Say hello to Sina!

Hi everyone,

My name is Sina and I’m 17 years old. I´m coming from Germany, Berlin and at the moment I’m doing an exchange year in Ireland. My hobbies are playing the piano and I go to the Gym after school. I’m already 5 weeks in Ireland and in this Blog I want to write about my experiences during my exchange year.

I arrived at the 27^th of August and my fist school day was on the 30^th of August. My school is the Rockford Manor Secondary School in Blackrock, Dublin. It’s a really small school and we are just 67 Students in my year and half of them are exchange students, most of them are from Italy or Spain. I’m in the 5^th Year and that means I’m a Senior.

My first school day was really confusing for me because I didn’t got a timetable so I didn’t know where or what I have. I needed to go from class to class to find where I have.

The good thing is that I got my timetable on the next day.  I already met a few girl in my classes and we’re spending the lunch breaks together. My school starts every day at 8:55am. At Monday and Thursday my school ends at 3:40pm and on the other days it ends at 3pm.

You can join school clubs after school or before school. I joined the clubs: Musical and Choir they’re after school and goes till 5pm. I also joined volleyball but this is before school from 7:50-8:50. These clubs are really good chances to meet new people and spend time with them.

I already went to a lot of different places in Dublin because I’m trying to go every weekend to new places. This weekend I was in Bray with a friend and we walked along the beach and drank a coffee. It was really good weather and very windy.

Next weekend I want to go to the Cliff walk with a friend!