PROGRAM PRICE: $4,369
(based on double-occupancy)

Registration (with a deposit of $450 by Dec. 15, 2007) will assure your space in the program at a price of $4,369.

Payment Schedules:

• 1st Payment -- $450 with registration due by December 15, 2007.
• 2nd Payment -- $1000 due by January 20, 2008.
• 3rd Payment -- $1000 due by February 20, 2008.
• 4th and last Payment, remaining balance due by March 31st, 2008.

• Round trip airfare non-stop from LAX-Dublin-LAX.
• Group transfers to/from airport/home stay.
• Pre-departure orientation.
• 2 six-hour classes each week.
• 28 nights stay, includes daily breakfast and dinner.
• Bus/Rail pass for 4 weeks.
• National Heritage card.
• Student ID Card.

• College tuition
• Passport and visa fees
• Porterage
• Meals not listed
• Personal expenses
• Anything not specified as included in the program

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Saturday, June 28 -- Depart LAX on Aer Lingus.

Sunday, June 29 -- Arrive Dublin at 11:15AM, bus transfer to hotel, 8PM group meeting.

Monday, June 30 -- Instructor guided Bus Tour of Dublin including Phoenix Park , Trinity College , Ireland Tourist Center, Temple Bar, Lunch at Fitzsimmon's Pub, tour of Dublin Castle , 6PM meet Home Stay families at St. Patrick's College. 

Tuesday, July 1 -- Class at St. Pat's 9-3PM, tour of O'Connell St., General Post Office, Eason's Book Store.

Wednesday, July 2 -- Class at St. Pat's 9-12PM, walking tour of Dublin , St. Patrick's Cathedral, St. Aueden's Church, and Christ Church.

Thursday, July 3 -- Bus tour w/guide Wicklow Mountains , Gledalough, Powerscourt Gardens , Avoca Weavers (*time permitting) return to Dublin 6PM.

Friday, July 4 -- Class at St. Pat's 9-3PM.

Saturday, July 5 to Monday, July 7 -- Free Day (Sunday- Free Day *Optional Literary Pub Crawl)

Tuesday, July 8 -- Bus tour with guide, Boyne Valley , Knowth, Monesterboise, Hill of Tara.

Wednesday, July 9 -- Class at St. Pat's 9-3PM Tour of National Museum.

Thursday, July 10 -- Class at St. Pat's 9-3PM (* Play at the Abbey Theater 8PM)

Friday, July 11 -- Walking tour of St. Michan's Church, Kilmainham Gaol, Museum of Modern Art .

Saturday, July 12 -- Bus tour- Kilbeggan, Clonmacnoise, Galway.

Sunday, July 13 -- Aran Islands Tour.

Monday, July 14 -- Bunratty Castle , Limmerick, Rock of Cashel, Dublin 6PM.

Tuesday, July 15 -- Class at St. Pat's 9-3PM.

Wednesday, July 16 -- Class at St. Pat's 9-12PM Writer's Museum, Hugh Lane Gallery.

Thursday, July 17 -- Class at St. Pat's 9-12PM (*play at the Gate Theater)

Friday, July 18 -- Class at St. Pat's 9-3PM Tour National Gallery.

Saturday, July 19 to Sunday, July 20 -- Free Day.

Monday, July 21 -- Class at St. Pat's 9-3PM.

Tuesday, July 22 -- Walking tour of Malahide Castle , Howth.

Wednesday, July 23 -- tour Marino Casino.

Thursday, July 24 -- Free Day Going Home Party at the Brazen Head Pub.

Friday, July 25 -- Free Day.

Saturday, July 26 -- Bus transfer students to airport 7:30AM Flight 145 9AM- arrive LAX 2:50PM.

1. Dublin City Bus Tour and Orientation- including Pheonix Park, Trinity College, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin’s Tourist Center, Temple Bar and more.
   
2. Day Bus Tours- Wicklow Mtns., Glendalough, Powerscourt Gardens, Boyne Valley, Knowth Tombs, Hill of Tara, Monesterboice Cemetary
3. Dublin Walking tours- St. Michan's Church, Kilmainham Gaol, Ireland Modern Art Museum, National Gallery, National History Museum, Writers Museum, Hugh Lane Art Gallery, Malahide Castle.
4. Professional Plays- Abbey Theater, Gate Theater
5. Bus Tour- Kilbeggan, Clonmacnoise, Galway
6. 3-day/2-night tour of Galway and overnight on Aran Island, and Bunratty Castle.
7. Train tour to Howth, and more.

Take advantage of this great trip and during your free days (2 three-day weekends), visit many of the other great sites in Ireland or Europe.

Students will experience the warmth of Irish families while living with them in their homes. Daily breakfast and dinner is included.

The home will provide students with a place to receive calls from home and mail, and learn the different customs of an Irish family. Room to be shared with another student from the program.

Ladd Terry, an Art Instructor at Long Beach City College since 1974, has been leading Study Abroad tours to England and Ireland since 1997.  Ladd Terry has taught at over 10 different colleges in southern Calif.  Ladd Terry holds a certificate in Irish Studies from the University of Ireland/Galway.  Ladd Terry holds a Masters in Fine Arts degree from Claremont Graduate School.  Ladd Terry holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology from Calif. Coast University, is a licensed psychotherapist.  Ladd Terry is an exhibiting artist, a published critic and author.  Ladd Terry is the president of the Irish/American Cultural Exchange, a tax-exempt organization that promotes creative projects and performances.

The Summer 2008 Ireland Study Abroad Program has a limited enrollment.  Students are already signing up. 

For more Information please contact

Festival Travel at 714 221-6381
www.toursfestival.com
or Ladd Terry at
(562) 439-4808

A word from Ladd Terry

“Ancient tendrils of fog roll about the emerald bogs and gently slopping hills Surrounding the Viking foundations of Dublin Castle, the spark of iron bradsword Against English shield long since quenched, soft the murmur of prayer in hushed stone Churches, a plaintive cry rhymed to a fiddle’s lament of a song of sorrow and famine, and Then the cackling laugh of a modern Molly Bloom ricocheting off Temple Bar’s cobble-Stone streets just as a cluster of young Trinity College students pass by on their way to an ‘internet café’.
The Cyber Café to e-mail friends and then a night of pub life.”  Ireland is what you make it.

Ireland offers students the chance to create their own adventure, their own experience of independence and a unique way to enjoy learning about Ireland. The LBCC Study Abroad Program encourages students to expand their cultural horizons beyond the local and familiar. The LBCC Study Abroad Program offers students the opportunity to experience other cultures and to enhance their Educational breadth. 

Ladd Terry, art instructor, will teach The Ireland Summer program 2008 which will have 25 to 30 students, living with Irish families (“homestays”), studying at St. Patrick’s College and touring about the countryside of Ireland. Students may take instruction in Beginning Drawing and Beginning Watercolor for 3 units of transferable college credit. Students will learn how to paint and draw on location as we tour Ireland. It is intended that the students will participate in a “cultural immersion” of Irish/Gaelic culture, both historic and contemporary. For many, the “homestay” experience offers the chance to see Ireland from the Irish perspective. There is also opportunity for individual exploration of Ireland and Europe on two weekends (Fri., Sat., Sun.)

The course excursions include extensive bus and walking tours of Dublin, attending various traditional music and dance events, the Abbey and Gate Theater for an Irish theater experience, Trinity College and the Book of Kells exhibit, a tour of Dublin Castle, the
political prison-Kilmainham Goal, the catacombs under St. Michan’s Church, Malahide Castle, the Dublin Writers Museum, a number of Dublin’s art and history museums, a day trip to the Wicklow Mountains and monastic Glendaloch, a day trip to examine ancient burial mounds at Newgrange, the Hill of Tara and the Celtic crosses of Monesterboice cemetery, a three-day trip to the west coast of Ireland – a night in Galway, a night in Aran Isle, the cliffs of Moher and Bunratty Castle, and much more.