Thursday, April 22

Another lovely day has been had by me! Life is wonderful here in Ireland (although I do miss home).

The kids got to do music for Arts Week today. A violinist and guitarist came to teach them how to compose music. They played a little bit of Irish music and asked the kids for help. The kids each had a different instrument.



We Skyped with Central today! I miss my students SO much. They were awesome. They each had questions prepared, and they even said the Pledge of Allegiance and the school pledge for the Irish kids. The Irish students taught them a few Irish words too. It was so much fun. Unfortunately the Irish students were only able to talk to the Indiana kids for about 15 minutes. Since we are 5 hours ahead here there is only a 15 minute overlap; when the Indiana kids are arriving to school the Irish students are just leaving. I stayed after school to talk to my students a little bit though. They asked some really great questions and asked me to show them my ring:) I can't express how much of a highlight this was for me. I miss them an incredible amount. If I could have them as students for the rest of my life I would totally choose to!

Steph and I met at Starbucks this afternoon after school. I realized the bus from the school doesn't come into Blackrock, so one of the teachers offered to drop me off here. We discovered that we live in the same neighborhood so she offered to take me to and from school each day. This will save me about 15 Euro AND 10 annoying bus rides per week. I'm going to have to give her a huge gift of some sort.

Tomorrow Miss Caulwell will be gone for about an hour, and she told me she'd love for me to teach the kids more about Indiana. That should be easy enough :)