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Jessica Sprenkel is a senior psychology major from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She is studying at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland and selected this school because of its rich history. Her biggest accomplishment this past year was completing a marathon for St. Jude Children’s hospital in Memphis. She enjoyed the challenge but finds half-marathons much more fun and plans to run one in Dingle and several in Europe while she is here. She is looking forward to immersing herself in Irish culture and history and hopes to travel extensively around both Ireland and Europe when she isn’t in the classroom. | |||
Jessica's Posts | |||
there’s no place like home - December 28th, 2009Dublin, IrelandWell, the journey that started almost five months ago has ended and I’m home with half a foot of snow [...] |
12 pubs of Christmas - December 21st, 2009Dublin, IrelandYou’re all probably very familiar with the song the 12 Days of Christmas (and even more familiar with days seven through [...] |
finals, finals, finals - December 17th, 2009Blogs, Dublin, IrelandAt Trinity I’ve experienced more of a paper’s week than a final’s week. Irish academics are organized much differently than what I’ve experienced in the US and the end is just as good a time as any to let you know about them in case you’re considering Trinity (and you should be!). |
tourist again - December 11th, 2009Blogs, Dublin, IrelandAnna warned me before she left that time would run out quickly to do all those things I had planned on doing the entire semester. Well she was right. |
Thanksgiving in Ireland - November 30th, 2009Blogs, Dublin, Ireland, ThanksgivingI managed to celebrate all of these great American traditions, despite their absence in Irish culture. Details of each will come in installments - small bites for those of you with short attention spans. |
snow day! - November 24th, 2009Dublin, IrelandWell I have a little snow day of my own today - classes have been cancelled! Funny thing is that there’s no snow. It’s not even because of the flooding or anything else weather related. Instead 250,000 state employees are on strike - including a majority of the faculty at Trinity. |
city sidewalks, busy sidewalks - November 17th, 2009Dublin, Irelandcome on, help me finish…”dressed in holiday style, it’s Christmastime in the city!” And it’s true, Christmas has come to several different cities in Europe, and I know this because I was in 5 cities this past weekend! |
exhilarating. - October 28th, 2009Dublin, Giant's Causeway, IrelandExhilarating. That’s the only word I can think of to describe this past weekend. Even that doesn’t quite do it. So, I’ll try to tell you about it. |
