First and foremost, I had my graduation ceremony on Friday October 31st, Halloween of all days! Interestingly, this is my third time to graduate and I think it's definitely going to be my last! For the foreseeable future anyway. At first I didn't really like the idea of having my grad on Halloween as I wouldn't be able to dress up like everyone else, I was afraid I'd look a bit silly dressed in my finery!? In the end it didn't make much of a difference, there was a lot of people wearing suits and dresses about Sligo town that night. My graduation ceremony was the last one to take place that day and out of all the ceremonies there were. I was quite nervous as a few days before the ceremony I had learned that the whole thing would be lived streamed! Just to give the entire world the opportunity to watch me fall flat on my face! Thankfully, that didn't happen though and I successfully made it from one side of the stage to the other! I graduated with a second class honours degree in business with marketing. I've been in college a grand total of five years so, it took a bit longer than normal but, it's still a great achievement and I'm not ashamed to say that I am proud of myself! Here's a photo of me that you may have already seen, I featured it on the Ciara in Canada Facebook page.
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| Quite an impressive cake! |
To celebrate my graduation, myself and my boyfriend Larry went to Galway that same weekend. Galway is my... our, all time favourite place! It's just such a great city, small and quaint but packs a serious punch! There's always something to do and see there. It's only about a two hour drive from Sligo to! Myself and Larry have gone to Galway several times over the course of our relationship, the two of us are big into our food and there's a list of restaurants as long as my arm that we always visit while there! During this trip we ate in Oscar's Seafood Bistro, The Front Door, The Quay Street Kitchen and Moran's Oyster Cottage which is located 10 miles outside of Galway city. I highly recommend all of these restaurants particularly if you like seafood! Here's just a glimpse of some of the food we enjoyed over the weekend...
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| Menu from Oscar's Seafood Bistro |
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| Brill with Mussels in a creamy sauce, Hake with slow roasted pork and mushrooms and veg. Oscar's Seafood Bistro. |
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| Mussels in a creamy white wine sauce. The Quay Street Kitchen. |
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| Fresh oysters! Moran's Oyster Cottage/Moran's on the weir. |
That's all for now! Thanks for reading!
Ciara.
Ciara.
