On Thursday we went on a trip to the Pearse museum in
Rathfarnham which was nice. It was a nice house full of expensive furniture and
highly intellectual artworks, so I was less than surprised when we were told
that the Pearse brothers went bankrupt as a result of maintaining the school.
After playing a competitive game of 'concentration' on the bus we arrived in
the car park of the museum. In a
panicked and rather unfair fashion the rain decided to fall on us with increasing
pressure. We took a walk up a well-kept pathway through a rather fabulous set
of gardens. To be met with this:
Now, I am not one
who believes themselves to have authority in the world of judging the quality
of buildings I do however think there are a few things the Pearse brothers
missed considering that their aim was to educate the maximum amount of Irish
children about the Irish language and culture.
1. Why so
fancy?! Now, one would assume that if you want to educate as many young people
as possible about Irish that you would focus your funds on resources like...
Hmm I don't know... teachers,scholarships, equiptment, etc? (rather than a
fancy building)
2.Why build your
school that wants to educate the young Irish population (most of which would be
within the city of Dublin)and then choose to hold lessons in the middle of
nowhere?!
So that was my half-baked philosophy regarding St.Edna's.
Catriona told us about her ancestor John Mitchel, who quite frankly sounds like
he is an unfortunate characterfrom a great adventure novel. Link to more about
him: catrionaty.blogspot.com
Then we spent
Tuesday in a talk about road
safety called: Drive For Life it was scary enough
to be honest, which
is exactly why it was
effective. I think
everyone in the room teared
up at this scene: (discretion advised)
I was a lot more wary than usual about getting
into a car
afterwards, and at one point during a weekly
journey I panicked
and threw a ringing phone into the
depths of the glove
compartment, so...
yeah it's fair to say
the entire experience
was pretty
gruesome.... But it DID
work.
Two rounds of work experience have passed since I last
blogged here.
Both were great! Even
when it came to doing tasks like cleaning labs and shredding papers it was
very relaxed and therapeutic.
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