On Wednesday (October 15th) we left for The North. Brian drove the tiny little bus into Coolnagrenia, and at 8 am we loaded up what Aaron calls the “red rocket” and took off. We were headed to The North, also known as the “6 counties under enemy occupation” by those on the republican side of...

September 25th through the 30th was parent’s week here in Ireland. Emily, Olivia, and Aaron all had their parents come, and Aaron even had three of his seven adult brothers show up to surprise him! We spent this five day period traveling around and seeing things before classes really buckled down the next week. Friday...

I had the most unbelievable experience the other night (Friday, September 26th). Megan, Tammi’s assistant, has an Irish friend named Rob from the Presbyterian Church who is trying to get his certification as a hiking guide. In order to do so, he has to take a certain number of groups on hikes all around Ireland....

The weekend between leaving Galway (on Saturday morning) and arriving in Greystones (on Tuesday evening) was a very, very busy time. We were travelling all around for the entire duration of it. Our base was a hostel in Killarney called Neptune’s. We were told that the place was really sketchy, but it turned out that...