Day Off - Sunday (Week III)

It was a cool, but dry day and thankfully, I am feeling much, much better and those budding flu symptoms of Friday have all but disappeared. This herbal elixir I got at the health food shop is great. Yes, it tastes like your drinking sludge tainted with some kind of foul poison, but it works so I must be brave and finish the bottle.

On such a nice Irish morning a leisurely walk to mass is always a good idea. I got to St. Joseph’s church for their 10:30am service and it was packed. There was a choir singing but it was not as inclusive as I prefer. I like to sing when I’m in church but today everyone was pretty silent and they just listened to the choir instead of participating.

After mass I stopped off at the same café I went to yesterday because the food was so good and they had a plug for me to be able to use my computer. My laptop is over six years old and the battery is virtually gone so if it’s not plugged in I can’t work and there is too much to do this week to not work. Also, I had a great scone yesterday at t the café and it just made me crave more. I got about an hour and half of school work done and then I headed over to the Town Hall Theater to see a staged reading of two new plays. It was the end of the 2010 Galway Theater Festival and I was so happy to be able to see something before it ended. The first reading was called Hooked! By Gillian Grattan and the acting was superb and the writing was top notch, very well crafted. It really is totally ready, with this same cast to go right into rehearsal for a full production. It was about three lives intertwined through hardship, lust and vengeance. Now that sounds serious, and it was at times, but it was also funny. The second play was Dev’s Army by Stuart Lee and was equally as enjoyable but the timing was off here and there so the dragged only a little bit. It was a talented group of actors and the play is a lot of fun.

It has been wonderful to do some theater stuff this weekend and although I’m exhausted overall I really needed it. And the best thing about this country and their theater is it’s so incredibly inexpensive. It was only 11 Euros in total for both readings today and well worth it. And, since yesterday’s 4 hours of theater talk and exercises was free, I got a great weekend of theater and it didn’t break-the-bank.

I took another long walk around town on my way to the gym. As you can see I stopped to take more pictures of my surroundings. Sometimes I just walk past a house and have to take a picture it inspires me so much or just catches my fancy. The street St. Joseph’s is on is rather interesting because you walk past a house that could have been build in the Elizabethan period in England and housed a Shakespearian theater and just a few feet away a completely different, almost Victorian style home happily faces the canal.

By the time I got to the gym at 5:00pm I was famished so before going to the pool I sat and had some dinner in the pub up stairs. If I hadn’t, the whole time I would have been thinking about food and been grouchy.

I managed to get two more hours of school work done while I had a leisurely dinner.