An Unexpected Meeting

I've been here for four days now. I'm starting to settle in alright, everything came right back to me once I got here thankfully. I even remembered to go to the WRONG side of the car when I was picked up at the airport.

Arriving in Ireland

Yesterday, I finally met my mentor/boss in the morning at a hotel. I talked with her for about two minutes then she got called to go upstairs. She told me to come with so I did and found myself smack dab in the middle of a meeting. There were about 15 people sitting at a table in the conference hall and already started the meeting... of what I had no idea. So we take our place at the table and for about and hour I was lost, confused, and felt terribly out of place but slowly learned the lingo. I soon realized it was a meeting for environmental policies, which I've never dealt with so it was quite interesting to learn more about it.

After lunch, I headed back home for a nap due to jet lag making me delirious. I met up with my mentor again around 5:30 that night to watch her presentation at the Dáil, the House of Parliament. Going into the Parliament, you have to pass through security about 3 or 4 times. I felt so official but incredibly out of place. I didn't really know what the presentation was about, I just knew it was on aquaculture. We were led into a room with a round circular desk for the deputies to sit at as well as the presenters and one large one at the head for the chairman of Agriculture, food, and water. The meeting lasted about 2.5 hours, and I feel as though I followed along fairly well. It was such a long day of learning new things, I was glad when the day was done.

House of Parliament