Early Christmas present turns to tragedy for classmates

Christmas came early for Dace Zarina when she got word of her move to Leuven.

“Just got a placement in Belgium!!! A great start of the day!!” she posted on her Facebook page on Dec 17.

The message conveyed the excitement which she and Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) classmate Sara must have felt at the prospect of six months working in Leuven outside Brussels.