Yesterday, was the nine month milestone of staying in Ireland... I still have few days left before I will fly back to Finland. Ending of this semester has been so different compared at the ending of first semester... When first semester ended, I was one of the first ones who left Ireland for Christmas break but regardless of that most of people left after examination within few days time. Now people have been dropping out almost within a month long period of time which has obviously meant lot of farewell parties etc... But this is not just farewells, also re-unions from friends from 1st semester.
It all started after examinations were over, Thursday 29.5. So if you have been kept on eye my blog you should be able to guess that it did mean The Roost evening! After experienced ending of first semester I was almost terrified what the ending of the year might be in the sense of celebrating... Insane would be one word to describe it... If you wanted to get into the roost, 10pm there was already queue that took 10 minutes... At around 10:30 when we arrived queue was already along the corner and we needed to wait about 30 min before got into the bar! The Roost was filled up with too many people, as for an example... There was even a queue to the men toilet! And in general moving from place to another.. hopeless. It was really full of people which made it quite "interesting" since if you lost someone, you really did lose someone. But still it was really great evening because (again) everybody were there, especially respect for those who partied whole night in the roost and took airport hopper to airport 4am!
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Whole weekend continued on by a night out at roost and the legendary houseparties of "Mansion112." Until finally there was a bit time to relax before real re-union, Maria from Austria and Jani from Finland were coming to Ireland, both studied here 1st semester. So it was Thursday again, only a week after Roost has been filled up of people more or less under influence of acohol... As it has been whole year, traditional pre-dtinks needed to have somewhere so this time we invited some people at our place before going to roost. At this time there were no queue at all to get there anymore because Maynooth is more or less a ghost town during summer since all the students are gone. At this time if you would lose someone in there, you could find him even with your eyes closed. Whole upstairs were dark and our international corner empty. Still this didn't stop our re-union team continue jäger bomb tradition, "You know what time it is? It's Jäger time" :D
After Thursday as the weekend was flowing forward, we enjoyed last night in Dublin. Just general pub hopping on places where spent some time during year... Unfortunately this was a small failure since there was no visit to "The old mans pub" and we ended up in a Temple Bar area.. Regardless of that we still had lots of fun even that Thursday evening was could still be seen on people faces. And evening was completed with a need of a bucket, no it is not what you think of! This bucket was full, it was KFC Chicken bucket, perfect snack for night bus ride. Final Saturday, Roost again final time (This was around 4th time of "Final Roost"..) because there was the band Rock of Ages playing. Best Rock band of the year absolutely. Couldn't imagine better way to spent final Saturday with friends at Roost.
As these weeks have been busy and a great craic, there always two sides on every story. During these days people have been dropping out slowly and it is not just a one time when I've walked to airport hopper and seeing as people one by one were out of the life in Maynooth. But again a difference on farewells on first semester, this time I know that I will meet you guys up in 1-2 months as I'm inter railing around Europe. But still I can't thank you enough to be part of my Erasmus experience, without you it would not been the same.
Now it is then my last days left here in Ireland, then it is over... Time for The Final Countdown.
It all started after examinations were over, Thursday 29.5. So if you have been kept on eye my blog you should be able to guess that it did mean The Roost evening! After experienced ending of first semester I was almost terrified what the ending of the year might be in the sense of celebrating... Insane would be one word to describe it... If you wanted to get into the roost, 10pm there was already queue that took 10 minutes... At around 10:30 when we arrived queue was already along the corner and we needed to wait about 30 min before got into the bar! The Roost was filled up with too many people, as for an example... There was even a queue to the men toilet! And in general moving from place to another.. hopeless. It was really full of people which made it quite "interesting" since if you lost someone, you really did lose someone. But still it was really great evening because (again) everybody were there, especially respect for those who partied whole night in the roost and took airport hopper to airport 4am!Whole weekend continued on by a night out at roost and the legendary houseparties of "Mansion112." Until finally there was a bit time to relax before real re-union, Maria from Austria and Jani from Finland were coming to Ireland, both studied here 1st semester. So it was Thursday again, only a week after Roost has been filled up of people more or less under influence of acohol... As it has been whole year, traditional pre-dtinks needed to have somewhere so this time we invited some people at our place before going to roost. At this time there were no queue at all to get there anymore because Maynooth is more or less a ghost town during summer since all the students are gone. At this time if you would lose someone in there, you could find him even with your eyes closed. Whole upstairs were dark and our international corner empty. Still this didn't stop our re-union team continue jäger bomb tradition, "You know what time it is? It's Jäger time" :DAfter Thursday as the weekend was flowing forward, we enjoyed last night in Dublin. Just general pub hopping on places where spent some time during year... Unfortunately this was a small failure since there was no visit to "The old mans pub" and we ended up in a Temple Bar area.. Regardless of that we still had lots of fun even that Thursday evening was could still be seen on people faces. And evening was completed with a need of a bucket, no it is not what you think of! This bucket was full, it was KFC Chicken bucket, perfect snack for night bus ride. Final Saturday, Roost again final time (This was around 4th time of "Final Roost"..) because there was the band Rock of Ages playing. Best Rock band of the year absolutely. Couldn't imagine better way to spent final Saturday with friends at Roost.
As these weeks have been busy and a great craic, there always two sides on every story. During these days people have been dropping out slowly and it is not just a one time when I've walked to airport hopper and seeing as people one by one were out of the life in Maynooth. But again a difference on farewells on first semester, this time I know that I will meet you guys up in 1-2 months as I'm inter railing around Europe. But still I can't thank you enough to be part of my Erasmus experience, without you it would not been the same.
Now it is then my last days left here in Ireland, then it is over... Time for The Final Countdown.
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