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Little happiness at Covid-times
I have once shared with you my little childhood happiness, those past moments that will no longer come back to me. Nevertheless, we are now living a time that will be marked in history as the time when Covid-19 invaded our lives. So, today I ask you what memories are you building now for the future? I do not know about you, but I am certainly not sat down just waiting for it to pass. I am looking to find ways to fill this period with moments of little happiness and joy. Alike those pleasures we get when we have a hot shower after having getting completely soaked in a…
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Dublin through the eyes of a Brazilian filmmaker
My name is Raquel Freire, 30, I am a journalist with a specialization in Business Communications. Last year, in 2019, I decided to change my career and my life. I want to become a filmmaker and follow my purpose in life. On January this year I came to Dublin in order to improve my English. Since I intend to take a master’s course abroad, I need a very good score at IELTS Exam. Living in Brazil would have been more difficult to learn and would take more time for me to achieve it. Therefore, here I am. I researched among English-spoken countries around the world, USA, Canada, New Zealand, but…
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London: Love at the first sight
Traveling abroad has been always a dream for me. I was born in a very small city in Bahia where traveling inside the borders was not so easy, even worse offshore. January 17th, 2014 was the day when I arrived in London for the first time. It was also my first international experience, so you can imagine how excited I was. In this article, I will summarize to you what this experience meant to me. My life before London I used to live with my mum and my sister in São Paulo. We did not have our own house and I had just finished college. Even though I had a…
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On February 15 I was born. And, so the story begins…
Throughout the years I have celebrated many birthdays. When I was a kid, I loved this day as I wasgetting all the attention, I used to organize big parties, invite everybody; getting lots of presents. Allthis commotion and the love and care of my parents made me feel like a real Princess. As I was growing older, the way I celebrated my birthday started to change a little bit. I wanted toadd more “flavor” to it by doing something out of the ordinary so I start my personal year with a thrilland a sense of novelty. For instance, 2 years ago I accepted the invitation of my friend and went…
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Travel regardless your troubles
What was I feeling like? Suddenly, I got a huge disappointment in my life (I prefer not to say the reason or even what had happened with me). It was just like my world lost all sense, I was completely devastated, I didn’t know how I could survive. As a result, I started to practice exercise like crazy, anything more was enough for me. I got my hair cut, I lost 14 weight in 2 months. I didn’t want to see my friends, I was stuck in my own room, just crying. I wished many times to put an end in my life, but I didn’t do it, because if…
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A traveller’s soul awakens
Travelling was not a big part of my life when I was growing up. I came from a very poor background and traveling was not something we could afford back then. However, I have always loved reading. Books were my best friends. I would spend hours up in a tree with a book in my hands reading about foreign lands, different times, and other cultures. One day I would picture myself climbing the snow-covered hills in the Swiss Alps. Another I was running through a flower-covered meadow in the south of France, or driving a motorbike along the Amalfi Coast, and suddenly that fire for travelling was ignited in my…
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Why I decided to travel abroad?
I have always had that feeling of going away, but where to go, I didn’t know. Worse than that, I didn’t have enough money, though there was a strong desire in my heart. So, I decided to work hard to save almost all my money earned. A lot of issues filled my mind as I was completely afraid to travel alone, but I did. In this blog, I will tell you a little about how my adventure started. How did I do? First, I made a lot of research about people who were used to traveling on their own, by doing that I discovered that they are not lonely people,…
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Mount St. Michel – a ‘reversed pilgrimage’
There are many places in Europe famous for its pilgrimages, for instance, Santiago de Compostela in Spain. I had myself also the chance to visit one of them, Mount St. Michel, one of the western wonders built-in 709. A place in Normandie was almost one thousand years, people of all genders and age walked the “paths to paradise”, longing for the eternity to be assured by the archangel of judgment. A background The chapel named after the Archangel Michel, who is the chief of the celestial militia soon saw a community of Benedictines settled on the rock. As my second trip since my arrival in Rennes, I could not…
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Saint-Malo – an ancient walled city
It was my first weekend in Rennes, and I had already a trip to go. The association Move & Share had prepared this trip to Saint-Malo at 12 euros. Although I was exhausted with all the moving and starting my life in Rennes with some much going on; French test, writing and oral, then studying almost every day from 9:30 till 5pm, an outside activity to plus events of integration during the evenings, I made my best to go and there I went. It took us only 1 and a half hours till St. Malo by TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse). Unfortunately, when we arrived there the weather was not…
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Life in Rennes: my first impressions
I have been friendly welcomed by the University. Previously my departure, I had been contacted by the college association Move & Share to be informed that my French body would collect me at the bus station to take me to the CROUS accommodation. And that is how it went on, the poor boy had to help me with my 3 luggage (Good for me). At the college, we had an Induction Day. Unfortunately, I caught only the second part of the induction as I could not find the right campus (I had no idea the university had so many campuses). Anyhow, it was scary, but exciting venturing out into that…
