Holy shit. It is so hard to believe that it is already March! I have basically been gone for 2 months and it has flown by soo fast. I already don't want to leave. I mean obviously I miss everyone, but seeing all these new places, and learning all of this new stuff is really really awesome. Studying abroad is really a once in a lifetime opportunity and I couldn't be happier that I actually took advantage of it. Finally I did something right!
Today I went on a field trip with my Irish History class. Lately we have been learning about the very first people who came to Ireland. We have spent time looking at the differences between the Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze ages. One of my teachers favorite things is massive burial tombs and things like that that were left behind that we can still see today. Ireland is full of historical sites, literally there are thousands and thousands of passage tombs, and she couldn't bring us to all of them so we
visited some of the biggest and most accessible ones. First we went to Newgrange. My teacher kept stressing the idea of just how massive these things are. People had to create these thousands of years ago with there bare hands, they had no big machines like we have now. It would have taken a very long time and been very hard work. She also kept making us think of how important the people must have been who were buried there. There were only a few peoples remains found there and this tomb can be seen for miles and miles. We actually got to go inside of this one and that was really interesting. There was a bunch of art etched into the rocks for decoration. it was pretty cool
After that we went to the Hill of Tara, which basically looked like a big golf course to someone that doesn't know better.
Today I went on a field trip with my Irish History class. Lately we have been learning about the very first people who came to Ireland. We have spent time looking at the differences between the Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze ages. One of my teachers favorite things is massive burial tombs and things like that that were left behind that we can still see today. Ireland is full of historical sites, literally there are thousands and thousands of passage tombs, and she couldn't bring us to all of them so we
visited some of the biggest and most accessible ones. First we went to Newgrange. My teacher kept stressing the idea of just how massive these things are. People had to create these thousands of years ago with there bare hands, they had no big machines like we have now. It would have taken a very long time and been very hard work. She also kept making us think of how important the people must have been who were buried there. There were only a few peoples remains found there and this tomb can be seen for miles and miles. We actually got to go inside of this one and that was really interesting. There was a bunch of art etched into the rocks for decoration. it was pretty coolAfter that we went to the Hill of Tara, which basically looked like a big golf course to someone that doesn't know better.
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