I'm here!!!!!!!

Ireland....I'm finally here. At the moment I am sitting on a couch in the kitchen, drinking tea and milk and eating toast. I'm watching Irish TV and it looks like America has corrupted TV. I am absolutely exhausted. The time difference is still getting to me a little bit but I will get used to it. Yesterday was basically the longest day of my life...but one of the best. I'm still recovering from it. Leaving mom and dad wasn't nearly as difficult as I thought it would be. It was still wicked sad since I was leaving them and going off into the big world on my own. We got to the airport about 2.5 hours before I was supposed to board the plane. I am very happy that we got there so early. We weren't running around and freaking out or anything. It was almost relaxing. We got some pizza and mom and I had a beer. We just sat and talked for about an hour. That's what I love so much about my parents. We can just sit and hang out together with no problem. I said bye to them at 5:30 and my plane was boarding at 6:15. Saying buy to them was definately difficult. The reality of the situation hit me all at once. But after I went through security I wasn't nervous anymore. Everything was working out fine at that point so I figured there was no reason to be nervous. The plane ride was aboslutely awful and wicked long. I got to sit by myself. The flight attendants had the ugliest weird green suits on. Everything on the plane was green. It was a little sickening. There were a group of middle aged Boston men sitting behind me. They were the stereotypical loud Bostonians with harsh accents. Ugh...I couldn't sleep for the life of me. I kept on being on the brink of falling asleeop and then something would wake me up. We arrived in Ireland at about 5:30 AM. It was still dark when we arrived in Ireland so I could only see lights. But I remember seeing cars driving on the wrong side of the road for the first time. I was really excited when I saw that. I waited at the airport for about 2.5 hours. We had to pass through immigration. They had all the students wait on the side. It took them about 5 minutes to check each one of us and there were at least 50 of us there. I met a guy named Adam. He was also going to Limerick. That definately helped me because i had someone to talk to. He was really nice. We waiting around the airport then finally left at around 8:15. It was raining of course. I was so excited to see Ireland...finally. It is wicked green. The trip to campus took forever. Traffic here is pretty heavy. There are sooooooo many rotaries!!!!!! It seems like every 100 feet there's on. And it's weird because they go to opposite way around the thing than we do. The things I noticed on the way to campus:
It's soooooo green!!!! It's like neon!! They have different birds here. There are lots and lots of cows and a good amount of horses. The cars are tiny. I don't think I've seen any SUVs. There are lots of station wagons. The houses look really different. They are adorable. I'm not really sure how to describe them. They spell things funny. They have lots of pubs....lots and lots of them. People are crazy drivers. All the kids wear uniforms to school. The gas stations look funny. There are no decimal places so it looks like you're paying 129 euro for a litre of petrol. Everything is in euro. There's no added taxes on items, it's already added on. If it says it's 2.99, then you pay 2.99. There is no base tax like home. Different things have a different amount of tax. Luxury items have the most. The phone numbers are weird. The faucets are odd. They have two seperate faucets for cold and hot so you can't have warm water. The Irish have a certain look to them. A lot of the men look the same. I understand most of what people are saying. There are so many various accents. It's awesome! So that's my general information on Ireland itself so far. My next post will be about my arrival here and what happened after.