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Final Blog Post--Eric, Chris, Cavainna, and Riley
Monday’s class was spent learning a bit about the Aran Islands, our field trip destination for the following day, 周二. 我们看了几分钟一部老电影的片段, 《网络棋牌游戏平台十大排行》(1934), which (somewhat inaccurately) shows what life on the islands was like almost a century ago. We also discussed Aran sweaters and some common misconceptions about them. 那天剩下的时间都是我们自己的.
周二, we got up early to travel to the Aran Islands, specifically the largest of the three islands, Inishmore. Inishmore is the biggest and the most touristy of all the islands. We took a coach further west along the coast, 然后我们跳上了渡船, 是什么把我们带到岛上的. This left some of us a fair bit more sea sick than others. 一到岛上，我们就登上了一辆旅游车. The tour guide, a native of Inishmore, was friendly and informative. 他开车送我们过岛, showing us everything from stone wall-plotted fields, to the town’s essential buildings (schools, 银行, 等.)，前往沿岸的海滩. We even saw some old, dilapidated monasteries. We learned from the tour guide that some of the Irish language is studied on the island. We think that it's pretty cool to have a separate place to study Irish for young people to learn the language well. 然而, perhaps the most exciting part of the day was when we went to this place called Dún Aonghasa which is an old hill fort built on the edge of an approximately 100-meter-tall cliff that overlooks the ocean. It was a very long walk up from the village where we started.
参观结束后, we had time to check out some shops (including the Aran Sweater Market) in town and grab something to eat (including some surprisingly good lobster rolls and homemade fudge that was absolutely incredible) before heading back to the mainland.
The next day Cavainna and Riley split from the ground and wandered a few miles outside of Galway to the Athenry Heritage Center in Athenry. The Athenry Heritage Center was so much fun. 我们预订了中世纪体验. This allowed us to dress 在服装s inspired by the era.
They had a diagram of what the village looked like in the 13 and early 14th century. 在博物馆里, there was a recreation of what the medieval market would look like and examples of the most common trades. There were brief descriptions of the different weapons used by the different armies. The English had mostly refined the different types of arrows, the French had the crossbow and the Irish had many different spears. What we found most fascinating was the armor and padding. The armor itself wasn’t the most effective but we think everyone can agree that it’s better to have armor that works 60% of the time than none at all. We could not believe that a simple headpiece weighed a good 10 lbs.
The second part of the heritage center and, Cavainna和Riley的观点, 最有趣的是射箭场, 仙女花园, 还有迷宫. Both Cavainna and Riley have always enjoyed archery and running through a maze in a gown made everyone's childhood princess dreams very happy.
