First, YOU ARE IN IRELAND AS A TOURIST. Is that clear? Don't write down on
the immigration form that you are there to attend school. You are a student
of EVERGREEN, not of an Irish university. The visa situation is completely
different and WAY more complicated if you say you're there to be a student.

1. Be in Dublin by the night of April 19. Make sure you have a bottle of
water and a snack for the bus ride. I'm not joking.
2. On the morning of April 20, go to St. Stephen's Green; it's a centrally
located park (very, very nice) in Dublin. If you can find Grafton Street,
you can find St. Stephen's Green. Ask anybody and they'll tell you that you
can't miss it; why, it could bite you from here.
3. By 9:45 a.m. at the latest, you should have located the Stephen's Green
Hotel, which borders on St. Stephen's Green (duh!). Before getting on the
bus, you might just take advantage of the fact that really nice hotels tend
to have really nice bathrooms in the lobby.
4. Look for the bus ("Curran Coaches") with the sign in the window that says
"Oideas Gael." If it's not there yet, look for your friends and stay put.
The bus is supposed to leave at 10 a.m., so please do not be late because it
won't wait for you.
5. The bus will stop in either Donegal town or Enniskillen for you to shop
for food. Just get yourself something for dinner that night and breakfast
the next day because the Gleann has shops with food. Note: it would be a
good place for one person from each cottage to pick up a water filter,
unless you really like drinking pale brown water when it rains hard and the
bogs release a bunch of tannin into the water table.

If you miss the bus (tsk!) then you can make your way to the Irish Tourist
Centre nearby and find out where to catch the McGeehan's bus to Gleann Cholm
Cille. It leaves at 6 pm every day, so you'll be getting there late at
night. Be sure to ring Oideas Gael to let them know if you'll be late (or if
you've been detained as a terrorist or hippie or something). Their phone
number is (074) 973-0248.

Dunstan and I will be waiting for the bus when you arrive. We can't wait to
see you all again!! We will help you to settle in. Note: the director's name
is LIAM, his assistant is SIOBHÁN ("sha-VAUGHN"), and the bookstore manager
is GEARÓIDÍN ("GAIR-o-jeen"). They are all wonderful people and they have
known each of the previous Evergreen groups well. Your first commitment is
to be at Oideas Gael at noon on Saturday the 21st to meet formally with
Liam. See you there!