September 7th, First day of school

 Today was the first day at Scoil Pol for me and the other Erasmus+ students. I woke up at 7am feeling really excited for my first day but also a bit nervous. 

Scoil Pól
We had 5 classes today: musical, young social innovators, religion, wood technology and English. My favorite subject of those was probably musical where we spent the whole class dancing, it was really fun.

After school I went with Eimear (my host sister) for a walk and she showed me her family’s farm, there were a lot of cows and a horse. I also went grocery shopping with my host father and Eimear to Tesco, it was my first time in that shop because we don’t have it in Spain. 



some of the cows at the farm 








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