Cancelled Canoe Race

Today a group of us met a peer support leader at the Student Union so that we could go and see a canoe race.  We had kind of decided that this would be our tourist weekend so all four of us had our huge cameras hanging around our necks, but I think a group of seven people with American accents being led around by one person with an Irish accent already marked us as tourists.  Aishling, our peer support leader, led us down a very scenic route cause she knew that we wanted to take photos.

One other person wandering with us turns out to know my friend Hannah at Wellesley and is in my archaeology program.  It's crazy that even here, it is still a small world.

The Park

Anyways, our wandering took us through a beautiful park.  The weirdest things at the park were a kinda sketchy looking building that, during the school year, houses all of the animals for those studying zoology, and the psychology building which was behind a fence, a long winding walkway, and a lot of trees.

The River

Me at the River

As we wound our way to where we thought the canoe race should be we noticed that no one appeared to be lined up to watch.  Finally, we noticed that one of the bridges was blocked and that there was no way that canoe race was going to happen.  Aishling was very apologetic, but offered to take us on a little tour of Cork.

The Creepy Street Performer

She showed us, at the request of Kayla, Fast Al's and the cinema.  On our way there, we saw two street performers.  One of whom was fantastic, but a little scary as he would lunge out at people or poke women with his very creepy cane.  Since we had all wanted to go to the English Market again, we said bye to Aishling and headed to the English Market.  We all either got tarts or gourmet sausages and went outside to eat them together.  My tart was amazing!  It was custard and berries and delicious.

Us and Our Food (Photo by Kayla)

After our snack we went back into the market to check out the food.  Everything was so much cheaper than I had imagined it would be.  For instance there was tupperware for one euro (it was six euros at Tesco) and, probably more impressively, nine kiwis for two euros!  While we were waiting for one person to find olive oil, Kayla and I decided to run to Penney's to get wellies.  Penney's was incredibly crowded but we found wellies, although there weren't that many so we now have matching ones.  Of course, after we bought them, it stopped raining.  Oh well, I'm sure we'll still get plenty of use out of them.