{"id":1883,"date":"2025-06-02T00:54:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T00:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointparksocstudent.com\/Internationalmedia\/Ireland2025\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2025-06-02T01:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T01:09:10","slug":"day-one-arrival-orientation-and-welcome-dinner-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointparksocstudent.com\/Internationalmedia\/Ireland2025\/2025\/06\/02\/day-one-arrival-orientation-and-welcome-dinner-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Day One: Arrival, Orientation, and Welcome Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There’s something so disorienting and almost ethereal to getting off a plane. It’s like you’re trapped in this small, secluded vessel for hours and then POOF! You’re in a completely new place even though you never really even felt like you moved. It’s even weirder when you start recognizing that you’re in a completely different country. Everything looks different, the air feels different. It’s just different. It also doesn’t help when jet lag is hitting you like a ton of bricks, but that’s besides the point. But it most certainly was hitting me like a semi-truck and it stayed that way basically all day which was…not the best way to start a trip, but I digress. Needless to say, stepping into Ireland was a very weird and exciting experience for me (apart from the jet lag, which was again, so bad. Like, oh my god).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyways, after picking up my authentic European cuisine, candy watermelon (which I promptly threw out after one bite because they were disgusting), we met our guide for the trip, Sean, and hopped on a bus to Dublin. The ride was so beautiful as we rode through the green fields of Ireland. It was unlike anything I’d seen before. Which is saying a lot because I’m from PA so I’m pretty familiar with green fields. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We did some orientation-ing at Champlaigne college and then got settled (I say that loosely) into our apartments. Then we went to a welcome dinner at the Brazen Head pub, the oldest pub in Ireland. As a certified picky eater, I actually didn’t mind the beef stew I had. It was pretty good. But what was REALLY good was the apple crumble I had. It was the perfect way to open our trip and I was truly chasing the high of its flavor for the rest of my time there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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