Readers,

I send my apologies for not having blogged in such a long while, but let me tell you it has been an adventure! I returned home from my 11 day trip to Ireland last week which left me with a little jetlag and a lot of memories.

Ireland is as beautiful as people say it is (and I have plenty of pictures of green hills and sheep to prove it). Because I am a poor college student and my intentions of traveling to Ireland were to see my also, poor, best friend, I didn’t do all of the touristy things that most people do when they go to Ireland. No Cliffs of Mohr, no Giants Causeway, I did, however, do and see the following things:

1. Completed the world’s largest hedge-maze. (N. Ireland)

2. Saw the oldest church in Ireland- built in 432 AD. (N. Ireland)

3. Watch a real game of rugby.

4. Saw the dry docks where the Titanic was built. (N. Ireland)

5. Saw the most bombed building in the world. (N. Ireland)

6. Drank tea instead of coffee. (You can’t find a descent cup of coffee until you get to Dublin).

7. Ate fish and chips.

8. Played softball on the “pitch” instead of the field.

9. Saw where C.S. Lewis lived, and the inspiration for the character Aslan from “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” (N. Ireland)

10. Saw the murals and the peace wall from the Catholic/Protestant conflicts (N. Ireland)

Despite all this fun, I was eager to come back home and sit in my living room and watch football. (I did, however, catch a Cowboys game on Thanksgiving while I was there).  A good cup of coffee was also on my to-do list. Now I am enjoying the laidback atmosphere of D-term, catching up on a few books I’d been meaning to read and some hours of sleep that I had neglected. Home, sweet home.

Happy Holidays! More to come soon.

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