TY Carlingford Trip!!

One of the first trips we went on in TY was the trip to Carlingford. We left school at 9 am on Thursday the 17th of September. We arrived in Carlingford at around 10:30. We were split into two groups: Group A and Group B. Group B spent the morning in the water. I was in Group A we spent the morning doing team building challenges. Here we were split into groups of 8. These included a challenge called communication breakdown- we were put into a small room that was three stories high, it was pitch dark and we had to find our way of of the maze by following the person in front of us and giving instructions to the people behind us. We also did a tan-gram challenge where half the team made a shape from cutouts of other shapes like triangles, squares and parallelograms. The then had to describe how to make this shape to the other half in order to win jewels. After these challenges we went back to the center for lunch. We had chicken and chips. After lunch we were divided into our rooms for the night. In my room was- Anna, Aoife, Eilis, Aoife,Laura, Caoimhe, Tara, Erin, Laura, Susan and Lucy. 

After lunch my group went to do the water sports. We walked to the pier and were given a safety brief before putting on our wetsuits, lifejackets and helmets. The first thing we did was pier jumping. We could jump off the small pier or climb on a wall and jump from a higher spot. After pier jumping we got into the canoes and canoed out the water trampoline We took turns going on. At the end everyone go pushed off the trampoline into the water by one of the instructors John. We all decided to push him in but nobody was able to. Eilis grabbed his life jacket and pulled him into the water as she jumped in. 

After water sports we went back to the center for dinner. We were given stew and potatoes. We were given some time to relax, and stay in our rooms. At around 9 pm we went to night line. We were blindfolded and had to stand in a line and go through a obstacle course only guided by rope and what the person in front of us was saying. After this we went back to the center and we went to the chippers and the Chinese. 

On Friday we were woken up in the and told to clean our rooms, pack away our stuff and go for breakfast. After breakfast my group went zip lining and and the other group went to the team building challenges. We left Carlingford at 3 to go home