Today is the second day of the Conference! The sun is shining
and the short walk to the University College Cork will be a pleasant trip. Sunset occurred at 9:46 p.m. last night and
it was daylight when the alarm sounded at 6:00 a.m so it feels as if the sun
never sets in Ireland! We will need plenty of daylight to accomplish all we
have planned today!
We students are getting into a rhythm and met at the local
café for a quick breakfast before we headed to the Conference. This morning we
were first greeted by Steven with Paddywagon tours who guided us on the tour of
the Kerry road. It’s so nice to see a familiar face within the local community
to share stories and greetings!
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| Matthew, Nan, and Valerie with a presenter at UFHRD 2015 |
For the Conference, everyone chose breakout sessions to attend
and will prepare reports on them to
share with the other students. All of us will attend the Keynote talks. This morning's
speaker, Michael Morley with the University of Limerick, welcomed us with a traditional
Irish greeting loosely translated as, “welcome and 20,000 welcomes among us”, which
seems fitting for the hospitable way we have been treated during our visit!
Tonight, after a full day of talks we are off to Ballymaloe House for dinner
entertainment and dancing!
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| The group getting ready to go to Ballymaloe House! |
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