If you are looking at this webpage, you've probably received my email directing you here. The purpose of this blog is to share with family and friends all the things I'm involved with during my year in Ireland without crowding their inboxes with obnoxiously long emails.
What you will find here are accounts of the more interesting tales that I will have experienced (I have an uncle who refers to me as "Forrest Gump" for a reason, after all), and nothing overly sentimental, gushy, pushy, political, pontificating or polarizing.
I leave Saturday, Sept. 15th for Dublin, Ireland, from which I will find the most inexpensive way possible to transfer to Maynooth, a little town in County Kildare, on the outskirts of the greater Dublin area. The next nine months, for the most part, will be at the gracious expense of the George J. Mitchell Scholarship, and I will end my studies in June, 2008 with an M.A. in Music History from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. I plan to return to the USA sometime next summer, just in time to continue what seems to be my new status as a professional student, and enter law school somewhere. As of this past August 16th, I'm a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army, and will enter active duty service after law school as a JAG lawyer.
But for now, I'm packing and bracing for the $50 or so that I'm going to drop for my bags being too heavy. I have visions of myself wearing seven or eight different layers onto the airplane in order to bring everything I need (how does one pack for a year, anyway?), but I don't even like taking off my flip-flops for the metal detectors.
Anyway, please check back every week or two for new posts, if you wish.
Until then.
5 comments:
You already bleed green. You are in the Army after all.
Good luck with the moving, I know it's quite the pain. I know I haven't been here long myself but if I can do anything at all for you let me know! :)
I know you can wear about 5 layers of clothing on the plane. I can't believe I didn't think of that!
I am very proud of you and know you will enjoy your year in Ireland.
Love,
Mom
You're trip to Portugal sounded like a nightmare. Actually it sounds like True Jeffrey style. It's funny how either the greatest things ever or the crappiest things ever alway happen to you!
Jeff, I can't find your contact information (including your email address) anywhere. Could you send it to me??
Carolyn
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