The closer I get to the end of my time in Dublin the more I get asked by my coworkers, friends, and family if I’m ready to go home? I always find it difficult to answer this question because I don’t have a definite answer. Sure it will be nice to see all of my…

As I get closer to the end of my time in Dublin I’ve begun to realize how much I am going to miss it when I leave. This past Friday I went out to lunch with all of my coworkers and it made me think about how at home they all made me feel at…

The more time I spent at Centralis, the more I am understanding the ins and outs of them as a company. It is hard to pinpoint them in a specific industry because they provide such a wide array of services to their clients. My position in the firm is related to client services and the…

The more time I spend in both Dublin, as well as my internship, the more I am really starting to get accustomed to both the work enviornment and the culture. I hardly notice the accents anymore, and I have gotten in to a regular routine at work. With the end of the accounting quarter being in…

I have been in Dublin for just over a month now and every week I think more and more about the so called “culture shock” that people experience when they study abroad and what it means. Before leaving I was definitely nervous about living in a foreign country for 3 months where I didn’t know…

Over the past few weeks at my internship I have really started to understand what exactly “corporate outsourcing” means. At first I thought Centralis was just responsible for handling investments or financials for their clients. I have come to learn that they do in fact handle those things for some of their clients, but they…

Last weekend me and a few friends took a trip to London for a couple days and quite an experience. We left right after work on Friday and got to our hostel in London right after midnight. The hostel was a very interesting experience considering there were only 5 of us in what could only…

The company in which I have been working at is considered a corporate outsourcing firm, and over the past few weeks I have been starting to understand what exactly that means. At first I wasn’t entirely sure what Centralis as a firm did, but I have come to learn that they do a little bit…

After officially finishing my first week of work, I am finally starting to feel settled here in Dublin. My internship thus far has been going very well and I feel as if I’m beginning to get acclimated to my office environment. I work in what would be considered a small office in America, but is…