W1B-012 Donegal letters-0.txt
26/7/94

Well hello there, How are you all? Now from what I hear you 're all doing pretty o.k. I 've already written you a letter but according to your last letter to Aoife you mustn't have got it. I posted it about three or four weeks ago and it was airmail so I 'm sure you should have had it by now. Anyway if you get it before this I 'm sorry if they both have the same news in them.

I 'm really glad that you all got jobs and somewhere to stay and stuff. From what you said in your postcards etc. you seem to be having a big massive ball. You bastards! I can't believe that bud is only 50 cents a can. Thats unbelievable! It costs me about fucking £ 15 to get pissed where it only costs you about 4 dollars. As I said before you bastards. Anyway while we 're on the subject I don't know when I had a big drinking session like the ones we used to have in good old Jordanstown. I can't wait until October, it 'll be great to be off our faces again you know the old gang together again.

Anyway as you probably know Aoife and me are still together. It's a real bastard now during the summer as we hardly see each other (we didn't get jobs in Belfast as you probably know). I was lucky enough I got a job at home but the pay is shite and I usually work six days a week. It's a shoe shop and it gets really busy. I 'm really fucked off with it already and I 've only been there just over a month. I would love to leave it and go away with Aoife for a while but it looks like I won't be able because I need money for next year and that.

Anyway thats what I 'm at the minute, stacks of excitement or what! Oh yeah! I 've got a house for next year but I couldn't get a six bedroom house for all of us. I 've had to get a house with Simon (my mate from home) and this other fella. It's a real bastard because I 'm sort of stuck on my own now I don't know what Brian, Steo and Edward are going to do but I 'm trying my best to help them find somewhere. Och it's not too late and I 'm sure they 'll get somewhere. Anyway my house in 17 Cedar Row it's a wee street off Davenport avenue. The house is really nice, everything is almost brand new. The rent is £ 100 a month but I couldn't find anything much cheaper. I think the lads are a bit annoyed with me. Brian's grand he rings me all the time but I hardly ever hear from Edward or Steo. I really hope I don't lose them as friends over something so stupid. There was nothing else I could have done, it was the only way we could have split up the six of us. I couldn't expect them to live with somebody they didn't know. I really wanted to live with them boys (Steo etc.) because the crack would have been great. Och well, there's nothing I can do now.

Now I hope you two boys are behaving yourself over there. I 'd be shocked now if you even looked at them evil american girls. You know you poor innocent irish fellas could get yourselves in trouble over there. You know them girls have only one thing on their minds - sex. Now I 've only one thing to say to you - YOU JAMMY BASTARDS. You 'll have to write back to me and tell me all the crack, you know all the stuff you couldn't tell Aoife.

Didn't you say you were coming back at the end of August? Well if you are, make sure you ring me when you get back (0103536395721) or better still come down here and stay a few nights. There's plenty of room. We 'll be able to meet up with the boys and go out and get completely paralectic.

Anyway I reckon I 'd better head on now. I 've loads more to tell you and ask you but I 'll save it until you get back. Look after yourselves now and write back soon 'cos I really want to hear from you.

See you all soon, your old pal, Ciar&/an
