After we collected our luggage from the coach we headed up the hills to Carlingford Adventure Centre. It was a lovely village but so small. We were greeted by the lovley staff. We sat down in the conference room were we were told the rules and what activities we were going to be doing. Everyone was exhausted but still hesitant to have fun on the activities. Shortly after we were given the key to our room. Our group got a lovely 12 bedroom > 6 bunkbeds. Thank god i was on the bottom bunk because i sleep walk and fell of the bed that night. We had a drawer full of sweets which kept us fed for the night. My bed was really comfortable :). We got into our gear that we would need and headed through the city to get ready for our 1st activity. We climbed up a hill in the lashing rain to get to our 1st activitie, we all headed to a little tent where we were given safety helmets and a map of the site .
The aim of this 1st activitie was to get as many jems as possilble by completing little tasks around the site. We all headed off in our groups and completed the various tasks. By the end of activities one we had collected 26 jems in total :). At 1 o'clock we headed back for our lunch. We had so much fun on the way back . Ms O'Callghan and Ms.Rowan got attacked by some of the girls with mud , poor Ms O'Callaghan suffered the worst with mud in her hair , all over her face and in her mouth. We had our lunch and headed off to our 2nd activity which was in the water , that was the BEST one .
We got into our wet suits and we were put into our boats, there was 3 boats attacked to each other. We all paddled from one side of the lough to the other , when we reached the other side we jumped out of the boats the water was freezing but we still swam in it . We paddled over to the peer . Everyone jumped of the peer . I jumped off the larger peer it seemed like i was never going to hit the water. We got dressed and headed back for our dinner. We had lovely home made stew and ice-cream for dessert.
At 7 o'clock we headed for our 3rd activity which was mountain climbing. It was disgusting , we were covered from head to toe in mud. It was a lovely walk but tough. We went back for the evening, we all had our showers. Then we headed to the local chinese. We all got 3 in 1s , Ms O'Callaghan got a satay one to fit in with the group ha. We went back and sat in the conference room around the fire telling eachother stories. 11 O'Clock bedtime , we headed to our beds and had our drawer full of sweets.
8 O'Clock that morning we were woken by the announcements telling us to wake up. We got up changed our covers on our bed and packed and headed for breakfast. We then headed up the hills again for our rope climbing , which was extremely scary but exciting at the same time. It was all about team work to help get the people up the ropes and onto the little green platform. We then headed back for lunch and then we had a game of volleyball :). We then headed for our last activity which was orienterring which was fun and extremely hard. We then headed back , collected all our stuff and said our goodbyes and headed out to the buses.
We arrived back in celbridge at 7 O'Clock . I must say it was a GREAT start to Transition Year.
The fun couldnt have happened without Ms Rowan and Ms O'Callaghan , Thank You
On Wednesday the 15Th all Transition Years and 5th years got their Junior Cert Results at 12.40 , the excitment in the Hall as Ms.Barry entered with the brown envelopes. Everybody Done Brilliant , Well Done Girls :)
Steph S
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