Day 1...

Well after a 4 hour delay in New York at JFK (time that was well spent sleeping on the floor of the airport), and a 6 1/2 hr flight across the Atlantic, I arrived in Dublin.  A fellow volunteer named Erin met me at the airport and we took a taxi to the house in Malahide (a town outside of the city).  I was greeted by the other volunteers who had made a really great brunch. Kaitlyn, Kate, Erin, and Claire are from the States, Lennart and Lisa are from Germany and Jose is from Spain.  This afternoon we went on this really nice long walk by the coast and came back to watch a couple movies.  It's 'really cold' here (for Ireland, I guess) and people don't know what to do with a few inches of snow! There is some snow in our driveway, but since it is such a rare occurance, we don't have a shovel to get rid of it.

We have this weekend off, but I think I'll be going into the city to get visa stuff sorted, a bank account made.  Monday will be prep for the group that is coming, and then the members come on Tuesday.  I'm so excited to hang out with the members.  They will be here for 4 days (usually groups only come for a 3 day break), and this extended stay is kind of on a trial run basis so we'll see how it all turns out. 

I'll try and get some pictures up of the house and the village. And just so you know, the house address is below:

15 Ard Na Mara
Malahide, Co. Dublin, Ireland

And the website for the organization is as follows:

www.casabreakhouses.ie/

Hope you're all doing well! And I hope that everybody is getting back into the swing of things after their holidays!

-Kate