A day of history, folklore, music, and dancing

Blog post for Wednesday: May 23.


The morning started with a visit to Trinity College to talk to the Department Head of the Computer Science Department. He answered many of the questions we had for him! I asked him a few questions about the student affairs aspect of Trinity College! He gave me a small glimpse into how the housing system works over here instead of Residence Hall Directors they are called....Wardens! He also gave us tickets so we could go see the illuminated manuscript, the Book of Kells. It was really interesting looking at the book but it was disappointing because you could only see open open faced book page. After looking around and going up to the long room which is a library that is well long..we headed to lunch! Steven and I went to a small burger shack it was good! Then Steven and I walked around for a bit before heading over to the National Leprechaun Museum where we were meeting the group! 


I LOVE LEPRECHAUNS...so I was pretty EXCITED! Once we all arrived at the museum we met our tour guide who was very energetic to say the least! In the museum they had different rooms like you where traveling from the Leprechauns realm to the human world! Along the way our tour guide told us folklore stories of Leprechauns. In one of the rooms it makes you feel like your a Leprechaun they call it the Giants room and we all acted like 5 year olds and were running around climbing on things! At the end of the tour we were instructed to color a picture (mine is above I know FABULOUS RIGHT!). 


After splitting apart at the museum for free time Dave, Lois, and myself headed to St. Patrick's Cathedral. The cathedral was beautiful and I loved the stain glass windows. We also went on a short 20 minute tour around the building and I learned so much! Speaking of learning what denomination do you think St. Patrick's Cathedral is........(if your anything like me your probably like DUH SARAH..ROMAN CATHOLIC)...well your wrong also its PROTESTANT! Yes, I will repeat myself just so you know its not one of my typos its a Protestant church. When our tour guide told us this I was shocked she said that a lot of people even in Ireland don't realize that its not a Roman Catholic church! I asked her why and she said that St. Patrick was spreading Christianity and Catholicism was not yet an area...that when it was time for someone to claim it the Protestants did.....now your mind is blown! 

During our free time I went souvenir shopping no joke I was probably in one store for like an hour and a half! I know thats a really long time..but I wanted to find my family and Austin the PERFECT GIFT! Hopefully I picked things they liked! After my shopping extravaganza I went back to the hostel to pack and make sure I gotten something for the individuals I needed to get things for! We then met as a group at 7:30 to go to Arlington Hotel. At the hotel they have a live traditional irish band and dance show with dinner. I was pretty excited about the show and it was so awesome! We listened to lots of irish songs and dances plus even enjoyed a wonderful dinner! One of the boys on the trip Benaiah even got to go up and dance with the Irish dancers which was really funny to watch! After the music and dancing finished we headed back to our hostel for the night!