Gaisce

For the past few months we have been doing Gaisce and at the end of it there's a 25km hike to do. At first it was the whole year doing it but a lot of people kept dropping out. Now there is about 35 people doing it. We're going on the hike today. We leave school at 2pm today. We're getting dropped off before we get to Kippure lodge, where er're staying and we walk for about three hours to get there. We should arrive at about 7pm and then we can make food. We had to bring all of our own food because they don't supply it there. The next morning we are going to have to leave by about 9am and we're doing activities like archery, high ropes and other things. After that we walk again and finish the 25km. We should be home at around 6 or 7pm on Saturday and we're getting picked up at the Celbridge manor hotel.

Driving

This week we had driving lessons in school. It was really fun and we learned loads. We went to Leinster Driving School in Maynooth. First we broke up into two groups. The other group went driving first and my group done a practice theory test. Nobody got all the questions right and some of us failed. We got to keep trying to get a better score and then the groups with the higher scores picked their cars first. After the test we wore beer goggles to see how much it affects your co-ordination when you're drunk. They were really fun because we couldn't ever do easy things and it was funny watching everyone.

After that we had our lunch and then picked our cars. Most people were in groups of three in the cars but i was in a group of two with Emily. I think it was better being in a smaller group because we had more driving time. Emily drove first. She was really good for her first time driving. the driving instructor we had was really nice and funny. When it was my turn to drive I drove off without a seat belt and it was really embarrassing. We drove for a while then swapped and drove again. It was really fun and I can't wait until I can drive. I booked my theory test and will start lessons as soon as I can. They told us about a CD that we should get to help us study for the test and I got that because the book is way too long and there's so much in it.