Ghana, Guinness, and More
The Latest from Ireland 2008 Dublin had not panned out the way I expected at all. Although I could have thrown a stone and hit Trinity College from our hotel, we never actually set foot on campus or even took any pictures from the outside. We didn't see St. Stephen's Green or visit the President's house, as my brother did on his previous visit. We took in the city with a local, as locals (drunks) might, which is the way I prefer to travel, as you know. But as a tourist, I felt a little, well, like a failure. I travelled all this way, there was one thing I was not going to miss for all the beer in Ireland: a visit to the Guinness Storehouse.
I could ramble on all about the tour, the factory, the brewing process, etc., but I have a feeling you'd much rather hear about a valuable lesson I learned and how I nearly shit my pants.
And Don't Miss Meghan's Latest Update, Four Days To Go, about her humanitarian aid trip to Ghana. Labels: News
 
Cheers
My first thought was "No bloody way!?! THEY ACCEPTED ME?!?! AWESOME!!!"
My second thought was..."What the hell am I doing??"
And of course the third thought was "How the hell am I going to pitch this one to the parents without someone having a breakdown??"
A few weeks back, after I had already applied, and NOT told the parents, I met them in Washington D.C. for a mini family reunion/vacation. At dinner, with an alcoholic beverage in all of our hands, I spilled the beans.
And in the next update from my trip to Ireland: "One Last Night In Dublin"
Guinness, Guinness, everywhere. And I do mean everywhere.
Coming Soon
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 The following is from Road Scholar Meghan. It is the first in a series of posts about her recent humanitarian aid trip to Ghana. It has been edited for content and length.
For the last few years I have worked at Boston Medical Center in Boston, MA in the Emergency Room as a nursing assistant, ED tech, whatever p.c. term they use nowadays. I love it. Lots of trauma, fast pace, lots of teaching, lots of experience, lots of amusing stories to tell my friends when they're felling sad (really, they call and ask me to "tell me one of your ER stories, I need a laugh"). The hospital serves mostly lower income families in the city, the homeless and the immigrant communities. The staff, on their own, is very committed to serving this population and, as a result, have joined or formed some outside, non-profit organizations. One of which, Unified for Global Healing, was co-founded by one of our ER Doctors, Thea James. For the last several years, she, along with other people, have traveled to underserved populations and given free medical care to those communities. Well, this year the trip is to Ghana.
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The Day The Air Force Lied To Me
Every year, two of the local Air Force bases, Randolph and Lackland, take turns hosting an air show. This year it was Lackland's turn, which happens to be the one near where I work. I have never actually officially been to an air show, at least not in the sense that you drive a distance in traffic, park far away, take a crowded shuttle bus and stand out on the hot pavement looking into the sky, trying not to blind yourself by the sun or pass or pass out from heat exhaustion. That's why I've never bothered going. Usually, if I'm going to "go", I watch from a distance, be it the home of a relative living nearby, a close-by park, or a freeway I happen to be driving on that goes by the base at the right moment. And after all the visitors we had last month, and all the drama, I was looking forward to spending a weekend sitting at home doing absolutely nothing. Fighting crowds in the hot sun was not in the cards.
On Thursday they parked a NATO AWACS jet on the ramp right next to the street I use to drive to work every day. That piqued my curiosity. Then, Thursday afternoon, the Blue Angels began practicing and I found myself in a golf cart parked as close as I could get to the runway without getting shot...a front row seat to the weekend aerobatics to come. On Friday when the F-22 was flying ear shattering, window rattling, car alarm triggering maneuvers 1000 feet off the ground with afterburner, I was sold. I came home and told Jen we were going to the air show on Saturday. I am an idiot.
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It's The Teeth, Stupid!
After the last post, I got no sympathy for the fact that my new cell phone now swims with the fishes, but I got a couple of nasty emails from folks wanting to know if the baby is OK, as if that was the point of the story. I wasn't intentionally leaving everyone in the dark. When caution is thrown to the wind, you don't readily know what the outcome is going to be. Now, a week later, I can tell you that the child is fine. I took medical school pass/fail, but in my professional opinion, it was the four teeth that recently appeared causing most of her symptoms.
Since her discharge from the ER, Miss K has maintained a normal temperature and is pretty much back to her usual self, chasing the dog around the house and working on the manuscript for her book: Physics and You, a Babies Guide to the World. This past weekend she went Trick Or Treating for Halloween and took in an air show on Saturday afternoon, which you will be hearing all about tomorrow. Until then, enjoy the Halloween photos.
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