Weekend - 28th Februari & March 1st 2026

This weekend I had time to rest from work. Since I am fasting, I wake up a little early, around 4:50–5:00 AM, to eat and do my religious duties. After that, I go back to bed. I woke up again at around 9:00 AM and checked whether we had any plans. I realized that we had to meet the school group at the Teapot in Smithfield at 13:30. It was 10:00 AM, so we had time.

Me and Anyck started our morning routine but noticed that we ran out of toothpaste. So because it was sunny, I wore a tracksuit with a body warmer and went to the local Spar with Anyck to buy some toothpaste. Anyck was enjoying the vitamin D from the sun. Inside the shop, we asked the guy who works there where the toothpaste was, and he showed us the aisle with the stuff. Of course, we bought the cheapest one. When we got back, I brushed my teeth, and Anyck had his breakfast before brushing his teeth, the breakfast was a japanese cheesecake that our host family made for us.

While we were chilling, one of the two dogs started barking. We didn't know what he wanted, so we opened the back door. He ran outside and began running in circles? It was almost time to leave, and we were trying to tell him to come back in but this guy didn't listen. Eventually, I picked him up and carried him in, He doesn't smell very good so I had to wash my hands.

We left around 12:20 and took the red tram toward “The Point.” We were a bit late and some other students arrived late as well because public transport in Dublin terrible. At the Teapot, the sun went down, and I realized I had severely underdressed. I was getting very cold.

Our teacher told us to split into groups of four, so we formed a group of six. It was a race, and the winning team would receive a prize worth €25. We forgot that it was a race and moved at a relaxed, low stress pace. The first task was to find a guitar hanging on a wall and play air guitar for 20 seconds. It was pretty embarrassing to do so in public. During the next task, Adil and Anyck got lost because they walk extremely slowly. We waited for them at the metal footsteps (which was our next task) but eventually decided to just go without them, they'll find us later.

Another task required us to find a strange ball at a school. We were confused, so we asked a security guard for help. He explained where to find it. We checked the ball out for 2 seconds, took a picture with the ball and moved on. The next and final task was to go the park or something and do something? I don't remember the final task because I was just going with the motion. After the final task, we went to the meeting point. We expected to finish first cause where else would we place, but the game was rigged so we placed fourth.

Later, we discussed where to eat. I wanted to return to the buffet, at first only me Khalid and a few others wanted to go, because we already went yesterday and they were still full, but me? I was starving the morning after the buffet, I don't know why I'm always so hungry.

We all went back home to charge our phones and I got a text from Khalid that we're all going back to the buffet because they had no food, I was really happy. We were supposed to be there at 19:30 and I checked google maps for to check how long we had to charge our phones and we had 11 minutes. The other bus that we had to take was severly delayed so we had to go to a restaurant to charge our phones, they told us that we have to order something and I didn't want to because we're going to a buffet but Anyck told the guy that he was going to order, I thought we has just lying so we can charge our phones but this guy actually ordered a meal and ate it all, I told him that hes gonna waste his money and I was right.

When we were in the buffet, this guy ate 1 plate the whole buffet. We paid 28 euros for the buffet. To top it off for his second round, he brought 1 tiny slice of pizza on his plate and ate half of it. But my goal was to make this buffet go bankrupt, I ate 6 plates with some sweets to finish so I got my moneys worth. The others ate two or three plates max. We left the restaurant struggling to breathe and walk.

We stayed out until 2:00 AM and arrived home around 3:00 AM. I had to wake up again at 4:50 AM to eat before fasting, so I only slept for about an hour. The next day, we there was a 6 km walk so I checked on google maps how long it would take to get there and we'll be about 2h30 minutes on the way, so we just decided to chill today and recover from the buffet, but I'm still pretty hungry. I'm hungry right now.