From Friday to Sunday evening the students began to trickle back into Tully Cross from their spring breaks. During this time we took numerous trips from the bus stop in Letterfrack back home. The car was usually full of students almost crying with joy to be back. They had found out what we already knew from our last trip, traveling for over two weeks takes its tool. However, all the students had a good time and were thankfully able to return home unscathed. The real trouble began when our first group of students arrived back home. The went into their cottages and about five minutes later had realized that they were missing two i-pods, a Northface fleece, and running clothes. We were forced to conclude that they were stolen while they were on spring break. The next day two more cottages came home to find a laptop missing another i-pod and two cell phones. Now we were positive that the cottages had been broken into and immediately called the Garda. This meant that mom spent most of the weekend writing statements of losses and trying to figure out who broke in and how. Thankfully the next day our last cottage returned home and found some of the girls' clothes and a laptop hidden in his room. This brought down the value of stolen goods however did not solve our mystery and we were still missing three i-pods and two phones.
This year has been the first year in 39 years that the cottages have been broken into on our watch. Over the past month there has also been a few incidents with teenagers around the age of seventeen. To make a few long nights short on of the local bar tenders and two of our students ended up chasing down and catching one of the kids. We think that it is the same group of kids who caused us trouble are the ones who broke in while we were gone. That weekend we had another surprise come our way by the name of CSI Galway. He pulled up in a police car and proceeded to tell us he was here to dust for finger prints. He discovered a broken window latch in one of the cottages and was able to get a finger print. Then he took more statements and left. We have not heard anymore from the Garda but are still hopeful that we will be able to sort out the robbery.
Monday morning I went to school. I'm taking a home ec. class and it was there that I found out that in order to pass the class I needed to create a embroidery pillow. I'm not the most creative person there is so needless to say I have never tried to embroider anything in my life. It has proved quite a task because it takes me about a hour to stitch a strait line about forty centimeters long. Other than that school has been going well. Soon I will be switching into a metal working class, however it is looking doubtful if that will ever happen. On Tuesday our principal made a announcement that surprised everyone. Wednesday was going to be a half day. Thursday there was no school because of St. Paddy's day.
Thursday we went to church for St. Paddy's day. The service was half in English and half in Gaelic. They spent a lot of time talking and praying for all the people who immigrated because of the bad economy. Mass ended at eleven thirty and then we boarded the bus to go to Cliften for the parade. The parade was rather small but it was fun to see. I spent a few hours with friends while the students and my family went grocery shopping. After we got home I went on a run and then played soccer with some of the local kids. St. Paddy's day is a big holiday and almost everyone of age spends the night in the pub. For me it ended up being a quiet night but a very fun day!
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