Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT)

it's very important with who you've in contact, if you live in a shared appartment try to get foreign roommates and try to get in contact with other foreign students and local ones, anyway teachers aren't difficult to understand in contrast to classmates, this can turn out to be a good guess

ALDI has settled down recently in the city centre and dunnes store is quite moderate, there is a vegetablemarket next henry street where you get food to very good prices, cinema: don't forget your student card, the UGC in Parnell Str. is quite good besides try to live with the fact that everything costs the double than at home

the best thing in Ireland is the nature and thatswhy use your spartime to travel as much as possible; the wether isn't that bad as it is said; the will not be cheated with the amount of beer you get, i.e. pints are overfull, get used to the typical irish way of living-they don't complain and are very friendly and don't be surprised about the straight queues at bus stations

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

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