This is basically what i emailed to my family, i dont feel like rewriting it, but this is mainly how its been: :)

hi guys!!! im in my appartment right now. just got done emailing ian. well heres my story so far: didnt sleep worth a shit on the plane haha.. found out i can not sleep sitting up.. the seats barely reclined. got the the appartment around 9-9:30 ish (ireland time) we had to drop off a bunch of other students to the other villiages and of course we were the last to be dropped off. there had to be at least 50 or more students that were on my plane studying abroad here. didnt really talk to any of them though. like 30 of em were all from the same school so they were all friends. but i sat by tara on the plane and that was nice. I was really only nervous for take off and everything else was fine for the plane ride, i took two xanax :) hehe the appartments awesome!!!  i have my own room, MY OWN BATHROOM IN MY ROOM!!!   its crazy. comfortable. the room is a reasonable size, lots of storage.  I met one of tara's cousins.. his name is Ian haha  He had one of his friends drive us to McCdonalds haha.. our first meal in ireland was mccdonalds. after being dropped off at mccdonalds the boys left us and we ate alone. it was weird to order. they only gave me 1 packet of ketchup! rip offs. and the soda isnt free refill there. lame!  Then we walked to this little mall near by and got some stuff.. shampoo, body wash, WINE haha, tea, stuff like that. i bought my first bottle of wine :) its a white chardonay or however you spell that. tara bought a pink bottle, its yummy. she doesnt know wine though because she said it was bitter and its the sweetest wine ive ever tasted.  UGH and at the grocery store the lady was so rude and frustrated with me for some reason. you have to bag your own stuff so that made me anxious bc i felt rushed.. and you have to buy your shopping bags!! everything is very expensive. i have a feeling i will be spending a lot of money here. the kitchen and living room are nice. the appartments can be co-ed!! ahh so hopefully there arent too many dirty boys. the lady said there was going to be 3 study abroad studends and 3 irish students in our apt. lol me and tara are the first. the 3rd study abroad student should be here tomorrow and the irish students are expected to come on the weekend. its almost 8:30pm right now.  oh and i read my journal that you guys all wrote in! you guys are the best. i think my 9 year old niece, Ariana's and my 7 year old nephew Evan's were adorable. haha ariana said bring me a souvenir and evan said "dont gooooo" hahaha theyre adorable.  Well miss you guys!! LOVE LOVE LOVE, jack oh and idk but so far everything seems pretty similar to the united states. i mean more and more things are appearing to be different but its not crazy different. shopping was weird though overall, im great. everythings good.