Today we learned a lot about the history of Ireland. We read about some key events like the great famine, and the war of independence and explained difficult words (and there were lots of them!), wrote summaries and made mindmaps. Quite tricky tasks! 



The history lesson prepared us for our visit to the EPIC-museum (Irish emigration museum). There I learnt that almost everyone (Che Guevara, Rihanna, John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama for instance) has Irish ancestors. That is due to the fact that since the 1800th century about 10 million people born in Ireland have emigrated. And they still do. I pronounced that the Finns are the happiest people in the world and we don´t have to emigrate!





And the most important: We got our certificates today, yippee! Just a short lesson tomorrow and then an excursion to Powerscourt (whatever that might be).



Some more history on my agenda in the afternoon as I visited the Dublin Castle. Dublin was founded by the Vikings and the name Dublin comes from Irish words which mean "the black pool" and I saw the pool! Or what´s left of it. How exciting, don´t you think?



ps. Not coming to work on Monday!