DAY 6
THURSDAY, 12.03.2020
The day started great. The first thing we heard in the morning was that there would be an orange gale warning, heavy rain, hail, snow and it would be very cold. When we stepped out of the house we thought we were going to freeze to death. (One of us was wearing two pants, three shirts and three jackets and she was still cold.) We had no choice so we headed to school. In the past few days we had heard so much about how the Coronavirus effected Austria. In Ireland we felt little of all that and thought everything was going according to plan. After our break though the teacher came back into the room and told us that he would have to check his phone more often because the schools might close the next day. When it was confirmed, he decided to disregard the curriculum and sing with us, ... which we had been doing all week anyway :)). Our teacher also chatted with a boy from our class via WhatsApp web which was pretty funny. So, you can see we used the last school day to full capacity.
After school we had some free time and had some lunch. Some of us went to a way too expensive pizza place but the food was good. The others were at a different pizza place or eating burgers or Mexican food.
Afterwards we all met at the Planet Entertainment Centre to go bowling. Interesting enough they did not make us wear bowling shoes - but then we might have just not seen the shelves with the shoes on them. We had great fun, nonetheless. The winners in every group got a voucher for a coffee shop in town. A few people stayed there to play billiard or air hockey and then we went home to our host families.
In contrast to our homes in Austria, the houses in Ireland are pretty modest and small. But that doesn't have to be a bad thing, ours was also super cozy and homely. Our host mother was always totally friendly and courteous. In our opinion, all the people and neighbours we met were more convivial than the people back home and very sincere. Our host mother, for example, was regularly visited by various folk or people just stopped by. Sometimes neighbours or friends of her were standing in the middle of the living room without having rung the doorbell, which was rather unusual for us.
Just like in America, a lot of food you can buy is offered in XXL size. The food is pretty cheap too - at least cheaper than in Austria. The majority of Irish people like to put quantity before quality when it comes to buying groceries. The dinner often consisted of several side dishes like noodles and potatoes at the same time. What we also noticed was that there were hardly any organic products in the shops.
Let's see what else we will experience. See you.
By: Sabrina Podesser, Viktoria Klammer & Laura Hübner
The day started great. The first thing we heard in the morning was that there would be an orange gale warning, heavy rain, hail, snow and it would be very cold. When we stepped out of the house we thought we were going to freeze to death. (One of us was wearing two pants, three shirts and three jackets and she was still cold.) We had no choice so we headed to school. In the past few days we had heard so much about how the Coronavirus effected Austria. In Ireland we felt little of all that and thought everything was going according to plan. After our break though the teacher came back into the room and told us that he would have to check his phone more often because the schools might close the next day. When it was confirmed, he decided to disregard the curriculum and sing with us, ... which we had been doing all week anyway :)). Our teacher also chatted with a boy from our class via WhatsApp web which was pretty funny. So, you can see we used the last school day to full capacity.
After school we had some free time and had some lunch. Some of us went to a way too expensive pizza place but the food was good. The others were at a different pizza place or eating burgers or Mexican food.
Afterwards we all met at the Planet Entertainment Centre to go bowling. Interesting enough they did not make us wear bowling shoes - but then we might have just not seen the shelves with the shoes on them. We had great fun, nonetheless. The winners in every group got a voucher for a coffee shop in town. A few people stayed there to play billiard or air hockey and then we went home to our host families.
In contrast to our homes in Austria, the houses in Ireland are pretty modest and small. But that doesn't have to be a bad thing, ours was also super cozy and homely. Our host mother was always totally friendly and courteous. In our opinion, all the people and neighbours we met were more convivial than the people back home and very sincere. Our host mother, for example, was regularly visited by various folk or people just stopped by. Sometimes neighbours or friends of her were standing in the middle of the living room without having rung the doorbell, which was rather unusual for us.
Just like in America, a lot of food you can buy is offered in XXL size. The food is pretty cheap too - at least cheaper than in Austria. The majority of Irish people like to put quantity before quality when it comes to buying groceries. The dinner often consisted of several side dishes like noodles and potatoes at the same time. What we also noticed was that there were hardly any organic products in the shops.
Let's see what else we will experience. See you.
By: Sabrina Podesser, Viktoria Klammer & Laura Hübner
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