St. Patrick's Day

On St. Patrick`s Day it is said that eveyone is Irish, Irre, what is maybe the excuse for some mistakes that might have happened.
We met up at half past eight and found out that the dart had different a time table! We had planed to visti Howth in the morning and be back in the city early enough to see the parade. The next train would have been an hour later and so we decided to take a walk instead. This was our first little mistake ( what was good for me, because I forgot my ticket at home).
So we went to Dublin by the ten o`clock dart. We painted the chamrocks on our faices and ate lunch, we were to busy to notice that we had arrived at O`Connel Station ... Well, 8 of 9 People left the train ... It took me all together 3 differnet darts back to O`Connel Station and I guess that the others had a goog laugh about it (I hope so!)
The parade should have started at twelve but it didn`t and so we stood in the cold waiting for over an hour. Lucky, we had arrived so early, otherwise we wouldn`t have found enough space for nine people!
The street was full of families with little kids and tourists. Beate and I shared a waste bin to sit on and we without it we wouldn`t have seen much of the parade.
The parade consisted of schools, solders, dancing schools, music guards and important people. That wasn`t as boring as it sounds. It was realy nice to watch, we took a lot of pictures.
After the parade had finished we were surching for a pub, but they were all overfilled, so we went to the dart.
Most of us got out at Bayside and went home, Mr . Sankofi, Katharina and I drove to Howth. There we surched for seals, but we didn`t find any probably because it was to windy and cold. It started to rain and so we decided to go into a cafe where we warmed up and played cards, what was quite nice.
Our 4th mistake on that day was that Kathrina lost her scarfe at the cafe.
So we visited Howth two times!
I have to say, that we did use our dart tickets.
At home we (Kathy and I) packed and helped our host mum with the dinner.
We ate and went out to the lockal pub.
The other students were allready there and were waiting for us. Alex ordered onion chips all the time, some people played cards and others put the table decoration in their hair.
Mr Sankof arrived short time later and so we all celebrated St. Patrick`s Day together. The 5th mistake was somethig broken.
The pub was full and there was a live band playing 70es. Some of us started to dance and after a while there was no space left on the dance floor. It was fun and sweet, because people of all ages danced.
Everyone enjoyed St. Patrick`s day and went to bed very late.

Marie Veletzky