Schlagwort: Ryanair

A flight on a jet stream

I’m back at home and I’m also very suprised that our flight was shorter than I expected but why? When I arrived at Schönefeld my father told me that we where over the Netherlands in around 12km height. We nearly reached the 1000km/h because of a jet stream. Flying on a jet stream gives the plain an enormous boost which is nearly like when you swim with the water stream. And now imagine the plain would have 1062km/h. That’s a sonic boom.

It’s nice to be home but I miss Ireland a bit. I think I’ll make holiday there when I’m done with my aprenticeship. A really beautiful land with lots of helpful and nice people.

My last advice for all is: Get a lagguage scale befor you fly home else it will be chaos at the airport or in the apartements.

The first 24 hours

Ryanair Boeing 737-800
Ryanair Boeing 737-800

After a smooth flight from Berlin Schönefeld to Dublin and a … hm … let’s call it „dynamic“ bus ride we arrived at the Europa Bus Centre in Belfast at approximately 23:15 (UTC). María Gonzales, one of our contact persons here in Belfast, picked us up there and organized some taxis to bring us to our new homes for the next two months. Oliver, René, Tobias and I live in the Somerset Mews Townhouses in the centre of Belfast.

Today we had an induction meeting at RSM Tenon (the company which planned our work experience and supports us here in Belfast) with Kevin Shine, another of our contact persons and our supervisor here, where we got some general information about Belfast and Nothern Ireland as well as more specific information on our work placements.

After the induction Kevin and me took a cab to go to my job interview at Translink, the public transport provider in Northern Ireland, where I was told about general facts of the work at Translink, the current projects and my possible tasks. I will start tomorrow at 9 o’clock.

In my next post I will tell you something about my first day(s) at Translink …