Aistriúchán

Why did I love Translations so much? Why did I go see it twice? I have absolutely no idea. I would like to blame it on my Irish roots. Which I love!

I loved the play so much and I love my roots so much. It is so bad where I have the song that was played at the end and I have a T-shirt that says Ireland on it. It also says welcome in Irish. That is how bad it is. And it's even as bad as me knowing when I plan on wearing the shirt for the first time! Which also happens to be only four days before my birthday! Isn't that weird?

For my drama class, I had to read the play. I did not like it at all. The first ten or fifteen minutes when I had to go see the play, I was bored to death. I was wondering when it was going to be over. I knew what was going to happen so why did I have to sit through all of it? Well, for my Comm Across Cultures class, I had to sit through all of it. If it wasn't for that class, I would have left during intermission and never came back. Well, let's just say that I'm glad that Comm made me sit through all of it because if I left during intermission, I wouldn't have gotten "Dulaman."

After those several minutes, I began to start enjoying the play. I was so into it that when Maire was talking about Yolland in Act 3, I was near tears. It is probably because I am a fool for romance. It is also probably because I knew that Maire and Yolland loved each other and she ended up having to go through life without him. After getting home that night, I told my mother that I quite enjoyed the play. I knew that I had to see it again. So, I ended up getting another ticket and went to see it the following weekend. I listened to "Dulaman" all the way home after seeing it the second time!

I told my parents that if I had ancestors that went through their home country changing or the famine, it must have been sad. I am just glad that my ancestors lived through whatever they went through, because if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here or I wouldn't have lovely Irish in my blood.