Really nice trip, bus driver was really funny. The trainees from Dublin joined that trip, too. Nice to do something together :-) I'm afraid I have to mention that another time, but I'm not used to do everything on my own :-)
Met Elina today, nice girl form Greece, the last trainee I havn't known.
Movie we saw at the film festival was stange... BUt after talking to my flate mate, I found out, that it wasn't just a movie, in fact it was a documentation about people who are called "The travellers". These people live in caravans in the suburbs of Ireland's cities and seem to be very poor. The girls want to be married as soon as possible, years ago they left school at the age of 12 to do that. And usually they marry even cousins, that's also the reason why they all look alike, faces, hair color, frinkels,... And they love to fight, even girls. Most of these people have already stayed in jail at the age of 25. But indeed, they have money, they only spend it on marriages and furnerals. And furthermore, they even have their own secret language....
Found out that I have to organise the Dublin weekend for 80 people, just by accident. What if I havn't asked.. When would someone have told me that?!
Phillip - friend of Camilla who is living in Dublin
He showed me around and told me a lot about "busy" city Dublin and nice pubs to go out. Hopefully we'll meet again.
Hm... what can I say, I will be a really relaxing job to do...
I've contacted for the first time the other trainees who are situated in Dublin, hope to see them soon since I am not used to do everything alone. Hopefully they do want to see me soon! And hopefully they are nice :-)
I visited Simon in Northern Ireland. He picked me up in Portadown to show me "his" country. Didn't have passport control, strange, I really had expected that, at least at this border...
But nevertheless, I got known to his mother, father and one sister on friday. They are so lovely! We drove to the northern coast, saw Giants Causeway, forgot to take a picture of Castle Dunlace, went to see the wooden bridge. A friend of him joined us, nice guy, too.
In the evening we went to a pub with his cousin and the girlfriend. She's from Belfast, so although I didn't have problems anymore to understand Simon, the girl's accent was horrible...
On saturday we went to see the Americans Folk Park, lovely! We saw how Irish people used to live ages ago, went on the boat to America and finally arrived there to see how poeple used to live over there. Nice circumstance was that at this day, they showed wedding, one irish wedding and one american weddings and we could try a lot of different cakes which were given to the wedding guests...
In the evening I had the privilege to take part in a family meeting at his aunt's house with a lot of childen, sisters, oncles, aunts,... Such a lovely familiy!
On monday we did a tour to "Castle Coole" after having a typical irish breakfast and came then back home to eat dinner. His mum cooked chicken and apple pie especially for me :-) Simon then drove me back to Dublin....
Did a lot of sightseening today. Lots of tourists, small houses, busses, traffic, people, pubs,... Seems to be a nice city :-)
.. in Dublin, May, 1st.
Charis picked me up at the airport, nice woman. Good to know, she's my boss :-) Lovely flat with one more student living there, the others have already left since university is already finished. But my room is rather small, just a bed and a wardrobe and a desk. Nothing more would fit in and this for 95Euros a week. Well, that's Dublin, the 8th expensive city in the world...