We landed at the Dublin airport at 8:20 am and got onto our bus and met our tour director Mike. He is from britain and gives very good information about many places and I've already learned a lot.
First we walked down Grafton Street which is one of the main shopping streets in Dublin. This so far has been the most interesting thing we've done because their are many street performers and every single one of them have been really good. Some of my favorite performers was a bass, violin and several other orchestra instruments. I really liked this because the violin played extremely well and it sounded so pretty and I had an idea of how long and hard he must have practiced to be able to play that well. another group I really enjoyed was the Leprechaun Stand. A man had made a card-board stand up and cut holes out where a person could put their head, and arms. Then once the person was in it he would attach a beard to your chin and then take pictures of you! Tori did it and she really did look like a leprechaun. The other street acts I saw included people singing, dancing, playing many instruments I'd never even heard of, balloon animals, colorful hair braids, statue people, people balancing on a cane and much more. Every single person performing on the streets were very talented and I never heard one person who only sounded "OK". Everywhere I went I could hear someone playing, dancing, or singing something. It was really neat and probably one of the top things I like about Dublin.
I even saw a McDonald's there!
After touring Grafton Street we went to a park to eat lunch. The park was so beautiful and kept up. I think it was really cool how you would walk into the park and their would be a large amount of people just hanging out with their families. We had 2 hours of free-time today and my group went to the park and some shops. The park had clear water ponds, tons of plants and other greenish foliage as you walked through. A man nd his grandchild were there feeding the birds and there was about 100 birds flying around him, landing on his arm to eat the food out of his hand. It was amazing and we all thought it looked fun, so we took some of the food we had and put it in our hands and soon enough the birds were jumping onto us to eat the food. As we were leaving the park I hoped we could go back the next day because it was the prettiest park I had ever seen and it was very enjoyable.
I have never encountered drivers so impatient! Even if the walking sign says go, you better watch out because you never know if the cars will actually stop. The motorcycles and bikes would weave in and out through he cars to get to the front and cars honked nonstop! If the light is red and even if the pedestrians have started walking if the car saw a space it would go and hope they don't hit anyone. But I did get to see this pretty cool horse carriage.
All of the lamppost in Dublin looked like this and I thought it was one of the most intricate and cool lamps ever!
So far traveling ash helped me influence my approach to studies because when I visit a place it gives me a new outlook of how I think about it and the rest of the world.
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