Doing this one ex post facto since I somehow completely forgot to write it while I was actually in Dublin. Not sure how that happened. My bad. Dublin continues to recede into the past as my life in Manila carries on. I think I’ve become quite good, almost too good, at compartmentalization. The Edward Paras…

Hi from Manila! I flew here straight from Dublin, and am continuing my journey with an internship at the U.S. Embassy. It’s much hotter in Manila, and somehow rains even more. It’s truly a cosmic shift, flying from Western Europe to Southeast Asia, from Europe’s most expensive city to a developing megacity with over five…

We had a pretty good run in Dublin, all of us. It’s not over yet of course, but we’re all winding down now. A few tears will most certainly be shed in the coming days. I may cry in private on the plane out, we will see. Here’s the way I see it – as…

At this point we’re much closer to flying out than we are to flying in, hard to believe as it is. I think I speak for the entire Pitt IIP cohort in Dublin when I say that it’s flown by, but we’re all hoping to make the most of the last two weeks and leave…

Edward Paras 6/17 Today marks the start of my third week on the job, fourth week in Dublin – nearly at the halfway point. Time does fly. At the advice of my coworkers, I was able to make it out to the General Post Office Museum over the weekend, which details the story of the…

We’re a week in now at the Department of Housing, Local Government, and Heritage. With Ireland’s housing crisis at the forefront of the nation’s political scene, and local elections having just transpired, (EU elections too, but the results of those won’t be published until tomorrow morning) a bureaucracy that would never cross the average person’s…