Day 8 – July 12th, 2015
Today we went to see a Gaelic football match in Croke Park. Gaelic football is the most popular sport in Ireland, and is one of Ireland's national sports. Croke Park is the biggest stadium in the country, with a capacity of 82,300.
We met at 1 o' clock and took the bus into town where we were met by thousands of Dublin fans! We walked to the stadium and took our seats behind the goalposts. Dublin were the stronger team and beat Westmeath by 10 points. All of the students were happy to see Dublin winning.
The students had free time in the evening and so they decided to go and play some football back near their host families.
Day 7 – July 11th, 2015
We had a fantastic day today at Waterford Crystal! We left Dublin at 9am and a bus took us on the 2 hour journey down to beautiful Waterford in the south of Ireland.
When we arrived we were met by a very nice tour guide called Jim. He took us into the crystal factory and showed us each different part of the production process. The pieces of crystal were amazing and some of the students got to hold them. At the end of the tour there was a gift shop.......but nobody could afford to buy a gift - it's very expensive crystal!
In the afternoon we had some time to look around the city. The city is small and beautiful but unfortunately the weather was absolutely awful!
Day 6 – July 10th, 2015
We've reached Friday already. The students can hardly believe their first week of classes are over. Some of the students finished the week by working on a project or by doing a presentation for their classmates.
The afternoon was free for the students so of course they went into the city centre to have a look in the shops, watch the street entertainment and just soak up the city atmosphere. The students decided to eat together in the city tonight - they wanted a change from the Irish cooking!
