DUBLIN!

Hello everyone! sorry this blog is so late!

We had travel weekend last weekend so i thought i would take most of this blog to tell you all about it because i know a few of you have been hoping to hear about it :)

So we decided to spend our travel weekend in IRELAND 

we went with 6 girls and one guy.. i know sounds insane but this guy is all of our " brothers" very respectful guy and we needed someone to protect us incase anything bad happened there!!! :P 

But we left the school at 3am and went to airport and arrived in dublin at 830am! only a 45 minute flight. so by the time the seat belt sign flipped off we were preparing to land again!! so we stayed at a hostel it was very nice and clean, it was no hilton but it was a room with 6 bunk beds in it.. hahah! but it was clean and we had our own bathroom so i didn't complain! so when we first arrived we pulled  typical teenage canadian move and tracked down a subway! so we ate there and then just walked around Dublin. Luckily our hostel was 10 minute walk from the main part of the city so we were able to walk everywhere all weekend! no taxis which saved us loads of money. So we went around the rest of the day just exploring walking around the city and sight seeing.

that night we were exhausted so we had a "family night" we took all the mattresses off our beds and made a huge couch and watched movies and ate pizza.

Saturday

We went sight seeing again and did some shopping then we went to Trinity College. Beautiful college i took loads of photos! but there we saw the book of kehls! If you don't know what it is it was a book made in the 800's that is the 4 gospels matthew mark luke and john drawn out in photos. So the whole chapter of john is made into one page of artwork. It is so beautiful!!! also in there we saw the long library . It is a library from the 1800's and it still has all the books in it, it is so beautiful! we werent able to take photos but i encourage you all to google it and read about it! it was an awesome experience! That night we went to temple bar ( it is like the central square in new york but the dublin version! it was super cool we got to go into a pub and eat irish food and watch live irish music and watch people irish dance! super fun! i love irish food! we had bangers and mash. ( mash potatoes , sausage, gravy) so good! hehe!

Sunday

we went on a bus tour through Wicklow Mountains. SO BEAUTIFUL .. it was poring rain! but it was okay because it was beautifuL! i was just happy to have seen some nature i was worried i would get all the way to Ireland and only see city. So i was so happy to see some rolling green hills and beautiful mountains! now ladies prepare your selves.. while there..... i saw the bridge from PS i love you where the girl met Gerard Buttler. I KNOW I KNOW I ALMOST CRIED!!!!!! we got to stand on it and take loads of photos!!!!! ahhhhhh!!!! now for the boys. 

you know the scene in braveheart where all the men lift there '' skirts'' and run at eachother in the field and fight? we went there as well! were that scene was filmed! i took lots of photos! :)

we also got to see the founder of guiness beer who is dead but his families cottage. Where Michael Jackson, Kiss, The beatles, Madonna , U2 has stayed! so that was special. We also walked the path that the one singer from the beatles. dont ask me to remember his name but we walked the path he walked to get inspiration and be alone and while walking he wrote the song '' yesterday'' so that was cool!!  Lastly there we saw the manager of U2's house. Mom i was tempted to go knocking on his door and asking him to send U2 to your door. Oh yes and we saw Enya's house. so it was a super cool day!! we saw a lot and it was only 20 euros so to see all of that was pretty incredible .. 

That night we saw some live music again at a pub and ate cheese cake, always a good time!

but the whole trip was so fun! i love dublin! i recommend it! i would go again in a second. It was a pretty safe city as well i never felt that my life was threatened or anything :P

that was the weekend.. an overview of school

the week prior to travel weekend was stressful because we had 3 big assignments due and a test. So it was stressful but i survived. I handed in all assignments on time as well as passed my test! yay! so im surviving. I am feeling some things of where God is calling me next and they make me a little nervous so if you guys think about it if you could pray for me for direction and confirmation for my future that would be really great. 

I am learning a lot about God here and growing in my maturity with him. everything i thought i knew is being questioned but in good ways. I have come across situations of being questioned why do you believe the things you believe and i had no answer other then because i was raised to believe it. So it has really opened my eyes to be challenged and study what i believe before i try to defend it and really get scripture behind me before i do anything because standing on others faith will get you no where so im searching mine and battling to grow in it as much as possible. Its an exhausting and hard path but i know thats why God has me here.

If any of you have any prayer requests that i could pray for you for please send them to me in the comments or in an inbox. I would love to keep you guys close in my prayers here so if you have any please dont hesitate to send them to me, i want to stay as close to you all as possible on this adventure! 

Hope your all doing so well! miss you all! God bless you!

ps how exciting christmas seasons coming!!! there was christmas carols in the mall in dublin!! oH I LOVE CHRISTMAS!