My mum has worked as a teacher long before I was born. For years, she has worked at the local primary school in Monaghan, my hometown. I had her as my teacher for my second-last year of primary school and I consider it the worst year of my school life. Okay, that's a bit of …
Continue reading Experience on Erasmus: Sharing Cultures – Teaching Irish Classes
This blog site has gone unposted in the last several months. No new posts have been written in a long time. Things have happened, things have been changing. I've had to put my writing on hold for a while. Many times, I have wanted to return to my blog, go back to writing my short …
The second semester of my Erasmus year was only days away. I spent the Friday before the restarting of classes in the Trier Galerie with two of my friends, Emily and Gina. Easter had just passed, but the decorations had not yet been taken down. On the bottom floor of the shopping centre, we saw …
Aside from his given name, Murphy has a lot of other names. Baby Boy, Buckshot, Mammy's Boy, Murph, Smurfy... you get the idea. But there is one name that I feel is the one that we should have given him when we got him: Custard. Murphy wanting cuddles and attention! I love Murphy to bits …
Continue reading Life With a Springer Spaniel – Groomers and Growlies
The abandoned village of Port in County Donegal Donegal has always been a part of my life right from when I was born. Both of my parents are Donegal born and bred, my father raised in Ballyshannon, my mother in the village of Glencolmcille. Mum would take me and my sister up to Glen nearly …
I remember where I was two years ago when two hosts in Tel Aviv, Israel announced that the Netherlands had won the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. Myself and my sister were on the edge of our seats, tense, and practically screaming at the television, yelling at the hosts to 'Just get on with it!' In …
As Orientation finally came to an end, I was finally given the opportunity to take part in actual classes in the university. During the day, I had to sit through Media classes, and in the evenings, I had German language classes with the other Erasmus students. Before we began our official classes, we had the …
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I’ll be honest; I’m not a huge fan of rom-coms. I find them very clichéd and they all follow the same story: unexpected meeting, falling in love, split up, reunion, all ends happily ever after. The End. Just doesn’t appeal to me. Now I’m not saying that I hate all rom-coms; I do enjoy the …
Continue reading Word Against Screen- Where Rainbows End vs. Love Rosie
Boleyn. That has always been associated with one person. Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England, the woman who informally caused the English Reformation. But there was another girl who left behind an almost unknown legacy. Anne's sister, Mary. Mary Boleyn - The Other Boleyn Girl - artist unknown The Other Boleyn Girl. …
Continue reading Book Review – The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
I have lost count on the amount of times that I have read this diary. In fact, I read it so much, my copy literally fell apart and I ended up having to buy another one! That’s how much the diary of Anne Frank meant to me growing up. Anne Frank c.1942 Born in Frankfurt, …
Continue reading Book Review – The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
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