The first thing everyone tells you when you say you’re going to Ireland is that it rains a lot there.  Well, I seem to have brought North Carolina weather to Dublin…but without the dreadful humidity!  So the first few days here have been beautiful: sunny and 70.  While I was most worried about rain, understanding accents and the metric system, what’s been really throwing me off is the jet lag and latitude change; meaning the sun rises at 5am and sets at 10 pm.  As weird as this adjustment has been, I have no complaints because the sunshine has given me time to see Dublin. One of the first things…

Boston, Massachusetts.  Home of the Freedom Trail, Fenway Park, Faneuil Hall, Pops Orchestra, and the Celtics (see that Irish connection).  Today I will be seeing none of those things, since I’ll be spending six hours in Boston Logan International Airport on my way to Dublin, Ireland.  I’m well prepared with two books and seven movies to pass the time.  I am excited to be spending six weeks interning with bigO production and creative agency, and eight weeks studying contemporary Irish society and sociology at Dublin City University.  While this isn’t my first time out of the US, it will be the longest I will have ever spent abroad.  I can’t wait to immerse…