On my first week in transition year, the whoole year went on a trip. Half of the year went to Donegal and the other half went to the Aran islands. The main reason went to visit these places is because they have a large amount of irish culture in these areas. I was very happy, as i was put in the Aran Islands trip with many of my friends. Most of our year had a fantastic time, in both locations. We arrived at 2 o'clock on the island we were all very excited to explire the island of inis Mor. 6 hours of traveling really made me tired and I was hoping we could have a rest. But Ms Gilmore insisted on us going on a 2 hour long walk. I we started walking, and it began to rain. Although this was annoying, we still got to see very interesting monuments with our group, and lernt about many facts that I had no idea about before this walk. This was mainly because we had a tour guide. He showed us things like statues, graveyards, many more. He told us stories about people who died at sea, and showed us a monument with every single persons name who dies at sea on it. I found that part of the tour very interesting. After visiting this monument we started walking home. by this time it was about 6 oclock and we were all ready for dinner at the local hotel. After dinner, everyone went back to there seperate hostles. there was two hostels chosen by the teachers that we were split into. my friends in my house were Becky, Jordan, Elle, Emily , Sarah and Emma. We had a great time together and have all become very close over the past couple of days on the trip. The second day, we went on a huge cycle almost half around the whole island. i found it very long, but it was A gorgeous day so i had a great time. we stopped by for lunch around horse and carragaes before we went to the big diving area for the red bull challenge. This challenge happened in the summertime, and it was famous worldwide. We were all lucky enough to visit the 300ft long arena. i had such a great time! On the way home, it was quite tiring as it was very hot. When we arrived home, we went to a ceile and danced with all of our group. On the third day, we had another 6 hour travel home. i thought it was too long and tiring but we stopped off at the shops half way through. when we arrived back at school the next day, all of my friends from the other trip were talking about how amazing their trip was. it seems that everyone had a great time on their trips, wherever they went.