Geography

Cool_CM

Just purely as a matter of interest, what are people doing for their fieldwork?
We, like many others went to the burren to look at limestone..... it was about as interesting as watching non colour changing paint dry..... but its basically easy marks

randomfella

Our school doesn't do the fieldwork. :mad: Doing the photo instead. :mad:

Scraggs

also went to burren so much fun ..like cutting off your own arm [ok that was over exaggerated lol] Our teacher never showed/taught us how to write them up properly tho so i'm gonna have to copy off a smart friend !!!!

upmeath

yeah did you have the colin guy for your fieldwork? the highlight was seeing the aran islands again... ah... memories. the low was bush regaining office that day. the whole fieldwork was the middle ground. i didnt do the fieldwork question in my mocks and dont intend to in the real thing, its a **** question, easy marks or not. ill do physical and aerial photo instead, thank you very much. by the way, what mocks did you guys get? the one with the north co. dublin map+photo?

Cool_CM

if it was a guy with long hair kind of hippy-like then yes. Our highlight was going to the shop in ballyvaughan........THAT'S HOW INTERESTING IT WAS!!!!

Scraggs

well my highlights beats yeer highlights............
1] naked man sitting in the middle of a field alone
2] the caravan park from father ted!!
i'd actually forgotten about that [went in fifth year] so maybe it wasnt tooo bad!!!
my mock had thurles in it i got a d3!! i'm normally an a2/b1 student i just dont study!

o yeah colin[leader dude] spillt the acid stuff from experiment on the desk and someones hand......cool!

Gone West

yeah we went to the burren for our field work. We had a hippish guy showing us the stuff. He actually knew his stuff, was a pretty good trip, actually.

--(moate cs)

Caoimhe

Think I'd rather the burren than what we did. Went to the local shop and interviewed the bastard manager. Then we counted how many cars passed by and how many of those went into the car park. Thrilling, I assure you...

Cool_CM

the one fun thing that did come out of it was the plan that was hatched by myself and my friend to get a car after the lc and go find every place we can out of fr. ted, we have a list of places, we have a list!!!
We had the thurles test as well, twas going grand till the person correcting decided to lose half of my test......

lestats_bride

We "went to Knocknagooneeen".But really we haven't done one!

the smiley one

I also paid a trip to the fair Burren but did an urban study of a town near there for the fieldwork (going to the burren was more for biology). It was cool! better than school anyway, we got lost and played with a dog on the beach and we went swimming at 7 o'clock in the morning (yes 7 is correct) in the FREEZING sea - it was actually really invigorating! and the weather was really nice (well, it was sunny and not raining!).....oh the nostalgia...

upmeath

well it may help you to know that the boat from the father ted credits is called the plassey. it's located on the south coast of inis oirr, facing the cliffs of moher, and is about a twenty minute walk (no other way of getting to it) from the pier. been there three times, it crashed bringing shoes to galway from liverpool in the 60s. there's a lot of places around lisdoonvarna, lahinch and doolin which featured in the series too, and the all-too-distant from the church parochial house that we see in the credits (only the exterior) is also in clare. COLIN BUNCE RULES! ACID MAN!

Cool_CM

sound upmeath,think my friend's made out a comprehensive list from other people tho, if you want to find out exactly where everything is ask "dimerocks"

Scarinae

Scraggs wrote:

2] the caravan park from father ted!!!

I've been there!! We went on a transition year trip to the burren. I actually like the burren and the Aran Islands - I know thats strange, cos everyone tells me so

upmeath

i love the aran islands. went there to the gaeltacht for the last 3 years. kickass! it's more irish than kerry or donegal or connemara or anywhere really. and the locals are sound!

Scraggs

Cool_CM wrote:

the one fun thing that did come out of it was the plan that was hatched by myself and my friend to get a car after the lc and go find every place we can out of fr. ted, we have a list of places, we have a list!!!

by any chance do i know you??? me and some of my friends have planned the same!! wouldnt it b weird if we knew each other!!! [not *weird obviously...but unusual]

Fishie wrote:

I've been there!! We went on a transition year trip to the burren. I actually like the burren and the Aran Islands - I know thats strange, cos everyone tells me so

not strange at all! tis really is a beautiful place which we should be proud of!!! oooo i'm gettin all patriotic...

Jonny Arson

Cool_CM wrote:

Just purely as a matter of interest, what are people doing for their fieldwork?
We, like many others went to the burren to look at limestone..... it was about as interesting as watching non colour changing paint dry..... but its basically easy marks

Awwhh the Burren!

I went there for my field trip 2 years ago and it was the bestest 2 days ever! Oh the memories of the McDonalds in Athlone, the trip around Woodies DIY in Athlone, the german porn channel in the hotel and those telephones in our room where we could call any room making prank phone calls are a joy to behold!

Did you do testing the limestone for chemical weathering with hydrochloric acid thing? I thought it twas frickin' gr8!

If you took notes and have a general good memory of what you did you should be grand for the exam. Luckily my Geog teacher at the time rammed the fieldtrip down our throats with constant exams on it.

Your Geography teacher wouldn't happen to be someone called Mr. Nyhan by any bizzare coincidence?

Cool_CM

nope, mr jj conneally( so funny our bus got caught up on a narrow road by ballyvaughan cos of a parked tractor, so he got out and moved it himself, what a guy, farmer wasn't too pleased tho!)

"by any chance do i know you??? me and some of my friends have planned the same!! wouldnt it b weird if we knew each other!!! [not *weird obviously...but unusual]"
I dont know....... do you!?

upmeath

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

Oh the memories of the McDonalds in Athlone

Everyone who ever went to the Gaeltacht in Galway has been in that McDonalds! They clean up on busloads of Gaelgóirs. Yeah we're getting very patriotic here over Geography!

Jonny Arson

upmeath wrote:

Everyone who ever went to the Gaeltacht in Galway has been in that McDonalds! They clean up on busloads of Gaelgóirs. Yeah we're getting very patriotic here over Geography!

That McDonalds in Athlone is the greatest McDonalds ever!!!