Roadtrips Part 2: The Great Bradam Adventure

After the first roadtrip, Bre & I decided to take another one to see everything on the island that we wanted to see before leaving. We’ll call this the Great Bradam Adventure…Bradam, the nickname the Mitchells gave to the dynamic troublemaking duo that is myself & Bre. We rented a car and planned out our [...]

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Roadtrips Part 1

It really has been a hectic month, & here I thought June would be a relaxing month of doing thesis work (neither of which have happened). After getting back from the boys’ weekend in Limerick/Clare, I first had a class night-out on Tuesday to say goodbye to Iona. Iona is the only other non-Irish student [...]

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Commencement & Clare

Three weeks ago tonight, I was at Farmleigh, the Irish State Guest House once owned by the Guinness family. I was there to “graduate” as a Mitchell Scholar. Our commencement ceremony was headlined by the Irish President Mary McAleese. About 150 guests, including Mitchell Scholars, our friends from our respective universities, university officials, politicians, and [...]

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Bloody Sunday

Today marks a historic day in Northern Ireland as Lord Saville’s investigative report on Bloody Sunday is released. According to Wikipedia for those who are not familiar with this: Bloody Sunday was an incident on 30 January 1972 in the Bogside area of Derry, in Northern Ireland. Twenty-seven civil rights protesters were shot by the [...]

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My Authentic European Holiday

While I have been back from the Canary Islands for well over a week now, I still have not gotten over my beach bum mood. Tenerife was a gorgeous island that is part tropical beach and part mountainous rocky desert, which is all completed by a giant volcano. While I was tempted to go exploring, [...]

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What is the World’s Most Obnoxious Instrument?

The answer: Bagpipes! Filmed on location in Edinburgh, Scotland with my iPod. And people wonder why I don’t like to see these at Relays…point and case made

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