One Day In Paradise

Today, we have woken up at 8 o'clock (they don't let us sleep even one single day a week), We've had breakfast and we've taken a coach to Powerscourt. Powercourt is a mansion with some amazing gardens, which we haven't been able to see, but we've seen the mansion from the outside and trust us it's wonderful. After, we have taken the coach again to go to Powerscourt's waterfall, the highest in Ireland with 90 metres of fall. We've spent there some time later on we've taken the coach for a third time to go to Glendalough (the valley of two lakes), where we've been able to go for a walk next to the lakes. Some of us have ended up a little wet!!!!!!!! 

Finally we have returned to Dublin again to have dinner and to learn Irish dancing. We aren't really good at it but we've laughed a lot with the Italians, our group leaders and the activity leaders. We add you a short video so you can try at home.  Later on we're going to go to sleep.  

Adrià&Àlex

A trip to Howth!

Today it is Saturday and we haven't got classes so we have gone on a trip to Howth. Howth is a fishing village on the west coast of Ireland. There, we have seen seals and we have walked a lot around the hills. We have strolled pacefully around the village and we have had the opportunity to touch the Irish seawater; it wasn't so cold!
Later on, we took a sand path to walk around the peninsula and we saw some unbelievable landscapes. It was absolutely amazing. He had lunch on a place over the hills looking at the awesome view. After having lunch we took antoher path to go down the mountain, it was nice too. When we have arrived at the village after walking for 2 hours, we have seen a cemetery with some church ruins which was  impressive. Then we got some free time to have an ice-cream and later on we caught the bus to go to Dublin again. There, we spent some time shopping some souvenirs. When we have arrived at College we have had a shower and we have had dinner and later on we had some time to relax because we were really tired. It has been a hard but one of the nicest days in Ireland.

Bernat Buzzi, Sònia Dosta

The landscapes:

Sports and karaoke day!!!

Today, as always, we've woken up at 8 o'clock in order to start  classes at 9. After classes, we've had lunch at half past twelve. The "Chicken's Taco" was very appetizing and all the other dishes also seemed really good.  At 2 we've started to walk to a sports centre ten minutes away from the campus. We've been able to play basketball, football, voleyball, table-tennis, and many other sports; after about two hours playing with our activity leaders, Daniel and Sarah, and with a group of Italian and Russian students we've returned to our campus. Of course, we've beaten them, we are very good at sports.

When we've arrived, we've collected all the laundry. It's been a chaos to distinguish each other clothes but we've done it. :)  Now we have to iron our clothes, we hope we won't burn any of our t-shirts.

Now, we're going to the "karaoke", where we'll be singing from 8 to 10.30. We'll see who of us sings better!

Dídac & Martí 

Biking in Phoenix Park

Today we have changed our program, at first there was a visit to the National Museum of Decorative Arts but we have done something completely different.  Our group leaders, Sílvia and Pilar, have organised a wonderful excursion by bike to Phoenix Park.  We have been cycling for an hour and a half and we have seen some parts of it.

The Phoenix park at 707 hectareas is one of the largest enclosed recreational spaces within any European capital city. It is larger than all of London's city parks put together, and more than twice the area of New York's Central Park. The Park is located 2,5 km west of Dublin City, is bounded by a stonewall 11 km in length and has 22 km of roads. 

In the park there are different buildings, one of them is  the house of the president of Ireland, the USA embassador's residence, the zoo, the Ratra house and much more. There is a herd of 450 fallow deer, but we haven't seen them, maybe they were hiding from the sun.

In the evening, after having supper there was a live music concert playing U2 songs, we didn't like it very much although Sílvia and Pilar said the band played well.

We've having  lots of fun and we don't want to come back home.

Sergi Fernández and Quim Rifà

A beer movie!

Hey there!

Today, in the afternoon we went to the Guinness museum to see how they made the famous black beer. Do  you know how Guinness beer is made? You just need four ingredients, but we won't tell you. We want you to find out and post the answer.  

The visit was amazing and very interesting! We had a lot of fun there and a really great time. After an hour  and a half visiting the museum we went to the Guinness store to buy some souvenirs for all of you, you'll see these presents, or maybe not... (surprise, surprise...!).

Tonight we are going to watch a film with Italian people, at the moment we don't know exacly what film will be, but we're sure that we`ll have a great time no matter the film.

We are waiting for your answers.

Carla Alegre i Sònia Dosta.

Don't stop the party!!!

In the evening, after having dinner, our students were waiting for the disco night. The girls looked fabulous, absolutely gorgeous, The boys wore their best outfits and were incredibly handsome. 

At the beginning they were shy and didn't feel like dancing, maybe because the canteen had turned into a brightly coloured dance floor. The activity leaders did their best to cheer the students up when a flock of Italians came in the party sprang to life. The latest hits were played, the girls went dancing and most of the boys just watched, it took them some time to jump to the dance floor and join them.

Everybody is doing their best to practice English as much as possible and disco time is a great chance.

Sílvia and Pilar

A quiet day in a quiet university

Today, as yesterday, we have woken up at 7:30 because we have had breakfast at 8:00 again. The food isn't like at home but it's OK. At 9 o'clock the classes get started. Today, the English teachers have divided us in groups according to our level from the placement test we took yesterday. In one of them, we talked about Catalonia and we explained our teacher why we want to be independent. At 12:30 we went to the canteen to have lunch, it was good. At 14 o'clock the sports activites have started. We've played baseball, ultimate frisbee, football, basketball....It was great, we had a very good time on the sports court. At 18:30 we are going to have dinner and later on.... DISCO! We hope that we will have a good time on the dancefloor. A quiet but a very funny day. See you tomorrow! :)

Bernat Buzzi i Jana Pascual