This week started of amazingly. We went to Carlingford Adventure Center in co. Louth. We had to wake up really early (6am) to meet at the bus at 7. We left for the two hour journey. After we arrived we were told all about the place and out time table for the two days. We were shown to our room - room 32. It was a big room with eight beds - but there were 9 of us. The girls helped me make a make-shift bed for the night which was surprisingly comfortable. We put down all out bags and got our swimming gear out.
We headed back to the main entrance and were shown over to the beach. We did some warm up exercises - because at this stage, its still only 9am and its absolutely freezing. We went over and got into our wet-suits. Group A went off and did some special kind of kayaking with three boats tied together while we did some canoeing. We canoed over to another little beach at the other side of the lake. We parked our boats (while Aoife and I were pulling ours up on the sand, Aoife fell and we later found out that she had sprained her ankle). On the other beach we played loads of games with our instructors. We got back in out boat and headed back to the hostel.
From 12-1 we ate our lunch. We had sausages and chips with beans, which was lovely and hot. We then went out and suited up in army onsies. We got guns and headed up to the forest. This activity was my favourite. It was called lazor tag. We all had hairbands with sensors and if somebody from the other team shot at you, you lost a life. I thought that this activity was the best. Everybody really enjoyed themselves.
We then went back to the hostel and relaxed. We were called down for dinner at about 5pm and as soon as we finished we could go anywhere we wanted until 7pm. We all went out to the village. The main street had a few shops and one of them was an old fashioned sweet shop. We went and bought loads of sweets on top of the bags full of sweets we already had. I bought some toxic wastes (really sour sweets) and Sadhbh decided to eat five at the same time. It was so funny she was nearly crying they were so sour. At 7 we went back to meet up with the rest of the group to go out to our final activity of the day.
We all thought it was just a walk because it took so long but then we arrived back at lazor tag forest. We were all handed out blindfolds and we had to put them on. It was dark already so none of us could see what was going on. We had to hold onto each other and a rope and we were guided through the dark forest. It was kind of scary but fun at the same time.
We went back to the hostel and from the window of our room we say disco lights so we went exploring around the building and found like a games room. There were loads of people from other school sitting down on the sofa. One of our teachers came into the room and we asked her if we could put on music. She put the music into the speaker and we all started to dance. Some of the other school left the room but most of them started to dance too. We went down stairs and got all the other girls from out school and soon everybody was up having a good time. We had to go to bed at like 12 but we all stayed up in our rooms talking and laughing. I think we fell asleep at like 2am that morning.
We got a wake up call at 7 and we all grumpily rolled out of bed. We went down for breakfast and then packed our bags. We went out for more water activities - the opposite from what we did the day before. We went out on the kayaks that were stuck together to this pontoon in the middle of the water. We had to jump off. The water was freezing. We then had to swim over to this really cool water trampoline. We jumped for a few minutes and them we had to jump off and swim back. We then headed over to another beach and went into this "magical" waterfall in this cave which was apparently from a "hot spring". We all froze and were squished but we were only there for a minute.
We went back and got dry and ate lunch (the same thing)and then headed out for our final activity which was mini obstacles. We did quite a few (and won overall with a score of 12). The first was a maze in the dark we had to crawl through this small dark room to find out way out. We also had to get a ball through a maze, build a bridge over two decks. Get across a pond and guide a marble around an obstacle course using 20cm long pipes. all the activities were really fun but after them we had to head home. Everybody was practically asleep. When I arrived home I fell straight asleep.
school the next day was a challenge (to stay awake) but we all had a great two days and i made so many new friends. the rest of the week went slowly but it is fine.
