It flew even faster the last few weeks!
It was visitors month! Kind of wierd to recieve visitors so close for you coming home, but it is great to see everyone after such a long time and most of all show them a city you got to know so well!
Because I want to close my blogupdates on a funny note I decided to make a: You know you have been in Dublin for a while when. The idea came from a friend of mine, who posted a link with you know you have been in the Netherlands too long( you can never be on exchange for too long, hence the change) when http://www.perfectgroup.com/blog/2011/07/you-know-youve-been-in-the-netherlands-for-too-long-when/ It is in English and it's really funny.
So here we go:
You know you have been in Dublin for a while when:
1. You drink a pint of guinnes just as fast as two glasses of dutch beer
2. You randomly cross the road on places without a traffic light
3. You are disapointed when you need to cross when the traffic light is green
4. You are used to pay by exact cash in the bus
5. You are used to always see full pubs.
6. you are used to strict bouncers being strict, except when you tell them it's your 21st birthday.
7. You ate Irish breakfast at least twice
8. You are used to saying how are ya back, instead of fine and you?
9. You understand most of your fellow students when they speak a language they seem to call english, but sounds a lot like a wild person trying to speak
10. you apart from drink a lot, watch and do sports a lot.
11. you know exactly how to get free beer from guys ( whaa this sounds so bad!)
12. You are used to emailing your teacher with dear Gemma, instead of Dear docter Donnolly-Cox
13. You are used to teachers knowing all of the names of the students in their class.
14. You are used to teachers actually appreciating what you see, and I do not mean this in a condicending way towards Tilburg, but they tested a case on us! and we don't even have diploma's!
15. You start saying; ah Thats Grant or Oh it was grant!
16. or worse You start saying, Thanks a million
17. Even worse: You start saying Thanks a mil! ( guilty on all accounts)
18. your friends start saying they hear an Irish accent when talking to the waiter
19. you know that smithwicks is pronouced as smiticks
20. You are no longer surprised by the fact that when you wear gloves, scarfs and wintercoats, they Irish walk out wearing hoodies, of even worse, just pull-overs
21. You realise when you look outside and see irish walking in coats and scarfs, there is a possibillity you might freeze to death
22.You go out with your rugby team without dinner and might possibly be completely drunk before midnight, while they seem completely fine
23. You are used to just smile and nodd when old Irishmen approach you in the pub, they do not speak english anyways
24. You realise that you are going to miss the wierd chinese places such as wok in the box.
25. You get used to your teachers assuming that morningclasses are use less, because of to much alcohol before, even though its monday
26. You get used Dublin as a two sided city, with on one side good neighbourhoods and the other bad neighboorhoods.
27. you have shown stephen's green shopping centre 3 times already
28. you know what mince pie is
29. You going to miss all the cute cheap lunch places
30. You going to miss all of your friends and life here
I can go on and on!
But I am going to leave this city as I came.. in a complete party mood, with parties from now until I leave on the 20th of December! thats at least 5 parties in a row!
also I will see a the leincter vs Bath game in a stadion! and in the meantime, I am trying to pack. because I expect my last visitor the 18th, she will fly home with me:)
It has been a pleasure sharing my stories, and I hope that you will have a great exchange as well!
Superleuke blog!!!! xx
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