As mentioned yesterday, last night we had a lecture entitled "My Ireland" by Donal Taheny. Donal is a former Latin and Irish teacher at a secondary school in Galway. He's 92 years old. I've jokingly said that I'm in love with him because he's so adorable. One of my friends here got a great picture of him last night, which I'll share at some point.

Donal is an accomplished photographer and showed us slides (using the old fashioned slide projector) of some of his pictures and telling us stories. The stories were fascinating and funny. He's just a hoot. On our bus ride around Connemara, Donal told stories about many of the places we passed and then just random stories and jokes. I don't know if it's from being around people of Irish descent or just my natural Irishness coming out, but I loved his humor. It's a bit dry and direct, kind of like British humor, but there's something not British about it that I can't quite explain. Anyway, I think everyone should meet Donal or someone like him at some point. He even came out to the pub to have a pint (though he had a glass of wine) with us all after the lecture. I hope I'm that spry and lucid at 92!