Farewell Ireland. Tomorrow we leave Griffith College at 5:30 in the morning to head off the airport for a long day of travels. We celebrated our last day by visiting Microsoft in the morning and pitching our final presentations in the afternoon (boy did it feel good to get that one over with). Lastly, we…

By working for a big employer, a part of control over your life may be lost. Without holding high stakeholder power, the employer can drop you at any time. Our guest lecturer, Stephen Dillon, quit his full-time retail job for this exact reason. He wanted to be his own boss to keep that control over…

I finally felt awake this morning…maybe the jet lag wore off or maybe it was the long, restful sleep I fortunately had last night. Wide awake, I started the day with a delicious breakfast at Arthur’s Cafe on Griffith’s campus. I am trying to eat as many croissants as I can with the time I…

Back to class we go. After our engaging discussion of the case study about PlayPumps, we were allowed a great amount of time to work on our final reports with our group. Progress was made, and final touches will be the main goal for the night. After class, we made a stop to the Irish…

To end our long weekend, the class did another all day excursion, this time to Glendalough and Kilkenny. Our first stop was at a sheep farm in Glendalough, where we got a peek into the farming industry in Ireland. We watched a demonstration of the farm dog herding the sheep. Unfortunately, we were not allowed…

Earlier this week, on Wednesday, the class toured Croke Park and discussed the motives and history of the Gaelic Athletic Association. Today, we were honored to receive the opportunity to watch one of the games, Gaelic football, at Croke Park. All thanks to Dr. Lada! The game was so cool to watch in person; it…

Ireland surprised me yet again. Never once had I expected to see such beautiful blue water on the coast of a quaint village. Howth is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland that has a wonderfully green peninsula helping form the boundary of Dublin Bay. Along the path to the peninsula, where the white lighthouse stands, was…

Beyond breathtakingly beautiful. How else would one describe a natural wonder that really cannot be described by existing words? When Americans think of Ireland, they think green and old castles and cliffs and sheep…or at least I did. Upon arrival to Dublin, it was a very different scenery than I expected.  A cute, historical city…

Today, we had a few guest speakers during class time. They both emphasized the point of bettering ourselves and standing out to employers. Our first speaker, Derek Reilly, works with Junior Chamber International (JCI). The JCI is a non-profit international organization that encourages young people, between 18 and 40 years old, to become active citizens…