The Inevitable...

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Perhaps I’ve been putting off my blog the past couple days because each recap and journaling signifies one more day gone. Tomorrow I leave Ireland and head back to London for a couple days before I’m stateside once again. I have never not  (so serious it requires a double negative) wanted to leave a single place this much. Even when I was in Italy—which I absolutely loved—I was about ready to go home by the end of three weeks. I could live in Ireland. I was warned this would happen, so I suppose I came at my own risk. Leaving is worth the time I had here, though. And I know I’ll be back. No question.

Not a lot has happened lately. I got back to Dublin Saturday night. Dublin, Cork, Killarney, Galway, Dublin. It’s been my favorite city, actually. Killarney is a close second, but they’re so different.  Total I’ve spent over a week in Dublin and I feel really comfortable getting around. I go running along the Liffey every morning and see the same coffee stand workers along the docks overhanging the river, the same bums against the hard walls of the sidewalk (Michael from Transylvania is my favorite—he gives me a thumbs up each time I pass by), the same woman running the Famine Ship Museum with her usual cup of coffee and newspaper, the same slab of marble bench I lay on halfway through my run to stare at the ever-changing clouds…this morning I overlooked the apartments and chose which ones I would live in when I come back. They’re darling—dark wood with blue shutter panels and overhanging flower boxes in cubby windows. You can all visit me whenever you’d like, of course.

Right now I’m sitting in a library surrounded by students doing homework. It actually makes me want to go back to school. So despite my unwillingness to leave Ireland, there is learning to be done, and I do look forward to getting back to my new house, attending my new school, and waiting for the next adventure.

I’ll be sure to keep up on the posts till I return home.  I’m meeting Hannah in London and I’m sure there’ll be stories to share.

P.S. I DO miss all my family and friends, and cannot wait to hug you all.