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Hi students,
Welcome to the first edition of the Work and Travel Ireland e-zine!
We will be featuring some news of whats' on in Ireland, and also a snippet from the program itself. Also enjoy the diary of one of our participants' on the program, with some some of their experiences since arriving here in Ireland!
So sit back and enjoy a sample of whats ahead of you on the Work & Travel Ireland Program!
Cheers,
The Work & Travel Ireland Team |
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Participants in the Work
in Ireland resource room, Dublin.
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Name: Elliot Malm, 23yrs
University: Crown College, Minnesota
What job are you doing in Ireland?
I got a job in 2 days with the Meghan Group, in ‘Stream’, working as an administrator on a ‘Nikkon’ Project.
Where & Who are you living with here?
I live in Drumcondra, a walk from the city centre, with 5 others. One guy, from South Africa, I met at the orientation and got the apartment through him. There is also someone from France, Italy, Poland and Ireland.
Whats your social scene like?
Its great with the people I am living with! We go to town to a different place each nite. I have been to the cinema quite a bit with 2 German girls that I met in the hostel. Last nite, went to see ‘Capote’!
Your most memorable thing to date in Ireland?
The hostel was the most memorable for me. It had so many different people from all over the world. The cultural differences were so great! Sharing a room with guys and girls took a bit to get used to, but I realised that’s what hostelling is all about when you are travelling!
Can you sum up your experience on the WII program to date?
Well its my first time living in an apartment like this, and the freedom to date has been the biggest thing for me.
Advice you would give any students thinking about going on the WII program? Overall, just save up some money and just do it. Its great to explore your own horizons and this is a great way to do that. You have the organisation on the ground to help you, and yet you are independent!
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Jack Johnson opens European Tour in Dublin
Jack Johnson
opened his European tour in Dublin on February 22nd to a sell out
crowd of almost 10,000 people! He brought an air of contentment
among the crowd of swaying arms and lyric loving fans! This surfer/musician
had been in Ireland previously, while filming a surf movie in Bundoran,
on our idyllic northern shores or Ireland. Being an avid fan of
the Emerald Isle he was more than happy to start his tour hugely
popular tour to the energetic Irish crowd that was! |
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International Film Festival welcomes Cillian Murphy and Johnathan Rhys Myers
Golden
Globe Nominee, Cillian Murphy launched a programme of over 100 films,
50 guests, a selection of sidebar discussion events and a top-level
industry conference to celebrate the 4th Jameson Dublin International
Film Festival in John M. Keating’s on Mary Street, Wednesday,
February 1st where he was joined by fellow actor and Golden Globe
winner, Jonathan Rhys Myers and over 600 guests from the Irish film
industry and the media. |
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Controversial 'Syriana' movie sceens in Dublin
The
Savoy Cinema on O’Connell Street Dublin, hosted the screening
of Stephen Gaghan’s Academy Award nominated spy drama, Syriana.
Mark Kinsella picked up some fantastic thoughts from the festival
audience.
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“Films
like Syriana, are already preaching to the converted that understand
and have a good sense of the situations in Middle East and its
oil. I would love other people to go see this film; it’s
a very important film. Myself, I found it very affecting.”
“A brilliant piece of work, but it has a lot of branches
and deserves a second viewing to fully digest the strands of stories
involved in the film.”
“Superb. It asks so many tough questions but refuses to
give easy answers. A very important film that should be seen by
a vast audience.”
“An excellent film, glues you to the screen and at the
same time it’s very sad and brutally honest. Fantastically
written, tensely directed and George Clooney gave a memorising
performance, I can see him winning his Oscar."
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Rampant Ireland add to Welsh Woe in Rugby
Ireland……31 Wales……5
Ireland completed a wretched fortnight for Welsh rugby with a comprehensive victory over the defending RBS Six Nations champions at Lansdowne road at the weekend. Tries from David Wallace, Shane Horgan and Peter Stringer, plus 16 points from the boot of Ronan O’Gara, kept Ireland’s championship aspirations alive and kicking. |
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Google Project a winner for Dublin City University
A pioneering
venture developing web technology for searching handwritten texts
has attracted investment from Google! The Book of Kells, George
Washington’s personal diaries and other rare historical
documents may soon be available on the web, thanks to research
Dublin City University is carrying out for Google! While these
kind of documents were kept behind closed doors or were only accessible
by searching digital libraries one page at a time, DCU has teamed
up with 2 american universities to change all that! The have designed
algorithims that can detect the differences in shapes of handwritten
words, a technique that could make handwritten manuscripts available
on Google within a few years. |
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For further details of our Work and Travel Ireland Program please visit our website www.workandtravelireland.org
or call us on US Toll Free: 1-800-240-0573 |
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