Our first trip of the semester will be a day trip to Glendalough. Here are two websites (1, 2) that show you what Glendalough looks like, and what there is to see and do for those of you who are interested in going.

It’s an old Monastic site with several walking trails to go on around the lakes and up into the hills surrounding them, so it’s a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

The date for this trip will be Sunday, 21 October. The bus will pick us up from in front of the Student’s Union building at 10:00 A.M. There is no admission fee to Glendalough, so the only cost for the trip will be for the bus, which will be only 10 EUR per person!

The facts again:

Where to

Glendalough

Date

Sunday, 21 October 2007

Time

Departure:  10:00 am ~  Back to Maynooth by: approx 6 pm

From

In front of Student’s Union

Cost

10 EUR per person

I would like to thank all of you for choosing to join the International Society, and thank you for your patience in waiting for this first e-mail; there were 113 e-mail addresses to put into the account, not to mention the phone calls to hostels in two different towns to check for availabilities, as well as making our meeting room booking and our first day trip! Not bad for just one week since Fairs Day! We’ve also just gotten our website underway! The website is in it’s very early stages, but we will have it up and running soon, and we will use it as our primary way of communicating information and events to you! We will also post photos of trips and other events, so feel free to send us your photos if you’d like to share them!

So here we go, I would like to announce that our first meeting of the year will be held this Sunday 14 October, 7:30 pm in the Arts Block, Theatre 1! We will discuss general information at this meeting as well as get ideas from people about events and trips this semester. We will also hold sign-ups for our first trip of the semester.

Also, we are still deciding on where and when to go on our first weekend trip, and we also have to make sure that the hostels have room for such a large group as we will be! We will have this information available to you at our first meeting, and we would be glad to get your ideas and opinions about where to go, and we will tell you about some of the things that there are to do on the trips we’d like to hold this semester.

That’s all for now; I look forward to seeing you all at our first meeting! Feel free to send us an e-mail if there are any questions or problems you have, and we will be glad to help if we can! And one last thing: if there is someone you know who is not yet on our email-list, or didn’t get a chance to sign-up on Fairs Day and is interested in participating in the International Soc, please ask them to send us an e-mail (“info ett maynoothinternationals dod com”). I hope I’ve entered all the e-mails correctly, but chances are I made a mistake in there somewhere, so please help us get in touch with everyone!

The site is still rather virgin, as you can see……..

But not for long