Different things that I liked

I was very surprised by the difference in number of siblings between Ireland and Spain. In Spain it is most common to have one sibling or to be only child, while in Ireland most of the friends I made had at least two siblings. An Irish exchange boy has five brothers and my roommate’s dad Rebecca told me he has twelve siblings! 

In relation with this, I also noticed that families usually live very close together, in my case we lived between the grandparents' house and Rebecca’s aunt. 

The Irish weather is colder than that of Spain, although the first week it made very good weather, the second and third week we hooded jacket because you never know if it will rain. We were very lucky in this respect because it rained little. 

Another thing I liked was that they always keep the empty plastic bottles to take them to the supermarket machine when they go shopping. When you deposit the plastic bottles, these machines will give you back the money you paid for the container. It’s a way to make people recycle that I liked very much.