What Color is your iPod®?

Today we were introduced to the entire student body of Priory at a special assembly.  The students meet at least once a week to hear announcements from Principal McCreadie.  He introduced all of us, then Dr. Smith had the opportunity to address the student body and thank them for their hospitality and graciousness.  We presented gifts of books for their library from our school.

Mr. McKenzie, Ms. Gilman, Dr. Smith and myself were able to teach Mr. Callender’s 8th year class.  We introduced his students to our communication project, “What color is your iPod?”  The students logged onto the Wiki and posted a reply to our initial discussion – “What color is your iPod”, or in other words what kind of music do you like.  Music is a universal connection we all share and is a great way to start talking and sharing with people we just met. 

Mr. Callendar’s students got just as excited about our Wiki as Mr. McKenzie’s students.  We ran out of time and wish we had more.  Hopefully, later this week we will get the chance to work with the students some more.

After lunch we toured the Ulster Folk Museum in Holywood, Northern Ireland.  We were able to get an idea of Northern Ireland’s history from present back to the 18th century.  We were even in a building whose roof was older than our country. 

Tuesday night we dined with the Mayor of Bangor, his wife and officials from the City Council at Bangor Castle.  The castle was built in 1852 and is now the Town Hall.  And yes, they say it even has ghosts!  It was very exciting to be meet with these officials.   We were treated like royalty.