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Danny's first weekend


         The flight to Dublin wasn't exactly as luxurious as I thought. Obviously the flight was nice but I was not able to get any sleep because there was a baby who kept crying. Overall though, Mr. McGonagle made it a lot better helping me revise my essay in history which was key when I was doing. The problem was that whenever I tried to fall asleep someone on the plane would make some noise and after a while there was no point of sleeping. It felt so good landing Dublin but I barely remember landing because I so tired. When I got to my host families house I went right to bed and it FELT GREAT.

          Later that day we went to my host brothers basketball game. From the way he sounded on the phone he sounded like he doesn't play that often, but then he was a lot better than I thought. He scored like 20 points and that's not bad for a 5'8 skinny Ireland. They won so bad that they had shut off the scoreboard. After the game we went over their friends house who was an extremely good cook. After that I went home and went to bed I was so tired.

           The next day we went to another one of Ruaris basketball games and it was even more of a blowout than the one before. The only difference was that Ruiari didn't do as good as last game. Then later we had dinner back at the house with their grandmother and it was really good. Then I went to bed and that sums up my weekend.



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