Dublin

Heeey everybody!

Let me introduce myself first, I am Monique, 20 years old and I study International Business Administration. Therefore, It was a logical choice to go abroad. I decided to go Dublin for a number of reasons;
1. I would like to go to Europe, because I always find that mysteries can also be found close to home. 2. I wanted to go to a city where I have never been before. 3. Trinity College looks amazing!



I always wanted to study at such a beautiful university.

Now I have been here for a couple of days I can already notice some cultural differences.

I can summarise them in a few sentences:

- people who seem to have all the time of the world to answer your questions, whereas in the Netherlands we keep running

- supporters of two different gaelic football teams, just hanging around with each other talking about the game, love the peace and quiet.

- people who actually appreciate the smoking prohibition and therefore will think twice before smoking inside.

- extremely clean streats, no signs of litter everywhere.

- people just walking around in there sportsshirts and comficlothes everywhere.. (reminds me of my hometown, Helmond... Inside joke)

- people who are so open, they are actually looking for someone to talk too.

- and probably many more, however, I still need to discover those.

Today Dublin won in the semi-finals of the gaelic football match, which ofcourse,(although we only found out after the match had ended, that there even was a match) we need to celebrate this with some beers