Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT)

The housing was not well organiwsed by the host institution, as we were left to ourselves to find a suitable place to live for a few months. However, I do believe this method makes one more independent and responsible as one has to seek, negotiate and adapt, in a totally different and foreign country.

Just arriving Dublin we had some problems with the language since english language spoken by irish people is sometimes hard to understand,but day by day you get used to it and then you take their way of speaking as well.Complementing the International Business and Languages Course we had "English for academic purposes" at different level and that´s was really helpful for us.Interacting with with foreigner students and irish people when that was possible was a very important to improve our english.

a lot of typical irish pubs, can become a little bit boring after 2 weeks; recently some more international style bars have opened, watch out for Zansibar, Pravda, SpiBar, QBar,... not too much venues playing alternative kind of music, mostly techno or traditional irish, try out Whelans or Shelter if you prefer a good cafe and a really good piece of apple pie go to the Winding Stair Cafe, next to the Half Penny bridge or the Cafe Mocca, near to St.Green Shopping Centre

-Travelling around Ireland is recommended. -Take care with your money or it´ll be run out really soon. -Take a house near to the city center,if possible or you´ll spend a lot of money and time travelling. -The food is not really good,but there is not solution for that.

Since there is no on campus accommodation, students are forces to find something on their own. I consider this an advantage, because That's how life is, but at the beginning it was tough work - considering that one doesn't know about costs, location, facilities etc. as a foreigner.

DIT has not accomodation service for itself altough there are several leturers and a foreigner students helping service that makes the finding a home process easier.