Last Day at Belvedere
Today was the final day of our stay in
Ireland. Started out bright and early with another day at Belvedere filled with
classes and different cultural lessons. Some of us began our day by joining a
class and attempting to understand what was going on when thrown into a middle of a lesson
spoken in a strong Irish accent. Next we had a lesson on Irish poetry. We all
crowded into our meeting place of Lecture Hall 1 to hear an invigorating
lecture on identifying heroes and villains in society, and the different perspectives
people have. We read through “After theTitanic,” and dissected the lines until
the bell went off again. We went to another class with the Belvo students. We had
"Tin Whistle Lessons" on our schedule, and we all knew at this point in the trip the
idea of packing us all into a small room and giving us whistles would prove to be
a bad idea. We did however manage to pull out a few lines of “Shipping out to
Boston,” which was then stuck in everyone's head for the rest of the day.
When the class day ended, and we were
ushered up to the roof to play a game of soccer. Of course, the rain decided to
show up as we got to the roof. The game was played for a bit and eventually the
fiery competition waned and everyone just wanted the pizza that we were
promised. We gathered in a room before we got our food to watch a guy do Irish
dancing. He was one-upped by Charlie's impressive break dancing routine. Despite
that, it was interesting to see such a professional at such a foreign art form
to us Americans. Once this ended and we ate our pizzas, we were given free time
with our host brothers for a few hours to do last minute family shopping. We
all scattered around the city to enjoy our last few hours with our host brother
in the city and eventually made our way home.
