Day 1: the hunt is on

ccTravelAbroad: June 2006

well people back in the states, wholly overwhelming for this that and the other thing, not to mention i was in a hostel room last night with 23 other peeps-a few too many if you ask me. i can handle 9 other peeps but not 23. mixed dormitory too-talk about future sight of an adult film career. no i kid i kid. although i was the first person to use the clean shower and i'm glad, can you say gross germys everywhere yuck. i got them to change my dorm to a 10 person suite for the next 2 nights but i will be back there again on thursday night. but i made it through the first one so i will probably make through the second one. someone yelled at some french guys last night for whispering way too loud. kind of funny when you're awoken to that.

so job search day. they told me at USIT to show up about 10am to 12pm because after that it is way to busy and lunch is at 1pm. so good luck getting someone during that time. so i dropped my CV and letter of recommendation off at all 4 major bookstores in Dublin. i also stopped by a temp. agency but couldn't get in to see someone so i emailed my resume or CV as they call it here and then i searched for sharing a flat or an apartments at daft.ie. i have lots of locations close to town so i could get a job anywhere in town and pretty much walk from every location. i also found out which neighborhoods NOT to live in as they are full of drugs and gangs from the USIT office, but lots of the locations i have already walked to on my many journeys. 2 of the biggest bookstores said they were hiring so i will stop by in a few days to find out what is up.

i also stopped by the museum of natural history while on my walks about the jobs findings. The giant elk was kind of disappointing in a sense. They didn't give it some color like they thought it should have, in fact there wasn't even a drawing of it. Just a wooden model of its bones and antlers-lame. but i saw lots of other taxidermied things like bugs, birds, monkeys, and bunches of other animals from different countries. i still love the halibut, and they had several of those 2 eyes one side of the head who knew. also i was trying to find a stuffed bird of the one i see all over stephen's green, i think it's a magpie but i could be wrong. Oh well i'll just keep telling other people it is a magpie and hope someone corrects me. But the giant irish deer was about 20 feet tall with an antler width of about 10 feet. so that's pretty big. the museum also had a lot of weird little stories about things like this fish that was caught in 1873 that they thought was the biggest something but then was later in 1911 proven to be a salmon and it was only half the size of the largest one caught in 1858. who cares? well obviously i do otherwise i wouldn't have rememberd. The taxidermed elephant was a little sad, it had some of his ear missing...sadface:(

well peeps i guess i am going to call on some of these apartments, what i found out is that people want me to live with them so that they can practice their english, i can't tell you how many ads said no polish or italian or spanish, we want to practice english. so away we go, i also found an ad with some irish people so we'll see what i can find. once i have an apartment i can apply for the irish equivalent of a socail security number a PPS number. hooray. so all the apartments are fully furnished, something way different from the states so we will see. so that's all for right now still trying to get in contact with my mom. if anyone can help her with a calling card and the international area code for ireland, which i will look up shortly, please help her.

xoxo,
christie
it looks like the weather is not so sunny anymore sadface:(