City Center to University Hall

Here is a video that I took on a bus ride from the Cork city center back to my dorm room. This also happens to he the bus ride that I lost my cell phone on. I figured I would make the video so that you can judge the distance from my dorm to the city. I am on the second level of a double decker bus. I have to take the number 8 bus to get to and from my dorm. You can see more of my videos at www.youtube.com/studyabroadcork

First Day and Night in Galway

While I went to bed early upon arriving in Galway the next morning it appeared I was more tired than I had thought because I slept until about noon. We did not do much in the morning and basically relaxed in her apartment waiting for my friends from Cork to arrive on their bus. They had left Cork around 4 pm and we expected them to arrive about 7:45 pm. Around 4pm we were getting tired of the apartment and decided to head down to Galway, walk through the streets and get some food. The walk to the city center is pretty far from Arielle's apartment and is

The Bus to Galway

This past weekend I traveled to the town of Galway on the western coast of Irleand. I departed at 6 pm Thursday night because I do not have any classes on Friday and I wanted to beat the visiting student rush out of Cork. The bus service that I used was Citylink and I believe I made a good decision leaving on Thursday. The bus was about half full and I was able to secure my own seat, which was nice because the ride from Cork to Galway is about

First Night In Cork

So after eating dinner there were no more IFSA Butler activities for the night, which led our group to the decision that it was time to explore the town that we had been dreaming about exploring since we went in our applications months ago. The group exited the River Lee and walked down Western Road towards Cork's city center. Part of the group broke off and entered a Pub called Preachers and the other half including myself continued on because we wanted to explore a bit more. We went a little deeper into the city but did not venture to far because it was still unfamiliar territory for us. Ultimately we

Dublin Airport and Trip to Cork

After landing in Dublin Airport Arielle and I picked up our carry ons and departed from the plane. We took a long winding walk through the airport and came up to the Ireland Border Patrol area where they had to check our passports to let us in the country. I was kind of nervous leading up to this because I am a dual citizen and have both a US and Irish passport. I had used my US passport to enter Ireland before, but this time I was planning on using my Irish one. Since I had never used it before I was afraid the agent would take it look at it and just laugh at me and ask for my American passport. When I came up to the station and I heard the agent yell "European Union Passports over here!" I hesitated at first but then went and handed him my passport. He looked at it, looked at me, then said

Crossing the Pond

While this is a bit of a late start now that I am somewhat settled into my new University I figured it is a good time write a bit about my trip so far. Starting from the beginning with the flight across the pond, aka the Atlantic Ocean. I flew on Continental Airlines out of Newark International Airport on my IFSA Butler group flight. The flight left at 9:50 pm (EST) on January 1st, 2011 and was scheduled to arrive in Dublin on January 2nd, 2011 9:30 am (Ireland Time). The trip to the airport was nice with little traffic and we arrived about 3 hours before departure, when we entered the building the line for Continental International flights was incredibly long