Today was an amazing day. We started the day by studying “Dead” by James Joyce and disscusted  episode 1 of the “Ulysses”.  I personally enjoyed reading the first text. I found it to be very different from the other stories found in “Dubliners”. In this story, Joyce gave us the opportunity to have a little more information about the the characters in the story, which made it easier to understand and draw better  conclusions from text. After class,  we headed to Sandycove beach , which is one of the settings of Ulysses.  I must mentioned that Sandycoves is such a beautiful place that is sorrounded by blue cristalline waters.  In there, we visited the Martello Tower , where James Joyce himself lived for  six days back in 1904. The tower is now a museum in honor of James Joyce. I was very excited because today happens to be Bloomsday , the day depicted  in the story. I learned that people in Ireland celebrate this day by dressing up as the characters from the story, and attending to the places mentioned in the book. I think it is pretty amazing that people in Ireland have so much appreciation for this author. Their admiration for him is so much that they even made a national holiday  out of  one of his book. I have never heard or seen such a devotion for an author. Once we were in the museum, we have the opportunity to heard the reading of one of the episode of  Ulysses , and to have a little more information about James Joyce’s staying. I ended the day by going for walk in the beach, and eating a cone of ice cream by the shore. Honestly today couldn’t have been any better.