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A Positive Report
Where does time go? What was that movie where the main character had a huge remote control and could fast forward through life? If I could get my hands on one of those jumbo-size remotes, I would only use the … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2012, National University of Ireland Maynooth
Tagged Benedictine monks, Catholid Church in Ireland, Glenstal Abbey, Irish Student Union, Irish youth, Maynooth, Mitchell Scholars, Mitchell Scholars Program, mitchell scholarship, National University of Ireland Maynooth, National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM)
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Winter Time
When taxi drivers, store keepers, professors, and students in Galway mention the winters of 2010 and 2011, they adopt the tone of those recounting tough, repressed experiences. Ice and snow clogged the stone streets of the city as temperatures dipped to … Continue reading
The Old and the New
A cactus and a sheep make an odd couple. Let me explain. I began the new year very far away from Ireland, visiting my best friend who is doing research in Buenos Aires. We took a road trip to the … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2012, Trinity College Dublin
Tagged Argentina, Connemara, Donegal, Galway, gender quotas, Seanad, women in politics, women's health
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Break a Leg
When I last wrote, I was traveling home to the US, excited to be be going on tour to Princeton with the Austin theatre company the Rude Mechanicals. Well, on our opening night, I fell off the stage, sprained my … Continue reading
Nearing the Halfway Mark
I’ve been back in Dublin for two and a half weeks now, after a very good and lengthy visit with my family and friends back in West Virginia. Finals went very well, provisional grades have been released, and this semester’s … Continue reading
The Thread Connecting It All
Growing up, I had an unusual obsession with the world of professional surfing. I didn’t grow up on the water. And even if I had, in Mississippi that water would have been almost completely devoid of waves. Nobody in my … Continue reading
Being a Tourist
For many years, I have utterly detested the sight of cameras strewn around necks and gawking eyes open wide with astonishment. Overloaded sojourners stopped in the middle of sidewalks and even streets near designated tourist sights drive me crazy. I … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2012, Dublin City University
Tagged Betsy Katz, Cliffs of Moher, DCU, Dingle, dublin, Dublin City University (DCU), Elizabeth Katz, Giants' Causeway, ireland, Mitchell Scholars, Mitchell Scholars Class of 2012, Mitchell Scholars Program, mitchell scholarship, photography, Scotland, tourism, Travel, University of Georgia (UGA)
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On Coffee and Culture
I woke up early last Friday morning to essentially do one thing: get free coffee. If you have spent any time with me, I have probably waxed poetic about my desire for coffee. What might surprise you is that I … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2012, Trinity College Dublin
Tagged Abbey Theatre, American, Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, Irish, mitchell scholar, Mitchell Scholars, Mitchell Scholars Class of 2012, Mitchell Scholars Program, mitchell scholarship, performance studies, TCD, theater, theater studies, Theatre, Trinity, Trinity College Dublin (TCD)
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Contradicting Myself
Almost halfway through. One would think that at this point in my Mitchell year I would have a firm grasp on identity processes and divisions in Belfast. The opposite is true. On this very blog, I wrote that the … Continue reading
Base of the Fifth Metatarsal
Today I write to you about the base of the Fifth Metatarsal. No, unfortunately not an exotic European mountain range, but the location of a broken bone in my foot! A week before Christmas, while taking out the trash, I … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2012, Queen's University Belfast, Uncategorized
Tagged David Gobaud, e-governance, ireland, Mitchell Scholars, Mitchell Scholars Class of 2012, Mitchell Scholars Program, mitchell scholarship, northern ireland, online education, Queens University Belfast, Stanford University, study in Northern Ireland
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Settling In
This month I will begin semester two of the Mitchell Scholar year. All continues to go well academically and professionally. I began working with the Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities (NICEM) last month and everyday I’m learning more about … Continue reading
Belfast: Part 2
For the first time this year, I spent the holiday season away from home. And though I missed Wisconsin (a place often known to my Belfast friends only as the setting of “That ’70s Show”), it was a true delight … Continue reading