After the weekend trip with Stephanie and my Mom, I had one more week of school before I was going to fly back to Michigan. Monday the 15th, everyone took their English and Irish exam. I do not do Irish so I only had to take my English exam. We went in on Monday like it was a normal school day, but at 11:20 AM, we all went to the senior hall and took our English Exam. I got to go home right after that since I did not do Irish, I did american studies, and I was writing a paper for that class instead of an exam.
Tuesday the 16th was a normal school day, and in Spanish and Math we just studied for our exams that would be Wednesday. At the end of the day Ms. King told all of us how Thursdays graduation night would go. I went home and studied for my Spanish and Math exams. Wednesday, I went to school, and at 10:20 AM, we all had our Spanish exam (or whatever language people were taking). It was fairly easy especially since we had just studied for it in Spanish class which I have from 9:40 to 10:20 AM. After the Spanish exam, we had our Math exam. It was pretty hard, but I recognized most of the questions. After that I had a Piano lesson at 1:45 PM. It would be my last piano lesson in Ireland until next year.
Thursday was our graduation night, which was at 7:30 PM. I didn't really get why there was a big night just for finishing transition year, but we all had to wear our school uniforms. All the parents came also, and the senior hall was crowded, everybody did not even fit in so they had to open one of the walls so they could set up more chairs for parents. It was very packed. There was a lot of awards that were given away to students who did special things over the years. Every form teacher went up and said all of their students names and we would walk up and grab a folder then go sit back down again. It was just a certificate saying we completed 4th year. Me and my Mom were one of the last ones to leave and we ended up getting home at around 10:00 PM. I finished my essay for American Studies that night then brought it into school on Friday.
Friday was a normal day of school, except instead of outward bound at 1:10 PM, we all got together and walked down to Dun Laoghaire to get Ice-Cream. We finished watching "Platoon" in American Studies on Friday, and I gave my paper to Ms. Gavin. At 1:50 PM, we all met outside the new building, and then started to walk down to Dun Laoghaire. It was about a 1 hour walk, and Ms. King said we had to be there by 3:30 PM. A lot of us walked in a group, we were in the front of the group, and we went along the coast. We went over the dart and walked on the left side of it. We got there around 3:00 PM, and we were the first ones to get Ice-Cream. It was very good, but it started to get very windy after I got my Ice-Cream. I left about 20 minutes after getting my Ice-Cream. I took the bus home.
We were having a party Friday night just for the end of the school year. Chance and a lot of his family came over, and Scott from my school came over with his mom. I also met this girl who just finished 5th year in St. Andrews and was from Chicago. She told us about how it was doing IB in St. Andrews. We had a lot of food and Scott brought pizza which was delicious. Chance stayed a little after the party to play on the Xbox One with me, then I walked him to the bus stop that he needed to get home.
Saturday, I was going to go see Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 with some friends from school. We went to Supermacs to eat right before that. Supermacs is like KFC but not as good. Their fries were really salty and delicious. We all then went to the Cinemax nearby. Once we got to the theater it was Me, Stephen, Pierce, Jack, Iian, and James. We got tickets to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. It was a really good movie, and after the movie I took the bus home, because I had to pack before the Ariana Grande concert. I was talking Levi to it and it was at 7:00 PM. I packed my checked bag before I left. Me, Oma, Levi and my Mom walked to the 3 Arena together. It was raining super hard as we were walking so we took a Taxi. Once we got there, they left Levi and I, and we found our seats. It was very packed. The whole ground floor was just for standing, and the seats were the 2 floors above the ground floor.
We got there around 7:45 PM. We got some hot-dogs and other snacks. Ariana came out on stage around 9:00 PM. She performed for about 2 hours. It was really fun, and Levi enjoyed it also. Here is a video:
We walked home after the Concert, and we got home around Midnight. Levi went straight to sleep.
Sunday morning, I got up at 6:30 AM. I packed my Xbox One in my orange carry-on bag. My Mom walked me to the bus stop where the AirCoach would pick me up to go to the Airport. The streets in the morning were completely empty which was weird to see since everybody is always out walking around.
I got on the bus and took it to Terminal 2. Everything went well I got my boarding passes and checked my blue bag. It was nice because I only had 2 flights to take home. The first one was straight from Dublin to Atlanta. I had dinner on the plane, it was chicken.
The flight took about 8 hours. I watched like 3 movies on the plane, and once I got to Atlanta, I had a 3 hour layover. I got some snacks and watched Sense8 on Netflix. It is a great show, I finished Season 2. My flight from Atlanta straight to Grand Rapids was at 6:30 PM, and I got to GR 20 minutes early at 8:18 PM. Papa picked me up in his new car, it was a Mazada CX 5 and it was light blue. It was very nice inside and outside. We went to Taco Bell for dinner, I got these new naked chicken chips from taco bell with cheese sauce. They were basically just chicken nuggets shaped like triangles, but they were still amazing.
-May 23, 2017
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