To my not so many readers,
I think of my blog as my
little online diary, open for anybody to read.
I write here so on days that
im bored, sad, happy or just simply in need of a memory to shake a bad vibe I
can look back at the words I’ve written and remind all the fun
times I’ve had. Nobody is stopping anybody reading this and if you want to read my blogs that I do because i need to save memories somewhere other then on paper, I’d
also really appreciate it!
Well its summer and as
always the Irish weather is taking a tole onto the teenager’s everyday life.
For me this summer is very
different to previous years, for as long as i can remember I’ve spent my summers
in Wexford in my family mobile home beside the sea side. Kilmuckridge was like
my second home. I had friends there and it was always my way to escape for the
summer. But times are different now. VERY
different. Last summer was my last summer that I could just get up, walk about 20 steps and be on a beach. I wandered the beach in
kilmuckridge hours on end. it was my way to kill time and my place to get a tan easily instead of sitting bored on the deck in the hot summer’s sun. Last
summer my family came to the decision to sell the van and spend our summers
back in celbridge. Right now i just want to go for a long walk on the beach or go
for a swim in the rain in the freezing cold Irish Sea.(swimming in the rain is
just so much better in my opinion)
School starts back in a month
and it still doesn't even feel like summer. We have that horrible Irish weather
keeping us stuck indoors. So far summer hasn't been terrible but i haven't done
anything. I've gone to two concerts (both amazing) and I’ve gone out with my
friends. Like many teenagers i lack what is needed most, and that is money and
motivation. I spend majority of my time in bed, on Netflix, reading a book or
just lying around my house in my pyjamas until four in the day doing nothing
with my day. Im not hard pushed to make the most of my summer because that really means go spend the money i
don’t have and im not wasting my summer sitting indoors, id rather sit at home relaxing because come on we all know once school starts back we will never get a spare minute.
If I could do anything for
the last month of my summer it would be escape to Wexford but unfortunately
that won’t happen. The thing i miss most about the place is probably one of the
weirdest things, you don’t even have to be in Wexford do this but it was by
far one of my favourite things. I miss being woken at 9 on a Sunday and
putting on respectable clothes (anything other than a tracksuit or jeans) and
going to mass. Going to mass meant going into centra after to pick up the
newspaper and of course some ice-cream and I can’t forget to mention the duck
for Rita (extra nanny). From centra we went to visit our extra nanny and
granddad, which also had a mobile home there but in a different site. It became a usual thing! Everyday sunday at 10.30 we would arrive. The adults
would chit chat and my sisters and I would just sit around until it was time to
get serious and play cards. The routine was always the same every weekend the
only thing that changed was the winner of cards. If the game wasn’t finished
wed go home for lunch and arrive back an hour later. There were several Sundays
i spent the whole day playing cards and I wouldn’t have changed it for the world.
I miss Wexford and I hope sometime soon I can return and eat ice cream in the
rain, walk on the beach for hours, go for midnight swims with my friends at 8pm
and play cards non-stop.
This blog was set up to
record my TY memories. But now Ty is over and some part of me wants to keep this
blog page alive. I'm one who finds comfort in writing. I want to continue posting
here as much as I can. Ty gave me things to write about but i will find something
every now and again. Yes i wont post as often as I did because my time will be a
bit limited with homework and things but I’ll make time to sit down and type
like there’s no tomorrow.
Until next time
Im just a teenage girl who hates the
thought of growing up but im doing it
with a smile on my face And a positive
atittued. Hope you enjoyed reading -
Miss.Galligan x
