Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT)

In the house were I'm living is pretty big. Everybody has his own room. We have a garage, bathroom with a second toilet downstairs, living room and a big living kitchen. The bad thing is that it is sometimes not that warm. But generally ist really o.k.. I'm living together with a rumanien, spanish and france gay. So it is good, because you always have to talk english. I think the accommodation from the GMIT are very good and close to the college.

It was my first time abroad. I had no prior experience so I was happy for the accomodation arranged by GMIT International Office. Later on, when I settled down, I found a room by myself. In general: Campus accomodation is more expensive than accomodation in houses which on the other side may have a bad location. I would recomend to begin with acccomodation offered by GMIT and than decide to stay or to find something else.

If there is a sunny day, enoy it as much as possible, because it is highly unlikely to see another one soon. Travel has to be done in September or in May-June period, but it is a must in this country, as there are a lot of beautiful and interesting places to see.

At the beginning it was very hard on the college, because I didn't have a lot of experience in technical english. But after some week it was o.k. You learn every day new words and it becomes better from one week to the other. In the social life it was ok because you improve day per day because you speak every day english.

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