One thing that I can cross off the bucket list is celebrating St. Patrick's day in Ireland. In Louisburgh there is an annual parade just after noon going through the town square and every year the students of St. Scholastica partake in parade. This year we worked along with Louisburgh street arts. We were doing an Irish myth, where there were sea monsters and beautiful people. They divided us up into the sea monsters and the beautiful people. So we helped them make costumes of both the sea monsters and the beautiful people. I was divided into the sea monsters. We were then assigned jobs like carrying a flag or wearing a mask. Me and three others were assigned to carry drums and to create a beat that sounded intimidating. I didn't get a big drum but instead got to carry the top of a tea pot and got to hit it with a soon. It created a very loud, high pitch noise. By the time the parade was finished I couldn't hear anything out of my left ear, which was closest to the tea pot. We got to wear face paint to make us look even more intimidating and the beautiful people got some too, to make them even more "beautiful".
We were to go in the middle of the parade and our job was to be as loud as possible, and more specifically as sea monsters, we were told to try and get as many kids to cry as we could. We were surrounded by pretty school bands, cub scouts and sports teams, it was safe to say we stuck out like a sore thumb. There was a news team there and they interviewed a couple of us and they filmed us in the parade and we actually made it on national television. By the time we finished the parade we all were surprised at how exhausting being in a parade was. Overall St. Patrick's day in Ireland was a success!!
Here is a link to photos of the parade on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/LouisburghStreetArts
If that doesn't work look up Louisburgh Street Arts on Facebook.
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