Month: February 2008

Mia took this picture on her phone while on Achill and it was used by one of the student groups for their presentation at the end of the week. Read all about it here http://www.rheinahrcampus.de/international/projects/achill2008/travelogue/day…

Today we had a wonderful chocolate cake using the new mould and made by Gwen and Mia. The picture shows the evidence.

Now the Brits are taking handball seriously. See the article here http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/handball/7246546.stm

It is probably one of our teachers who is involved in coaching the British team as we coached the Olympic winners last time round! But not me obviously.

The Achill project involves university students from Hungary, Germany, the UK and Lithuania who come together to work on intercultural matters on Achill. Since Tony is in China (where he is seeing lots of geese by the way) the girls went with Anne to Ireland and were allocated to the group called ‘Europe goes to school’. The idea was that they should attend the local primary school for a couple of days while the students prepared some exciting activities which would be presented to the school later in the week. However things did not turn out that way. It turns out that Irish children also get half term and that it was to start on the Wednesday of our visit. So the university students had to hurredly prepare something to do on Monday with the children and then they decided to offer some holiday activities on Thursday. So instead of going to school Gwen and Mia helped the university students prepare the activities for Monday and then the holiday activities for Thursday which were to include games, baking, Danish songs and other stuff.

Apparantly the Monday activities went really well but now the Irish have caught the British disease and so no-one was allowed to take any pictures so Mia and Gwen are pretending to be Irish school children for the cameras. The Thursday activities also went well in spite of the fact that both Mia and Gwen spent the morning in bed because they were so ill. Loads of people fell ill during the week even though the weather was lovely and we didn’t see a drop of rain all week. That probably proves that it isn’t the weather which gives us colds but the mixing of foreign germs!

We lived in cottages and had dinner at the Achill Cliff House Hotel every night. On the last night all the students presented the results of their work and after that course certificates were distributed which included Gwen and Mia because they had done just as much as the university students.

Anne was supervising the web page group but they weren’t ready before she went home. It should be ready soon though.

You have seen this before but this is a clickable version! Since I have been spending a lot of time updating the Greenland White-fronted Goose website at http://www.greenlandwhitefront.org I have now learned how to make these maps ‘interactive’.

View Summer holiday 2007 in a larger map