Eudaimonia: The contented and happy state you feel when you travel. Irish Eudaimonia is the joyful state I currently find myself in, because I am less than 24 hours away from embarking in my first adventure across the pond. Born in the small, developing country of Honduras, I could only dream of what was on…
Category: Ireland: Maynooth Univ
From Traveling Europe to Small Town Ohio
I recently returned to my hometown from my European adventure. Being home and around all of my friends and family who knew me prior to my many life changes which came with going to Rollins is a peculiar thing. Coming back into an environment where most people still see me for who I was in the…
Reflections of the Liffey
It seems like a lifetime has passed in the ten days since I left Ireland. For the first few days, nothing felt particularly different. I waited patiently for reality to sink in and it finally did about seven days after my transatlantic crossing. I was scrolling through the hundreds of photographs accrued during my stint…
Thinking Back & Looking Forward
Today is the two-week anniversary of my departure from Ireland. My way of life there seems to have faded away at the same rate as my way of life here returned – fast. Upon arrival, I felt similar to the way I did when I first arrived in Ireland – comparing where I was to…
Full Circle
Currently sitting in the JFK airport in NYC, and I’m taken back to just three months ago when I was waiting to board the plane that would take me to Ireland. Only 3 months, yet I wonder how past me and present me sat next to each other would seem similar and different. It’s been…
Heading Home…
Having survived finals week in a completely different testing system, my study abroad experience has come to an end. The past three months in Ireland have been unimaginably fantastic! I have learned so much, met plenty of intriguing people and successfully immersed myself in the Irish way of life. There are so many things I…
Last Days in Ireland
Well, I am down to my last week here in Maynooth. Although there have been ups and downs, it is finally hitting me that I am going to have to leave my amazing, cultural diverse new friends. Leaving is bitter sweet, as I look to the coming month I am excited to see my home…
GOOD-byes? Are you serious?
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…
Trial and Errors and more Errors
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…
Favorites
“Poetry psalms Flower with architecture Raising their grandeur on the gashed cape. Words of God blaze like a disaster In the windows of their prophetic cathedral. But the sighs of the deep multitude Grow out of the mountain’s heart as clean as vines.” -An excerpt from the Legend of St. Clement Sometimes I forget how…