Halloween

This will likely be a shorter blog as I’m trying to take it easy for the next couple weeks in order to save for my trip over Thanksgiving break. Lately I’ve been keeping things kind of low key and catching up on some homework (yes there is homework here). It may sound boring, but everyone needs to take a break sometimes. I will attempt to put some notable things into text, however.

Halloween

Most of you reading this are coming in the spring and therefore this may not seem relevant, but who knows, other holidays could be similar. Halloween here was a lot of fun. Back in the states, as you all may know, Halloween is a rather big day for college students. Burlington gets quite festive and active on Halloween night and we were all curious how that festivity translated over here, if it did at all. Lucky for us, it translated well.

I believe the modern celebration of Halloween here began in the ‘60s and continues to this day. The streets at night become littered with people in costumes and the pubs become packed. I took a stroll through Temple Bar and I could barely make my way through there were so many people. It is really quite a sight to behold. This is also probably the loudest night you will ever experience in Dublin. From around 6pm until after midnight you can hear and see fireworks being set off all over the city. I was told by one of my professors that fireworks are the most popular act of the celebration here. That is on top of the noise of the entire city mobilized until late at night so don’t plan on going to bed early.

We made sure to celebrate the Burlington way before venturing out into Dublin. One of the apartments was heavily decorated in cheap Halloween decorations that would make any college dorm room proud. Every Champlain student that I saw that night had a costume on. It is also worth noting that I saw more Champlain students celebrating that night than any other night so far. Needless to say, we had a fun night.

I suppose that will have to wrap it up for now. As I said, I have been trying to keep it low key for money purposes. Hope to have a little more to report on next time.