Bowling, Newgrange and Drogheda

Hey guys,

I know I kept you waiting but last week nothing really interesting happened. 
But this weekend we went bowling on the saturday with all the other ones as jankas birthday party.

We wanted to be at the bowling centre at 2 o'clock. Actually we were there at 3 o'clock so the bowling alleys we bocked were gone.
But we got two new ones so it was no problem. And we had a lot of fun. (I won ☻)

On Sunday we went to Newgrange with Interstudies (If you wanna know what it is google it...)
This time my Hostsister went with us which was great. 
We left at 9 o'clock. The drive to Newgrange took us about one and a half hour, so by the time we get there it was half ten. 
We got our tickets and 30 minutes to look at the history before a shuttle bus took us to Newgrange. 
At Newgrange itself we were split of into two groups cause not all of us would fit in the cave at one time. So one group had to wait outside in the rain while the other one was inside the cave until we changed.

It was quite impressive what people over thousand years ago could build only out of stones and big rocks. (Newgrange is actually older than the Pyramids of Giza and Stonehenge)

Even if it was raining, it was nice day.
After we were finished at Newgrange we went to Drogheda where we had four hours to do whatever we wanted to do... It was so boring, the only real thing you could do there was go to pennys, but that had only covered one hour. We were actually so bored that we all went to visit the St. Patrick Cathederal ☻ The last three hours we had left after that we just sat somewhere in the shopping centre doing nothing. 

This is St. Patricks real head!

But all in all I really did liked the day ☻

Henrieke♥

Holidays and Halloween

Hallo...

Da wir grade Mid Term haben und das heißt das wir nicht zur Schule gehen müssen, hat meine Gastfamilie sich überlegt das wir für ein Wochenende nach Bundoran fahren könnten. Das haben wir dann letztes Wochenende auch gemacht.
Wir sind am Samstag Morgen losgefahren und am Montag wiedergekommen. 
Bundoran ist eine kleine niedliche "Stadt" in Donegal am Atlantik. Man kann dort eigentlich nicht besonders viel machen, aber es war trotzdem super...
Am Sonntag Morgen sind wir runter zum Strand gegangen (es war ziemlich windig und kalt aber trotzdem schön) und Nachmittags sind wir bowlen gegangen, mein Hostdad hat gewonnen und Abends noch essen, in einem kleinem niedlichen Cafe/Restaurant. Da gibt es das beste Chicken Kiev und den besten Chocolate Fudge Cake den ich je gegessen habe ♥
Und am Montag sind wir dann leider wieder nach Hause gefahren...

Diesen Samstag war Halloween, und da meine Gastschwester den tag nach Halloween Geburtstag hat hatte sie zwei ihrer Freundinnen hier zum übernachten.
Wir sind erst in die Stadt gegangen und dann abends nochmal zum Feuerwerk, welches recht klein war...
ich selber bin nicht trick or treating gegangen, aber die Leute die hier waren sahen zum teil echt gut aus...
ach ja Halloween kommt eigentlich aus Irland und nicht wie die meisten denken aus den USA.

Und ob ihr's glaubt oder nicht, ich bin hier nun schon für zwei Monate.
Die zeit vergeht hier echt schnell, denn es fühlt sich nicht an wie zwei Monate, ehr wie zwei Wochen.

Henrieke♥

1. Work Experience

Heyo,

The last week i spent working...
You heard right, i spent my last week in a Play School here in Moanaghan, the reason why i did that is that we had to do a work experience for school. 
So I've chosen to work in a Play School. That was actually really easy work. Everything I had to do was to play with the children and take care of them.
I started at 9 in the morning and finished at 1 in the afternoon, so a really short day for me...

Play School here is kind of the same like Kindergraden in Germany. But they are not doing all the same things. In German Kindergardens you can nearly do whatever you want to, only a few expectations, here they have to do build puzzles and do P.E. I mean they can also play with toys and Play-doh and stuff but yeah, they also have to do their work.
Play Schools here are really not that big as in Germnay, here are only up to 20 children in one Play School compared to germany that is nothing. 
And they are leaving Play School here with 4 Years...

I actually don't have more to tell...

Henrieke♥

Ginat's Cuaseway

Hey,

I have viseted the Giant's Causeway yesterday and it was fantastic ♥ even if had to stand up at half seven.
Our bus left at nine o'clock and it took us three hours to get there, but it was totally worth it!

For all of you who don't know what the Giant's Causeway is: The Ginats Causeway is one of the World Heritage Sites and was built by an ancient volcanic reaktion about 50 to 60 million years ago. It is located in Northern Ireland Co. Antrim. You can find a similar formation on the opposite coast in Scotland. It is pretty much made of hexagonal basalt columns. The biggest ones are about 12 meters high.

Finn McCools shoe

 There is also a legend about how it was built: 60 million years ago, a giant called Finn McCool lived there and in Scotland lived a Giant called Benandonner. Benandonner challenged Finn to fight against him. Finn built the Ginats Causeway over to Scotland so that the two Ginat's could meet. But when Finn saw how big Benandonner was 
he flew and hide in his house. But Benandonner found his house.

According to the ledgend the chemnies
on the rock, should belong to Finns house...

Finn was clever he hides as a baby and when the other Ginat saw him he thought this fight wasn't worth it cause he would loose anyway because he thought Finn was actually the Father from the baby, so he flew back to Scotland and destroyed the Causeway behind him, that Finn could not follow.


To see the Causeway was awsome. We had it in Geography and the picturs looked really impressive, but when you're actually there they look even more im pressive. 
The day was super and if you have the chance to go there do it...

Henrieke♥

Foodfestival and Picnic..

Hey Guys

In the last to weeks I haven't done a lot, only on the Weekends...

On the first Weekend we had a Foodfestival here in Monaghan, you could get a lot of free, nice food ♥ so i went there on Saturday and Sunday, the first day with Friends of me and the second day with my hostsister. It was nice...
Last weekend we went shopping. We went to Dundalk, because there is Penneys ☻and my hostsister wanted to go there (Don't worry we didn't went to the supermarket Penny, here they call Primark, Penneys. The first time I've heard it i thought you can't go shopping in Penneys but then my sister explained it to me...) 
I've never bought so less in Penneys, only four things!!!

On Sunday we've made a picnic with all the other Exchange students in Roosemore Park. We meet at one o'clock and walked nearly an hour to a lovley lake. There we have done our Picnic, and we had a lot of food...

We definitely had a lot of fun ♥

The next thing i will write about is probably the Giant's Causeway...

Henrieke♥