Dear peoples, 

I’ve been having a great time in Dublin with my new Irish family for these first few weeks and at first they seemed a little nervous about another person in their family but after a while them came around and acted just like I was one of there own family.

Let me introduce you to my family. Eilish is the father, he’s 41. Colleen is the mother, she’s 38. Shane is the only real son, he’s 13. Molly is the daughter of the family, she’s 14. 

The first thing I thought about Eilish is that he is strict but fair. Colleen seems like she is the nicest person in the world, she always seems to pay more attention to her family then her self. Shane is like my brother back home, we don’t look alike but we act and see things the same way. And Molly seems to be just like her mother but a little more laid back and seems to want to hang out with me a lot as well as Shane does.

The house I’m living in is small but nothing I’m not use to. They said that they bought it about 16 years ago before they had Molly and Shane . It looks almost nothing like an american house. I have to share a room with Shane but he’s alright so it’s not that bad. 

One good thing about being here is that they I have a washer and dryer instead of having to go to the laundry mat every week.

As you can see in this pic up at the top of the letter  there are a lot of trees in the area around the house, but Shane made an awesome tree house in the back. He asked me if I wanted to help him make an addition to the tree house. I can’t wait to start that. And what they say about it being green in Ireland is so true. Every where I’ve hone there has been green everywhere no matter where I gone.

The school is different but I’m managing to get by. The hardest things to do is make friends and understand the teachers because of my lack of understanding Gaelic, which is the main language in Ireland. My math teacher sometimes says stuff in Gaelic and I have no idea what she said and I have to ask her to repeat herself in English. I’ve only made one friend on because there’s like only 8 kids in the school that speak english. His name is liam, he  just like my friend Tommy back home. My history teacher talks a lot about castles in their history.

The main sport of Ireland is rugby which is just like american football but 90% rougher then american football. Shane offered me to play but I passed. As tough as I am I don’t want to be mauled by like 30 people.

Well this is the end of my first entry back home so I guess all I have to say is good bye.

                                                        Sincerely,

                                                              Cody Weed.