By Pantelis Goularas
A Dublin resident. How strange is life? When I was living in Greece for decades and working for the Greek Public services, I couldn't imagine that once, I'll become a resident of another country. And now, alongside my course here and my daily duties, I feel a nostalgia for the city where I grew up and lived the most years of my life. However, Ireland is a country I love and Dublin is a city I love too. I've been there many times, I had the chance to live there for a few months and to meet some good people. To understand their way of life and to discover similarities and differences within us. To find out the advantages (many) and the disadvantages (few) in comparison to us. To fit myself better in the new way and place of my life.
A Dublin resident. How strange is life? When I was living in Greece for decades and working for the Greek Public services, I couldn't imagine that once, I'll become a resident of another country. And now, alongside my course here and my daily duties, I feel a nostalgia for the city where I grew up and lived the most years of my life. However, Ireland is a country I love and Dublin is a city I love too. I've been there many times, I had the chance to live there for a few months and to meet some good people. To understand their way of life and to discover similarities and differences within us. To find out the advantages (many) and the disadvantages (few) in comparison to us. To fit myself better in the new way and place of my life.
But
there is always a nostalgia. Taking my youngest daughter, to her
school, I've started to remember my school years. In that time, as a
young boy, we usually go to school walking, even in the kindergarten.
Our school was the 1st
Primary School. It was in the building that is now the Town Hall. At
the ground floor was located the 1st
Primary School (along with the 1st
Kindergarten). Upstairs was the (six classes) Boys High School. For a
few years, at the ground floor, was also the 2nd
Primary School. Later it had relocated to its own building, the
“Meleteio” at Venizelou Street. All