Irish Dance

I finally finished Angela's Ashes the other night. Absolutely loved it. I of course have to thank Leigh and Roy for that book because it's been a really long time since I've enjoyed a book that much. It was fun reading it while I was here too because I could sort of build a map in my head of where Frank went throughout the story...pretty cool. But yeah, for those of you who haven't read it, I definitely recommend it.
Also, one of my roommates' friends called me "the American....girl" the other night. It was actually really hilarious because everyone was silent, thinking that I would have been offended by such a comment. Much to their relief I laughed it off because its so funny actually being the foreigner...the FES. Ha.
Today was my first day of performance class for my Irish Music and Dance class. Yes, performance class. As in, I go to class in sweatpants and socks and learn how to do Riverdance moves. It's actually quite fantastic. I hated it at first because there were girls in my class that were all like "oh, I've had 13 years experience in ballet" and "I took several Irish dance courses at school in the States." Turns out they all SUCK. That made me feel better. This is only the first class though so I'm sure I'll be struggling just as much in a week or two...we'll see. Oh, and at the end of the semester, we actually have to do a performance. It should, at the very least, be interesting.

See the list of weird Irish things for additions!