Diary 💗 My first time doing karaoke

Being sixteen, a party in Ireland, and facing my fears

I was in a small town in Ireland

The house I was in felt oddly familiar, it reminded me of my friend’s house back in Washington D.C.

I was 16 years old, at a party in a town called Drogheda about 45 minutes outside of Dublin on an all-girls exchange trip. (Fun fact: contributor No. 041 Shannon Egan was on the trip too — we went to school together for 11 …