A few day...

Hi, in a few days we will be back at home, after having made ​​our practices in Cork.

Dublin

Hi, the past weekend, we was in Dublin. Dublin is a capital of Ireland. We could not see much of the city and it rained a lot. It is located in the north east of Ireland, at the mouth of the river Liffey. We was walking for O'connel Street the most important street of Dublin, Grafton Street a very commercial street and the stunning old town Temple Bar, where you can meet people from around the world. O'Connell Street is the world's tallest monument, The Spire, 120 meters. We also had the opportunity to see the house where Oscar Wilde was born and lived as the bridges that cross the city. A curious, at 4:45 am and is day.

The UCC Castle`s

Hi, this is the UCC, the other university of Cork. The University College of Cork is in city center. The campus is between two rivers and is very big. The UCC have about 15 buildings, but the most impressive building is a castle. I think that is very similar with the Harry Potter castle's. Regards.

My workplace

Hi, this is my workplace. All day I come here at 9.00am. Normally, my partner and I hope to have some sort of incident. These may be reinstall operating system, retrieve information from any computer, set up some equipment, which is basically support. And some more to tell, because the work itself does not have any kind of mystery.

Visit to Cobh

Hi, today Alex and me we was in Cobh. Cobh is a little town. His main attraction is what here the Titanic weighed its anchor for the last time in Cobh and sailed out from Ireland to its final tragedy in the Atlantic. Also Cobh have a great Cathedral. St. Colman`s Cathedral foundation stone laid in 1868, complete 1916. Renowned 49 bell carillon. Other importants place are Lusitania Peace Memorial and Cobh Hritage Center and Railway Station.

The fifth week

Hi, I`m Ruben. We've been five weeks in Cork. The routine is the same, only now much more integrated in our work, and in the community. This week we have new roommates. Two French guys are also in the CIT. The last Saturday we was in Blarney. Blarney is situated at 8 km from Cork, this historic castle is most famous for its stone, which has the traditional power of conferrin eloquence on all who kiss it. The word Blarney was introduced into English language by Queen Elizabeth I and is described as pleasant talk, intended to deceive without offending. The stone is set in the wall below the battlements, and to kiss it, one has to lean backwards, also, in Blarney castle is the grounds of the castle the Rock Close and its surroundings is a curious place of ancient trees and far more ancient stones, by legeng a garden of druidic origin and a centre of worship in pre-Christian days. The place has a n aura of magic and mystique with Wishing Steps, Witch`s Kitchen, Druid`s Cave and many other delights such as Lake Walk, Waterfall, Fern Garden, Ice-House and Lime Kiln, all telling a story of turies past.

Welcome meeting at CIT

I am Sergio Banderas, the IES Campanillas EU Coordinator.

I´ve been for one week in Cork with Ruben and Alex. My tasks there were to help them with lots of things related with this great experience.

We first went to the Student's Residence Eden Hall, where they settled in nice rooms. After that, we went to take a quick look to Cork city centre, and get knowledge about buses timetables. For sure, we went to a typical Irish pub, where we could eat something and drink a cold beer.

On Monday the 11th April, we had a meeting at the Cork Institute of Technology (CIT ), an University in which we have the opportunity to colaborate thanks to our Erasmus University Charter. Here, Ana Cruz, a Spanish teacher who lives in Cork since many years is our contact person. She gave us a tour through the instalations and then we meet the two places where Alex and Ruben will work.

First two weeks in Ireland at work

This is going to be my first post in this blog and I´ll try to explain more or less how is being the experience here.

The work:

I work in a building called "Rubicon centre". This is a centre for small new companies very close to the C.I.T. university.

In my office we were five people working, but a girl leaved the office just yesterday, so now we're only four persons.

There are three different companies and each one have its own company. One is a graphic designer, other one is the owner of the webiste mytown.ie and the last one is my boss.

His company is a website development, web services and web consulting.

Tasks I'm doing:

At the moment, I've developed the interfaces for two mobile-friendly websites, a chart tool to monitorize the usage of an API and some improvements in existent websites.

The tasks that my boss assign to me are fairly good and I'm not getting bored and I think that my work is being useful.

A curious picture

This is a curious picture, why? Is simple, because the traffic is a right side.

Regards.

One Week in Cork

Hi, We was one week in Cork. During this week Alex has been in Rubicon and me in the CIT from 9:00am to 5:00pm. We have an hour for lunch from 1:00pm to 2:00pm also from 12:00pm to 1:00pm, Ana, a teacher of CIT, gives us English class.

As Bishoptown are about 7 km from Cork only will go on weekends.

The life here is very quiet. All is green, but always are clouds.

That's all for now.

Regrads.

Kinsale and Charles Fort

One day in Cork

First day in Cork

Here you can visit the first day gallery

Cork is waiting for us!!

In a few days we'll be there....