Blog Erasmus Silvia

On Tuesday we chose once again if we wanted to go hiking or to stay at school. I chose to stay but there wasn’t enough space in PE class so I ended up going to Limerick’s University with the Irish students that went swimming. There we walked a bit and bought some food. After school I went with Jack’s family to watch one of Conor’s hurling matches. When it ended we went to buy pizza and we had dinner together to celebrate our last day there.

On Monday we went to school. I had Spanish and they were learning about the family so we talked about ours to help them. Then we had a barista course where we prepared coffee. Most people didn’t like it but I think it tasted very well. After that we went to Wellbeing and Religion. After school I went to the pitch once again where we talked about how it would be to have the Irish students in Spain and about the excursions in Spain.

I went with Clara, Jennifer and Michelle, Jack’s aunt, to Cork. There we visited a castle where a girl explained a few things about astronomy. After that we went to the Marina Market to have lunch. I loved that place because it had a lot of food stands with a big variety of meals. To finish the day we went to a shopping centre. There, Clara was trying to convince her mother to buy her Stitch clothes at Primark and I found a bookshop with a lot of books I wanted but I couldn’t buy them because there were packs of at least 6 books I didn’t have enough space in my suitcase. 

At school we went to practice for the musical once again and we learnt a new dance, we played cards in Lea and we help the Irish students with the Spanish present tense. After school I didn’t know where I had to go because I couldn’t find Jack anywhere so I stayed at the pitch with some of my friends. In the evening we went to an Irish music night and we had a lot of fun. A girl performed two typical dances, a girl and a boy played the harp and the banjo and a woman played the guitar and sang a song about Molly Malone. After that the Spaniards danced “Paquito el chocolatero” and we played some games.

I went with Jack and his grandparents to the ploughing. This is a tractor competition but in the place where it’s celebrated there are also other things you can do or see like a funfair, animals, food stands and some shops. Even though our friends were going we weren’t able to find any of them but that was probably because we left early as Jack was sick and he had thrown up. I didn’t really enjoy the place because there was a lot of mud but I had a good time learning about Jack’s family and telling them about mine.

We went to school and we had PE with the TY. We could choose if we wanted to go hiking or to stay at school. Most of us chose to stay because it was raining a lot outside. At school we had a self-defence class, a CPR class and a chess class. Then we had English were they were learning about the book King Lear written by William Shakespeare, and differentiating between the plot and subplot. Our last class that day was Home Ec, where we were divided in groups and the teacher gave each group 8 questions to answer and the one with more questions correct would win.