Cork

I woke up early this morning to finish packing and say goodbye to all of the friends I have made in the last month. It's crazy to think I have been living in Ireland for that amount of time already. After 5 hours of bus rides, I arrived in Cork. Aiyana and I had to drag our suitcases and backpacks a good mile through Cork to find our hostel. We also had to stop and ask for directions and we were laughed at for the amount of luggage we had. We are staying at the Aaron House, its farther away from the city center than we had hoped, but it will do for the week! We have a double room with bunks beds and our suitcases take up the entire floor...
We (Aiyana and I) explored Cork and just wandered around trying to get our bearings. We walked down St. Patrick Street, the main shopping street. The Old English Market is located off of St. Patrick's Street and we happened to stumble across this famous market. It is an indoor market with produce, meats, baked goods...any type of food you could imagine!
There was a street artist doing a tribute to Michael Jackson, I'll put a picture of this up.
The city center of Cork is actually on an island, surrounded by two rivers. We walked up to the University College Cork and explored the BEAUTIFUL university. I will put up some pictures of the campus. (I believe the first three or four pictures are of UCC) We found a few pretty churches and then went to get some groceries. We stopped at the Gourmet Burger Bistro and had a yummmmmmy dinner. Now we are back at the hostel and getting ready for an early night. We are taking the train to Cobh tomorrow morning and need our rest!