Keeping in touch from Scotland
After Ireland, I travelled to London where I met my parents! (no, it wasn’t a coincidence).
We tripped around during the day, seeing all the sights and sounds along the way (sounds a little bit like Dr Suess, doesn’t it?)
Mum and I at the Tower Bridge
In Dublin, we visited the most Irish thing in Ireland… the Guiness Brewery!
Sean, Jez and I met up with Kelsi, Sam and Erica in Dublin, and we started off on our Topdeck tour of Ireland.
It was a six day tour of southern Ireland. There were 16 of us on the tour – 15 of us were between the age of 18 and 21, so it was pretty much an Irish schoolies, but much more fun! For those of you who don’t know what ‘schoolies’ is, … um, that’s probably a good thing! Continue reading this post…
IRELAND!!!
For my easter holidays, I went to Ireland! I started off by flying to Dublin, where I met Sean and Jez. The plan was: few nights in Dublin, then hop on a paddywagon tour and trek around the country for a week! O’ potatoes! Potatoes! Continue reading this post…
On my exeat, I managed to score a ticket to the Six Nations Calcutta Cup match between England and Scotland for 10 pounds! So I walked to the stadium that arvo, not knowing who I was sitting next to, but still in a state of shock that I got a ticket to the biggest rugby match of the year, that had sold out weeks ago, for only ten pounds!
This weekend, I truly lived the life of a gappy…
100% unplanned and completely spontaneous.
It was our exeat this weekend. It’s a three day weekend when we get leave from school to go and have a holiday. So i went into edinburgh with no plans of what i would do. It turns out, a gappy i knew and a whole bunch of people were going out, so i went with them!
In the end, I stayed at the flat of the brother of a friend of someone who I met that night (or something like that), with a few other people who i’d just met that night! I picked up a ticket to the 6 nations rugby match – Scotland v England for ten pounds, and went the next day.
We stayed at a boarding house in Oundle for two of the nights of our tour, and I was given both of these nights off. So I met the Oundle gappies and we had a great time. The first night we went out to a pub. Some senior students snuck out from their boarding house, and we had a great time out with them. Shh! Don’t tell anyone. And definitely don’t write about it on the internet… oh wait.
The first night we went out to a pub. There weren’t any students there. Then we went home early and watched Pochahontas on DVD.
While we were in Oundle for the rugby tournament, we had a tour of the school.
It’s amazing. It’s over 450 years old (so Captain Cook’s grandfather probably could’ve gone there)! The school is massive, and in the middle of the town. Every school building is old and glorious.
The 7-a-side, national U13 hockey tournament was held the next day. At the tournament were the best hockey teams in the UK. There were only two scottish teams there, and we were one of them.
I was one of the umpires! I umpired hockey at the national level!
The standard was pretty damn good.
The boys did pretty well, considering that they were at the nationals, and competing against massive schools. Ardvreck is tiny in comparison – there are only 37 boys in fifth and sixth form (12 and 13 yr olds), whereas other schools there had well over 100.
They won a few, drew a few and lost a few. Not a bad result!
