Music and Football

I forgot to write last time, that the woman from the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland emailed me a couple of days ago!! I emailed her months ago, when I was still in Canada, inquiring about auditions and joining the orchestra. She emailed me back asking about residency and all that junk, and then we lost contact. She emailed me a couple days ago, saying how she was going over old emails and came upon mine, and would I like to still like to audition? Applications are due by September 24th. I emailed her and told her I definitely would like to! So I printed off the application form, attached a photo and €20, and mailed in on Saturday! YAY! I'm gonna receive the orchestra excerpts in the mail once she receives it, yay! I'm sooo excited! I hope I get in!

In other news, I watched the All-Ireland Gaelic football finals on TV yesterday!! I've never watched Gaelic football before, but I quickly caught on to what was happening. Apparently, they've been playing for months, and yesterday's game were the FINALS, with Cork Vs. Kerry. One of my co-workers was telling me on Friday that geographically, Cork and Kerry are really close together; neighbours, really. But they've been age-old rivals in sports. As the commentator said on TV: "Cork will never be forgotten if they win, but Kerry will never be forgiven if they lost." Whoooaa... intense! So yesterday I sat in a nice restaurant/pub with Sarah, a new USIT Canadian girl I met, and watched the game. Ohmigod, it was so intense! I'm not much of a sports fan, but even so, I was reallllly into this game!! I was rooting for Cork, only because people from Cork have this really cool accent, and when we had our going-away drinks at the Bleeding Horse back in August, I got to chatting with a Cork guy, and he was cool. And I don't know anything or anyone from Kerry, other than rumours that they are hella good in football. Well, that's stupid reason for rooting for a team, but whatever! And the commentator was hilarious as well. Anyway... Cork lost. It's okay though, I am really happy for Kerry! Yaaayyyy! The men who were sitting at the table next to us were Cork fans as well, and they were really into the game! This country is absolutely sports-crazy, it's really great. Great great craic, as they say! Anyway, I left the pub in really good spirits, vowing that someday, someday I will make my way to Croke park to see a real game! Reading the paper this morning on yesterday's game was fantastic. It got me all giddy and excited again, ha ha. I think I am starting to like Gaelic football! Yay!

Anyway, nothing else to report. Work is busy. And I'm contemplating on going to Cork this weekend. Well, I've been wanting to go to Cork (or Limerick!) for months, but never got around to actually going. So we'll see. That's it!