It’s been about 4 weeks since I’ve arrived in Ireland and so far the experience has been great. I’ve finally started to understand and work with the public transportation in Ireland and took a train for the second time in my life. Getting my Leap card allowed me to better access public transportation and is utterly essential to have in getting around Ireland.
Earlier this week I took another trip into Dublin and explored some of the museums in the city. I visited the National History Museum and National Museum of Archaeology in Dublin. There was a lot of rich history about archaeological finds from thousands of years in Ireland at the National History Museum that gave me more of insight into the history of Ireland.
So far in the majority of my classes they have discussed Trump during their lectures and once people hear my American accent they want to hear more about Trump. The Irish are very interested as to what is happening in the American political world, and they have formed their own opinions about what Trump has done and will do.
Many of the Irish students don’t live permanently on campus and go home for the weekend, and thus the campus and town is much quieter during the weekend. This is vastly different to that of Rollins.