Category Archives: Ireland – 2016

Week one is over already!! Today the girls got up late for the first time! They were looking forward to that. They relaxed for the morning and then had lunch with their family.

In the afternoon Laura and Paula decided to go bowling with some new friends that they had met during the week. Alex and Mar went to the city centre with some friends. They wanted to visit the Harry Potter library in Trinity College. Lucia and I went to a street festival that was on in the city centre. It was an exciting event with lots of different things to see and do.

We had an early start this morning as we had our excursion. We went to Belfast in the North of Ireland to visit the Titanic museum. It took us two hours to reach Belfast. We had some time to eat lunch before we took the tour.

The museum is fantastic and has become one of Ireland's most visited tourist attractions. We learned all about how the ship was built and what it looked like when it was finished. We also listened to some stories of people who were on the ship.

After the museum we spent some time looking around Belfast city centre. The girls had time to do some shopping before we came back to Dublin.

I really can’t believe our luck with the weather we’re getting - it was another fabulous day! We had class as usual this morning and lunch as usual in the canteen. Afterwards we took the bus into town with some of the other students to visit St.Patrick's Cathedral.

We had some time to look around this beautiful building and some of the students took a guided tour where they learned about ex-presidents of Ireland and also where some of our colloquial expressions came from. For example, “to chance your arm” - which means to risk something - came from an argument between two prominent Irish families. A member of one of the families decided to risk getting his arm cut off when putting it out to shake hands with the other family to make peace!

After the cathedral the girls went home to have dinner with their families. In the evening some of the girls went to the disco organised by the school. They were very excited to get dressed up and to go out with their new friends!