In the past 12 months we have experienced unprecedented increases in energy prices and with more increases set to be announced in the coming weeks. In Ireland we have seen on average an 87% increase in the price of gas & electricity since 2021.

Our aim at EazyCity is to share with you some good tips for responsible energy consumption and avoid the waste of energy while staying in our properties.

How to save electricity?

A number of basic actions can be taken to reduce electricity costs by making the best use of domestic appliances, electronic devices and the heating and lighting system in the home.

Here are some suggestions to avoid unnecessary waste of energy.

• FRIDGE
• Be sure to organize the storage in the refrigerator so that the cold is distributed correctly.
• Check for leaks.
• Do not put hot dishes in the fridge or freezer. It is better to wait and let them cool out naturally.
• Do not leave the door open for too long.
• Keep the fridge temperature at medium temperature, not too high.

• WASHING MACHINE
• Run the washing machine on a cooler cycle, 30 degrees is fine for most clothing.
• Put the washing machine on during off-peak hours.
• Use the washing machine when you have a full load.
• Avoid pre-washes
• Do your laundry once a week

• DRYER
• Avoid using it as much as possible.
• When you use it, put your clothes in for the minimum amount of time possible.

• OTHER KITCHEN APPLIANCES
• Use the microwave to heat food but not to defrost it. You can let frozen food defrost in the fridge.
• If you need to monitor the cooking, avoid opening the oven so that it does not lose heat.
• Remember to clean the oven frequently.
• When using the kettle, only boil as much water as you need.

• ELECTRONIC DEVICES (cell phones, laptops, tablets, etc.)
• Pull the plug on the laptops and other appliances when they are fully charged.
• Charge your devices during off-peak times.
• Shut down and unplug your devices when they are not in use.

• HOME LIGHTING
• Turn off the lights when you are leaving the room.
• Choose daylight whenever is possible.

• HEATING SYSTEM AND SHOWER
• Ensure that the heating is turned off when leaving the house.
• Seal your windows and doors and close your curtains at night to retain heat.
• Please take showers under 5 minutes

Contact us if you need more information [email protected] Tel. 00353214222243

Check out the estimated cost for using these appliances:

Globally today, there are almost 800 million people who have little or no access to education. Adults and children who do not have basic literary skills. Back in 1820, the world's population from secondary school age onward had a literacy rate of only 12%, according to The World Bank.

In 1900, it exceeded 20%. From the 1950s on, world literacy began to improve significantly, hitting 42% in 1960 and 70% in 1983. Today, the global literacy rate stands at 87%, or almost nine out of ten people worldwide.

Here at EazyCity we believe that education is a basic human right for all and that everyone should have access to. In this big world of ours we also want to do our small part. In the last 18 years we have been promoting study language programs and professional internships to thousands of young European and US students who wish to improve their language skills as well as develop important soft skills, useful for their personal and professional growth.

We care about the world we live in and we would like to share with you these important organisations we find inspiring and motivating:

Gapminder

World Economic Forum

World Bank

Eighteen years of EazyCity, wow! We only started celebrating our company anniversary from our 5th year in business. We did not celebrate our 1st year, probably because we were so busy building the company that we didn't think it was important, or may be we didn't expect to last more than a few years.

Julia and I started this business to essentially make life "eazy" for students looking for a house, a job or a language course in Cork, where it all began. We absolutely loved opening other branches in Ireland, UK, Spain, Italy and US. So far helping students and young professionals to settle into a new country has been very rewarding and fun. Over the years we met so many interesting people from pretty much all over the world. Since 2004 we welcomed people from over 60 different nationalities.

This year's anniversary is special because we had two difficult years because of the pandemic. We feel very fortunate to have a fantastic team and to still have the same passion for this great industry.

Happy Birthday to us!

Enrico Zoppi & Julia Lynes

EazyCity Founders

Meet the team

Here at EazyCity we strongly believe in inclusion, in freedom of speech and most importantly we believe in the freedom to be whoever we want to be.

Watching Madame Drusilla Foer, the charming and cultured artist (alter ego of Gianluca Gori) giving an incredible speech about inclusion from the stage of the 72° Edition of Sanremo Festival - the most important Italian music event, reminded us how vital it is to be ourselves, without any "masks" to please society. The main message was to listen to people with an open mind, without prejudice.

We would like to share Drusilla's speech:

"Diversity is a word that I don't like, it has something comparative and a distance that doesn't convince me.
I find that words are like lovers: when they no longer work, they must be changed immediately.
I looked for a term that could replace such an incomplete word. And I found it: Uniqueness.
I like it, it's a word that everyone likes. We all think we are unique.
Easy? Not at all.

We need to understand what our uniqueness is made up of, what we are made of.
Beautiful things. The ambitions, the values, the convictions, the talents. But the talents must be trained, followed. We must have responsibility for our own convictions. We must take care of our own strength. It's not that easy.

Getting in touch with one's uniqueness is a crazy job. How do you do it?

I would have a way. All the things that live inside us we take them by our hands.
The take beautiful ones and the ones we think are ugly and we lift them by our hands. They rise together with us, in the purity of the air, in the freedom of the wind, in the light of the sun, in a big loving embrace and we cry: "What a beauty, I am all these things!".

It will be crazy cool. And it will be great to embrace our uniqueness. Let's try the greatest revolutionary act that can be done today, which is listening. Listen to others, listen to the uniqueness.

Let our thoughts flow freely without prejudice, shame, and let us free ourselves from the imprisonment of stillness."

WATCH THE SPEECH ON RAI PLAY

The Irish Government allows an extra 30 cents compared to 2021 which brings the minimum national wage to €10.50 per hour.

The pandemic has affected our Study Travel Industry.

In 2020 all destinations experiencing a decline in the value of their English Language Travel business of between 51 and 81%. Overall the US dollar value of the industry decreased by US$5,534,277,684 between 2019 and 2020 with some destinations expecting greater losses in 2021.

Please find below a few stats from the Study Travel Network official website. More stats via this link

At EazyCity we care a lot about the world and we believe that it's very important to know the facts about the following topics:

• Global Warming
• Global Hunger
• Girls Schooling
• Gender Equality
• Farmers Income
• Economic Growth
• and much more

Every year our team is involved in a charity / environment project. We love playing a part and give our tiny contribution for a better world. In 2019 our management team was in Amsterdam collecting plastic from the canals.

We recently came across the Swedish Foundation called GapMinder, founded in Stockholm on 25 February 2005 by Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, and Hans Rosling, a very important physician, academic and public speaker.

Their mission is pretty simple but so powerful and we wanted to share it with you:

"Our mission is to fight devastating ignorance with a fact-based worldview everyone can understand."

Most people have a more dramatic view about the world, GapMinder is a great platform to learn more about our society.

Gapminder identifies systematic misconceptions about important global trends and proportions and uses reliable data to develop easy to understand teaching materials to rid people of their misconceptions.

Gapminder is an independent Swedish foundation with no political, religious, or economic affiliations.

Test your worldview, we are sure you will learn a lot about the world we live in. You will discover many facts that you didn't know before.

USEFUL LINKS

Visit GapMinder website (explore their studies and take more tests)

Download Misconception Study by Gapminder (suuuper interesting)

Visit GapMinder Tools & Stats (view world data)

EazyCity Gives back page

We are very happy to share our new 2022 Destination Brochure.

In our destination list we have added Florence, Italy.

DOWNLOAD BROCHURE to discover all our destinations!

We have been waiting for this moment for a long time and now we are so happy to start promoting face to face English Classes!!!

We are delighted to offer 4 weeks of English Course in Cork for the price of 3 weeks! No school booking fee.

Please contact us: [email protected] or contact us via chat 😉

Finally all English language school across Ireland can resume the recruitment of new international students from September 20th.

We are very happy for our industry. Most of our partner schools will continue to provide online classes during the autumn / winter but they will also be able to welcome students who wish to come to Ireland to Study English.

The Department of Justice also confirmed that short term visa will also resume from today 13th September.

Schools have also been asked to encourage vaccine uptake among existing, new and prospective students.

If you wish to book an English Course (go to offer) we are currently running a promotion: Book 4 weeks of English Course and only pay 3 weeks! Please contact us: [email protected]