Another Month...

Happy March everyone! I can't believe I've been here since November..! Time is really flyin' by!

On Tuesday afternoon I went for a couple of drinks with Renata, her friend Erika and some Erika's coworkers. We went to the Temple Bar in Temple Bar. It's probably one of the most famous [and overpriced] pubs in Dublin. I made friends with one of the bartenders there, and he told me to come in for St. Patrick's Day and that he'll 'take care of' my friends and I. Perfect! hahah.

I had my interview with American Apparel on Wednesday. I was nervous, but I think it went okay. There were three interviewers which kind of surprised me. I wore an American Apparel dress to the interview, and the main girl noticed! So hopefully I scored some points there. They told me I'd only find out in about 2 weeks because they have to interview so many people. It's a brand new shop so they're looking to fill all positions. I'll probably give them a call by the end of this week just to touch base and to show that I'm interested. I'd also get a 50% discount if I worked there! Awesome!!

Friday night I went to a club called The Twisted Pepper to check out a couple of DJs. Holly was on the guestlist + 2, so Ludie and I went with her. Pedro also came but we all chipped in and paid for his way in. Otherwise, it would have been 18 euro for him to come in! Crazy. Anyway, it was a good nigt and we ran into some people we knew as well.

Saturday was the punk show. Pedro and I went to Holly's place first as she lives close to the venue. We forgot that there was huge rugby match going on - Ireland vs. England - and that Holly lives really close to the stadium [Croke Park]. The match ended before we arrived to Holly's so we were walking in the opposite direction of 1000s of people. It was intense! I took a couple of photos because I couldn't believe the amount of people.
Then we left Holly's place to go to the gig. It was Holly's first punk show ever and she really enjoyed it. The band is called Blood or Whiskey and they're from Dublin. Their sound is pretty different, they incoporate the banjo, acoustic guitar and the accordian. It was a lot of fun. And I bought a tshirt! hah. And Holly and I each got copies of the setlist. Pretty cool. The show was in the basement of a big venue, so after the gig we went upstairs which turns into a club. We went from a punk show to electronic music, very different ends of the spectrum! The club was okay. There were gogo dancers on stage and these girls could really move! After that, we went back to Holly's place to hang out a bit.

Needless to say, Sunday was a bit of a write off. I was so tired that I went to bed around 10:30 or 11. I think that's the earliest I've gone to bed since I've been here..! ;)

Tomorrow night I'll be going out again... It's a girl's birthday so we're going out to celebrate. Should be fun!

Pedro is leaving soon... Not sure exactly when, but definitely after St. Patrick's Day. So we're having a leaving party for him at our place on the 14th. I think it's going to be a big enough party. One of our friend's boyfriend volunteered to be the DJ at the party. So that'll be cool.

Hope all is well with you guys back home!

xo.