Summer : By Phoebe Staehelin

Summer is my favourite time of the year. There are so many things to do. People eat ice-cream in the sun and have barbeques. They can go sailing in boats and go to the beach building sandcastles, having picnics, swimming in the sea and even surfing. People often wear shorts and t-shirts as well. Sadly this summer hasn’t been the same. The weather has been very bad with only a few days of sunshine. I hated sitting around at home doing nothing while the rain was pouring outside. All of Europe was supposed to be affected by the bad weather.

We got our holidays off school on the 22nd of June and came back on the 30th of August, which was about 10 weeks of holidays altogether. The summer days were a bit longer even though the weather was bad.

There were a couple of festivals on this summer. The Crinniu na mBad and the Galway Arts Festival. In the Crinniu na mBad, there are boat races and lots of different stalls. The Crinniu na mBad is in our local village, Kinvara. It was on for 2 days. I went on both of the days. The first day was awful because it was pouring rain but the second day was great because it was probably the sunniest day of the season. The Galway Arts Festival was ok. I went to the mocnes parade on one of the days. The theme of the parade was an old fashioned theme. It was quite good.

I went to a few places during the summer as well. I went to Westport and Fethard. I went to Westport for three days. I went to a hotel in Westport called Westport Woods Hotel. We arrive in the evening and had dinner and had a swim in the pool. The day after that, we went to the Westport town and the day after that, we went to Westport House. Westport House was good. We went sailing, we went to the animal park and we went to a restaurant. I went to my grandparent’s house in Fethard in Co. Tipperary for a week and a half as well. I went to the greyhound races, the cinema and lots more places too.

On the last week of the summer, my grandparents from Switzerland came over. We went to a few places with them, like we went to Galway with them twice and we went to restaurants and other places like that with them as well. After that, it was back to school.