Wetlands Project:
At 10:00 a.m. we took a bus(which was supposed to be there at 9:00 a.m.) to an Educational Wetlands project in Manchester. We arrived at the jobsite at 11:00 a.m. and attended a meeting to explain the the project's vision. After the meeting, lunch was provided and we began our tours of the construction area.
The project was being constructed to provide multiple learning environments to local students and tourist. One unusual element of the project was the fact that it was being constructed on a concrete/foam 120'x75' pontoon. This was being done to allow the building to float in the middle a lake, and it would also be able to elevate up and down in relation to the tidal water levels.
Travel to Dublin:
After the jobsite tour we returned to Lambert Hall to pack for our weekend trip and finally turn in our thesis projects. We took a train to the Manchester Airport and left on a RyanAir flight to Dublin, Ireland at 10:15 p.m. We arrived in Dublin at 11:00 p.m. and went to pick up keys for an apartment we rented. After picking up the keys we told the taxi drivers where to go according to the directions given to us by the rental agency and they started laughing. The drivers then explained that the address was located on one of the roughest streets in Dublin. We started questioning each other and wondering how this could have happened because the pictures on the internet were so nice. We eventually found out that an email sent to one of us 2 days before leaving for Dublin said that we were being "upgraded to a nicer apartment free of charge." Well that was not the case, and we were not going to let it stand. That night we made some friendly phone calls to the rental agency, and we actually ended up sleeping in our "upgraded" apartment with hopes of fixing the problem in the morning.
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