Internship at the company RO-RA in Ireland

August 2008, by Peter Schobesberger

On July 31, 2008 I took a Ryanair flight to Ireland. Because I had a stay of approximately 7 hours in Dublin, I was able to make a short trip into the city center. In the evening I was received in Kerry in a friendly way by Mr. Garry Field.

On my first day in Ireland Mr. Field brought me to work, where I got a short introduction and met the staff. After work we drove to the new house of his brother-in-law, in which I was allowed to stay during my five weeks in Ireland, when we arrived there they just were at cleaning and furnishing the house.

Tralee

Tralee, the capital city of the county Kerry offers like, the whole county Kerry, a lot of sights and beautiful places. Every time you walk through the city, you discover small shops, cosy pubs or other objects of interest at each corner.

Kirby's Brogue Inn and Steakhouse

leisure

Whenever the weather was good I spent my spare time during the week in the city or in the city park most of the time. Tralee is a city, in which you can always discover new things and which also is not getting boring after 5 weeks. For me Tralee was exactly the right city, there is everything a young person needs. Apart from cinema, shopping centre, the Aquadome and many possibilities for going out Tralee offers also a nice atmosphere and many places for relaxing.

Blennerville Windmill

On the weekends I spent most of the time in the region around Tralee like in Killarney or Dingle.

In Killarney there is a very invitational national park where you can see the well-known towerhouse "Ross Castle", the fallen abbey "Muckross Abbey" and the manor house "Muckross House", where Queen Victoria had resided, with its beautiful gardens.

Ross Castle

In the port Dingle you can find the large Oceanworld Aquarium, an enormous corn labyrinth and the well-known dolphin Fungi.

Dingle

On the penultimate weekend a very special Event took place, weeks before everybody had just been speaking about this big festival: The Rose Of Tralee. To this festival each year thousands of guests come to Tralee from all over the world. Many Irish people say that this festival is only existing, for getting drunk a whole weekend long.

my practical course

At the beginning of the traineeship I got a explanation for the fundamental operation with the injection moulding machines. I spent the largest part of the practical course with serving of one of these machines. Occasionally there were different plastic parts to sort or I had to punch out "Faltenbälge" (=bellows in English).

RO-RA Ireland

result

Although the activities at the machines were often very monotonous, the practical course was very interesting for me and above all new. I was able to learn a lot about plastics processing and I have also developed a certain interest for the therefor necessary manufacturing methods. In addition the possibility of working in an Irish team gave me a lot of experience.

The detention in Ireland was a very nice time, Ireland was the ideal place for the foreign practical course. During my stay I could improve my English, deepen my technical knowledge and become acquainted with many nice people. In addition I was able to develop myself personally and had a view of the life in another country and on its history.

I want to take this opportunity to thank Ing. Roland Lube and DI Gernot Weissensteiner for the coordination of the practical course. In addition I want to thank all the people who supported me at my practical course.