Jabba Jabba Jembe

Last week we had a percussion workshop with Dave from Jabba Jabba Jembe, at first I didn't know what to expect but we soon found out we would be drumming on African drums called Jembes. We started off with easy beats and we developed them as we went on. Over the course of the day we all improved alot and it sounded great even all the teachers got involved. He was a great teacher he was laid back and really friendly but taught us alot too. I really enjoyed the day and I'm pretty sure everyone else did too, after Carlingford it could be one of the best things we've done all year, It was Great :)

Retreat in Glendalough

On Tuesday we went to Glendalogh in Wicklow for our retreat. It took about an hour and a half, the bus ride was lovely cause we were just relaxing but when we got there it was a different story. We were assigned a tour guide woman to show us around and do our retreat. It started off a bit weird when she was telling us to do a dance, she had words to go with it, it was hilarious after that the real work began. We were walking along and she showed us St. Kevin's well. The walk to that was fine and after that we went to the information centre to watch a video about Celtic Ireland, that was okay too it made me a bit tired though. After this we didn't know what was coming we went on a huge walk which was all uphill, we thought it was never going to end, everyone was knackered and roasting hoping we'd get there soon. At one point Lauren and I thought we were finished it but we weren't, it was so disappointing. When we finally got to the top we thankfully went down a different easy way but I was just jealous we didn't come up that way, would have saved a lot of energy. After that we had lunch and went walking again but this walk wasn't that much uphill and it was a lot more bearable than the "hike" before. We then got on the bus to go back to the school. We tried to have a snooze but didn't quite get to. Overall it was a good day for something different and I enjoyed the experience (even the uphill parts).