From Galway with love: 1 July 2008

The living situation in Galway is quite different from Cork. Here is the comparison:

Cork

- 4 people

- 4 bedrooms

- 4 bathrooms/ 4 showers

- 2 leather couches

- View of a stream

- Full beds

- Big refrigerator/ big freezer

- Plenty of cooking utensils

- Dishwashing soap/ sponge

- No clothes hangers

- Laundry machines 2 minutes away

- No internet access in apartment

- Computer lab with 4 computers

- Entire group in one building

- “maids” change towels and sheets twice a week

- 25 minute walk to downtown

- Great corner store that had everything was a 2-minute walk away

- No internet access in apartment

- Tray for making ice

- Easy to enter when coming home late at night

Galway

- 5 people

- 4 bedrooms

- 2 bathrooms/ 1 shower

- 2 crappy sofas, 1 crappy chair

- View of another dorm and a glimpse of a cool river

- Twin-size beds

- Small refrigerator/ small, though powerful, freezer (froze my vodka)

- A serious lack of cooking utensils

- No dishwashing soap/ sponge

- Laundry machines 8-minute walk

- Internet access in dorm for 10 Euro per week

- Group dispersed among 4 buildings around the Village

- “maids” change towels daily/ take requests

- 15 minute walk downtown

- Terrible store that is an 8 minute walk away

- Internet access in apartment

- No way of making ice

- To enter village after 11pm either climb a fence or walk 20 minutes around to front of village.

There are the facts. So far I like Galway more. It is odd how things add up.