Carlingford

I am really enjoying Ty so far now I am into my 3rd week and it just can't get any better! On Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th all of the Ty's were off to Carlingford in Louth for two full days of activities. Our teachers Ms. O'Callaghn and Ms. Rowan said that they were coming with us; we were so excited. On Monday we all went to Esso petrol station at 6:30am because the bus was leaving at 7. When we got on the bus a lot of people went back to sleep for the 2 hour drive. The time seemed to go by really fast, when we got to the hostel it was just gone past 9am. After we all got our room and unpacked it was time to get changed into clothes that could survive the rain and muck. We were split into 2 groups; one group went to do group activities and others went to do the high ropes. I was in the group that did group activities which was really fun because we all had to work together to complete the tasks. On Monday afternoon we then all went to do canoeing in the sea which was really fun because when we were all in our boats we had a boat race to the castle. Our teachers said that after we could possibly jump if piers into the sea. When some people heard that, they were so socked because there was strong currents. When we had stopped in our boats this guy in a life boat comes over and threw bucket loads of water over us and drowning us with the water. People were screaming because they were getting their hair wet which we all knew was going to get wet in the first place! After he stopped he then jumps on to one of the boats and picked up random people and threw them in the sea.......I was one of them :( I was so lucky that I was wearing a life-jacket and wetsuit because the water was FREEZING and I am not a good swimmer. Finally after we had got back in our boats and back to shore we went to the piers. A lot of people jumped off both piers; the high and low, whereas I just jumped off the low one because I would've drifted out to sea after jumping off the high one. When we all got dressed into dry clothes we headed back to the hostel to relax. At about 5 we had our dinner in the cafeteria, we had meat, potatoes and gravy which was absolutely gorgeous. The guide told us that at 7pm we were all going out up to the mountains to do an hour hike! We were so tired and didn't have any energy to walk up a mountain in the lashing rain. It wasn't that bad going up it because it was just light rain but when we got to the steep hills I struggled a lot because the rain made the ground very slippery. When we were on our way down the rain got a lot worse but I didn't really care because I was already wet. It was a lot easier walking down the mountain than up.One of the groups didn't get back to the hostel because they got lost in the rain whereas we got back at about 9pm. We all went to the Chinese Place for s treat after all the hiking and at 11pm we were told that we had to go to our bedroom but didn't have to go to bed until late:] We were woken up at 8am the next day (Tuesday) and were given until 9 to get up, get dressed and get breakfast (cereal) before we went out to do more activities. :(hehe.......We were again split into two teams and had to do what the other group the day before. So this meant that the group I was in had to do the high ropes today and the other group had to do group activities. When we got the high ropes we were so excited because it looked fun to climb up so high, we knew we were save because we all had helmets and harnesses even if we weren't doing it. We had until about 12:30 until we would go back to the hostel to have our lunch so we made the most of it. So I said I wanted to do the obstacle challenge which looked cool to do. What I had to do was climb up a ladder and walk across 2 logs (1 straight and 1 slanted) and ring bells when I made it to the other side. We had to also climb up these peg things that were nailed out of the side poles. And finally when we were at the very top we had to walk across a tight rope holding onto these ropes that had chains attached; which wasn't very helpful. It was all really good but I was happy that it was over because I was knackered. We left at about 5which gave us time when we got back to pack all of our stuff and relax for a bit. On the bus it took us roughly 2 hours to get back home so we arrived at 7 pm on Tuesday.