Report Dublin 2017 (Jan Vonken)

Three items in Irelands history I consider being interesting (in the past 50 years) and why
they interest me.

The Vinking: This was the first gay bar in Dublin. The bar became the first exclusively gay
bar in the early 1990s. I think that it is great that we can be open about this things.

Irish pound to euros: In 1990 the Republic of Ireland changed their currency to euros.
This is really interesting, because it not only meant that they changed currency, it also
meant that they opposed the UK.

Marry Robinson: She becomes the first female president of Ireland. This meant that from
that moment on there was much less difference between man and women, this is of
course a huge change in history for the Irish.

A brief history of Ireland with regards to relation to the EU.

Brexit: Because the UK decided to leave the EU, it will be hard for Ireland with
notifications with the UK. Both are part of Great-britain, which brings a lot of pressure to
Ireland to choose side.

Ireland is not a real EU member because they still have strict controls at the
boundaries. Its also geographically seen separated from Europe . A lot of other things
like healthcare are also different.

Nomination for a judge to the court of justice: When Ireland joined the EU in 1973, they
had to nominate a judge for the court of justice. Over the years that followed, the court of
justice continued to be faced with questions on the correct interpretation of community
law. Source: cc.au.dk

Three persons or things Ireland is famous for.

River dance

Saint Patrick day (17 march 2018)

Irish sports (Hurling, Gaelic football)

Three differences and three similarities between the school system in Ireland and in The
Netherlands.

Differences:

We start at school when we are four years old and Irish people at the age of five.

In Ireland they have to wear uniforms, we dont.

We only have four lessons a day and Irish students nine or ten.

Similarities:

Irish people get English at school as well.

Secondary school in Ireland has 6 years and in The Netherlands VWO also has 6 years.

Food in schools in Ireland and The Netherlands is not for free.

A funny anecdote which you experienced during your trip abroad.

On friday, our last day in Dublin, Mr. Bijlmakers sang a nice song about a girl with brown eyes,
on the Oconnell street near the needle. He did this together with some other street musicians.
We had much fun, because everyone was really excited about it. And most important, it was a
really good song! Everyone enjoyed the song and it was really nice to see the enthusiasm of the
street musicians.

Two examples of how daily life in a family in another country is structured.

Host family parents go out to work and a childminder minds the children at home. In
Holland we have the BSO

The children have to be much more polite to their parents (saying please etc.)
 Their lunch is much bigger.

New words I learnt during the trip.

Irish words:

Bruscar

Croic

Slaint

Sln

English words:

Stock

Clove

Daggers

Substitution

Spikey

Chariot

Cockles

Deed

Landlords

Blight

Scarcity

Irish stew

New rules (at school, at our host family) I came across during the trip
 Showering before half nine at night and not in the morning because of the children
sleeping.

Dont make noises in the morning when other are sleeping.

Things I found out about working, living and/or studying in Ireland.

There are more employed woman that 50 years ago.

The Irish school system differs a lot from ours.

Things that were the same if I compare my own country and the country I visited .

(for example expressions, rituals)

In the city it takes a very long time before you can cross the road because of the traffic
lights.

The daily life is quite the same. They have breakfast and go to work while the children go
to school.

They drink more Heineken than in Holland

How did I communicate with others in Ireland? Who did I talk to? What about? What went
well and what did not? How come?

The communication went very well. We talked a lot with the host family. The only thing that was
difficult to understand was the Irish accent of the man in our host family. In Dublin the
communication went also very well. With the game were we had to guide ourselves through the
city, we had to talk to lots of people to ask the way. When me and Jan were filming, and old man
spoke to us and he asked us where we are from. When we told him we come from the
Netherlands, he told us a story. He said that most people in Ireland are saying Holland instead of
The Netherlands, because in English, nether means hell, so Netherlands is Hell land. Thats of
course very negative. And he even knew that holland was one of our provinces, North-Holland or
South-Holland!

A brief diary of the trip on a day-to-day basis.

Monday at 10:10 we flew to Dublin. It was very strange but also very nice to be in a plane with
all your classmates, because normally you would only be with your family. We also had a walk
through the city of Dublin.
Another nice thing about today was to meet our host family, who were super friendly. We had a
tasty meal and in the evening we went to the beach and took some nice pictures and talked with
other students.

Tuesday In the morning we went to the National College of Ireland where we got an English
lesson. in first case, I thought it would be really boring, but it was actually much fun and we
learnt so much in just a few hours. Especially with doing presentation in class. After this we had
a nice walk through the city. In the evening we went to learn the Ceili dance this was very funny,
but also a bit awkward. It was very impressive to see the 2 girls dancing!

Wednesday - A great thing of today was to visit the Lusk Community College, an Irish
secondary school. We interacted with some students and had a nice quiz. But the nicest thing of
today was our visit to Howth. Although the weather was quite bad we enjoyed ourselves by
taking some pictures on the pier.

Thursday Today was a very busy day. A thing I liked about it were the sports we played. I liked
Hurling the most (which the most did). The Gaelic Football and squash were also nice, it were
very nice sports, which I never heard of before. In the evening we went to the Odeon Coolock
cinema where we watched Going in style which was a very funny movie. The popcorn over
there was also very tasteful!

Friday Today we said goodbye to our hostfamily who had taken very good care of us. After this
we went to the GPO Witness History Museum where we got an tour which was very interesting.
We also watched a short movie over there. We also got some free time in which me and Rein
did a lot of filming for the Dublin movie. We also went to search for some souvenirs, I bought a
Hurling ball and a Hurling stick!

Thanks to all teachers who went with us, I had a great time!