Ireland Erasmus 2023

 It was a school day, but instead, my host family and I went to the national ploughing championships, a yearly event for farmers and some other people to sell and promote their products. It was really windy and rainy, so we had to wear wellies, cause the ground had so much mud.  The event was so full of people, and there were hundreds of stalls, which were mostly of associations or food. In some of them, there were little free things, like pens or tastes of the food. For example, there was a lupa, that had some free meat, and chips that were too hot, and a slice of pizza I didn't manage to get. We stayed there for hours, until we got in the car and went back home.

 We went to class, and kept learning the dance for the musical in the first period. After some more classes, where we didn't do much because we're here for just three weeks, we had Spanish. I think it's funny to see how is the book that explains a language you already know, and I was curious about how would a Spanish listening be, but we didn't had the opportunity.  In the evening, it was the movie night, but it was only from 7 to 9, so it wasn't much. They put the Jumanji movie, that's about a group of teens getting trapped in a game. No one was really paying much attention, mainly focused on talking or eating. But actually, we didn't get to finish the movie, because the teacher quitted it before.

 We got out of school at 9 and a half, more or less, and it took about an hour to arrive to ballyhass. It was pretty windy and cold, so most people, including me, were freezing.  After getting the security protections and all, we separated in smaller groups, and at first we went to the climbing. We had to walk up a tilted ladder, and it really was way more difficult than it seemed. When we all finished trying, some people repeated, and a couple ones played a game that was about quitting each other shoe while on the ladder, it was amusing to see. We went to the skyline, and it was fun, but at the end, you had to be careful to not trip on the ground.  At last, we went to the water part, and as it was so cold and I was feeling kinda unwell I didn't go to the water. But a friend didn't go to the water either, so we were looking and talking. We got back to school at like, 5 in the evening.

 Today we had an excursion to limerick. We got out of school at 9 and a half, and we headed to limerick in a bus. We went to the milk market, but I really didn't see milk anywhere. I bought a sausage roll, but it was kinda spicy. I also got little chocolates that had a frog shape.  We walked around the city for a while, but not seeing anything in specific. We also went to the shopping centre, and I wanted to buy a book, but I had wasted my money already. We went to kilmallock, and I saw a castle, and it looked cool. We saw a hurling match, it was like 2 hours long, and it was genuinely so boring I almost fell asleep at some point. 

We took the bus to Bilbao at 10 and a half in the morning, and when we arrived, we took a different bus to the airport. We arrived at the airport way too soon, and after a long time, we checked our baggage. But we still had much time to wait, cause the plane wasn't on time. At 5, the plain finally took off, and about two hours later, when it landed on Dublin, the Irish students were already waiting for us. With them, we took another bus, and we stopped to dine in a petrol station, before continuing the rest of the journey. The bus stopped at scoil Pol, where each family was waiting for its exchange student.

 Soon in the morning, at like, 9, I think, we all, Spanish and Irish exchange students, went on a bus to Dublin. It took a long time to arrive, and there we walked around for a while. We saw a long metal stick that was over 100 meters tall but I don't remember its name, apart from other places. We had some free time in a street with shops, but we couldn't go on our own, as every Spanish student had to be with at least an Irish one. So I had to follow Laura and her friend to Primark and zara, even though the free time had already finished. After a while, we went to the airport to pick up the 2 weeks students, but they took too long to get their luggage. So, with everyone reunited, we went back on the bus, and we arrived pretty late.