Student Blogs

Hey and welcome back to my blog! The last 2 months went by pretty quickly and I was very busy with school work and meeting friends. With the end of October and with the start of our midterm-break, we started to go back to a Lockdown which means that we were not allowed to go…

Hi, my name is Henrike, I am 16 years old and from Germany. On 22nd August 2020, I left my home country to spent one whole school year in Ireland. I always loved travelling to foreign countries, getting to know new people and learning things about different cultures and traditions. Furthermore, I wanted to improve…

With the beginning of September, I left the DCU and met my host family. They live in Dalkey which is in the south of Dublin and a lovely area to live. There are some pretty shops, a harbour from where you can see Dalkey Island and, if you are lucky, you can see a couple…

At the weekends, I often meet some of the other exchange students I am friends with and who I got to know at the quarantine camp. We talk about the things that happened during the last weeks and about our experiences with getting new friends which is kind of difficult at the beginning because people…