Life in Ireland After Paris

Finally, after a stressful and busy life in Paris, our cohort of 25 people travel to Dublin, Ireland in the hope of having a good time :D. After the long week classes in Paris from Monday to Friday 8:30 to 17:30 we had time to relax and take breath in Ireland. Praying to have a good semester, we started our classes right after 1 week in Ireland. Weather wsa pretty cold, was struggling with the new places and definately new people around. 

The first day in Ireland seems to very relaxing!! Ahhh when you have nothing to do instead of rest. Ireland is completely different from France. Its quiet small city with small buildings and less crowded. The biggest change we noticed was the language. After having a bad experience with French language, life seems to be easy in Ireland where people rarely speaks Irish and you notice everyone speaking English even on the roads, malls and public areas. Well, It was a great advantage for English speakers like us to come in a new country and take to people very easily. 

But everything is not easy every time. If you think Paris is Expensive!! Think again. Ireland is also very very expensive specially when it comes to housing where you need to pay more than 500 euro for a shared room. Transportation is also very expensive and people usually walk to one place and other. And we follow the people :P. Yes, I also used to walk to my university by walk for around 35 minutes and this really helps to lose weight as well. 

Talking about Irish people!! Yes, they are one of the most sweet people on the earth where they will greet you and smile back without any reason. They will help you just asking once and they are always kind and helpful.

Studies in Ireland is super relaxing in one way that it is your responsibility to study. We have classes just for 3 days and we are free for the rest of the week and we usually do nothing in these days. But life is not always the same. Irish institutes are very clever in this regard, they give you many assignments which you realize after spoiling half of your time. And spend the rest of the time with your laptop making reports and presentations. Educational system of Ireland is not just studying, they provide a numerous sports and recreational activities where you become confuse that which activity to choose. They offer number of societies, sports, groups, gym and trips where you really need to select where you want to go. They also help in spirtual teachings by organizing prayers and meditation sessions where you can relax yourself.

I haven't tried a very traditional Irish food yet so cannot give a number of comments over it but the food in Ireland comes in a great variety and cheap as well. The only thing I found cheap in Ireland is food. 

Weather is so unpredictable. Ireland is cold but also very windy which makes me feel more vulnerable. It might start raining in a second or get sunny after a rain or after a sunny day it starts snowing, you never know. I usuallly spend most of my time relaxing a home or otherwise shopping as the shops in Ireland are pretty good. They have almost all good brands and the malls are pretty nice that if yo go for shopping you will never get tired. 

These days, I have 2 weeks Easter holidays but as I said before, Universities give you a lot work to do to keep you busy and not to waste time. But being students we usually realize this thing after wasting more than half of the time and working all day and night at the last moment. This is what I am doing right now.

After this semester, I will go to Italy for my 3rd semester. I hope to share the experience of Naples with you guys as well. :)