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.
This sign says ‘First grill bar after London’ and is situated just outside Tirstrup with an airport of the same name. Cheeky or what?
On our recent trip to the UK we were asked about a view of the back of the gong. Well this isn’t it but may do just as well since it is a picture of the certificate which went with it.
Last week we all went to see the film ‘The Golden Compass’ based on the Philip Pullman trilogy. In his stories people have external souls in the form of an animal companion who stays with you for life. Gwen and I have taken the personality tests to see what daemon (as the external souls are called) would be. Do you think they are right? Gwen is the Snow Leopard and Anne is the Gibbon!
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So here are the video diaries for our pantomime quest. It lasts about 10 minutes.
Latest: If you go to www.youtube.com (not the UK option) and log in using our road name as username and Anne’s maiden name as the password you should be able to see the videos.
I am a bit of a You Tube novice and trying to achieve a balance between letting you see the video and not letting the whole world see it. It seems as though You Tube lets you make a video private but allows you to put it on another website (like this one). However it may only be me who is allowed to see it. The only other option is for me to add your emails to You Tube so that you become my ‘friends’ there but then you would have to sign up also. I don’t think this is risky but I do want to avoid forcing people to sign up to dozens of things. The other option of course is to mark the video as public.
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Here it is.
Merry Christmas. See if you can spot Mia. I’m afraid you’ll have to turn your head on its side to view. This video is private on You Tube so I’m not sure if it will show properly here. Username is our road and password is Anne’s maiden name.
Oh dear! This just plays to our stereotypes about Americans’ knowledge of world geography.
This was sent to me by a Hungarian friend. I think I’m supposed to know the woman but I don’t.
The picture shows the beautiful clothes which Tony brought back from China for the girls. Tony had an eventful return as the people in his office had underestimated the amount of time it would take for him to get back to the international airport of Shanghai. Therefore Tony had a boat ride, train journey, taxi ride, hotel overnight and second taxi journey to get to his plane on time and all on his own with not a word of Chinese. But he made it.