Monday, 18 May 2009
Saturday, 2 May 2009
Swedish Mountaineering
Our Swedish visitors, a group of our sixth years and Chris Keag in charge took a Saturday morning walk up to the quarry via the Glen River, and back down via the Bogie Line and Shepherd's Lodge. There then followed delicious and enormous lunch at the Mourne Cafe, and don't let anyone tell you the service is bad. All thirty of us were served very promptly, and we went for broke, with breads and oils, trying out the full selection of main courses from Thai curry to all sorts of seafood, followed by the full selection of puddings, lattes and tea. After a last dander up our beautiful promenade, our visitors collected their luggage and headed off on the bus for Dublin. They had a wonderful time, and I was very proud of Newcastle and our own wonderful students, who gave up their Saturday to make sure our visitors enjoyed their stay.
Swedish Visit
Our Swedish visitors were as friendly and lovely as our Swedish visitors last year. This is a really valuable link. They arrived on Thursday, settled in to the Newcastle Youth Hostel, which they thoroughly recommend. They spend the morning on the town, then came in to visit junior classes and also to make a presentation on Sweden for our sixth form students. One element of the presentation tackled the stereoptype of Swedish men as very tall and Swedish women as necessarily blonde. Unfortunately for their argument they were standing there tall and blonde in front of us. Thanks to everyone who made them welcome. Our visitors brought us a gift of a checky cat, which you will see in the display case in our front hall. The idea is that, if you make the right choices in life, you might get to meet the checky cat!
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