This weekend we took a trip to Dublin as an API group. That is, at 10am on Saturday al of us piled onto the bus with Finn, Kevin, and the three munchkins and headed to Dublin for the night. Now, before this trip I was feeling weary. It was a rough week for me in terms of my anxiety, a bit of homesickness, and just everything. But this trip changed that. I got the pleasure of sitting in front of Roisin and Aisling for the long three hour bus ride. They are five and six years old respectively and have more energy than anyone I have ever seen before. I laughed with them, I played games with them, and I wrote stories with them. Time spent with these two little girls made me completely forget about
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