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Yesterday I went into town to enjoy my new found spare time. On my way to the Luas stop I thought I could text Lena and ask her if she’d like to accompany me to the city centre.

She did. I picked her up near her home and we went to the Old Jameson Distillery together where we bought a way to expensive bottle of one of the nicest whiskeys in town (Christmas present). Although that was initially her only plan for the day, because there was an essay waiting for her at her desk, we ended up strolling the city for some hours. Shopping spree: HMV, Carolls and whatnot. In between tea time in Bewley’s in Grafton Street. All in all a great, but way to costly day.

After Lena had left to finish her essay, I had a delicious Irish Stew, which was served in a bowl made of bread, and took some photos of the seasonal decorated streets of Dublin that I’d like to share with you. But, as always, be warned: I can’t handle a camera half as good as the Doctor: Diesen Beitrag weiterlesen »

We went to see the ruins of Monasterboice after we had visited Newgrange. Monasterboice consists of a cemetery, the ruins of two churches, the ruins of an old round tower and two Celtic high crosses.
If you do not like Celtic crosses or tombstones, you should stop reading here. But if you do, you’ll see some beautiful photos.

My favourite Photo is the one with the tombstone in front of the tree.

On Saturday I had to get up early for another trip with the InCuSo. We went to Newgrange, the largest of several prehistoric monuments in the Boyne Valley. It is more than five thousand years old!

Unfortunately it was not allowed to take any pictures inside.

Friday evening we celebrated Ricky’s birthday in Tramway Court, where Audrey offered her flat as a location. With some six packs of Smithwick’s, delicious Irish ale, very bad music and great people we had a lot of fun:

My night was damn short, because I had to get up early to be on time for our trip with the InCuSo to Newgrange and Monasterboice the next morning.

After the presentations I met Manon and Lena, because we wanted to finish our CA in Corporate Social Responsibility. While the girls added content to the conclusion and recommendations, I built the document in LaTeX, which was not too easy, because Manon used a rather complex multi-row and multi-column table. I stayed up until about four o’clock and got up pretty early in order to correct some mistakes, reword some awkward sounding lines and polish the layout. I think it was worth it. The result looks great!

On Friday at half past eleven we went to the reprographics centre to print our 33 (!) pages project on the CSR approaches of five major companies in the Irish economy and get a binding. The monotonous sound of the printer was so nice; like music in our ears!

After handing in our project, we all went to Starbuck’s in Tallaght to get a big mug of cappucino and a sweet, tasty muffin. We deserved it! Now, I’m done with all my CAs for this semester. Finally, I’m free. Whopee!