Hel­lo all, 

we from se­cond year of ap­pli­ca­ti­on de­ve­lo­p­ment app­ren­ti­ce­ship par­ti­ci­pa­ted in a vo­ca­tio­nal school pro­gram cal­led “Eras­mus”.

Each of us com­ple­ted our in­tern­ship at a dif­fe­rent com­pa­ny. Ma­ri­am was at Becht­le Di­rec­ted Li­mi­t­ed, Paul was at ISS Fa­ci­li­ty Ser­vices and Lenn­art was at La­bel tech. 

It was a gre­at ex­pe­ri­ence working with peo­p­le from Ire­land and lear­ning about Irish culture 

At Becht­le, Ma­ri­am found that col­le­agues work tog­e­ther like a fa­mi­ly, have lunch tog­e­ther and al­ways crack a lot of jo­kes – she re­al­ly en­joy­ed working with them. 

We hand­led a wide ran­ge of tasks the­re: Sa­les, of­fice ad­mi­nis­tra­ti­on, stock ma­nage­ment and spe­cial sa­les promotions. 

Be­ing in an­o­ther coun­try also me­ans ta­king the time to do some ac­ti­vi­ties and see more of Ire­land. We went to Howth, Wick­low and did a hike on the cliffs of Bray. In any case, it was wonderful.