The Ty-Trip!!

Hello ! how are you doing? Thank you for stopping by!
Kay, well today i'll be talking about my transition year trip to Garten, in Donegal. The year was split up into three groups, one went to the Aran islands, one to Dun Lewy (i'll check the spelling for that) in Donegal and then the other to Garten.
    monday-     Us Garten goers set off at 8am, pretty early i know, but we had a four hour trip ahead of us! 25 excited students piled into the bus and soon we were on our way.
 When we arrived we were shown around the centre where we would be staying. I shared a room with three of my good friends, which was lucky we were all together!
 The first day half of us went Kayaking and the other half did rafting and a mud obstacle course. Yes, you read right, a mud obstacle course. i was in the second group, it was great fun. We followed our leader through to the forest where the bog was, where we would be racing through in teams. my team was called first and i braced myself, making sure my shoes were tied so tight i felt they were going to pop. we didnt want to lose our shoes!   
half  an hour later we had made our way to the other side of the bog, having trudged through 4 feet of mud, the kind you sink into, and had  faced many abstacles. We had the look of succes on our faces as our team had finished first!! But also a grimacing look as we realised queit how muddy we had gotten. Not one of my proudest moments, however, i think i topped the muddy look. I had done a nose dive in to a pool of mud, going completly under, after attempting to cross a slippery tightrope.    im  la ughing as i remember it!! Good times :) After we brought our raft out into the water and thakfully it didnt sink! We made our way around the bouy and finished in first place!! I must admit our team was pretty good. No thanks to me though, i had no idea how to tie raft knots!
 After rafting, we all made our way to a well deserved shower and then after had our first dinner at Garten Education Centre. A good day was had by all. And that was only the first day!!