Sports and Politics

I cannot believe it will be March tomorrow. Where does the time go? I also cannot believe how much of my blog has been dedicated to sports and politics lately. Not always easy subjects to discuss. Honestly if you told me that I would be coming to Ireland to write home about sports and politics I would have thought you madder then a bag of spiders (there's a good Irish saying for ya).The elections have come and went, it was anti-climactic. Compared to the U.S. the election was quiet and undramatic. I did not see a single ad on t.v., there have been signs and posters around Dublin and on the day of the election a saw a few cars covered in campaign posters with speakers blaring out to vote for the certain candidate. In a way I found this quaint, but an Irish friend of mine finds it cheesy. They are still using paper ballots here so it has taken a little while for the final results to come in but it is looking like Enda Kenny of Fine Gael will be the new Taoiseach. I believe this is what was expected. I am not sure what will happen next but hopefully some good will come out of the elections. We shall see. As violence breaks out in Libya it is a relief, and perhaps a thing not to be taken for granted, that I can say the elections here went off without a hitch. While I'm still on politics keep writing to your representatives back home, I hear the House is trying to do some ridiculous things!

Ireland played Scotland yesterday and won! (Barely) The lads did not play their best and the game was not terribly exciting but at least they won and hopefully will do even better against Wales.

I saw a play the other night! Oh yeah, that's right, I am here doing theatre. It was an incredible one man show called Mimic about a guy growing up in Ireland who has the talented ability to mimic what he sees and hears in his life. The production was written, composed and performed by a very talented Irishman who underscored dramatic monologues whilst playing the piano. It was dark and humorous and a great piece of theatre overall. (I may have more on this later, stay tuned for further updates) Oh and yeah, I said whilst. What? We say that here. Overall the theatre here has been really good and I have already seen a fair amount of work considering the little time I have been here.

Let's see what else? I've suffered my first cold here. Poor me! Fortunately there has been plenty of tea and soup to go around, as we are very used to cool, damp temperatures here and I'm feeling right as rain. Speaking of soup I managed to make my very own tomato soup from scratch today, now I realize this is not one of the many food blogs, but still it was yummy. Speaking of weather, because a blog covering sports and politics is never complete without the weather, it has been lovely here as the days are getting longer and it is feeling like spring. Look at that I've actually got a post in the following week exactly, I'm on a roll.

Happy March!