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Sandie Deboissy

Sandie Deboissy

Student in second year at ESDES, Lyon. I have actually a great opportunity to do my second semester in Ireland, enjoy my travel too !

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Zoom on 4 month at Maynooth

Glimpse of the life of a student ESDES (business school in Lyon) just four months studying in Maynooth ...
Sandie Deboissy Sandie Deboissy
Articles : 15
Depuis : 04/11/2010
Categorie : Tourisme, Lieux et Événements

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Fifth Week

Fifth Week

This Week, we organized a road trip with 4 others erasmus. We rented a car a drived to Belfast. My german rummate had to drive on the left but he succed without difficulties. We did a break at New Castel to saw the see, but the weather was really windely and we couldn't stay long time. The way took 2 hours. We had already booked a dormitory in the
ireland trip

ireland trip

To celebrate eastern vacation, we rented a car and made a 4 days trip. We drived at first in the ring of kerry with a lot of break to admired beautiful landscapes. We crossed the city " killarney" which is the biggest city of the ring of kerry. Our dormitory was at 1 minutes from the beach, we met , as usually, a lot of different nationality and sh
National university of Ireland, Maynooth

National university of Ireland, Maynooth

The National University of Ireland, Maynooth was founded by the Universities Act, 1997 as a constituent university of the national university of ireland. It is Ireland's second oldest university. It is located at 20 km in the west of Dublin. We can find there two campus , north campus where there is all the student's accomodation and tha mjority of
7th and 8th week

7th and 8th week

This Saturday, we hiked in Bray, small village 1h in the south of Dublin. It was pleasant to see the sun and stones beaches, but also to walk in this so peacefull area. My life is really more calm now because I have a lot of work , a lot of essay for the assessment, so I am more busy. Nevertheless, we chilled often in a park to playing freesbee, ba
Maynooth, a city not so peaceful ...

Maynooth, a city not so peaceful ...

Maynooth is a city of up than 10,800 inhabitants. We could think that nothing happend in this peacefull city, but this year the residents finally have a topic exciting . Indeed, the queen Elizabeth II, tuesday, began an historic first visit in Ireland . It is the first movement of a British monarch since independence in 1922. Unfortunatly, and desp
fourth week

fourth week

This Week end, the international society had organized a trip to Cork. We leaved friday morning and after 4 hours of bus we discovered our dormitory. We were 9 in our room ( 1 turkich, 2 germans, 1 austrian and 4 french). We walked a little bit in the town and we prepared our crazy evening. We went in the old oak, a club-pub with a majoriry of the
Peace wall in Belfast

Peace wall in Belfast

The peace lines are a series of separation barriers in Northern Ireland that separate Catholic and Protestant neighbourhoods. They have been built at urban "interface areas" in Belfast, Derry, Portadown and elsewhere. The stated purpose of the barriers is to minimize inter-communal violence between Catholics (who mainly self-identify as Irish) and
Third week

Third week

Until now , I spent less time to discover the city ( which stay very small) and pubs and I use all my time to work. In fact, the courses are really interessant, all topics are exactly what I am expecting from learning to do business and what I want learn. I found that was incredible that the stundent have only 10 or 12 hours of lectures by week, bu
6th week

6th week

The 17th march, is the most famous day of Ireland , it is the saint patrick's day. We spent our time in Dublin to see the parade, but it was really crowed and we couldn't see well. Everybody plays the game for costums, we wear green cap, green scarf, big irish flag and green wake up... it was really a green unity community ! We listened typical iri
Little lesson in Gaelic !

Little lesson in Gaelic !

Basis vocabulary in Ireland : Failte ( prononciation : fôltieu ) : Welcome Slaine ( Slantieu ) : cheers Slan ( Slaun ) : Bye Go raibh maith agat ( gorêve mahagate ) : Thanks Conas ta tu ? ( conasse ta tou ) : How are you ? And Irish people roll the R and their accent is almost impossible to understand ( specially old people or in Belfast ...) . T