Sometimes it’s hard being away from loved ones in life but it only makes it worse when you watch romantic movies all day! At school, we listened to lectures about Yeats’ poetry and the symbols found in Early Irish Art. The classes are very interesting, but it’s hard to stay awake due to our sleep deprivation. After class, we were planning on napping and catching up on sleep, but instead ran errands and only got to sit for a few minutes before going back to school. We had our first film viewing for our Literature and Film class. After a few minutes of technical difficulties we had the pleasure of watching ‘The Quiet Man”… NOT! I cannot pretend to sugar coat how bad this movie was. It was a good idea; a love story of a Yankee and a ginger Irish woman in the beautiful scenic country of Ireland, but the execution was terrible. The scenes were awkward, long, and basically not edited at all. The main woman in the film was literally bipolar and would have these weird freak-out moments (that's what people get when they marry gingers); we decided to leave early because we were so hungry.
We walked to downtown Galway and ate at Blake’s Bar & Restaurant. The food was delicious; they had a steak and pint special for 16 euro! I got the chicken wings with Irish farmed chicken and the special Blake sauce. The wings came out in this huge bowl with literally the entire wing oven baked. It was very interesting to watch me eat them, I’m sure, but the taste was well worth it! We stayed at Blake’s chatting about everything under the sun and trying each other’s food and was such a treat. We went further into town to meet up with some people and wound up getting gelato at Gino’s. I had the snickers mix and was very satisfied; the variety was amazing and everyone got something different. We all walked back to our accommodations and had a view of P.S. I Love You in Ireland (SO CHEESY AND CLICHÉ, I KNOW). We drank wine and cried through the only movie that never gets happy.
