Holi Holi Days
I'm on a well needed holiday last week and this week. Much of the latter part of last week was of course consumed by drinking and acting the host to my german friend Matti who was over for St Patricks Day. Its amazing the things you see in Dublin when u open your eyes or even take the time to walk down that laneway you walk past every day. Dublin Castle, Trinity College Library and Temple Bar were just a few of the stops on the Dublin with Eoin tour.
I am jogging 2 nights a week as of next week with my friend Morgan. I'm doin it for the Presidents Award and to get myself back into shape. He's doin it too cos he's a good mate and he is livin in Dublin for the first time, an Athlonian by birth, and its a good way for us to catch up after a good few years of not seeing him at all cos I was busy with AIESEC and he was on the Students Union in Athlone IT.
I am off to Killarney with my Sam for two nights in a nice Hotel which was given as a gift from the Hotel Chain as we have used them for at least 5 years now for AIESEC conferences. The job has its perks sometimes!
I am also off to Rotterdam in about a month for a work meeting but will have one night to catch up with Leoni, from AIESEC in Holland, who was supposed to join myself and Matti last weekend but had to bail at the last minute. She'll get a stern talkin to! Not too stern cos i have to crash at her place!
One thing in the news here at the moment which has caught the ear of everybody is a 20 year old Nigerian boy who was deported by the Irish government last week. The boy had financed his own journey here to leave Lagos as it was undafe for him. He arrived in Ireland aged 17 and has attended secondary school in Dublin since then. He was only 3 months away from completeing his leaving certificate which would get him into college here and they have deported him with nothing more than his school uniform on him! Its tragic that this kind of thing can happen and I am glad to hear much uproar by opposition parties in governement and the general public. With some luck he will be allowed back. I'll keep yee posted.
