Glendalogh

On the 5th of April 2011, class Amina were off to Glendalogh for a retreat. Mr K. and Ms. KB were going with us. We left at like 9 am and it took us about and hour and a half on a coach. The bus driver was so nice that he stopped of at a shop so we could buy food and sweets. When we got there there was like a lot of buses arriving with like other schools and the funny thing was, there was a bus that contained like old people in like their 70's and Mr. K just went quickly move out of their way even though they were like a mile away and Niamh P just goes "Oh better move quick" and we all just started laughing because they we walking so slow. We then got brought to this field where this lady talked to us about the formation of Glendalogh and then we all did like a form of dancing but she was talking about the sky and the earth and Staphanie was breaking her heart laughing and seeing as she was beside me I started laughing and I nearly fell to the ground because once Stephanie starts laughing, she does not stop. We then went on a walk to like a well, where the lady started telling us about the history of it and people thinking it was holy and stuff. Before we left Mr. K asked me to cut off 60 peices of wool and i asked why because it was so random but he wouldn't tell me. Then I found out what they were for. The was a branch of a tree that was used for people to make wishes by tying a piece of string or wool onto it, but it was chopped down so we were all sad we didn't get to make a wish. :( It was really a walking retreat because we then went off on another walk but this one was just to no where, we then got to like stairs which was weird, we then looked up and it looked like 500 steps and Mr. K was just like "Come on!", We were all soooo tierd and I was like being dragged up this mountain by Mr. K. About 20 minuts later we got to the top and we sort of did a U turn and we headign to go back down the mountain and we were all like "What!" The lady brought us over to the edge of the top and we all just sat on this big rock and told us a story and then she was like the person who founded Glendalough, was like arrested because he was like a priest or something and where we were sitting he was in jail there. Some of us got up in like shock because it was no bigger then a wardrobe. We then walked down the mountain and back towards the starting point to get our lunch, that lasted for like 30 minutes and i had a lovely hot soup. (Yum!) We then went on another walk to like no where and we came across some sheep and we fell in love with them but Mr. K said that Ms. B would not allow us to keep them in the school. (Aww), We then got back on the bus and it took us an hour to get home. We then went into the hall and begged Mr. K to let us get off early because it was like 3:40 but he said no. :(