after that event. We had to stand in the cold till a taxi came which was not very fun, but I helped her back into her apartment when we got back, and I went to bed in my apartment. To say the least, I am not going out again for awhile.
Taking on Ireland 