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MCAllen - Allen Phelps

So here are the basics, although I expect the majority of my readers will already be aware of them. My name is Allen, and I am a 19 year old, full-time student studying Economics (with minors in both Sociology and Accounting) at Maryville College in Tennessee. I am currently at the University of Ulster-Jordanstown, where I am spending a year as an exchange student with the Irish-American Scholars program. (UU-J is located around 7 miles North of Belfast in the town of Newtownabbey http://www.ulster.ac.uk/ ). This blog will be both of my general life here in UU and whatever other European adventures I can get myself into.

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By MCAllen
November 13th 2007

Overdue Update from "Norn Iron" Europe » United Kingdom » Northern Ireland » Belfast

St. George's Market

It's now November, and I can't believe how fast time is moving. I've managed to get myself fairly wrapped up in life here at in Northern Ireland, which is why it's taken so long for me to get back to this blog. Of course, since I've not managed to stay on top of blogging, I've experienced the downward cycle of never knowing what I would write about when I got around to it again, as each passing day tends to add more to the “not written about yet” pile. So, my solution is to give up on the chronological attempt [View Full Entry]

By MCAllen
September 27th 2007

Life, in general. Europe » United Kingdom » Northern Ireland » Belfast

France Does Rugby
This was the huge Rugby ball blow up hung on the Eiffel tower.

It's amazing how fast time slips away from me here, so here goes blog round two. Although I would love to spend a good bit of time on sightseeing in Paris, I think I'll have to skip through that rather quickly to get to more current things, like life here at UUJ. I'll start back in France, which was an absolute blast. Our first few days were spent in Paris with some hard-core tourism, with Coralie acting as, friend, guide, and translator all in one. From Monday morning until Tuesday evening, we managed to see highlights of the Louvre, take a [View Full Entry]

By MCAllen
September 19th 2007

To Paris, just not directly Europe » France » Île-de-France » Paris

Here is where the adventure begins, and, as expected, it has been rather eventful so far. The week before I left--especially the last few days-- when I began to realize that all the familiar people and places I kept passing would be an ocean away for nine months was a bit nerve wracking, and between packing, last minute errands, and saying goodbyes I had a pretty hectic week. When Saturday the 8th arrived, I was working on not too much sleep and the effects of a fairly large number of mental to-do lists. I took off from Knoxville with two baggage-checked [View Full Entry]

By MCAllen
September 19th 2007

Photos Europe » France » Île-de-France » Paris

Well, I will be adding in a proper entry again, hopefully soon. However, tonights project was using the campus comuters to take photos from my camera, back them up on my ipod, and make sure they were all turned the correct way. Currently I am dumping the whole lot of them from my week in France (and first day in Northern Ireland at Cat's house) into a new photobucket account, MCAllenPics at: http://s226.photobucket.com/albums/dd142/MCAllenPics/ I didn't bother to sort out good from bad or do captions. So your welcome to peruse at your own risk of bordom and/or confusion. Also, note that [View Full Entry]

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