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Finals in Ireland - A New Experience
... over the past couple months and look forward to writing about them. Keep an eye out for my posts that I will be updating soon. Today, I'm going to tell you a little about academia here in the Ireland and in particular about exams.
So in Madison… some call it crazy but our last day of finals is always December 23rd and our finals start 6 days before that regardless of weekends. Before finals start we get one study day and ...
A Visit With St. Patrick
Our second morning in Galway we moved out of the hostel bright and early and grabbed a cab to the NUI Galway campus where we would be spending the week. It was exciting because we would finally have access to the suitcases we sent on during the five-day break from school. Once we got moved in, I started laundry immediately in the facilities close to our dorms. In the United States, we would refer to the housing as an apartment, not a dorm. When I think of dorms I remember Burge Hall, and ...
What the Cong?!
... boredom, and I can't stop thinking of another deserted hotel, one where Jack Nicholson's character flipped out and started on a killing spree. But hey, it has given me something to write about after a rather uneventful day, with all of us in a slightly fragile state following the 'craic' that is Derry nightlife. The owner of the 'Derry harem' or 'smooth Steve' as the girls on our tour have renamed him, had taken us on ...
Quiet Man Cottage & the Connemara Region
We had another wild ride through the narrow roads in Ireland today and Bill was driving this time. He adapted much better than I did to the driving and actually enjoyed it after all his moaning and groaning about not wanting to drive!
We went to the Quiet Man Museum/Cottage directly outside of Ashford Castle's grounds in the small city of Cong. They are still living and thriving from the movie that was made here in 1951 with John Wayne and Maureen ...
Heaven exists on earth!
... Recalculating route". Remember that road everyone else was taking? Guess what? That was where we turned to go over and get past the blockade. Mind you, there are few to no road signs. Turning is a risk all by itself. Without the SatNav we would not be here tonight. But it took us on another narrower road and all of a sudden we were face to face with that same nice lady officer. We turned around, back to Tuam Road (I'm getting better at these curvy roads at this point) and ...
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