Umeå – Dublin

The journey began in Umeå, where a group of nervous but excited students met at the airport. Before arriving to Dublin and checking in at the Kinlay House, we stopped both, in Stockholm and in Copenhagen to change planes. The trip went on fine except for one small misfortune with a broken wheel on one of the suitcases.
Tired and hungry, but with a good spirit we went on to visit at a real Irish Pub, which was a first time experience for most of us. Meeting up with the Germans students we went on for a memorable night in Dublin…

Poya Motai

The Group of Twelve!

From Remagen to Dublin
It was warm for being a day in February. The soft wind reaching out for us and our thoughts accompanied us to the Düsseldorf airport. Loaded with heavy goods to make our excursion into an effective event, nearly everyone of us had to announce overweight luggage.
Time was running and finally we were sitting on the plane carrying us carefully through the stormy western European sky.
We touched down in Dublin and the stormy Irish wind welcomed us. Our luggage was there with us, too. Outside of the airport, transportation staff led the group of twelve to two nice taxis driving us to the stone steps of Kinlay House.
The night tasted like meeting new friends, putting old friendships on solid ground, dancing and celebrating the lively atmosphere in the gorgeous city of Dublin. Together we became a group of five times five, socializing with our Swedish partners, everybody reached their beds early Saturday morning having tested the intercultural way of partying. Some of us mixed with some really friendly Irish pub visitors. They were really nice and curious about the crowd of twenty five, and with their best wishes for our stay we are now travelling of to Achill in a good mood.
The first practical lessons were learned “socializing with some typical Irish pub goers”, and lots of lessons are yet to be learned, so

“Let’s take it and make it!”

Daniela Dung