Blogs from Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, Europe - page 17

For starters, Caitlyn and I made it to work on time the rest of the week! Hooray! Working at PALS has been amazing and I've only completed five days. The staff are all very friendly and the kiddos are the sweetest. The program runs in the following order: play, individual therapy, circle group time, play, lunch, individual therapy, play, group speech time, play, and store and goodbye time. Play, behavioral and speech goals are worked on throughout the day, but the group and individual sessions are where it is broken down into specific step by step programs to help each child. The children, as you can imagine, are small, never ending balls of energy! In addition to their schooling five days a week, many of them are potty training and in the after school social skills ... read more

Thoughts on countries so far: Scotland - Cold, windy, beautifully! Drive on the wrong side. People are friendly. Galic is weird! Really like Irn Bru soda! Neil, our guide rocks! Germany - Warmer, but windy on the Rhine. Enchanting towns. Everyone rides bicycles. Inexpensive for a tourist area. Dogs are everywhere... even restaurants, stores, and train stations! Luxembourg - It may be the country with the highest income per capita in the world, but they don't keep their streets and public places very clean! Spend some money on public maintenance! Clothing... women's at least, is expensive! Lower Luxembourg City (Base?) is quite pretty. Brussels - Very diverse in people and buildings. A lot of historical places. European Capital, and buildings to show for it. Never seen so many Kebap or Doner meat restaurants. Waffles are grrrreat! ... read more

The sun rises at 5:30am and that is about the time I woke up for internship day 1. It started out like a typical first day of work and soon turned into a scene from a comedy movie. Like most people, Caitlyn and I woke up early to leave extra early in case of small mishaps. Key word: small. Everything was smooth sailing as we got off bus #1 and to our stop for bus #2. Caitlyn and I are waiting by the curb like every other commuter when our bus comes around the corner and drove right past us. We look at each other, scream a little, and sprint after it (arms slightly flaling). There was a lot of "What the !" and "Classic Caitlyn and Sav day 1!" We walked one block over to ... read more

We finally made it! After two days of traveling and the best luck possible we have made it to Dublin! We had a 12 hour layover in Charlotte, NC, but it was all made better when we found out that we were flying first class to Dublin. The flight was incrediable and I never wanted to get off the plane. There were so many buttons that alloweded us to watch movies, TV or play video games. Then we could sit up, recline or lay fully down, needless to say I never slept so great on plane before. Right away we were handed a full menu and chamgane for our journey. We were given two drinks and a four course meal! I really don't think that it could have gotten much better. Once in Dublin as you ... read more

Geo: 53.3441, -6.26749Far too quickly, our Irish visit was coming to a close and there were still a few items on our to-do list that hadn't been to-do'd yet. There are a number of national sports in Ireland that are unique to Ireland and, for the most part, played only inside Ireland. We had seen some of the hard hitting action associated with Gaelic Football (think Aussie Rules with a soccer ball) and we picked up tickets for the opening game of the Irish Hurling season. We did have to write off the idea of catching a Road Bowling game- an Irish sport in which competitors attempt to take the fewest throws to propel a metal ball along a predetermined course of country roads- sort of an extended version of lawn bowling with a steel cannonball. ... read more