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Reflections on My Year in Dublin

ARPC Young Adults Small Group. This was taken at my last ever time at Young Adults on 19-05-2017. In September of 2014 I started studying Computer Science at Queen’s University Belfast. As a compulsory part of my degree, I  ha d  to do a paid placement year in between second and third (final) year. The company that offered me a paid placement   is  called Oracle.  They’re an American company and I’ve been based in their Dublin office s  since June last year. As of Friday 21st April I'm finished. As I finished off second year of university, I was wondering what Dublin would be like. I had found a house to live in, but had no idea what to expect. I didn’t know what Church I could go to, I didn’t know what the work would be like, I didn’t know how to count Euros, and  so on. I was worried, afraid of the unknown.   It took a while to get used to life in the capital of the Republic of Ireland back w hen I started at the end of ...