Gaisce Hike :)

Last weekend, over thirty of us TY's went on a hike to complete our Gaisce Bronze Award. Along with the hike, you must choose three activities to do for 13 weeks each. Once your 13 weeks have been completed, you choose one of your three activities to do for a further 13 weeks.

I chose:

Choir (13 Weeks)

Speech & Drama (13 weeks)

Dancing (26 weeks)

We went into school for the morning, and departed for Wicklow at 2 p.m. The girls in my house and I went shopping the night before to buy our food for the weekend. ( http://costellooo.blogspot.ie/ , http://annahepple.blogspot.ie/ , http://janecummins99.blogspot.ie/ , http://annastyblog2014.blogspot.ie/ , http://piaamitchell.blogspot.ie/ , http://mollymooney.blogspot.ie/ , http://mytylife.blogspot.ie/ .)

When we arrived at Kippure Estate, we put our bags in our houses and got ready for the hike. We set off on our "3 hour" hike, and arrived back 6 hours later :) :) :) :) :) though it ended up being an extremely long walk, it was actually really fun! the weather was nice, and we got to see views we hadn't seen before!

We were all wrecked when we got back to our houses. Meadhbh and I cooked spaghetti bolognese, which wasn't ready until 10 p.m, so we weren't really hungry anymore..

When we finished dinner, we all kind of half fell asleep. We managed to wake up again at around 12, and ended to stay up until 2:30 chatting and eating chocolate digestives! 

We woke at 7:20 the next morning, and had pancakes for breakfast:) We had to be out of the house by 9, so we made our lunch and got dressed. Before our second hike, we did a high-ropes course in Kippure Estate which I enjoyed!

We left for our second hike at around 11:30 a.m. We were looking forward to this hike, as we expected it would be just like the one we did the day before, but shorter...we were wrong. The further up the mountain we got, the more horrible the weather got! Eventually, we were hiking through a snow blizzard, and completely drenched:( When we reached the top we were all huddling together trying to somehow stay warm!

Finally, after 4 hours of torture, we completed the hike! We all got on the bus in our pyjamas, absolutely wrecked!

Though it was a tiring weekend, it was so much fun, and we all felt like we had achieved something!:) I would definitely recommend this experience to future TY students! There may be a lot of walking involved, but it's 100% worth it!:)

With http://evemcmahonty.blogspot.ie/ , http://ellenredmondsblog.blogspot.ie/ and http://carolinebehan.blogspot.ie/ half way through the hike!