In today’s lunchtime lecture Ann Fox started off by presenting pictures from Denmark. These pictures represented her impressions of the Danish people and culture. Then we were divided into two groups, one was supposed to think about pictures which represent their country and culture and an interviewer group. What we didn’t know was that the interviewer group would confront us with different behaviour, which somehow created uncomfortable situations.

Among other things, Patrick told his mother about his problems at school. And suddenly their three friends from abroad (Matthias, Frederick, and Michael) arrived. They told Mary about their plan to travel around the island. Finally, the kid's thirst for Guinness took them to the pub.
After we had successfully completed the video taping, we had another cup of tea and an interesting conversation with Mary, just until Karsten arrived and took all of us back to the cottages.

By Jésus Martínez González

Dinner was over, no way back! A great night out dancing and singing karaoke was waiting for us at the Achill Head Hotel. People were nervous and excited, some scared, but we all felt like having fun and enjoying all together each other´s company. The night turned out good fun, thanks a lot to the Irish people in the pub, who were most hospitable and friendly as usual. As a warming up we could test our knowledge about Achill and Ireland, common fields of interest connected to the different European countries and last but not least popular pieces of music, in competing in an intercultural quiz. But then it was time to get up to move and groove.

We sang and danced to the music from the various countries (Viva Colonia, la Macarena, Dancing Queen...), and especially from Ireland. There were very good Irish dancers and singers so we could really enjoy the traditional Irish culture. As the Irish say: "It was good craic!"

By Sara Villarroya Casinos