Guest of the Leprechaun

My first, and admittedly obvious observation about Ireland is that it truly is as green as advertised. Here, at the University of Limerick, everything is seemingly swaped in a cascade of green and even more green. Now, I will be the first to say that it annoys me in an amazing way when one of my relatives starts telling me about how green some place to which they recently have traveled really was. My aunt Laurie and her husband Hugh just got back from Peru, and at a dinner party they kept raving about how green everything was in the country. My grandmother went on a cruise through the Greek Islands and she came back ranting about the lovely green of Santorini and Crete. I get it, there is a lot of green in this world. Isn't that obvious from simply LOOKING at a globe?
This is what is racing through my super-critical head as I travel on the walkway which leads from the University's section of student housing to the main cafeteria in the center of the campus. The grass on either side of the walkway is of course green and it looks as if it may extend all the way to the Thames; there is no end in sight.
It takes me a couple of minutes to walk to the cafeteria, which turns out to be a bar, series of tables and benches and I am tempted to say that the place looks more like a picnic area than anything else. I notice a group of girls sitting at one of the tables and they are staring at me; I am clearly not from around here.
I walk inside this 'on campus bar' and the bartender looks at me and smirks when he sees my t-shirt. It is a shirt dedicated to, "The Boondock Saints," and it has a quote from the film, pictures of the two main characters and a couple of shamrocks plastered all over it. Choosing this shirt was perhaps a misguided choice. I order a Killkenny, which I feel like a phony for ordering cause I prefer wine to beer and I head back outside.
The girls are still at their table and one of them is looking at me in a very positive way. She is sexier than I first thought now that I can see her eyes more clearly. It is 4 o'clock, my orientation is at 6 and I am ready to make a new friend. Her eyes are green and I am in my new home.