Job/Apt Hunting: Day 2

So much to update! Well my interview went really well and yesterday we woke up to a phone call asking for Katie to come in for an interview! It's for a store just down Shop Street (the main street in town) from mine! Her interview is in a few hours so cross your fingers! I mean, it's probably way too perfect to have any chance of working out, but it's definitely keeping our spirits up, which we really needed after our apartment viewings...

So Monday night we completely crashed and then Tuesday tried to get up and do it all again. Our first stop was to the internet place to alter our resumes... I had planned on doing a lot of lying when we got here ("O yea, I've been a bartender, waitress, coffee maker, etc...") but damn that Catholic guilt. It did become necessary to embellish a little about waitressing experience, it's clear that's one of our best bets. According to me resume I worked at Tully's Diner (put in a good word for me, Tul!) for 2 years waitressing haha Anyhow, we didn't do much before both our bodies were dunzo. We walked around for a bit and ended up coming back here to lay down. We had actually hit pretty much everywhere in the immediate area so we were kind of unfocused and tired.

We did some grocery shopping and decided to allow me 2 slices of turkey since meat doesn't exactly figure in to our 6 euro budget but I loove meat! And then we got veggies for a dinner salad because Kate was craving them, but hey, produce is expensive! haha Still stuck to budget with a handy 72 cent pizza :)

After that we saw another apartment, fairly close and DEFINITELY affordable: 75 euro per week (YAY! today's conversion is $1.29, so figure $96 a week). It was liveable, better kept than ANYTHING we saw yesterday, but we didn't love it. Later that night we saw another one which we did love. A little more expensive but it's sooo close, sooo clean, and in a really safe area. We're nervous to commit without having jobs but it's really either that or live in our hostel...which is not bad since all the French moved out!

Finally, Sheila and our new friend Mike, who we met at orientation in Dublin, came over to our hostel for some wine before going out. We went to a bar called Monroe's, which is right on the river, for some traditional live Irish music. It was so cute because a bunch of couples (young and old) were Irish dancing in the middle of the bar the whole nite! I wished I knew how because it looked like so much fun. We met a bunch of Sheila's American friends and then a bunch of Irish guys trying to get us to do a triathlon for Rag Week (more on that later, at it's most pure it's the colleges raising money for charity. Also turns into a drunken, crazy week). When that bar closed to we went to a later bar (remember nothing is really late here, we were home by 2) and chatted for a little while longer. It was a really great nite and everything is going really well here so far!

We loooove your comments and look forward to them every post! Miss you all and we will put pictures up soon (we haven't taken many so we're waiting til we have a few more) :)
Love ya!
-Erin