First day went pretty well. We figured out how my teaching is going to work so I'm excited to get started with that. For his classes I'll be taking over first years (13 year olds) on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and teaching ratios and proportions. I'm still really confused as to how their schedule and curriculum works here. Mr. Sinnot has first years four times a week and we'll be similtaneously be teaching two different chapters. Each day they meet at a different t...

Happy Saint Patrick's Day everyone!! The bus schedule may have been nonexistant due to the parade, but that didn't stop us! We made it into Dublin by train (ahh another train) and found our way to the parade on the other side of the city from what we say yesterday. Once Ashley and I found a spot, we basically camped out since it was probably as close as we were going to get. We made some friends from California, I wore my green Phillies shirt so for those who r...

Please forgive me if this is a little all over the place, I've been going nonstop for the past 19 hours but wanted to write this before I went to sleep. So the plan was to head north and see a castle on a cliff, we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. Today we had quite the adventure. The day started at 5:30 where we went to catch a bus into Dublin. Then we had to walk to the train station and catch a 2 and a half hour train to Belfast. Once there w...

After a about 4 hours in the JFK airport and another 6 hours on the plane, we made it to Dublin, Ireland at about 5:20 Ireland time. With all the excitement and nervousness, Ashley, my travel companion, and I weren't able to sleep at all on the plane. When we arrived at our house, we went right to sleep. We woke up at about 4 pm, I guess we were more tired than we realized. It would have been about 12pm when we woke up back home. We were able to talk a bit with ...