West Cork's Sky

When the sunshine is out in Ireland we should have a party because for me, the summer is like our autumn. My friend asked me what was the difference between the winter and summer in Ireland, so I've tried to guess saying the name of the month, obviously she laughed first and afterwards she said to me, the only difference between the summer and winter in Ireland is the temperature, the summer is warm but is raining almost everyday. 

I love looking the sky in this part of Ireland, it has something special, moreover when you've spent a full winter putting up with rain and wind everyday, it's lovely may be staring this wonderful sky, the clouds are like brushstrokes dancing at the background.

I have to say goodbye to this cute place, time goes so fast, and you could understand now why everybody is sad when leaves Ireland...

My friend's house in West Cork

My last days are gonna be spent in this house, it belongs to my friend Jessie. This is a typical house in the countryside, the picture shows one side of the house, where the conservatory it's. These kinds of places are usually very special in these houses, they've many windows to get a lot of light, as well as be the warmer part of the house. The house is surrounded for landscape, it means there are much grass that should be cut every week. In Ireland the grass grow very fast, indeed the warm temperature in summer add up rain plenty times during the week, both together help the vegetation to grow so fast. This house is called The Ring Fort House because in the middle of the landscape there is a Ring Fort (you can't see it in this picture), which was used in the past for former farmers to build inside some shelters, this way they could protect themselves from the wind and rain, they used to keep their cattle inside the Ring Fort as well, nonetheless this is very little so I suppose it belonged only to one family. Irish people don't like to sow any vegetable inside because they're superstitious, above all in the countryside, and they think if you ate some food from this place, you would get sick. We don't have any problem so, we are using this space to sow some fruits and vegetables. 

DSE Dublin and Cambridge Exam

DSE (Dublin School of English)

My time here is finishing, in fact I've already finished my English lessons in Dublin School of English. It was a nice experience, I met people from different parts of the world, like Japan, Italy, France, Check Republic, Hungary or Lithuania. When you are surrounded for people from different countries, trying to learn English, it looks like all of us are a family, indeed we can communicate better each others than with native English speakers. Anyway, I recommend this college because teachers put all their energy teaching us English. The  College is at city center near Temple Bar (a very famous part of Dublin plenty of pubs and live music) and like curiosity, The Dollar House, which is the name of the building, was a lot of years ago a bank, therefore it wasn't really weird to find some absolutely thick steel gates, where in the past workers left the money. The picture shows the college the first building on the right.

Cambridge Exam

When I decided to go to Dublin, only two weeks after that I put my name down to get a Cambridge certificate, that meant I had to do a Cambridge exam. In the beginning people told me, it was too soon but I decided to study really hard grammar and try to get it. When I went to UCD (University College Dublin) I found there people really prepared to do this exam, they were talking about the tests, the marks and the exercises, however I didn't know what I was gonna find there, to be honest I knew the exam had three parts but nothing else, so I started to undergo with this situation, I didn't want to do an ridiculous actuation, but this was only five minutes before starting the exam. It was so funny because the speaking part was done with another Spanish girl, so we felt weird speaking English each other, but the result was grand. Last week, I was checking my email and I discovered I was received an email from UCD, so I rushed over the laptop looking my marks up on UCD website, and unbelievably I had passed my exam, I get eighty three points nearly to get a pass with merit. Obviously the worse part was listening, that needs a lot of time working with and I know I need to improve it really much. Somebody could think it's not really important, because is only B1 level, but it's truly remarkable that I didn't speak anything when I arrived to Ireland, so I've improved a lot. Thank you everybody who helped me to pass this exam.