Suzanne Visser

In my house here in Cork there is a changing of the guard going on. Last Sunday one of the Spanish girls left as she started as au pair in Kinsale on Monday. The other Spanish girl left today to Spain. She has no job yet but hopes to return to Ireland in January, but she [...]

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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Overnight Temperature: -2°C
A mix of cloudy and clear skies. Windy.
Morning Temperature: -0°C
Sunny with cloudy periods. Windy.
Afternoon Temperature: 3°C
Sunny with cloudy periods. Windy at times.
Evening Temperature: -2°C
Clear with cloudy periods. Windy at times.

How cold is -0 degrees Celsius? Or is this the Irish way of stating that it will [...]

As I already mentioned in the post “Cork flooded” Cork was flooded Thursday night 19 November. Unfortunately I have not seen the flooding myself as I was in bed being sick but from what I have heard and seen on pictures it was quite terrible. Almost every year there is some flooding going on in Ireland [...]

Each year an university volleyball club organizes a tournament for other university teams within the whole of Ireland: the volleyball intervarsities. A couple of days with matches and the evenings filled with entertainment brings large groups of young people together.
This year the UCC volleyball club had the honor of organizing this tournament. From Wednesday 11 till [...]

Playing volleyball is nice to do again. However it is not without risk as I experienced once again during a volleyball training on Tuesday 10 November. I do not know exactly when it happened but suddenly my hand hurt. Just before that I dove to a ball and the next ball I played dig (underhand). With [...]

Since I arrived back in Ireland two weeks ago I was not feeling that great. The first days I suffered from homesickness. I wanted to go back to Holland to be with my family and all the familiar things. During two weeks I was feeling lonely, miserable and everything was negative. I was in my room [...]

While I am still in bed trying to recover the rest of the city deals with a lot of water. Two days of extreme rain has created floods in many parts of Cork. The university campus even closed its doors for at least today because buildings are flooded.

Cork (http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1120/weather.html)
Friday, 20 November 2009 11:46

St Patrick's street, [...]

There are still some events to write about, but everything has to wait for a little while longer, because…

I HAVE SWINE FLU!!!

Why me? On Saturday night I became ill in a matter of hours and Sunday morning I had a nice temperature of 39.1 degrees C. Fever, a terrible sore throat – much worse than I [...]

Halloween is celebrated on 31 October but an excuse for an party here in Ireland is enough to celebrate such a feast during several days. Already on Wednesday people where walking in costumes in Cork on their way to any pub to drink and have fun. I limited it to two parties. The first one was [...]