Today the lessons didn´t start until the afternoon so I spent the morning at Trinity College and it´s exhibition of the Book of Kells. The book of Kells is an old manuscript that contains the four gospels of the New Testament. It dates back to the 9th century. The book itself is kept in a quite dark room only one page shown. They change the page four times a year so it would take a few decades to see every page of it. Well, I saw a page and it was colourful. And looked old. And I couldn´t take a picture so you´ll just have to believe me. 

So, if I wasn´t overwhelmed by the book itself the old library was amazing. The long room, which holds more than 200 000 old books, maps and manuscripts, was built in the 18th century. I would have liked to get my hands on just one of those ancient books but that wasn´t possible, there were wards everywhere.



I also checked the Temple bar area but didn´t stop to have a pint of Guinness (even if it is supposed to in Dublin). I´m more of a lager-kind-of girl and Guinness (like liquid mämmi, someone told me) would be a waste of money. 



Then the lessons: we had mainly two topics today, prepositions and tongue twisters. Both were studied in pairs or in groups so that we would have to speak a lot. Most verbs and prepositions were familiar to me but some new words were learnt too. And speaking exercises are always difficult: where do the words you know vanish, when you need them in a conversation?

Then we played two games like our Alias. First, one person at a time was the guesser, the others were given a word and they explained it to the one that was guessing. We had to use sentences like "It´s an adjective and it is similar to the word weird". When I guessed, the word was fascinating - it took a while for me to figure it out. After that we explained different verbs to each other in groups.

We continued with some pronunciation exercises and tongue twisters ("She sells sea shells in a sea shore") and then made one of our own. I´m very proud of our achievement (feel free to try):



We also did a task that needed groupwork: we had to make a paper band. It was a competition and the group that made a longer band in three minutes, won. Of course my group won even if I hate crafts. But the others were skilled and I just cut the sticky tape and there it was! Not the best spent three minutes, I think, but our lovely teacher, Gillian told us that we´re going to use the bands later. How? It remains to be seen.