Currently undertaking part in an Erasmus program, I thought it suited best to talk about my experience so far here in Ireland. It is the first time I am visiting this country and loving it so far. I was lucky enough to be chosen for this opportunity and being such a globetrotter I couldn't say no. Within a week of coming back from Croatia in August I was packing my bags once again to the lovely county Cork. The Erasmus program requires students to work with a company as an intern as well as meeting new people and going out of comfort zones. The company that I am currently working at is Grasstec, a company offering a wide range of agricultural and commercial services although mainly focuses on Farm design and Farm mapping. It took me a couple of days to fully settle in as most of the employees are civil engineering graduates, and I was just a student attending my second year in Spatial Design..... Since there aren't so many opportunities within this field in Malta and Gozo I have been learning a lot whilst also improving my skills using design programs and also my English. The Irish have quite a strong accent which also took me a while to adjust to and fully understand what people were saying but I also got used to that. Besides work I have also been exploring different county's in Ireland mainly Dublin, Galway, Limerick, Cork and Kilkenny.
I surely I miss the warm weather and not so cold winters, besides mother's cooking, since the Republic of Ireland experiences what they call four seasons in one day. Safe to say natives don't know what it means to spend most of the day with temperatures such as 30degrees. Apart from weather I have learnt about the culture , cuisine, traditions and also history of this country. Still not surprised most of the people I have met so far have no idea about Malta, let alone Gozo. Having said all that, Critical thinking unconsciously helped especially when at work. Being presented with tasks that I had never done before made me try to come up with solutions for very problem I came across instead of asking more experienced employees straight away. Thanks to this opportunity I have also increased my ability to select and to critically evaluate the various sources of information related to the profession that enabled me to develop self-learning capacity as well as the skill to adapt to the technological and organisational changes in the business.
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