sparkling on the go

TODAY - County Antrim/ County Down
Sleeping till 11
Picknick with gang plus new hosts and other YFC at Funfarm
County Down, with new host, Rachel
Meeting Rachels family: Mother Jayne, Father Thomas and Heather
Movienight - The lovely bones


Jesa and Luzia driving cars at Funfarm


Jesa, Luzia and Michela climbing at Funfarm

The House

TODAY - County Antrim
Antrim Show - Agicultrual show, the YFC had slipperyfootball and tractor driving. 
YFC Killraughts Barn Dance, all night

A PART OF TODAY:
When coming home at about half past six, I had some time to hang my laundry and started packing, so now its all tucked down. Ryan and I ate some Chinese before he dropped me off at Louise. Me and Neil, Louises husband, watched Navy, then me and Michela had some time to talk which was nice. Flipping channels, we found a crime series in Swedish! That was so cool! First I didn't understand what they said, thinking "what help are they trying to say?", then I realized that if wasn't horrible English, just Swedish. Can't believe they show swedish series in UK!



Kids displaying young calvs


A cute sheep



A dog sheep, A bunny sheep and a donkey sheep


Piglets


Pink little piglets


A cute piglet


The cute piglet again


There were also horsejumping.


Cute horse.


Slippery football.


Its football on a plastic thing soaked with water and soap.


Every player was soaked!

TODAY - County Antrim
Meeting up with the gang
Visiting Louises parents farm
Old Bushmills Destillery Co - guided tour plus tasting
The Gigants Causeway
Rope bridge
BBq at Louises
Tagrugby

A PART OF TODAY:
Today was a packed day. We started out at Old Bushmills Distillery, northern Ireland second biggest whiskey distillery, with a guided tour. The girl sounded so rehearsed it was frustrating just to listen, but intresting nonetheless. We also got to taste some whiskey, and Louise, who works there, managed to get us girl a whiskey drink instead. I had a really nice mix with applejouice and I-dont-know-how-old whiskey. We hang there for lunch as well and all we girls had a really good discussion about countries, US being the size of a table and Switzerland a folded napkin. It was a lot of fun!



Louises parents dog


With our whiskey. Martin, Lisa, Jesa, Luzia, Erika, Michella


Cool table plus chairs


With our drinks, apple or tranberry with whiskey. Erika, Jesa, Michella


At the Gigants Cause way. Martin, Erika, Jesa, Luzia, Michella and Lisa.


The stones are really cool, leftovers from volcanic activity sort of.


The cool stones.


After walking across the stonebridge. Martin, Michella, Erika, Lisa, Jesa and Luzia.

 
Alan sitting at the edge plus Alan looking femenine


The view of the island the ropebridge lead to.


Walking across the stone bridge. Alan keept jumping on it, making it scary. Luzia, Michella, Erika Jesa, Liza, Emelie (host), Martin, Alan (host).


Luzia and Jesa at the tagrugby


Tagrugby. Rugby where the players have tags and if pulled off the ball changes team - or something like that.


Jesa, Erika, Lisa and Michella.


Sunset and random players.


Alan and Ryan


Funny sign inside the rugby-club-house

TODAY - County Antrim
Meeting up with the gang
Beautiful Beach - outside Portrush
Horsebackriding - only walking and trotting in a circle, but the other exchangees had a adventure doing that
Treasure Hunt - finding clues along the way. With Ryan, Michella and Michellas new host Louise

A PART OF TODAY:
Okay, so the extent of Ryans cooking: chicken soup in the microwave. Very advanced. But it was good. In the evening we went treasure hunting. It was really fun, one starts at a spot, following cryptic clues of what to find on the way, all the way to the goal. Example:
Now unto the end of the road and turn right
Then shortly, turn left up Slievenaghy when in sight
This item looks forlorn, its plain to see
Describe what's hanging from its tree.
The answer here was tireswing, which hang, abandoned, just of the road. My team, Ryan, Michela and Louise came in second place! Go team!


The view from Beach in Portrush


Water splashing!


The stones we climbed on, aka the beach

TODAY - County Antrim
Meet the gang +  Lisa, exchangee from Germany
City day - Belfast, Victoria Square, Primark and City Hall
Penguin football
Club night - At Kellys

A PART OF TODAY:
I've just found a new activity to latch on to: penguin football. Tonight was so hilarious, it was so mush fun watching everyone. The pinguine-ish of the event was that all players were wrapped in plastic stuff from knees to shoulders. That means no arms and very limited movement plus the idea of being stuck - plastic stuck. One of the best parts is that if you fall down, you can't get up - its impossible - and your teammates can't help you cuz they're wrapped up too. HILARIOUS. After the penguinfootball and some burgers we went to Kellys. It was quite big with three dance floors: Alans favorite for the little older ones (he felt a lot older with his 27 years), one with a ice-cream buss dj and pop music and the third was with technobeats and no real lyrics - also known as epilepsymusic. Me and Isaac checked them all out, dancing a bit in each. Unfortunately, we missed Alans dancing, which I would have loved to see!



The view from the dome at Victoria Square



The CityHall


Ryan at the penguina football. People are litterary wrapped in celophane.


Lisa, Michella, Luzia and Jesa (playing)



Football, running trapped like penguines. Amusing as hell :)

TODAY - County Antrim
Meeting up with gang
Museeum, The Braid - About Ledgends.
Mountain - Slemish
Ballymane livestock market - bidding on cows
Glenariff Forest park - Waterfall and Nature, 2h walk plus upphill.
Carnfunock - flower park with maze.

A PART OF TODAY:
In the afternoon we visited the waterfalls at Glenariff Forest Park. We went down steep steps and walked right along a mountain wall down to where the waterfall was and it was so beautiful! The path continued all along the fall, showing us both smooth river and thundering falls. Me and Luzia keep falling behind because we where taking so many pictures, but we could quickly close in on the others by sliding on the wet wooden path. The thing about this adventure, though, were that since we had gone down, we had to make our way up again. It was exhausting and we were soon sweating insanely in the cold weather.


A interactive board at the museem


Wierd shoes on a wall


The cool sign in the museeum


Cow-bidding


Glenariffs beautiful waterfall

I <3 Waterfalls


A nice flower


Alan trying to look like the Owl


Alan as a frog


Alan was dissapointed by the age limit in the flowerparks playground, so we found one nearby.


Two persons (Jesa and Ryan) to even it out with Alan

TODAY - County Antrim
Meeting the gang: exchangees and hosts. Jesa (US, Montana), Luzia (Switzerland) and Gillian (host), Martin (Norway) and Alan (host).
Castle tour
Small Waterfall
Movie - Harry Potter and the Deadly Hollows, part 2. With Michella and Ryan, Jesa and Kathy


A PART OF TODAY:
The most memorable from today is probably Ryans, my host, driving. Firstly, the roads here goes up, down and midway constantly - like a rollercoaster. It's like the Irish has something against straight and flat roads. Secondly, there is practically no speed limits. Mostly Ryan is driving at about 80 mph, which is like 130 kmh, on the small roads, adding on to the rollercoaster feeling. Thirdly, everyone is driving on THE WRONG SIDE! I almost got a heart attack when we met our first.car yesterday and it passed us on the right - in the dark too. I'm constantly on the edge.



The Castle


The laterin holes.


Ryan (my host) trying on some midevial stuff


The Gang phosing infront of the castle
Gillian (host), Jesa, Luzia, Michella, Martin, Erika, Ryan (host)


A random statue


The waterfall we visited


Phosing infront of waterfall.
Martin, Ryan (host), Luzia, Jesa, Michella, Erika, Gillian (host)


Nice water

TODAY - Sweden / County Antrim
Flying to London,
Meeting exchange Martin (Norway) in London
Flying to Belfast City
Meeting host Ryan, exchange- roommate Michela (Austria) and Martins host Alan.

Since writing all my 3-4 pages a day would take waay to long, Im just gona choose one or more segmants out of it to publish, the rest will come later. Here is a bit from Sunday, and my flight to Belfast.

On my plane to London we flew high above the clouds. It was as white as I would imagine heaven - or like Kingcross Station in Harry Potters dream. It was burning white, yet divinely beautiful.
Closing in on London, bits of ground became visible, I saw the big river dividing the city: Thames. It looked so cool as it lingered straight through London, kinda like the river behind the castle in the Disney logo is depicted. Everywhere I looked was the xity, houses spreading out in every direction. Mentaltly talking to myself I began mapping out every block built in symbios acnd discussing their location, aswell as nearby churches, towers and scrapes. Out of the blue we started landing - finding the airport practically IN the suburbs. As if London's to big to find the airport a place of its own - which is probably the case.