On The Galway Races

One class down, three to go. The exam was - Ali phrased this perfectly - brutal. It was held at the Galway Racecourse in Killanin Stand. Next week I'm in Millennium Stand. The racecourse is about half an hour by bus from campus, and we sit, well, in the betting rooms and study beside the barstools. My other two exams are at the Black Box and in GMIT's sports hall. There is only one location on campus, the rest we have to pay to get transportation across the city to. The weather has been atrocious lately; it's warm, but it rains on and off and almost constantly. Umbrellas are rarely usable as the wind is so strong one can hardly stand let alone handle an umbrella (fancy flying Mary Poppins style?). So if you by chance think perhaps the day might be nicer than the last or the one before that, and neglect to bring your rainjacket with you to college as I did today, when you walk the fifteen to twenty minutes home, you're guaranteed to be soaked through and through within the first two minutes. In the absence of the white of snow, we have an intense green that blankets everything. The grass is the brightest greenest green I have ever seen grass or just about anything to be. And now for a song, provided by YouTube (don't bother to watch it, it doesn't change) is the song Galway Races done by Luke Kelly.