These blogs will not be special, editted, or ready to be published.  Just a place for me to jot some thoughts down for anyone who cares to hear...

After a couple horrible days of cancelled flights and 12 hour layovers we finally landed safely at Shannon Airport.  After a full day all I can say is that this place is incredible.  Our apartment/dorms are not quite as nice as they looked in the pictures, but they are functional.  They are two floors with bedrooms on both floors, and in my apartment the kitchen and living space is on the second floor.  There is a little bit of a stench in our living area, but after a good fabreeze bath its bearable.  None of my roommates have shown up yet, but the lady at the reception desk that set us up said that our roommates are a pretty even split of Irish and international students.  One of the girls that I came with has 3 of her roommates here and all four of them are from the Chicago area.  Pictures are coming, but the campus and country is beautiful.  After we left they airport we took a 20 minute bus from the Airport into the city of Limerick.  The two lane roads are about the width of one of our lanes, and riding that bus through the country was extremely nerve wracking.  I will not be caught dead in the drivers seat of any car while I am here.  Another 10 minute bus from the city we arrived at the university.  The people here are all EXTREMELY nice and helpful.  Everyone here is ready to do everything they can to help us.  It is incredible how kind and jolly all the Irish are.  More to come about the first days, but this is the start.

Go on...(in America this may be kind of rude, but in Ireland it is go on with your day and may god bless)