Day 2 (9/3)

Day 2 started bright and early with a walk to our school, Dublin Business School, at 9 am.  When we arrived, we had our orientation for Foundation for International Education (FIE), the study abroad company that coordinated the program.  This mostly reiterated a lot of information that we'd already heard, but put it in context with the areas of Dublin that we'd seen.  After the orientation, we went to the school "cafeteria" (more like a cafe) to get lunch provided by FIE.  After waiting for a few minutes, we found out that our lunch had mistakenly been booked for the next day, so we were sent to find lunch on our own.  I went with some friends to itsa, a quick-service restaurant that sells bagel sandwiches.  I got the "Italian Job," which is "Home cooked chicken, roasted red peppers, mozzarella, basil & rocket pesto, lettuce, & butter."  It was pretty good, especially because I was so hungry.

After lunch, we went on a scavenger hunt throughout Dublin.  We didn't win any prizes, but we did see a lot of Dublin!

Trinity College

Trinity College

Ha'Penny Bridge over the River Liffey

River Liffey

Temple Bar

Bottlecaps in the Ground in Temple Bar (bad picture while walking)

Cows Lane?

Christ Church Cathedral (right) and Adjacent Building

Christ Church Cathedral (Another bad picture while walking)

No Name Bar

The meeting place at the end of our scavenger hunt was the No Name Bar.  Our (very early) dinner was at a restaurant across the street called Market Bar, where we were served many many dishes family style.  Some of the things we got were bread, Italian antipasto-style platter, meatballs, fries, salad with chicken, calamari, seafood skewers with rice, sausage and chicken skewers, nachos, and other dishes I can't remember.  We were served a ton of food, and then at the end of the meal we were given boxes to take it home!  We finished eating very early (around 5), so I went with my friends to Grafton Street to get an Irish phone number and also just browse in the stores a bit.

The Disney store on Grafton street is huge and has three floors! The top floor was Disney Princess, the ground floor was general Disney merchandise, and the basement was Marvel and Star Wars. They had some cool life-size sculptures!

Anna and Sven (Sven was fluffy! :D)

The Hulk

Captain America.

Stormtrooper

Outside of the store, there were some people trying to raise money for an animal shelter.  They had some adorable doggies with them!

After we saw some real dogs, we saw this man with a dog mask in the MAC store. We aren't really sure why he was there...

After that, we went home to rest up as the next day was another early start!