The weeks are flying by! It's been interesting trying to adapt in my school because I'm a 'specialized teacher' as they would call it. I'm an art education major.
It just so happens I'm in a school with no art program and no room in the curriculum for any specific time given to art. So it's been a struggle to find places where I'm needed! I've instead been creating collaborative projects, not only in individual classes but in the school as a whole.
I've been working on a mural where each class in the school can contribute a piece.
I'm finishing up a mural in the hall (or cafeteria) of my school and spending time in the senior school (our sort of high school equivalent) working with girls getting ready for their big national test and critique in art. On Thursday they were given their big portfolios to put all their work in to be graded by a national supervisor. It's a bit like the EOG's in North Carolina but for art. I thought that was really cool.Things have been going very well overall and now we're counting down the days until I head back across the big fish bowl.
Some girls from the other universities in Ireland and I went to a famous pub called Johnnie Foxes where we heard great live music, saw Irish dancing and ate amazing food. I struck up a conversation with one of the more attractive dancers and he told me that he toured with Riverdance and that their choreographer does Riverdance as well. My friend Katie and I both got pulled up on stage to dance in front of the large crowd of people enjoying the show.
