My Home

This is the neighborhood I live in. I am in Dublin 4 right off of Baggot St. This street is a mile long of famous pubs, a lot of them that have been here since the 18oo's. "The Baggot St. Mile" is the famous pub crawl that goes from the first pub at the bottom of my block to the last one in city center... 21 pubs... a guinness at each one, is sure to send you home early and leave you feeling a little groggy the next morning. My flat is right around the corner from this pub, The Wellington and everyday I walk past all these pubs to get to Trinity which is right in City Center. I have about a 20 minute walk to school, and when its raining, it feels a lot longer, and can be deadly cold! 

Traveling the Globe

When I was in elementary school, we used to walk over to the globe in the corner of the classroom, spin it as fast as we could, close our eyes, and trace our fingers along the world as it spun. When it would stop spinning, our fingers had landed on a place and that we believed we were destined to be. I don't remember any of the places my finger stopped on so long ago, but now, traveling from South America, to Hawaii, to California, Colorado, Boston, New York, and now Europe, this is how my life feels. I spin around and choose a place on the map. So for now, I am one little point on the map, with so many places still to go, but my "battered suitcases are piled on the sidewalk again, I have a longer way to go. but no matter the road is life." My path seems a little arbitrary, there is a lot of back and forth, here and there, this place and that place, sometimes I don't even know where I am going until I get there, and although at times the journey is exhausting, I know in retrospect it will be all the more worthwhile. I have seen a small slice of culture from the places I have traveled, and the longer I here the easier it gets to leave and explore.