My first two days in Ireland

Yesterday we arrived in dublin. I think it is a very beautiful little city. At first we explored our penthouse appartment. It’s a nice composition of luxus and standart.

Our view from the balcony
Our view from the balcony
our haumble room
our humble room

Furthermore it’s in the centre of Dublin. Shortly after moving into the rooms we went down the city and looked for a super-market. The prices here are much higher than in Germany. In the afternoon we visited a nice typical irish pub (o’sheas). It was a very nice place and the food as well as the guinnes were very delicious. After our meals we went in a little club.The people in dublin are very diffrent, but i like this.
Today, after the morning sport, we went in the city center and organized a bus-ticket and a phone card. The bus-ticket was very expensive
but the phone card is much cheaper than in Germany. And now i have cook our dinner and we to die away the day.

see you later

We arrived, alive!

Dear Reader,

after a hard flight besides my fellow Lars Holstein we landed in Dublin at 1pm. Our first informations and the long way to the hotel was arrange by a funny guy with an „OSXIMT“ sign at the airport. After we arrived on our hotel we were a little bit shocked. The apartment compete with a ruin and is way to small for 4 guys for 8 weeks. It’s really frustrating  espacially after the first informations from our colleagues about their apartments.

Positive is the position of our hotel. We were shopping in the supermarket and the diplomatistarea of dublin is 2 minutes away. We also see alot of nice churches and other awesome buildings.

Hopefully my next post can be more positiv but  a the moment these are the only things i can report of.  I am full of hope that Margaret or the hotel can manage our problem.

 

 

Best wishes from Ireland,

Alexander

#1 – First thoughts, first steps, first actions

Hey everybody,

first i’d like to talk about the way I am thinking of writing this Blog. I thought that I could do it in the diary form like mostly everyone else will, or in a more topic related way. I guess I will mix both somehow, whatever feels better at time and day.

Also, as I have no camera, pictures will be some kind of an issue. I of course will be able to borrow cameras of my „roommates“, but we haven’t had the opportunity to take a lot of pictures yet (I will try to edit this later and add pictures). The reasoning brings me already to the actual core of this Blog-Entry – The first impressions.

I will cut the takeoff and arrival at the airport short, as my colleages will surely cover that and my feelings do match theirs mostly.

At the second we got out of the bus at our hostel, he went on. And there we were now standing in front of that house being told to just enter. The man at the reception knew that students from an internship would arrive. He explained the way to the appartment. Still we got lost – badly! This house is like the incarnation of the craziest maze ever invented. We somehow made it back to the reception and he explained it again. Of course we did understand the way. Yet, we got lost again. We found someone from the staff and she was able to bring us to our place. Who could have thought that we had to go through the firedoor?

The appartment is both, big and small at the same time (remember the maze house? the apartment is the same!)

Erik and I got an incredibly small room for us while Robert and Christoph got the bigger one. Upstairs is the living room which includes the kitchen.

We headed out quite soon after we stored our luggage.

The first impressions outside of our house, including the super-market prices and pub density will be topic in the next blog-entry, so keep on reading!

— TO BE CONTINUED —

The Journey starts…

Hi everyone,

today our Journey starts. At about 11:20 a.m. the departure began and we were getting excited more and more.
We arrived at 12:36 p.m. at the Dublin Airport. The flight went really smooth with only minor turbulences.

The weather was awesome at our arrival. The Sun was shining and it was pretty warm outside.

After we left the airport, we were brought to our accommodations here in Dublin by car.

Following are two pictures I made while we were driving through the city.

 

 

 

After the check in at our apartment, located at Lad Lane, we took the chance to discover some of our surrounding area.
We found some interessting spots, like Pubs and some possibilities to buy some food.

We „visited“ a Burger King restaurant and were absolutly shocked about the price differences between Berlin and Dublin.

 

 

If we want to go to the shopping sites, we have to cross a small canal.
The possibilities to cross it look like the following:

 

 

We still have to buy some things that we need. Like Toiletepaper or some cheap dishtowels.

Our apartment itself is functional but clean, not more. Right now we are four people in here but the apartment is way too small. It would only suite two.
The kitchen is relatively small but should meet our needs.

 

 

The view from our balcony is really pretty. I will try to make a photo at sunset on the next days but the view at about 14 p.m. is also pretty nice.

 

 

This was our first day in Dublin. Hopefully the other days will be at least the same or even better.
As for me, I am enjoying a small packet of salty snack biscuits and let the day end.

 

 

See you soon.

Markus

Belfast here i come

In less than 3 weeks I will sit in a plane headed for Dublin Airport, from which I take a bus and leave for my final destination  Belfast, the capital of North Ireland. I’m really excited what wonders may await me in the country of  myths and ledgends, maybe I’ll meet a leprechaun or stumble upon a pot of gold beneath a rainbow.

 

While the main purpose of my visit is to gather work experiance I want to see the country I will be working in.
In Belfast I want to visit the city center with its shops and pubs, the grand city hall and the many old churches and castles.

Belfast City Hall (taken from Wiki Commons)

 

Outside of Belfast I will travel north to see the Giant’s Causeway and in the south I will look down the Cliffs of Moher.

 

Irland und Meine Erwartungen

Meine Erwartungen an denn Irland Aufenthalt.

Ich gehe mit gemischten Gefühlen nach Irland zum einen freue ich mich ein neues Land kennen zu lernen, neue Kulturen zu erleben und dort mein Englisch zu verbessern. Allerdings ist es zu Hause auch Schön 😛

Des Weiteren weiß ich nicht wie ich dort klarkommen werde in welch ein Unternehmen ich komme, was ich da tuhen werde, wie den Menschen dort sind und wie die Unterkünfte dort sind . Und dann ist alles schon aufregend und vielleicht ein wenig beängstigend. Doch gehe ich allgemein mit positiven Erwartungen nach Irland und bin schon darauf gespant wie es wird.

 

Vorfreude auf Irland

Hallo Leute!

Erst einmal eine kleine Info im Voraus: Seht es mir ein wenig nach wenn dieser Blog oder zumindest dieser erste Beitrag nicht ganz euren Erwartungen entspricht. Dies ist jedoch mein allererster Blogeintrag und vermutlich für eine ganze Zeit mein letzter auf Deutsch. Alle weiteren Beiträge werden auf Englisch erfolgen. Also, viel Spaß beim Lesen. 🙂

Mein einziger wirklicher Auslandsaufenthalt war vor 4 oder 5 Jahren. In dieser Zeit war ich eine Woche lang in England, was eine wirklich interessante Erfahrung war. Genau diese Erwartungen stecke ich auch in Irland. Ich hoffe dort meine Englischkenntnisse weiterzuentwickeln, mein Kulturverständnis für andere Kulturen verbessern, neue Leute kennenlernen und GANZ wichtig: Die schöne Landschaft genießen.

Das ist einer meiner wichtigsten Aspekte, was Vorfreude anbelangt. Die irischen Klippen sind weltbekannt, und alte Schlösser interessieren mich seit langem. Hier ist ein kleines Foto, was mir ein Klassenkamerad gezeigt hat

Foto von: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malahide_Castle.jpg

Ihr seht selber, wie cool dieses Bollwerk aussieht. Ich kann es kaum erwarten, mir das anzusehen! Irland, ich komme!

 

Wir lesen uns 😉

Irland ich komme

Hallo Leute,

in 3 Wochen geht es endlich los. Dieser Blogeintrag zeigt euch was ich mir von der Reise erwarte und wo es für mich hingeht.
Wir werden am 06.04.2013 mit der irischen Fluggesellschaft Aerlingus nach Dublin fliegen.

Foto von https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Arpingstone

Ich hoffe das ich in Irland mein Englisch um einiges verbessern kann. Außerdem erhoffe ich mir eine schöne Zeit in dem Betrieb und das ich dort viele neue Sachen lerne. Es werden zwei großartige Monate mit viel Spaß und vielen Erfahrungen.

Ansonsten lassen wir uns mal überraschen was man so alles dort erlebt.


Hier ein kleines Video von Dublin, wo wir die 2 Monate arbeiten und untergebracht sind.

Bis später

 

Vorbereitung auf Irland

Heute, am Montag den 18.03.2013, haben wir eine kleine Einführung in das Blog-System, welches wir in Irland nutzen dürfen.

Um ein wenig vertrauter mit dem Blog-System zu werden, erstellen wir derzeit alle unseren ersten Blogeintrag.
Neben dem einfachen schreiben, üben wir gleichzeitig noch Bilder und Videos (von z.B. Youtube) mit in den Blog einzubinden.

 

Auf den Straßen von Dublin:

Auf den Straßen von Dublin.

 

10 Dinge die man über Dublin wissen sollte (englisch):

 

Wir lesen uns bald wieder.

 

Bild-Quelle: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OConnellStreet.JPG

Meine Erwartungen an Irland

Hallo lieber Leser,

 

ich erwarte von Irland das Unerwartete. Besonders in meiner Freizeit werde ich sicherlich viele verrückte Sachen machen. Wie zum Beispiel ein solches Schloss zu besuchen:

File:Malahide Castle.jpg

Malahide Castle; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malahide_Castle.jpg

 

Meine Arbeit wird sich wohl kaum von meiner jetzigen unterscheiden, bis auf die Sprache. Ich bin wirklich gespannt ob ich trotz des Mangels an englischen Fachbegriffen meine Standpunkte klar machen kann.

 

Anbei noch ein kleines Video:

 

Viele Grüße,

Alex