♪ ♬ Im so excited! And I just can't hide it! ..♫ ♩

Well everyone in school right now certainly has 'That Friday Feeling!'. Today at 3 o'clock, around 30 of us are heading off to County Wicklow, to do our Gaisce hike. For those of you who don't  know what Gaisce is - It's called the Presidents award, and we have to do a certain number of hours of community involvement, physical activity, a new skill and an adventure hike, and then we receive an award. Well we have all the hours of activities are done so now it's time for the adventure hike!

We will be staying in Kippure Lodge in County Wicklow. The place looks really comfortable, and I'm so excited! Except for one thing ...........for the past couple of weeks I have been so excited about the food and staying overnight and packing and everything, I kind of overlooked the fact that we'll be hiking up a mountain for 25KM!! Oh lordy. From reading all the other blogposts I have done, you might have guessed I'm not great at hiking, or anything that comes in the 'excercise' category! Never fear though - I have a plan. Yesterday Elizabeth and I went shopping , and filled a whole trolley (no exaggeration) of sweets. So hopefully I'll be so hyper on jelly's and chocolate and everything that I wont even notice walking 25KM! Thats the theory anyway! (Let me tell you it was no mean feat to carry all those sweets into Celbridge today !They filled 2 suitcases! All thanks to Elizabeth who  lugged them all the way into school this morning! - Well done).
Anyway best be off,
Wish me luck!

I love brownies! yum - wait not that kind .........

Guess where I'm going! This Saturday I'm off to Trim, County Meath, as part of Brownies. I'm doing it for Gaisce, the presidents award, where we have to do a certain number of hours of sport, a new skill and community involvement. To be honest I can't believe volunteering with Brownies qualifies as 'community service' because it's so much fun! The kids are around 8 and 9, and we do songs, dancing, arts and crafts, drink hot chocolate, and this weekend there's a small chance of a camp fire! (I had to put the words 'small chance' in there, for fear I get my hopes up).

The hour and a half just flies by! In fact twice already I have missed my bus home because I didn't want to leave! (well that and the fact that you never expect a bus in Ireland to be early or even on time :P ).

You see, I never did Brownies, or Scouts or anything like that when I was little, so it's all totally new to me. If you told me a year ago that I would be going on a Brownie trip I would have never believed you. I had no clue about the Brownie code, or the guide law, or the Brownie hand shake, but I have to say I'm really enjoying it. (I hope I'm not revealing top secret Brownie information here). I'm not quite official yet - I haven't been enrolled into it yet or anything, or got a uniform, but they're all really friendly, and they've made me feel right at home. Heres the link for the Irish Girl Guide website if you want to learn more about it. HERE

I better go now as it's nearly lunch time and all this talk about Brownies is making me hungry (I'm talking about the chocoalte kind here - not little kids)
Bye