The Statement is TRUE!!
Galway is beautiful BUT it rains here… a lot. It rains so much that it’s just one of those things you don’t talk about. Like I feel like you’d never hear someone here say, “yeah it was pretty rainy out today”. The thing with all of this unspoken rain is that it makes it hard to do things sometimes. You wake up and it’s dark and rainy outside it makes you not want to get out of bed. You finally talk yourself out of bed and manage to make it out the door, just for you to be met with another problem. Taking that 30 minute walk in the rain to campus. Then you go back and forth like, “do I really have to go to class?” “Will my teacher really notice if I’m not in class?” “Maybe Aisling or Ciara could record the lecture and send it to me.” So then you suck it up and start your walk, things are going okay then BAM, your umbrella flips inside out. You’re trying to causally flip it back but your umbrella won’t budget and you’re close to the bridge where the side walk becomes extremely narrow and everyone seems to walk as if it’s not a two way sidewalk and they’re the only people walking. You stop, you fight with your umbrella, just to collapse it and throw it in your bag. Once you finally make it to class you’re pretty much soaked because your entire outfit wasn’t waterproof just your jacket. And even that sometimes feels a little suspect.
While you’re sitting in class you look out the window and the sun is shinning as if it never rained. It makes absolutely no sense because less than an hour later it decides to start snowing. But it doesn’t stick, by time you get out of class it’s as if nothing ever happened. But there are those rare days where it’s actually very nice. It’s sunny, no umbrellas or rain boots. I wake up without having to give myself a pep talk to get out of bed. I enjoy my walk to class. I get out of class and it’s still sort of sunny but you can tell things are going to go left at any moment but it’s all good because you saw the sun for a couple of hours and beggars can’t be choosers. But I’m really hoping that since it’s almost March the weather starts to warm up and maybe rain a little less with wind not as sincere. But we’ll see, fingers crossed.
