Tuesday 1 May 2012

GAISCE :D

On Friday all the people in TY doing Gaisce went on a 25km hike in the Wicklow Mountains! We stayed in a place called the Kippure Lodge. There was 3 houses that had around 10 people in each one. The house was lovely and had an oven,microwave,fridge and a dishwasher!! They came in handy for the food afterwards! yum:)  On the friday we arrived in Wicklow at 4 and started the first 13km of the hike. There was a lot of uphill walking that day which was really hard because every time you walked up you thought you were at the top of the mountain but when you got there you just had to look up and see there was loads more to go! :( not good! but it was good to have a challenge and set yourself a goal to reach the top:) After that everyone was soo tired and HUNGRY! so when we got back to the house everyone cooked their food , we all had bought a ridiculous amount of pizza , chicken, noodles, crisps, chocolate, sweets, popcorn basically an endless amount of foood! 
After a pretty sleepless night if im honest we were up and dressed and ready to do the rest of the hike the next morning :) I didn't find Saturday as hard as the last day probably cos most if it was just straight walking and wasen't really uphill !  It was a great feeling after we finished it because you really feel like you achieved something :) Before we got the bus home on Saturday we did the high ropes activity which I didn't take part in because I HATE heights! :( But it was good to watch the other girls do them. I was so nervous for them doing the leap of faith and the balance beam! Ahh so scary!!
Overall It was a fantastic two days and im so glad I did Gaisce because its so worth it :) Another thing was the rain stayed off for the weekend , that was great! :D AMEN haha 







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