Are we in Cork or Hogwarts?

Day 9: June 25, 2012                        

Roses from the garden on
campus at UCC.

            Monday morning started with a tour of the campus of University College of Cork, where we are staying. The campus is absolutely gorgeous! There are many aspects of the campus here that remind me of JMU. The quad here is not as big or nice as ours, but it is a little reminder of home. One thing that I saw on the UCC campus that we definitely don’t have at JMU is a group of young wizards! We saw a group of kids walking through campus wearing cloaks! I’m pretty sure they were actually robes, but cloaks just sounds better.

Colin with the Hogwarts students.

            After our tour the Irish Film class went to a room on campus and watched Robert Flaherty’s “Man of Aran” from 1934. I have experience watching Flaherty films, from my Documentary class I took this past spring semester. His first documentary, “Nanook of the North” is considered by many to be one of the first actual documentaries ever follows an Eskimo family in Canada. “Man of Aran” is very similar to this. It follows a family on the Aran Islands off the coast of Ireland and their struggle to survive in the harsh environment of the islands. I will spare you by not going into any further details

            Later Monday we all ran to a small grocery store and got necessities for the night. We ended up having a little hang out in the five guys apartment and then went out to our favorite pub here in Cork, Oliver Plunketts.