maanantai 9. maaliskuuta 2015

Feelings about Ireland

Good morning from Carlow!

Me and the other Finnish guys came to Carlow 48 days ago. And now we have only 22 days left. Feels like time is flying here!

We're living with 4 Dutch girls who are also studying to be nurses in The Netherlands.  All together there's 10 people living in our house, which is pretty much. Sometimes it's difficult when you have no space of your own, but we've used to it.

I have really fell in love with Ireland. People here are amazingly nice and the scenery just incredible. Strangers saying hello on the street, people letting you go first on the counter of the grocery store... you don't see all this in Finland. On our second day here in Carlow we were asking help from some young guy on the street to get to the Carlow College. First he gave us directions, but then he walked with us and showed us where the College is, even when he was in a hurry himself! We were reeeally amazed.

It's a strong pub culture here and even if Carlow is not a big town we were told that there's over 40 pubs in Carlow. It's like Irish peoples living room. When there's a rugby, football or hurling match going on, pubs are pretty fully packed. Pubs are a great way to get to know local people and make new friends. And what I really love here, is musicians playing live in pubs! It's like almost every night somebody is playing somewhere. It's almost a tradition already that we go listen to live music every week. These two guys, Pat & Kiran, from IT Carlow Music Society are playing every week in two pubs and they're great! Pat plays guitar and sings and Kiran beatboxes and sings. Pat also conciders to come in Finland in May! There's many other performers that we've got to see. I'm so going to miss this in Finland!

We're living in Carlow which is the county town of County Carlow. Even when we spent the most time in here, we've been also travelling around. In the very first weeks in Ireland we went to Kilkenny, which is a county town of County Kilkenny. It's half an hour away with a train. It's little bigger town than Carlow. We've also been travelling in  Waterford, Dublin and Mount Leinster, where we climbed all the way to the top. Last weekend we went to London because it's so near and cheaper to fly from here than from Finland. It was a great city, but still I felt a little home sick and I was delighted to come back in Carlow :) We're planning to go to the Cliffs of Moher next weekend. There's like a thousand places in Ireland that I want to see, feels like I'm running out of time. There's County Kerry, Bray, Galway, Limerick, Cork... I have to come back sometime!!

We have college on Mondays and Tuesdays and work placement two or three times a week, depends where you have your work placement. I work only Wednesdays and Thursdays. My freetime I try to spend vicely seeing as much as I can in Ireland and getting to know new people.  We have a few Irish friends already! And American. And Dutch ofcourse :)

Here's a short writing of our life here in Ireland. Now it's time for some pictures!

-joonas

Carlow

Carlow

Liberty Tree in Carlow Town Centre

Carlow

Carlow

Carlow Castle

Carlow

Carlow Castle

Carlow

Kilkenny Castle

Views from Mount Leinster

Views from Mount Leinster

London Eye in London

Views from London Eye

Views from London Eye

London Eye




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