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Causey Farm 2nd Year Trip - October 2015

At 9:00 am on the 2nd of October , we spent a day at Causey We went into an old dark shed and the instructors told us
Farm with Ms. Dennigan and Mr. Ames. We talked and we were going to learn how to céilí dance to the tune of the
listened to music on the way. We saw a giant minion and Siege of Ennis. We did the dancing for half an hour and then
two giant teddy bears made from bales, straw and plastic instructors gave us all Bodhráns and taught us how to play
bale wrap outside the entrance to Causey Farm. We got off along with the Siege of Ennis.
the bus and went in through the main entrance.
After lunch we headed to the bog. We walked on a gravel
As soon as we went in we started our first activity, which was path until we came to an open bog area. We took off our
baking brown bread. The instructors let us get into pairs, shoes and went over to the giant bog hole. Some people
and then one of them showed us what to do. We scattered didn’t jump in straight away; instead they watched other
flour into the baking tin. The instructor threw the eggs at people first. The bog hopping was probably the most
us to catch, which was funny! Thankfully we all wore old enjoyable activity of the day. Our clothes were soaked to
clothes. We all put our names on a little flag and stuck it into the core with mud and dirty brown water when we got out.
our bread. The bread was put on large trays, we washed our Some of us were still stuck in the bog hole and it took a few
hands and then went out to our next activity. people to get them out as they were caught in so deep in
the mud. There may even be a few students still buried in
We all walked up the farmyard where we got to pet some
puppies that were only three days old. Some of us even got there!
to milk a cow! We petted a calf and it tried to eat one of the We arrived back at the farm and got changed into more
girl’s hair! respectable clothes. The teachers collected our bread that

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