September 11th, day 6

 Today was a long day, I didn’t go to school even thought is Monday because I went with my host sister, her dad and grandfather to one of Eimear’s aunt diamond jubilee. 

It started with a mass and then we had dinner (I still don’t really understand how can they have “dinner” so early).

It was definitely something I’m not used to, I’m not really a religious person, but its really nice to have experiences I wouldn’t normally have. 

There were a lot of people in this event, and it was at a fancy hotel, actually I was kind of scared to do something off at dinner because how fancy everything looked. 

After the 3 courses dinner people started singing, Eimear told me they were singing Irish music, it was great, and everyone came near me to ask me about Spain and what I thought about Ireland, everyone was really nice, but after all that I was sooo tired, even if it wasn’t that late, I fell asleep in the car on our way home. 


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