Viking ROAR

Hey everyone!

Work has been pretty draining, so this post will be pretty short. Today, we met the separated minors for the first time! Just to clarify, I know “minors” gives off the connotation that they’re all pretty young kids, but I believe most of them are between the ages of 14-17. They’re literally from all over the world: Zimbabwe, South Africa, Afghanistan, Bolivia, etc. I bonded with these two girls, one from Zimbabwe and one from Bolivia, who were both dancers! They were pretty shy at first, but they began opening up as conversation went out. I actually comfortably carried on a Spanish conversation with the Bolivian girl (Sra. Rodriguez, aren’t you proud of me :))!

We went on the Viking Splash Tour, which was incredibly dorky in the best way possible. We fully embraced the dorkiness and had way too much fun. We essentially rode around Dublin in a DUKW (which is pronounced “duck”), which were boats that were built by women back during WWII. They’re able to navigate both on land and water and were used in the D-Day invasion. We wore Viking hats, and the hilarious tour guide explained to us that we were Vikings, and everyone outside the boat were Celts, so we had to direct our loudest, scariest Viking roars to specific “targets” (aka tourists, for the most part) that the tour guide pointed out. As silly as it was, the tour was pretty informative. We drove around the streets of Dublin and even steered around in the water of the canal for a bit. He showed us parts of Dublin that I previously hadn’t seen/paid attention to before.

After eating dinner and parting ways, Suzanne introduced us to Murphy’s Ice Cream, which is located very close to our gelato (or as Derek calls it “ge-la-la”) place. Delicious homemade ice cream, yes, but I still think the ge-la-la wins by a ton. Unfortunately, a couple people disagree, so our group may have difficulty unanimously deciding where to get our cold sweet treats for these next 6.5 weeks.

Tomorrow’s another busy day of work ahead, so I should definitely head to bed now! Take care!

Smiles,

Anna (: