What are yous guys doing?

I'm actually writing this post as "The Bachelorette" is buffering on my computer.  And how exactly did I manage that?!  Well, for anyone reading this from AU that's going abroad in the future (Verby!), vpn.american.edu is basically a lifesaver (I was told about it through a friend on the program).  If you log in with your user-name and password and download the program, I guess your computer is then given an American IP address so you can access Pandora, Hulu, or whatever you want to watch that is only accessible in America.  Amazing.

These past few days at my internship have really busy.  I'm sure nobody really cares about what I've been doing at work, but I know that my parents are reading this and they will want to hear.  (You're welcome).  Here it is:
1.  I'm in the process of transcribing an interview that was conducted for the ECCE intervention.  Basically that means I have to type out everything that was said in the interview... not an easy task! (Remember I'm in Ireland, so everything sounds different)
2.  I looked up statistics for the Tallaght West area (where the intervention was conducted) and made a 30 page document to send to my boss so that she could use the information for future reports.
3.  I wrote five summaries on various articles pertaining to early childhood research.
4.  I ate a delicious spicy tuna roll today (Siobhan treated me).  Apparently everyone in the office orders sushi once a week.  This internship is obviously a perfect fit... food is the way to my heart.

Okay, now that that's out of the way, onto the fun stuff.  I went out to dinner Tuesday with the group of friends I've made here at a place called The Porterhouse.  The food was delicious- I ordered an Irish pie with "chips" (fries).  We were all planning on going out to Dicey's after dinner for 2 Euro night (every Tuesday!), but most of us were too tired from work.  We still made up for it the next night with Kings and Flip-Cup in our apartment.  Tonight Annie is cooking for us and I can't wait for a delicious meal to come.  I think she's making pasta Carbonara, which I LOVE to order at Corner Bakery.  It was actually my last meal before my flight (thanks Dad).  I hope it's as good as what I'm used to!

My title: as we were walking home from dinner at The Porterhouse, we ran into two 16 year old lads.  A lot of Irish people like to say "yous" as a plural for "you" instead of "you" or "you all."  So they asked, "What are yous guys doing?"  Even though I've heard the word "yous" multiple times now, I can't help but laugh.  It just sounds so grammatically incorrect to me!  But anyways, one of the girls in our group responded "Wes are going back to our apartment how about yous guys?"  The lads kept asking us questions, and she kept messing with them by responding with "Wes are..."  I don't think they ever understood the joke, but wes all had fun with it.

After work tomorrow I'm dipping out right away to get ready for Galway and The Cliffs of Moher.  I can't wait- it looks incredible in pictures.  I'll post again once I'm back.  It'll be a long weekend, I'll be staying overnight in a hostel Friday and Saturday, seeing all of Galway Saturday during the day, and going on a tour of the cliffs on Sunday.  I'll arrive back in Dublin Sunday night and then it's back to work on Monday.  I know I'll be tired, but that's not going to stop me :).  Back to the Bachelorette, if it ever actually loads.  The internet here is SO SLOW and I'm a little (a lot) impatient since I'm already two weeks behind.  If only I had Comcast and OnDemand here... but then again maybe it's a good thing I don't because it forces me to leave my apartment and explore- which is what I should be doing anyways!