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It has always been fascinating to me the idea of having multiple homes. How often times a traveling mind never settles in one place, but instead creates a map of tiny homes that come together in a beautiful adventure called … Continue reading →

Watching a handful of sheep graze nearby while the rest of our troop huffed and puffed their way up the rest of the path, I was left with that subtly familiar sentiment one finds themselves grappling with having fallen over … Continue reading →

Every Tuesday night since I’ve arrived in Belfast, I’ve been heading to my Irish class at An Droichead – an Irish language school off the Lower Ormeau Road in South Belfast. I had previously been taking courses with An Droichead … Continue reading →

Writing this post on what feels like an especially turbulent day, I find myself reflecting on the experience of being an American living abroad during such a charged time. Since the election results were announced this morning, I’ve seen countless … Continue reading →

A few days ago, a friend from home reached out and asked if I’d had any “pinch me” moments since arriving on the island. My immediate response was that this entire experience has been a pinch me moment. I thought … Continue reading →

Sitting in a café one Saturday afternoon, I watched as a tall, imposing man wearing a silver and black Oakland Raiders bomber jacket entered with his wife. An Irish woman with a fabulous curler-finished blow out, she dawned a beautiful, … Continue reading →

Of all the many pieces of advice I received before moving to Ireland, the most common refrain involved weather: be prepared for rain. So perhaps it was preordained that when I arrived in Limerick, on a gray, brooding afternoon in … Continue reading →

I’m writing this just after getting back home from Mitchells group trip to Derry. It’s been a thought-provoking few days, with a range of themes and moods. We went up mainly to participate in Derry’s Halloween festival, which, with the … Continue reading →

My semifinalist interview for the Mitchell Scholarship took place on October 30, 2023, less than a month after the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas War. Unsurprisingly, the conflict was one of the topics we discussed. Given the political context of the … Continue reading →

Even though this may be the end of the Mitchell program, it’s only the beginning of my new journey. I’m immensely grateful for the opportunity to pursue my passion in Ireland and mold it into my guiding purpose. August 28th … Continue reading →

Last September, one week after arriving in Galway, I wrote a note to myself and stuck it in the depths of my 300-something page scrapbook. I’d completely forgotten about it until a few nights ago, when I was sorting through … Continue reading →