Sunday, July 27, 2008

By: Rachel Periera and Susan Redmond

Hey everyone – today we got to sleep in - woohooo! After a nice breakfast we went shopping in downtown Cork. It is much like downtown St. John’s but with many more shops. We shopped from 10:30 until 1:45. We then reconvened at the Town Hall (the location of the opera that night). The crew was experiencing some technical difficulties so they informed the chaperons that we weren’t needed until around 4:30 so we shopped. After a long day of shopping we had a technical run with the crew. The stage was different…..it was on a slant and had a 6.5 foot drop at the edge. After the tech run we had pizza and prepared for the show. Unfortunately, one of our greens was feeling under the weather so the amazing Sharon stepped in to fill the gap. We had a full balcony and the show went very well. The chaperons then decided to treat us to ice cream, so we stuffed all of our shopping bags in the bottom of the bus….it was packed! We walked to one McDonalds but their ice cream machine wasn’t working so we walked to another where we had the choice of chocolate, strawberry or caramel sundaes. After a long day, we walked back to the hostel where we packed our things to get ready for another exciting day in Ireland.

See you soon