Ireland Study Abroad Trip
Donation protected
Hi, my name is Jason Chavez. I am from Tucson, Arizona and I currently live in Richmond, Virginia where I am a student at John Tyler Community College. I expect to graduate with my Associate of Science degree in General Studies in the summer of 2016. Upon graduation, I hope to continue my education at a four-year college or university and pursue a Bachelor of Arts degree in history.
As a student at John Tyler, I have the opportunity to study abroad this summer with their International Education program. I will be spending 15 days in Ireland from June 27- July 10, 2016. While there, I will be studying Major Writers in World Literature. This course focuses specifically on the fiction of James Joyce and the poetry of William Butler Yeats. I will also have the opportunity to tour museums, and attend an evening performance of Gaelic language theatre at Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe among many other activities. For your consideration, I have included a detailed itinerary of the Ireland Study Abroad trip below.
The cost of the trip is $5,000. This covers airfare, internal travel, hotels, admission to museums and performances, breakfast daily, group dinner, tuition, and spending money for meals.
The English 242- Major Writers in World Literature course is one of the last two courses that I need to complete my Associate of Science degree. I've been enrolled as a student in the community college system for the past 6 years. Because of the high cost of tuition I've been enrolled as a part-time student, taking as many classes as I could pay for out of my own pocket. It has been a long and bumpy road but it is nice to finally have a light at the end of the tunnel.
I'm asking for you to please consider donating to this study abroad trip. Your investment will not only guarantee an amazing experience in Ireland, but also will help me to reach my goal of graduating with my Associate's of Science degree.
In gratitude for your contribution, I will send postcards from Ireland, and provide you with an account of what I'm learning while studying abroad.
Thank you,
Jason Chavez
If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, please visit http://www.jtcc.edu/academics/international-education/
IRELAND STUDY ABROAD TRIP
Day 1: Depart Richmond
Flight from Richmond to Dublin.
Day 2: Dublin
Travel by Aircoach bus from the airport to the hotel in Downtown Dublin. After storing our luggage for a later check-in, we’ll have the rest of the day for an introductory walking tour of the Temple Bar area and lunch and then to Trinity College campus and its Books of Kells Museum and Long Room. On the way back to the hostel, we’ll take a bit more time to get acquainted with each other at our “neighborhood.” Group dinner.
Day 3: Dublin
We will arrive at O’Connell Street in the morning and visit the General Post Office (a major site of the 1916 Easter Rising). Then we will all visit the Dublin Writers’ Museum and stop at the Garden of Remembrance along the way. After lunch nearby, students will take a James Joyce walking tour. In the late afternoon we will visit the Joyce Center and then meet with John Joyce, great nephew of James Joyce for some first hand knowledge. In the evening, students will see a show at the Samuel Beckett Theatre.
Day 4 : Dublin
We’ll devote the day to all things related to James Joyce including optional trips via public transportation to Joyce’s Tower at Sandymount or the Guinness Brewery or Grafton Street shopping, and local street performers.
Day 5 : Dublin
We will meet in the morning and walk to St. Stephen’s Green for a tour. We’ll break for lunch at noon and meet again for our reserved entry to the National Gallery; we’ll meet afterwards to walk back across the Ha-Penny, Dublin’s only pedestrian bridge, and then explore Dublin Castle (site of the first recognized Irish theatre production in 1601), and Christ’s Church Cathedral. We’ll return to the hostel in late afternoon. Students will attend an evening performance at the Abbey Theater.
Day 6: Galway Residency
We will take a leisurely morning bus across Ireland to Galway with visits to the monastic site at Clonmacnoise, Athlone Town and Castle, and the Horse Museum at Dartfield. Plan to share your favorite Gaelic phrases on the bus since Galway is Gaeltechts, a Gaelic speaking area. We will check into our rooms at Forster Court Hotel off Eyre Square in downtown Galway and then enjoy a walking tour of Galway, a scenic and bustling college town filled with history. We will meet for an early evening walking tour and dinner.
Day 7 : Galway Residency
Today, we will enjoy a lecture on Irish literature and publishing History by Irish Writers Center, Fred Johnson. In the evening, students will see a show at the Black Box Theatre.
Day 8 : Galway Residency
We’ll leave in the morning for a day-trip to the mountains of Connemara. We’ll travel through the glens of the Twelve Pins Mountains to beautiful Kylemore Abbey. We’ll have lunch in the restaurant at Kylemore and then stop briefly at Clifden, a tiny picturesque town where Marconi transmitted the first wireless signal. The scenery, reminiscent of the Scottish Highlands, continues as we return to Galway.
Day 9 : Galway Residency
Morning sites include Coole Park with its associations with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, then on to stunning Cliffs of Moher and its observation center, and the strangely lunar landscape of The Burren with a stop at the Poulnabrone Dolmen.
Then we’ll take a chilly late afternoon ferry (45 minutes) across the mouth of Galway Bay to Áras Éanna, one of the Aran Islands, to see an evening performance of Gaelic language theatre at Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe. Late evening return by ferry to Galway. Bring Irish woolens!!
Day 10: Sligo
Today we travel by motor coach from Galway to Sligo, stopping to explore the Village of Cong, the Museum of Country Life, and the Foxford Woollen Mills, before we check in at the Sligo City Hotel in the vibrant riverside area of O’Connell Street. The afternoon will include a visit to the Yeats Memorial Museum, County Library (Yeats manuscripts) and the Sligo County Museum. In the evening, we can go to Hardagan’s Bar for traditional music. Students will attend a performance at the Hawk’s Well Theater.
Day 11: Sligo
We’ll spend the day seeing the sites in Yeats Country: Queen Medb’s Cairn, Knocknaree, Drumcliff & Benbulben, Yeat’s Grave, Loch Gill, Lake Isle of Innisfree. Evening open to explore or relax on your own.
Day 12: Sligo
By motor coach, we’ll travel to the Belfast along the Causeway Coastal route with stops at Bushmills and along the Giants Causeway. We will arrive in Belfast after 6 p.m. Tentatively, we will meet and dine with students from the Belfast Metropolitan College and perhaps see an evening film at Metropolitan College or a show at the Lyric Theatre. Overnight at the Day’s Hotel in central Belfast.
Day 13: Belfast
Tentatively, we will hear an introductory lecture at Metropolitan College and then take a Black Taxi tour of Belfast: Falls Road Republican Murals, the Peace line, the Ulster Museum, Sinn Fein Headquarters, and perhaps St. George’s Market. Afternoon to shop, pack, relax. Farewell group dinner.
Day 14: Return
Travel by motor coach to Dublin Airport and head home to Virginia.
As a student at John Tyler, I have the opportunity to study abroad this summer with their International Education program. I will be spending 15 days in Ireland from June 27- July 10, 2016. While there, I will be studying Major Writers in World Literature. This course focuses specifically on the fiction of James Joyce and the poetry of William Butler Yeats. I will also have the opportunity to tour museums, and attend an evening performance of Gaelic language theatre at Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe among many other activities. For your consideration, I have included a detailed itinerary of the Ireland Study Abroad trip below.
The cost of the trip is $5,000. This covers airfare, internal travel, hotels, admission to museums and performances, breakfast daily, group dinner, tuition, and spending money for meals.
The English 242- Major Writers in World Literature course is one of the last two courses that I need to complete my Associate of Science degree. I've been enrolled as a student in the community college system for the past 6 years. Because of the high cost of tuition I've been enrolled as a part-time student, taking as many classes as I could pay for out of my own pocket. It has been a long and bumpy road but it is nice to finally have a light at the end of the tunnel.
I'm asking for you to please consider donating to this study abroad trip. Your investment will not only guarantee an amazing experience in Ireland, but also will help me to reach my goal of graduating with my Associate's of Science degree.
In gratitude for your contribution, I will send postcards from Ireland, and provide you with an account of what I'm learning while studying abroad.
Thank you,
Jason Chavez
If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, please visit http://www.jtcc.edu/academics/international-education/
IRELAND STUDY ABROAD TRIP
Day 1: Depart Richmond
Flight from Richmond to Dublin.
Day 2: Dublin
Travel by Aircoach bus from the airport to the hotel in Downtown Dublin. After storing our luggage for a later check-in, we’ll have the rest of the day for an introductory walking tour of the Temple Bar area and lunch and then to Trinity College campus and its Books of Kells Museum and Long Room. On the way back to the hostel, we’ll take a bit more time to get acquainted with each other at our “neighborhood.” Group dinner.
Day 3: Dublin
We will arrive at O’Connell Street in the morning and visit the General Post Office (a major site of the 1916 Easter Rising). Then we will all visit the Dublin Writers’ Museum and stop at the Garden of Remembrance along the way. After lunch nearby, students will take a James Joyce walking tour. In the late afternoon we will visit the Joyce Center and then meet with John Joyce, great nephew of James Joyce for some first hand knowledge. In the evening, students will see a show at the Samuel Beckett Theatre.
Day 4 : Dublin
We’ll devote the day to all things related to James Joyce including optional trips via public transportation to Joyce’s Tower at Sandymount or the Guinness Brewery or Grafton Street shopping, and local street performers.
Day 5 : Dublin
We will meet in the morning and walk to St. Stephen’s Green for a tour. We’ll break for lunch at noon and meet again for our reserved entry to the National Gallery; we’ll meet afterwards to walk back across the Ha-Penny, Dublin’s only pedestrian bridge, and then explore Dublin Castle (site of the first recognized Irish theatre production in 1601), and Christ’s Church Cathedral. We’ll return to the hostel in late afternoon. Students will attend an evening performance at the Abbey Theater.
Day 6: Galway Residency
We will take a leisurely morning bus across Ireland to Galway with visits to the monastic site at Clonmacnoise, Athlone Town and Castle, and the Horse Museum at Dartfield. Plan to share your favorite Gaelic phrases on the bus since Galway is Gaeltechts, a Gaelic speaking area. We will check into our rooms at Forster Court Hotel off Eyre Square in downtown Galway and then enjoy a walking tour of Galway, a scenic and bustling college town filled with history. We will meet for an early evening walking tour and dinner.
Day 7 : Galway Residency
Today, we will enjoy a lecture on Irish literature and publishing History by Irish Writers Center, Fred Johnson. In the evening, students will see a show at the Black Box Theatre.
Day 8 : Galway Residency
We’ll leave in the morning for a day-trip to the mountains of Connemara. We’ll travel through the glens of the Twelve Pins Mountains to beautiful Kylemore Abbey. We’ll have lunch in the restaurant at Kylemore and then stop briefly at Clifden, a tiny picturesque town where Marconi transmitted the first wireless signal. The scenery, reminiscent of the Scottish Highlands, continues as we return to Galway.
Day 9 : Galway Residency
Morning sites include Coole Park with its associations with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, then on to stunning Cliffs of Moher and its observation center, and the strangely lunar landscape of The Burren with a stop at the Poulnabrone Dolmen.
Then we’ll take a chilly late afternoon ferry (45 minutes) across the mouth of Galway Bay to Áras Éanna, one of the Aran Islands, to see an evening performance of Gaelic language theatre at Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe. Late evening return by ferry to Galway. Bring Irish woolens!!
Day 10: Sligo
Today we travel by motor coach from Galway to Sligo, stopping to explore the Village of Cong, the Museum of Country Life, and the Foxford Woollen Mills, before we check in at the Sligo City Hotel in the vibrant riverside area of O’Connell Street. The afternoon will include a visit to the Yeats Memorial Museum, County Library (Yeats manuscripts) and the Sligo County Museum. In the evening, we can go to Hardagan’s Bar for traditional music. Students will attend a performance at the Hawk’s Well Theater.
Day 11: Sligo
We’ll spend the day seeing the sites in Yeats Country: Queen Medb’s Cairn, Knocknaree, Drumcliff & Benbulben, Yeat’s Grave, Loch Gill, Lake Isle of Innisfree. Evening open to explore or relax on your own.
Day 12: Sligo
By motor coach, we’ll travel to the Belfast along the Causeway Coastal route with stops at Bushmills and along the Giants Causeway. We will arrive in Belfast after 6 p.m. Tentatively, we will meet and dine with students from the Belfast Metropolitan College and perhaps see an evening film at Metropolitan College or a show at the Lyric Theatre. Overnight at the Day’s Hotel in central Belfast.
Day 13: Belfast
Tentatively, we will hear an introductory lecture at Metropolitan College and then take a Black Taxi tour of Belfast: Falls Road Republican Murals, the Peace line, the Ulster Museum, Sinn Fein Headquarters, and perhaps St. George’s Market. Afternoon to shop, pack, relax. Farewell group dinner.
Day 14: Return
Travel by motor coach to Dublin Airport and head home to Virginia.
Organizer
Jason N. Chavez
Organizer
Ashland, VA
