Monday, June 9

June 9

I met with another school today.  It was a segregated school for students with cognitive disabilities.  They call them special schools here.  The meeting went really well and I learned a lot of information.  I also had meetings with people that worked for the department of education here in Ireland.  The first was with someone that is directly involved with special education and the others were two that are more related to the regular education schooling.  During the second meeting, they asked me lots of questions about our school system in the United States.  I have gathered lots of information for my project and I am right on track.  As I met with people, Ben hung out in the park watching people.

Later we went out to a local pub.  I guess it was as local as you could get here in Galway.  We were the only people not from Galway in the pub.  We met several of the locals and hung out with the for several hours.  It was a lot of fun to learn about Galway.