Last night we were invited out to this Irish "Jamsesh," by one of the professors I met at our academic "walk about" where we met different members of the departments here at UCC. Professor Mags, is part of the music and dance department and is amazing! She is so sweet and invited a bunch of students out to the Blarney Castle Hotel to listen to some locals perform for each other. It was AWESOME. When we got there we didn't really know what to expect because back ...

Well everyone says I'm the Princess, so of course we had to visit our first of many castles on second weekend! Pucker up! Al, Holl and Han ventured into Blarney, about a half an hour bus trip from Cork to kiss the Stone and walk the grounds of Blarney. We walked into the grounds and immediately thought, where's the castle? We started walking along some trails and POOF! There it is. The castle popped up out of nowhere. Honestly, I thought that this was going ...