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The first 2 who arrived was twins called George and Thomas. I couldn’t tell which was which until they told me who was who. Then all the other children came in the room. We had to make a necklace and draw our face and wright our names under it. When that was done we all went to meet our roommates. Ted was a nice guy. But the messer out of the children. Not long after the leaders who’s names were Louise/Elouise, Mell, clare, Venessa, Ned and Ella, told us to go down to the socail hall. There we played games called Splat and catch the ball. That was my favourite part. After that we had supper and the last thing of the day was story time. Louise read a chapter of a book called flat stanley, which was good. Then we went to sleep. I fell fast asleep because I was so tired. The Next day we got dressed and went out to the playground and went to this shop called the TuckShop were you buy sweets and soda’s. I played football with the boys. After that we went in to do our first activitie...Cooking. We baked gingerbread men and ginger bread faces. Then we had lunch. We had sandwiches and eggs. Then we did our next activitie... calenders. We had to draw a picture for every month. But through all this time Ned was taking pictures of us for a slide show on there website. After the calenders were finished we had a meeting in the lounge to talk about Unitarianism. I thought Unitarianism is bright because of the chalice. We had to write down what we thought about Unitarianism. When that was finished we had dinner. We had potatos and Vegtables and chicken. For dessert we had ice cream. After that it was free time were you to do whatever you want inside for 15 minutes. I cleaned my room for 15 minutes because there is a compatition who can have the cleanest room. When free time was over it was story time. But this time Ches was reading the next chapter of Flat Stanley. Which Wasn’t as good as the first Chapter. Then it was bidtime . I did’nt want to go to sleep but I fell asleep. I woke up because of the girls shouting breakfast time! We had cereal and eggs for breakfast. After that it was our next activitie ... glueing and cutting paper men out and dressing them with paper clothes. When that was finished it was time for Church. I lit the candle in church that day. We talked about how spiecal we are. Then we sang a few hymns and then walked back to the Nightingale centre. On the way back we stopped at a little Pond with loads of rocks around it that you could sit on. Then Louise announced that the new people were going to get baptised! So that ment I was going to get baptised! And mother was too! I was first, they made me sit down and let them pour a cup of water on my hair and all down my face! Same with my mother. After that chaos we walked up to a state and took a picture with all the children beside it. When we got the picture. We walked home for lunch. We had sandwiches and vegtables. After we had lunch we went into the lounge for the finale ... Singing. We sang two Songs, “All about you” and “you’ll never get to heaven”. My favourite one was “You’ll never get to heaven” because it was funnier. When we were done singing we said goodbye to all the children who were going home. And then we got 1 taxi 2 trains 1 bus 1 airoplane and 1 car to finished our travel back to Dublin.
Oisín Conway (age 10) February 2010 |