Trip to Poland.. Maybe! :D

On Thursday, we were informed about a religion trip that has been organised for the students who will be in 5th and 6th year in October. The trip will be to Poland, for four days during the Hallowe'en mid-term break.

Mrs L and Mrs K B are the two religion teachers that have

organised this trip. Even though it is religion based, there is still a really, good fun aspect attached aswell. We were given an application form, an page with information on the cost of the trip etc and an itinerary of the trip.

After an early morning flight to Poland, we will have a guided tour of Krakow including the old Town Square, University Distrtict, Wawel Hill, Kazimierz and the Jewish Quarter, Shinders factory. We will have an evening meal and then we will be given some free time to explore the old town square.

The following day we will have breakfast before going on an excursion to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp with on-site guide. We will return from the concentration camp via Wadowice, the birth place of Pope John Paul the second. We will have a meal again. Then we will be given time to go shopping at Krakow Plaza.

On the third day after breakfast, we will visit the Wieliczka Salt Mines. In the afternoon we will visit the Galicja Museum. Here, we may possibly get the chance to meet with some of the Holocaust survivors. Later, we will eat and then we will have a three hour session at Park Wodny waterpark.

On the fourth day if we have time before our flight, we will do some last minute shopping after our breakfast. We will then head to the airport and head back home.

This sounds like a really adventurous and fun trip.. let's not forget educational! I would absolutely love to go on the trip. There are so many others who would love to go aswell. Unfortunately though, there are only spaces available for forty students to go on this trip. The names of all applicants will have to be put in a hat and chosen at random if there is a huge demand, which I'm sure there will be.

In a way, some of us have an advantage. This is because quite a lot of the Leaving Certificate students will probably not put there names forward. Also, any of the girls who were lucky enough to go on the trip to Paris in second year, will not get first preference. If their names' are pulled out, they will go straight onto a waiting list.

My fingers a crossed on the double in the hope that my name will be picked to go on the trip!

Niamh! :D