Tag: international education

The ladies of the house have decided to take over the Learn blog this week and offer their tips for traveling solo! Do you have any you can add?

Normal travel time New York to Dublin: 1 or 2 flights, 1 or 2 airports, 2 countries, 8 hours of travel.
COVID travel time New York to Dublin: 3 flights, 4 airports, 3 countries and 15 hours of travel – not bad for COVID days.

Growing up in Poland and now living in Ireland – what is something you miss about Poland and are grateful for in Ireland?

Remember the game “Twenty Questions?” Learn has played it blogging-style. We each asked the other one different question. The results are as interesting as they are diverse!

I find expanding my perspectives, pushing my boundaries, stepping out of my comfort zone, and perfecting my tolerance for uncertainty encourages me to explore a new country rather than return to a previous destination.

Would I go back? In a heartbeat, and have done so already. Would I live there? Yes, if they invented factor 10,000 sunblock. Can I go tomorrow? Sadly, no, but if one of you dear readers gets inspired, goes and discovers its magic, it would be well worth the effort.

A small act of kindness goes a long way. No matter what the current events, doing something nice for someone –
or a group of someones – always makes the world a little sweeter.

“Our contradictoriness. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.” – Paulo Coelho

I have now been interning the same amount of time remotely as I did in-person. It has been 4 weeks in and 4 weeks out.