Happy St. Paddy's Day Weekend Everyone! I can't believe I get to spend St. Paddy's day in IRELAND! How many people get to say that they have spent St. Patrick's Day in the actual Homeland? I feel so lucky to be here (thank you Mama!) Cork has been buzzing the past few days and I know it will continue to be busy through Monday because the weather has been so gorgeous and will continue to be! This afternoon we strolled into town to celebrate day one of St. Paddy'...

Cork has had a heat wave the past few days, sixties, sunny and no rain! Hopefully it will last through St. Paddy's Day weekend! Since we don't have class on Fridays, we decided that the perfect way to spend this gorgeous afternoon would be outside, drinking Sangria at one of our favorite spots, down a quintessential European brick street that is perfect for people watching. The street is lined with other places with outdoor seating and was buzzing with people a...

Is this what the Irish call a drought?!

UCC at night.

On this 50 degree evening in Cork after a long four hours ontop of the four hours we spent yesterday of Euro Trip planning (we're done, but there are still some logistics like finding out what order to see all of our points of interests and the directions to get to and from those places...) We went in to the French Film Festival. The French Film festival is surprisingly a big deal here, and this was the 25th anniversary. All the posters and advertising was pink h...