dé hAoine

 It's Friday, the last day of the mobility (we still have Saturday on our own). 

We still have a day ahead, and we are going to Killarney. It's a National Park with the highest mountains of the country. 

We first stopped in the waterfall and from there we went walking to the lake.  The views were astonishing. Close to the lake there was a Victorian house (for the wealthy people in the18th Century). It was like a palace with beautiful garden.

From there we went to have lunch in a traditional pub. The food was delicious and we tasted real traditional Irish dishes. 

And, because we ate so well we had to do some exercise. We ended the day with a farewell dinner with our international friends. The mobility is coming to an end.

Déardaoin - Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit

 It's Thrusday, and today it's SAINT PATRICK'S DAY!!!

There's no school today. We are going to watch the Saint Patrick's parade in Cork. The streets are full of people and there is no way to cross the street. 

After glimpsing some of the Parade we had a tour around Cork, since we had to make time for the bowling. We visited the big churches of Cork and we made a walk around the River Lee.

There's only Friday left!😢

dé Céadaoin

So this is Wednesday. Today has been a great and intense day.

At first we went to the school and we played a new sport. It was Gaelic Football. This is one of the most played sports in Ireland, and the players are all amateur. There aren't any professional players. It has some rules similar to football, but there are others that remind us of our handball. Anyway, It was so much fun because we played against our teachers and we won.




After our glorious victory we did our presentation about the refugees and how we treat them in our country. It was really interesting, considering the humanitarian crisis we are living with the invasion of Ukraine.



Before lunch we did a very funny competition about who was the best at building a boat with some materials we were given.


In the afternoon we went to a lovely village called Kinsale. We went for a walk and we visited its colourful streets.


Finally we had dinner with our friends from Ireland, Germany and Cyprus in an Italian restaurant, and we had a really great time. We have done a lot of things today! And tomorrow we will celebrate Saint Patrick's Day!!!
Slán!

dé Máirt!!

 

Hello again from Cork. 

Today we had a trip to Cobh!

We did something special today, we went to Cobh by train. Cobh is a toristic village in the coast, where the river Lee (the city that runs through Cork) meets the Atlantic Ocean. 

In Cobh we have visited Spike island, the largest island prison of the world ( larger than the famous Alcatraz prison) Spike island was used for common criminals, but also for political  prisioners. Ireland was under English rule for over 800 centuries. There we saw the punishments the prisioners had (our teacheirs took notes of that, we don't really know what for).

After Spike island we had some free time in Cobh, and then back to Cork. And finally the rain appeared (we thought the Irish weather fame was fake) Hope tomorrow gets better. See you tomorrow.

Slán!!

dé Luain!!!

 

Dia Dhuit! or hello, as they say in Irish, the celtic language spoken in Ireland.




Today our work started in Mount Mercy. We arrived at 9:20 and, after meeting the rest of the Erasmus students we had a tour of the school. It is a girls school, so the students were really excited to have boys among them.














Our first day consisted of ice breaker activities and then presentations about our country and our school. Then we moved to the stereotypes presentations where we talked about how foreigners think about us and how that makes us feel.








Rumania was there doing their presentations online, so we could also say hello to them!







After lunch in the school we had a walking tour from the school to the city center. We finished really tired but we learned a lot about the history of Cork and the University. And we didn’t cross the quadrangle, which is said to bring bad luck to students, as they will fail their exams (hope this is not our case)




In the afternoon we went to have dinner with the German students, whom we found really nice.

So that’s all for today. Hope Tuesday is more relaxed!




Slán!!

Failte!!!!

Welcome to our Irish experience!!!

We are glad to announce that we finally arrived. At aprox. 16:00 (local hour) we landed in the Emerald Island. 

The weather was surprisingly good (lot of sunshine). 

We arrived at our hostel (quite an experience) and did our first steps in the city of Cork. Just a 40 minutes walk. Our main interests were Augustinian places. We first encountered Saint Augustine’s church, but we couldn't enter as Mass had already started. Nonetheless we took a photo from the door, where you can see something we say in our morning prayers (but in latin)

Then we headed for the old ruins of the Red abbey ( the Saint Augustine convent of the 13th century) Only the old tower remains. 

As it was getting dark we went for dinner to a pub. It was crouded, since it was Sunday. But we were really tired to complain. We went back to the hostel because on Monday we were having our first day in Mount Mercy school.

Slán

Last News from Martinique

 As our students and teachers are travelling back from Martinique, we have received a piece of news of our stay in the island. This is a report about us from the School Newspaper:

By the way, it's in French, in case you didn't notice!😉

A bittersweet Friday 😥

Usually, Fridays are the best days in school, because it is the last of the week and the beginning of the weekend. But for us, today was a sad day, since it was our last day in the school of Le Carbet.

We spent the whole day in the school. There we met all the Erasmus+ students and talked about our experiences in Martinique (the things we enjoyed, the activities, the food…).  

Then we did a presentation of the days here. We made a poem against racism and, for closure, we made a T-Shirt workshop where we did T-shirts with the logo “All together united with love”.

It was a bittersweet sensation, because it was a really good day staying with the friends we made, but, on the other hand, it was the last day and we had to say goodbye to them.

Martinique roots

This Thursday we discover a lot about Martinique history!

 We started our project’s day going to the ‘Point de vue de l’Anse Marigot’ a famous viewpoint South of  Le Carbet  to observe wild marine animals. It’s also a famous place among French people (they come even from France), specially for lovers, for taking pictures under a giant heart pointing to the sunset.

Our next stop was the open-air village near Les Trois-Ilets. Here we discovered a lot about the daily life of the French slaves of the island.

In the afternoon we visited a craft market and finally we went to the beach, where we played and saw fish, corals and starfishes.

Wednesday is cruise day

 Hi again,

Today we had another field trip here in Martinique. As usual, we had to get up early because we had to cross the whole island to the Atlantic Coast (if you don't know Le Carbet is in the west side of the island).

So we went to the Atlantic side to embark to one of the small isles close to Martinique. It was a beautiful place. There we saw crabs and there was a strange circle similar to a compass.

Later on we visited a local workshop where we made some crafts. They have medical plants too,  and they attend sick people for free. They have only one rule: " if you receive you have to give".

We finished the morning visiting a dance academy, where we had lunch (with some  delicious juice made of an exotic fruit typical from Martinique) and then we learnt to dance traditional dances from the isle.

We were going to visit a Rum factory, but we couldn't finally enter because it was very late, so we rest some time there before returning to Le Carbet.

We hope you enjoy reading our adventures, there will be more tomorrow