Not much has happened during the week beyond the typical attending classes and going to basketball and volleyball practice (and Chris Hamill being so kind to take me home after every practice with no payment) besides pumpkin carving. The weekend brought a lot of fun including more shopping with the girls and coasteering, but I will get to that soon. For no, pumpkin carving.
The volleyball team I am part of put together a team pumpkin carving on Wednesday evening and we had a blast! Everyone headed over to one of the girls houses with their own pumpkins and were provided drinks and snacks. We had some music playing in the background as we all chatted and carved our pumpkins. I ended up just making a face with a mustache because I am lazy when it comes to carving pumpkins. Others made funny faces, Mickey Mouse, Harry Potter, Simba, UUC logo, and the best one, Einstein by Rachel. She spent the entire time working on her pumpkin and it looked like those pumpkins people put on the internet that you would never think were real. In the end we all took photos of them together with the lights off and candles in them. The fun stopped around midnight.
When the weekend came around, five of us girls went shopping at charity shops in Coleraine and just enjoyed some time hanging out. The best part of the weekend came Sunday though when the same group minus Eve went coasteering, which is pretty much just cliff jumping. I have jumped off cliffs at the Lake of the Ozarks but they were only 10 meters while these cliffs ranged from small to large. The largest one I had jumped off was about 40 meters and they said they have some people that jump off 90 meter cliffs! To take us from cliff to cliff we had a guide that also showed us a “lazy river” and some pools made along the cliffs due to erosion. Even though it was SUPER cold, we had the best time swimming around and cheering each other on since some were not in their comfort zone. Afterwards, we enjoyed some food and hot drinks near a fire in a cafe located at Dunluce castle.
Taking on Ireland 