Day 7

Today is Wednesday For the first time of our trip, we went to school. We had two hours of English lessons with two young teachers who were very pleased to have us. We learnt some Irish words as 'Pog mo thoin' which means 'Kiss my ass'. The rest of the class was with two other teachers but they studied the same topics as us, such as sports. We listened to some celtic myths like CuChulain's. Magic is always present in celtic myths, animals too. Then we ate in the Midlands of Ireland near bogs. Bogs are places where the earth is made of 98% of water and 2% of dead plants. We jumped on it to see that it moves because of our weight. As there is no oxygen in the bogs, archeologists found old tools or bones in it, partly exposed in the museum near the bogs. We also discovered the organisation of an Irish farm during the 19th century: it was quite cold. Amélie, Juliens...