It’s too early for christmas

At the 16th of November all the exchange students from county Galway went with our LSC (Local Support Coordinator) to Galway for the monthly trip. We went to an escape room and for those of you who don’t know what an Escape Room is: You get locked up in a room with a riddle and you have to solve it in under 60 minutes to get out. Sometimes the room has a special theme, like in our case a Bankrobery. We were eleven people in a very small room and nine of us came from Italy so you can maybe imagine that it was quite difficult to solve the riddle while nine persons were speaking in Italian. Surprisingly, we did very well and came out in 53 minutes.

After a small luch in Galway a walked through the city with a girl I met and we noticed that they started to built a christmas market. We walked on to the old bookstore and to the market in Galway and went later into a Caffee. After we drank our caffee, we walked around a corner and, no kidding, I thought we made a time jump from the 16th of November to the 16th of December.

Everyone was in christmas mood, everywhere were christmas and in the air was the characteristic smell of mulled wine. And they copied even the prices from the german Christmas Markets. You can buy as a “special offer” a sausage with mulled wine for 8€. For me it is far too early for christmas time. I even heard the song “Last Christmas” a few times.

On Sunday was a Craftfair&Raffle, organized from our school. We sold old stuff to collect money for our trip in March to Dublin. It was very nice and lots of people were there. At the end we collected over 1,200€.

It was a warm day and I decided to go for a walk at our beach. To go for the walk was the best decision I made in the last few weeks. I had a lot of stuff going through my mind, I missed my home and friends a little bit because it wasn’t always easy in school and I made myself a lot of pressure.

So, I walked along the beach and listened to my favourite music and just relaxed. And as I came back, I felt like I left all the pressure and negative self-talk at the beach. It was a really good feeling.