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Beginnings and Elastic Weather
Getting started in Dublin has been fast and rewarding. From the start, I felt like a hit the ground running in my program doing exactly the kind of research I came to do. My course is Electronic Signals Engineering at … Continue reading
Aeneas and Proteus
It is not an exaggeration to say that I have seen more theater in the last two months than I had in the year. This is due partly to how reasonably priced theater tickets are here, and partly to the … Continue reading
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Hotel CarlAzza
As the Mitchell Scholars studying in Galway this year, one of the most useful pieces of advice Azza and I received before moving to Ireland was to get to Galway early. We were told that there is a pretty serious … Continue reading
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My Obligation to Memory — Monumental Art and Human Tragedy
Each Passover, my family gathers together to retell the story of the Israelites’ escape from slavery in Egypt. The Seder contains myriads of precise rituals conducted according to the instructions of an ancient manual, the Haggadah. These unusual practices are … Continue reading
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Backyard Mythologies
A few months into my Mitchell year I looked around my bedroom and realized I had accumulated a lot of artwork. Sketches lined one wall from floor to ceiling, some hidden behind stacks of canvases. I had framed two drawings … Continue reading
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Galway City to Mt. Brandon: My Cycle down the Wild Atlantic Way
I finished exams on May 4, spent a week viewing rooms in Dublin–I will be moving there at the end of the month to work on a natural resource valuation project at ESRI–and then waited impatiently for the Galway bike shop … Continue reading
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Tagged county clare, County Galway, County Kerry, cycling, Dingle, Dingle Peninsula, Friendship, Touring, west coast, Wild Atlantic Way
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Better than the Notebook: A Love Story for the Ages
You know those cheesy romantic comedy movies? The ones that everyone actually enjoys but some people pretend to hate? I love those. You know how it goes: couple meets, couple falls in love, couple splits up, then at the end, … Continue reading
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Winning hearts, changing minds, and making memories
“My experience with Muslims all my life has been terrible. It has been a breathe of fresh air getting to know you. You have an infectious smile and are always happy.” The opportunity to grow up in the United States … Continue reading
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Leaving
The first month I arrived in Ireland, two friends and I boarded a bus from Galway City to Gort with the three train tickets we had mistakenly purchased (fortunately, the bus driver was very kind – or perhaps merely indifferent). … Continue reading
Into the Twilight
OUT-WORN heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh heart again in the gray twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn. Your mother Eire is always young, Dew ever shining and … Continue reading
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Go Heels!!!
So, in one of my previous blogs (which you can find here: January Mitchell Blogs , and scrolling down until you see “Shoutout to Papa”) I tell a bit of the life story of one of my biggest heroes, my grandfather, … Continue reading
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Growing Up in an Irish Dancing Household
Growing up in an Irish dancing household means that St. Patrick’s Day is a. big. deal. It’s the Superbowl of the Olympics of the Oscars of the ChristmaHannuKwanzukah of every other big deal day you’ve ever celebrated. It’s not for … Continue reading
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Tagged ceili, ceili dancing, dublin, ireland, irish dance, St. Patrick's Day
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