CARLINGFORD!!

Okay so Monday was off to a very early start, 7 am in Esso before we headed off to Carlingford Adventure Centre. As soon as we arrived around 9 o'clock we got our rooms and headed out to the water. My group did Kayaking which was great fun, I was in a kayak with two other girls. We went over to a beach and played a few group games which was fun. We then went for lunch which was really nice, some sausages and chips yummy!!

After lunch my group went to do the Laser Tag. We had to hike up a quite steep hill which was not very fun but once we got to the woods and got kit up with the guns we were good to go.We started off playing a few shoot out games, red team against blue team. I was on the red team, we won the first game and then lost the second one. After them games we played a game called Queens. Basically we were Queens in a fort and we had to protect the fort. We had a flag on a rope and we had to prevent the blue team from changing the flag. After that we played a sniper game, the guns were silenced and we had 1 shot per magazine, so we had to make each shot count. After sniper we played a game of Capture the Flag, my team won the game of Capture the Flag, there were no blue players left by the end. For our final game we played a final Shoot Out game, unfortunately my team lost that game and it was the first time I was shot out of the game. All in all the laser tag was by far my favorite activity!!

"Bang Bang he shot me down"
"You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take"

We had dinner at 5 pm which alright, after dinner we had free time until 7 where we went to the Candy shop and messed around with our friends. At 7 then we went on our final activity of the day, nightline. In nightline we had to walk around the woods blindfolded! It was a good team building and bonding activity as we had to trust each other on where we were standing and walking. When we arrivied back to the centre we then had free time until we had to be in our rooms, during which we had a Disco in one of the common rooms! I had so much fun dancing around with my friends in my onesie. 

"I saw a bird with a yellow bill"

Our wake up call the next morning from the reception was at 7:30 in the morning! They played some music over the intercom which got annoying after a while. We packed our bags and had breakfast before heading out onto the water activities for 9 am. My group did the canoeing this time and we got to go on the water trampoline which was great fun! We also went into a cave where there is a waterfall. We were told it was a "nice hot spring" but we should have known not to believe them as the water was freezing cold! After we came out of the cave we played a game of Disco Detective to warm ourselfs up again before heading back to shore. We also learnt a new song on the way back about a yellow bird landing on your window sill and you snapping its knees and hitting its head. Its a good campfire song and its fun to sing. When we got dry we then went for lunch before we went out on our next activity.

The waterfall was not quite as big as this 

My groups next activity was a Combat Course. We went around doing different challenges to collect gems. Then the team with the most gems at the end won the Challenge. It was good fun and a good team building exercise as we had to work as a team to overcome the chaallenges. I had fun. After that activity we headed back to the centre to get the bus back home. 

Everyone arrived into school the next morning very tired after the trip. Thankfully we didn't have any classes that day, instead we had 3 different workshops. The first was etiquette where we had to bring in our makeup and got dolled up now knowing how to apply the makeup properly. We also learnt how to apply fake ta properly and what skin tones we have. Our second workshop was on work experience which will be starting next week! Finally our third workshop was on stress management. On Thursday we got to miss half the day as we went to Maynooth University for a talk about the Student Enterprise Awards Competition where we will have to build our own mini company and sell a product to the school. Hopefully I have gotten some ideas from that talk and won't be stuck when it comes to the brainstorming.

Hope you enjoyed,
                                   Aimee