Mostly, I'm beginning to feel very nostalgic about Ireland. I'm very, very excited to get back to Minneapolis. My apartment is just the cutest (albeit tiniest) thing ever and I'm soooo looking forward to being back in it. There are countless things in Ireland I'll miss, however, and I'm doing my best to burn the everyday aspects of life into my memory these last few days.
I made my last trip out to campus today to turn in two final papers and spent some time wandering around UCD. It feels like we made our first trip to UCD just yesterday and I spent most of the morning wondering how time can go so quickly.
There were, of course, lots of significant moments here that I'll easily remember: visiting Madrid/London/Aberdeen/Belfast/traveling around Ireland; getting to know Kalli and Aditya better; fighting with UCD Residence Life about heat/showers/lights/overall quality of the dorms; my first trip to city centre; landing in Dublin Airport and spending an hour in line at immigration; my mother's visit; etc. Part of the charm of study abroad, however, has been experiencing day-to-day life in another country. Thus, I'm doing my best to remember the mundane as well as the exceptional.
The local bar, Conways, where we drank many pints of Guinness:
Lazy Days, our favorite cafe, right next to the Blackrock campus (and let's not forget those roundabouts that are also pictured below, the models of efficiency that they are):
Attending law school in a castle:
Walking 2.5 kilometers to the Belfield campus for class, through the posh Blackrock suburbs (and then down the N11 highway):
I'm sure I'll be filling my camera with more pictures of the mundane in the coming days, but there's so much more I hope I don't forget that I won't be able to capture on film: grocery shopping at Superquinn! my first piece of banoffee pie! looooooong, leisurely meals in restaurants!
I really am going to miss this place.
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