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Ireland 2009

Thomas Poppinger (7A) – 28.9.2009 – 7 Fotos – 542 Aufrufe

This year, our school’s language week led some seven-formers to Ireland, where we passed the time from the 13th to the 20th of September. After an approximately two hours flight, we arrived at the course town, Bray, where we were heartily welcomed by our host families and taken to our next day’s homes.

The following days, we always spent the mornings learning at the Pace Institute, a certified local language school for foreigners. Tuition was as well instructive and interesting as funny and also our teacher named Jackie will remain thoroughly positive in our memories, and that not only because of her motherly personality. In the afternoons, we used to take the train to the Irish capital Dublin and to do a lot of sightseeing. On the programme were Trinity College, the home of the world-famous Book of Kells which is a gorgeous piece of literature; Temple Bar; the Spire, a high metal needle with a height of 120 meters and meanwhile one of Dublin’s landmarks; Kilmainham Gaol, the oldest jail in the city, and Guinness Storehouse. Furthermore, we visited St. Patrick’s Cathedral, being as well a spiritual place as an architectural master-piece; Christchurch; Dublinia, hosting a Viking exhibition, and the marvellous St. Stephen’s Green. Besides a day’s trip to Dun Laoghaire, another small town at the shore, we often got the chance to do some shopping in Dublin’s popular Grafton Street.

For sure one of our journey’s heydays was the Ceili Evening at Monkstown, a traditional Irish dance and music evening which we all totally enjoyed.

Much too quickly, the week went by and we already had to leave the «Esmerald Isle« again. All that remains to me is saying thank you to the two teachers whom we were accompanied by, Prof. Prager and Prof. Eggenhofer who had also planned and organised the whole journey.