Today was a wonderful day. We started our day in class talking about No’s Knife which I really enjoyed because of the perspective everyone else gave on it. I think that is the biggest thing I enjoy about class. The readings are extremely interesting but I can only interpret so much out of it. I always love seeing how other people interpret things and I think that concept can be applied to most things we are seeing here in Dublin. After class we went to the Hugh Lane Gallery which I wrote about in my other post. Across the street was the Garden of Remembrance which I found extremely powerful because it was insane how all those people lost their lives to just be in a free country. I enjoyed sitting down there and just looking around to take it all in. Earlier in the day Shana had talked to me about this place that has vegan donuts and I was like um I have to go there. So after the Garden of Remembrance we went to that donut place and it was SO good I could have cried. The food here has just been absolutely incredible. Afterwards we went to this extremely good falafel place and it was honestly one of the best falafel wraps I’ve ever had. Then we went to this musical pub crawl which was my favorite part of the day. As a musician, I extremely enjoyed them talked about their music and how it impacts their culture. I felt like I really connected to them in that sense because music is such a huge part of my life as well.
There’s so much in this post–and that’s great but also a bit of a problem, because you don’t go into much depth into any of the topics you mention. This is more like a diary entry of things you did (and, btw, I’m glad you’re liking the things we’re doing . . . ) than a way of thinking through them. Ideally, you’ll connect the activities with the ideas more concretely. If nothing else, you’ll have some ready-made material to work with when you’ve got to write the final essay for the class.