On Saturday (January 17), I woke up at 6:30am to catch an earlier bus to head to the Cliffs of Moher (I don't think I've woken up that early since high school). We had a pretty long day on Friday too because of the Cobh trip. We took the bus into City Centre and then walked a little further to catch our bus from Paddywagon Tours. The bus left at 8:20am and we headed out for a long ride out to the Cliffs of Moher. The ride there was about two and a half hours,...

For our day off from classes on Friday, I took a trip to Cobh with Sarah and Gabby. We took the bus from outside our dorms down into City Centre to get the train from the Cork Kent Irish Rail. The train ride into Cobh was about 25 minutes and it was only 8.50 euro round trip. We got to see some of the rolling hills with cows on our ride over. It was such a nice day out and it was really sunny, a perfect day to be by the water. When we got off the train, we j...

My first week of classes has concluded, and actually went by so quickly. My anatomy class doesn't start until after six weeks of classes, so I don't have any classes on Fridays for now. My classes went well for the week. Besides the Irish music and history class, I am also taking Irish Folklore which actually seems like it's going to be really interesting. It goes into detail about the mythological world and superstitions, and how the Irish are still very sup...

On Sunday, January 11, our whole QU group had a plan to go visit the Cork County Gaol, the Jail. I woke up earlier that morning to walk over to UCC to try to find some of my classes. Most of them aren't too far of a walk, 25 minutes at the most, which is a lot different from Quinnipiac. After touring, we were all supposed to meet at Mardyke Arena, the gym, so we grabbed a snack before heading off to see the jail. It was a little bit of a walk to get there, an...

My flight to Ireland was on January 5 at 5:30pm. We arrived at JFK pretty early with my two suitcases to fly Aer Lingus. The flight was a little over 5 hours, and we were given a meal of beef stew on the plane. We arrived in the Dublin airport around 5am Ireland time, and had to get our passport's stamped by immigration. We then took a bus to Cork that was about 3 hours long, and finally arrived in Cork at 9:15am. I slept maybe a few hours on the plane and a...