Author: scordas@rollins.edu

As the end draws nearer all I can think of wanting for the holidays is not having to leave Ireland. I don’t want to leave my friends from all over the world, I don’t want to leave my ultimate Frisbee team that’s really become a family, and I don’t want to leave the country that…

The past few weeks have ben a series of ups and downs and inversions of everything I know. I’ve laughed and cried and sang and danced and slept like the dead… or some would just say like a college student. I’ve spent a weekend in Paris, and it’s safe to say that it was an…

Another country can be added to my list of conquests (and yes that is how I see every place I travel, as an opportunity to master their culture and acquire their love and customs) and saw my ever-doting-and-fabulous grandparents as well. I flew out to Grantham, Great Britain last Friday with two hours of sleep,…

So it turns out that I absolutely adore Ireland with every fiber of my twenty year old being. Do you know what the first thing I noticed was? The grass. I am head over heels in love with the grass here. I’ve never seen anything in my life so green, with speckles and clumps of…

So it has finally begun. I have been packing and preparing for days and finally on Friday morning I will be departing on my first ever trip to Europe. I’ll be studying in Ireland at Maynooth University right outside of Dublin and I luckily have two of my very best friends in the world embarking…