Tag: Study abroad

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.

“I think in work and business, it’s important to know your weaknesses and plan to counteract them as best you can.”

Anyone who works from home regularly will know that there’s a big difference between being in the office with people and chatting to them through a screen (so many screens!), but we try.

Do you try to control the uncontrollable? Or do you find ways to adapt to the uncontrollable to feel in control?

“You never know what’s around the corner – a short sentence, so much in it.”

Little did I know that my time to venture around Ireland would come to a complete stop.
Today, Ireland is unofficially/officially on lockdown due to Covid-19.