Carlingford! x Workshops! and LOCKER'S!!

We had a pretty busy third week. This is all that happened!

 Monday

I set my alarm for about six for Monday morning, not very nice waking up that early but anyway I was up. I made sure everything was packed...including sweets. 

When I got to the petrol station, at around 6:45, no teacher's were there, no buses...I honestly thought I was in the wrong place but I saw one of my friend's in her car, so I just stayed. Eventually the buses and teacher's showed up at seven, and we all got on the bus for the long two hour journey, in fairness, I wasn't even that tired.

 When we got there, we walked though the most adorable street, it was small and all I could think was, "This is the Irish Diagon Alley"- (Harry Potter reference). I actually knew one of the instructors there, her name was Erin, she's from Kildare too actually. When I walked past we said our hello's then our year just sat down in the volleyball court and we got sorted into our rooms, luckily, I was with my friends, in a room of four.

You should have seen the amount of sweets we had in our room, we could have lasted the week, if we were allowed. We got called down over the intercom, we were told to bring our suimsuits and old shoes. We walked down to do water sports, we got into groups of two and got ready to go on our boat's. I was with my friend Serena, yet when we had to pull the boat down to the water...I dragged it all the way down, she said she wasn't strong enough...anyway, when we got to the little beach we played a couple of games, then went back, I pulled the boat back up-again- It really hurts your arms, and shoulders.

After that, we had lunch and got changed into warm clothes and found out our next activity-which was my favourite- we pulled a camunsie ( a onesie with a camouflage design) over our clothes and hiked up a hill with heavy guns and got to play lazer tag. It was amazing, and so fun, our instructor- well our team leader-Martin- who was funny and had amazing inspirational quotes for every game we played and had little tricks for us to win. My favourite quote was "You miss 100% of the shots you never take".

After that we had dinner-went shopping, bought sweets (well more sweets) and then did NightLine- which we got blindfolded and had to rely on the person infront of us and the rope that was there. People screamed in your ear, had weird noises, tickled your nose, poked you...trying to make you scream-which I did not. Our instructors- Teddy and Keith we're fun. Keith would sing random songs and play music and Teddy had a Scottish accent.

When we got back to our room we pigged out on food, and eventually found plugs-they we're hidden by the mattresses-I asked for an alarm to be set for seven so I could get up dressed and pack my bag...which I did.

Tuesday

We went back out to the sea and went in about three boats tied together, which fit about 12 people and set out again, we went out to a pontoon and jumped into the cold, salty water and got lifted back up. Our instructors, Lilly and Edel made us do a fashion walk and a pose into the water and come back up with the pose. 

Peaches came over in his speedboat and gave six of us-at a time a ride to the trampoline where we got to bounce around then jump in and swim back over to the pontoon. We set sail again to another beach and went into the "Magical Tunnel". That was interesting...

After lunch we headed out again to the challenge center and got back into groups, we we're with Edel again and we got gems for each challenge we completed-our team came second with 10 gems- I hated the fact that, that was our last activity. But I enjoyed it so much.

 Our instructors ( the ones I thought was funny)-well the ones I remember-we're ( this is all of them, not just the ones who did water sports) Martin (inspirational speaker), Teddy and Keith (funny), Edel, Erin, Lilly, Dave, Peaches, Pip and Connor (The Ed Sheeran of the group) we're awesome.

I wish we had more time there though, I had a lot of fun there so. The ride home, I feel asleep on my friend's shoulder, then moved after awhile. I made her shoulder sore...oops.

When I got home, I ate dinner, unpacked and feel into bed. I was so tired.

Wednesday

We had Workshops, our first one was all about Work Experience and what to expect...which is next week so, I'm not nervous at all...

Our next one was called " A Life without Limits" I think...we learned about our personalities and what colour/group we we're in, I placed in The Mediator, which was Green, which also meant I was loyal like a dog...well that's what the picture showed.

Our last one was to do with Make-Up, Tans, and Nail care, we learned what not to do with our tan, how to stop it from being all splochy. We also learned, our face shape, if we we're cold or warm skin coloured, I was a heart-shaped, and a square shape and I was a cool/ cold skin tone. We then learned how to do a natural look with our make-up. We also painted our nails and learned about the different shapes they can be.

Thursday

Well I was absent that day but our year went to Maynooth for our Mini Company, I got handed a book as soon as I came in today about it, so it looks interesting.

Friday

We have classes as usual, nothing really happened, except we got our LOCKER'S! Finally, and we also decided what to do for our Fun Walk, well we have an idea.

Emma x