Greetings! Let us introduce ourselves.

Chicken silliness aside, let's get started.

Hi there! 

We are a few American high schoolers who entered and won an essay contest for a scholarship to a University College Dublin summer program, courtesy of Irish Network - New Orleans. In the program we'll attend the same classes, participate in the same activities, and go on the same field trips as the other 46 American students participating in the same program. We won't be tourists in Dublin, we’ll be the weird foreign kids who decided to take college courses on Irish history, culture, sport, and such over the summer for fun. 

We'll be sent overseas to Ireland in mid-July of 2013, at which point we'll begin to relay our adventures on here for our two-week stay. In the meantime, we’ll post about our preparations and thoughts leading up to the trip.

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The original intent for this blog was to document our daily experiences for future participants in UCD’s high school summer program and to communicate with our folks back home about what we’re doing.

However, we want to make this entertaining for people to read.

Therefore, it will be a journal: from our triumphant arrival at 7am on a bright Dublin morning, to complaints about foreign cafeteria food, to missing home, to not missing home, and everything in between.

So welcome! Friends, family, Irish Network folks, and internet strangers, all. Get some popcorn and an iced tea and enjoy.

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