Catch you later Ireland!

It is a bittersweet emotion sitting here with less than 10 days left on my exchange. Of course I have missed my friends and home, but I have also had a great time being in Ireland and have got new friends here as well.

I have learnt a lot while being here. It is a whole different culture which I have enjoyed immensely to explore; seeing the beautiful nature, visiting historical places and meeting the people.

The Montessori School has taught me a great deal as well. It has opened my eyes to a totally different way of teaching; one that I hadn’t imagined could work, but however it worked very well and children that I would have thought were too young to be in school knew both how to read and write and some of them were even better at Geography than I am.

This has been a great experience for me and I’m sure that it will be very useful for me in the future.

Although there are some conflicts between what I have learned back home at Blaagaard/KDAS and what I have learnt at St. Nicholas Montessori College, I am sure that I can use parts of the Montessori method in whatever classroom I end up in which will have great gain for the pupils.

I have hopes to come back to Ireland at one point to live, if only for a couple of years and I’m strongly considering spending a year, studying a high diploma in Montessori Primary teaching when I finish Teaching College.

Now we will see what time brings.