On Thursday (March 5), Mom, Lianne & Glenn arrived in Cork after flying out of Boston on Wednesday night and having a three hour drive from Dublin to Cork. I was in the city with my roommate Hannah when they arrived in the afternoon, and we all met up for lunch. We went to the Cork English Market for a really good meal, a definite favorite of their visit. They then went to their hotel, The River Lee, where they would be staying for a night before moving o...

We took the bus from Brussels to Amsterdam at noon and arrived later in the day. We then had to take another train to get to Amsterdam City Center, to be closer to where our hostel was. We stayed at Intersail, which was a boat hostel. The area it was in had a lot of boats docked where people could stay. We wanted to drop our bags off at our hostel and then get dinner. Our room had 4 bunk beds in it, except they weren't really bunk beds. They were more like ...

On Thursday, technically late Wednesday night, four of us left to catch a 1:00am express bus to the Dublin Airport to head to Brussels, Belgium. The bus ride to the airport is 3 hours, and then we had to catch a 6:30am flight to Zaventem Airport. There was another hour time difference there, so it was an hour later than it would be in Ireland, so a 6 hour difference from home. We got in around 9:30am and took a train to Brussels Central Station to find the are...

On Friday morning, I took the bus at 9am with Sarah for her birthday weekend. We were going with a group of 7, and meeting up with two other girls from Quinnipiac who are studying abroad in Florence, Italy for the semester. The bus trip from Cork takes three hours to get to Dublin. We arrived in Dublin and went to drop our bags off at Pillar B&B where we would be staying. We then met up with the Florence girls and went to lunch at Flanagan's. We decided ...

This week was UCC's Raise and Give Week (R&G), which is their annual fundraising week. UCC's Student Union coordinates different events to raise awareness and money for different charities. The week last year raised 20,000 Euro for three well-known charities, Breakthrough Cancer Research, the Cope Foundation, and the Children's Ward at Cork University Hospital. Today was the Colour Dash at UCC, where we all dressed in white and got ready for a run where col...