Working Hard in Galway

G’day all,

Well it’s been a hectic past few months since my last update with much working, partying, socializing, footy kicking and site seeing. “Race Week” ended up being as crazy as it was hyped up to be with the whole town wall to wall with tourists for the whole week. Each day everyone went to the races and each night the whole main street “shop street” was blocked off and turned into one huge outdoor pub. All the bars gave their patrons plastic beer cups so they can take their drinks out onto the road. It was one absolute huge week long party. Our house has also started falling apart since updating you guys last with my Cousin Dan’s roof collapsing, water from the shower dripping through the kitchen roof, rats running across our living room floor and across my hand while I slept, and parts of the walls falling off. It has also been getting very cold lately and as it’s so expensive to get heating over here we all sit around the lounge room in our thermal underwear, beanies, gloves, and scarves each night laughing about how nice our house is. One thing that’s been helping us get through the bad weather is our huge games of footy we’ve been having at least once a week. Sometimes we have up to 10 or 15 people all tackling each other in the mud and rain and we play until it is dark. We’ve been inviting anyone we can to join us in our games but as the weather has been getting colder and darker our games are starting to fizzle up now. Another update to our crazy household here is our new French/Spanish/Irish hippy mate Des who came to crash on our couch for a week and is still here 4 months later. He is the funkiest guy you can meet with dreadlocks shooting out of his visor and his matching primary coloured clothes. Every time he plans to move on we talk him into staying longer and now he works here full time and loves kicking the footy more than any of us. Our Kiwi mates and Dan have now moved on and are travelling around Europe at the moment and our other mate from Adelaide Shane lives in Dan’s room now. Before the crew went travelling we had a really great day out at the Aran Islands where we rode bikes around all day through beautiful scenery and admired the views of these incredible cliffs. There islands are almost unchanged for hundreds of years and everyone still speaks the Irish language over there and ride around with horse and cart. I also now have been working 3 jobs with my day job and 2 night jobs doing promotions, one for one of the big nightclubs here called GPO and also promoting the Aussie beer “Carlton Cold” in bars on my nights off. I really love doing the promo jobs and it’s the easiest money as all I have to do is talk to good looking girls all night and put stamps on their hands and get paid for it. Through doing my promo jobs I also met these great Adelaide girls Amy and Alex who have become good mates of ours for about 2 months now and we hang out most days and all party together each weekend. It was Halloween a few weeks ago and boy was it a massive week. Even about 10 days before Halloween night there were people dressing up all over the place and the event went for a week long. None of us could believe the extent of trouble people went into making their costumes and Halloween night was huge with not a single person to be seen without being dressed up. Sean, Tate, and I all dressed up in “Nuclear Radiation Suits” for Halloween and spent about 5 hours making them. Our night was so huge that by the time we got home again at the end of the night our suits were just a few pieces of shredded cloth left on us. I’m planning on heading off to go travelling again in February at this stage with the rate I’m saving money at. So far my plans are to first head to Dubai and Qatar in the Middle East then spend a while in Egypt before heading off to travel Eastern and Southern Europe, North America, Mexico, the Bahamas, Peru, and New Zealand for 7 months before heading home again in September next year.
Anyway that’s about all for now,

Ooroooo

Woodsy