After getting our junior certain results my whole year travelled to Lough Dan for a three day long camping trip.
After we finally got our results we all boarded the buses with overwhelming excitement for the three days to come. When we reached the campsite we started to put up our tents. This was a difficult task and was a source of great frustration but was also very funny trying to co ordinate 5 teenagers. We then gathered together and started a six kilometre warmup hike in preparation for a twenty two kilometre trek the next day. When we arrived back to the site we all gathered around the Bon fire and just chatted for the rest of the night. The next morning we began the twenty two kilometre hike which was surprisingly not as gruelling as feared. Everyone spent the whole time talking with different people that the might not mix with in school. This was a great experience and I think it brought our year closer together. We then finished the hike by jumping into the freezing lake which was a welcome refreshment. We then started up the fire again and began talking the night away once more.
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On the 29th of September, I travelled to the Guinness storehouse in Dublin.
When I arrived at St James' Gate, with 6 other classmates, we joined a surprisingly short queue for our tickets. After collecting our tickets we followed the tour guide into a room full of barley, where I learned that the word "beer" is derived from the Anglo Saxon word "baere" meaning barley. We were then led into a room with multiple screens on the walls. In each screen there was a video giving a different account of St James' Gate in the past from a different perspective. I found these accounts very interesting as they were supplied by everyday people such as bartenders and cab drivers rather than an everyday historian. After absorbing a couple of more rooms my friends and I decided to sit down and get a drink for a few moments. While sitting down, I noticed a middle aged man, from France or Germany, having trouble finding a hotel in Temple Bar. The man asked me to help him, and after doing so I realised how privileged I am to be a native English speaker, which is the international language. I, a 16 year old boy, had a greater ability to find a man's hotel than the man himself. This experience opened my eyes to the endless inequalities in the world and how lucky I am to not be negatively affected by many of them. |
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