The Life of Dan: March 2006

I'm back! Time to get back on with the old blogging.

Lots has happened since LDS. Lots and lots!

There was the epic last 2 weeks of dissertation-writing. This was some serious work and some seriously weird sleeping patterns! Impromptu flat meet-ups in the kitchen at 6am for cups of tea were rather too frequent. Anyway, that was all done on March 1st in a glorious fury of last-minute paper-wastage and bargaining with binding machines.

A weight was lifted. But not for long. There suddenly seemed to be a mountain of coursework to get through. So I very smartly took a swift holiday to Dublin for St. Patrick's Day followed by another to Caithness (about as far north as you can go in Scotland) with my family.

Becoming Irish...

Dublin was excellent fun. Two days of sightseeing in the snain (rain and snow alternating very fast, totally different from sleet ok?!??) and mostly just being amazed by Guinness at the brewery. 10 million pints a day! 19 different types! And all made from a closely-guarded "essence" locked in a safe at St James' Gate. I would say it is one of the best cities to visit as a tourist. The tour bus drivers are so entertaining. Ours was singing away to us for most of the time and just cracking jokes and making fun of people. Brilliant. They have an amazing pancake place (we had 4 in 24 hours. mmmm), an amazing bagel place and some quite good tourist attractions of course too. And the bars and pubs. Cafe en Seine and The Porterhouse (h2g2) win best pubs. We even at Anchor Steam Beer (from San Francisco) in the Porterhouse.

Exhibit A: My Hat

We also met loads of really cool AIESECers and Nomadlifers from around the world - lots of new faces and some old (sorry Jure!)! Merve - hope you've managed to get the face paint off! Dom and Kevin - very grateful for you letting us stay, but get some heating! Danijela - my hat was last seen on you at 01:48:23 and I want it back! Alice and Jennifer - look forward to actually seeing you in Edinburgh next time! Jure - you're dancing is stunning. You are a legend. Calgary - thanks for organising it all. This is beginning to sound like some kind of Oscar speech. Oh well. Colleen - sorry I was meant to hug you but you ran off to jail or something. Karola - sorry for scaring you by trying to replicate Jure's dancing! Johan and Saki - it was cool to see you again after so long! Oh, and Connie - thanks so much for the stickers!!! Whew (a new improved spelling of Phew). The Nomad Life is quite something. Look forward to seeing you all again in the future!!

Oh yeah, prior to Dublin was the big joint birthday celebration and Pi day!! Had an ace party in Beluga with 8 different flavours of pie I believe.

Custard built directly into the pie. Genius.

Roz - thanks for bringing pie too! Sorry to all staff of Beluga for all those balls flying around!

Mum and Dad!

Holiday up north north north with family was really nice too. I quite enjoyed sitting on a train for 8 hours each way watching the beautiful Scottish scenery fly by. And having all 5 Cunninghams in one house for a few days was brilliant - good walks, good food, good wine and I think we managed very well in the enclosed space! Except all my clothes smell of peat now!

Now, Uni is so almost over. Things are going to be changing. Only one hand-in left which feels so so good. Lots of revision to be done. Still no idea what I'm doing next year - got lots of international AIESEC positions to take a look at. Also, party-planning for our Regional Transition Conference is in mine and Declan's hands so that will be lots of fun. Heeheehee.

That'll do for now. Very well done if you managed to read all this! Thanks!

Someone called Kirsty says hi. Apparently more people will read this if I put that in. If you are indeed reading this because of her saying hi, please be so kind to leave a comment so she can feel important.

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