Friendly faces
March 21, 2015
Today we went to meet or reunite with the Irish kids. I ate a fantastic Irish breakfast ( nothing beats Irish bacon) and then we hopped on the Luas ( Ireland’s street car system) and forged our path out of Dublin, towards Tallaght and a lot of old and new friends.
When we arrived in Tallaght the fleeting Irish sun was shining brightly, according to the Tallaght kids more brightly than it has in months, they told us we must have brought the sunshine with us. Once we arrived in our space, I hugged and laughed so many people whose faces I had only known in Facebook posts and nostalgic pictures for the last twelve months. It was probably really awkward for the new kids, but for me it was magic. We quickly introduced everyone and soon enough there was no distinguishing between old and new.
We worked for a long time on theater stuff ( is it apparent that I’m jet lagged?) got a tour of Tallaght, and generally bonded. We went out for a lovely dinner, which soon became a selfie photo shoot, then parted ways with the promise of meeting tomorrow at the Lir theater school for more work and fun. I can’t wait!
Jezen • Feb 20, 2016 at 4:28 PM
It shows that they have moved on from the past more than you. I don’t know any of my friends in Ireland who cseiodnr reading an English book or paper as bowing down they would laugh at such a ridiculous notion! In fact if they read only Irish books/papers they would seem narrow,insular and stupid. Oh, and I notice you are writing in English? Perhaps you would like to show us all the way by only writing and communicating in Gaelic? It’s so sad this trying to keep up old hatreds-my grandmother was one of those people who actually DID suffer poverty in Ireland under english rule, and she worked in the houses of rich Englishmen (some of whom were not very nice) but she never held anything against the normal average English person.