INTERVIEW WITH RICHIE FITZGERALD!!

Richie Fitzgerald is a famous surfer from Donegal, Ireland.He is a very nice person, as we discovered  when we interviewed him in his shop yesterday. This is what  he told us.

Video 1

Elvira: What was the highest wave you have ever surfed?
Richie: 50 feet [15.240 metres]. Sorry, I am really hot because I have been carrying boxes?
Elvira: Where?
Richie: Up at Mullach More Head, about 5 miles [8 km] from here.

   

Video 2

Maria: When and why did you decide to become a surfer?
Richie: I grew up in a family of surfers so I didn't really decide to ... when I was this size, I just started surfing, the same way as I played soccer, rugby, football...Surfing  was just in my family. I can't  even remember learning to surf, I surfed when I was really very small.

Video 3

Angel: What is your best position in the world ranking?

Richie: Emm..I'll write it for you. In 2011 this was my last year of competing ...

I finished 6th in Europe, and 3rd in the big waves, and number 1 in Ireland again...right....

and then in 1996 i finished 28th in the world. All right... there, you can put it all down.

Nerea: What is the best place in the world to surf?

Richie: You know, I like Ireland but Hawaii is nice too. California is good. Spain is good. Portugal is good. I like the Caribbean as well.

Tracy: Elvira....quick!

Richie: You know... this is perfect. Ask away.

Video 4

Angel: Have you ever had a near-death experience?

Richie: Near death? A few times. But that's only because I go out in the really big waves so... in about 2009 I nearly drowned, once a big wave... my friend saved me... so close. But that's only in the big waves...so it shouldn't scare...any sort of normal surfing you are fine. Small waves are fine 

Maria: How do you feel when you are on the top of a big wave?
Richie: It's very scary but it's very exciting.
Nerea: Can you tell us about your first competition?
Richie: My first competition?I think I was aged 13. I came first in  the juniors, under 15s. In 1987 actually July 1987. Anything else?

Video 5

Tracy: Wow. Thank you, Stickers!!

Elvira: Are you married?
Richie: What? Am I married? Look at my little daughter [...shows us his phone...].
Elvira: Your wife is a surfer?
Richie: A little bit. Not much.
Elvira: And your daughter?
Richie: She is too... bambino!!

THE END!!

ACCIDENT IN THE HOSTEL

Today, Friday, we were doing Physics class when we heard someone shouting for help so we stood up and ran to help. After that, we went to see what happened and we saw the man who had helped us with the blog on the floor with a lot of BLOOD on his face and his hand.He had dislocated his shoulder and his eyebrow was bleeding.We wanted to call  the ambulance but he said that it didn't matter.We poured water on his body.He was very pale.  He couldn't move.The manager cleaned his wound and he change because he was wearing his wetsuit. In the end, he is going to the hospital to get an x-ray. This experience was very interesting but also disgusting because of the blood.

                              

INTERVIEW WITH CANON MUNSTER

Canon Munster works in Our Lady Star of the Sea, Bundoran.
We talked to him to learn more about what he does.

Nerea: How many years have you been working in this church?
Canon: Here? Well, I´m here 25 years.
Elvira: Who was the first priest in this church?
Canon: Oh, 1859...1859, a man called Canon, do you know what canon means?...[...] His name was Canon Keelehan.
Nerea: Where were you working before?
Canon: I was teaching in 2 schools. In my first school I taught Latin and Irish, which is our native language. Then I went to another school where I taught Religious Education. In the first school I was there for 6 years and in the second 9 years.
Ángel: Are there more Catholics in Bundoran than Protestants?
Canon: Oh yes, there are only 5 Protestants in Bundoran!
Angel: What is the percentaige? 1%?
Canon: In the winter here, ... Well, there might be 6... In the winter here we have 600 Catholic families. In the summer we would have 20,000 people,

TO BE CONTINUED....  

PREPARING OUR INTERVIEW WITH CANON MUNSTER

Today in class we prepared our questions for our interview with Canon Munster, the priest in the church where we go to mass on Sundays.These are the questions we are going to ask:


Ángel:
-What do you do in your free time?
-Are there more Catholics than Protestants in Bundoran? Do you know the percentage?

 Elvira:
-Who was the first priest in this church?
-What is the church going to do with the money that is collected in mass?

Nerea:
-How many years have you been working in this church?
-Where were you working before?
-Why in Ireland are there two collections in mass?

María:
- How many people go to mass at this church?
- When was this church built?
- When and why did you decide to become a priest?

INTERVIEW WITH JO: the manager of the hostel

Manager

Jo works at the hostel all day.  She is the manager there. We talked to Jo to learn more about what she does.

Nerea: What is your name?

Jo: My name is Jo

Nerea: Where are you from?

Jo: I have lived in Ireland for 13 years but I am from England near Liverpool. Have you heard of Liverpool?

Angel: Yes, like the football team!!!

Nerea: How long have you been working in the hostel?

Jo: since March, this year, but I worked here many years ago, so it’s like coming back home.

Maria:  Do you like Bundoran?

Jo: I love Bundoran, yeah, very nice.

Elvira:  What is the most difficult thing about working here?

Jo: Difficult? Well, I have to look after the bookings so I have to make sure everybody has a room so I have to … on the computer … do a lot of administration.

Ángel: Do you like living here?

Jo: Yes, very nice. I love the sea, the mountains, yeah, I love the country-side.

Maria: What exactly do you do here?

Jo: Well, I am the manager the hostel so basically I look after the bookings, book people in who are coming to stay, also the day to day running of the building so I have to make sure everything is clean, when the cleaning people come in have to tell them which rooms they have to clean, make sure everybody has enough food for breakfast. An just look after the building, really.

Tracy: Any more questions?

All: No

All: Thank you. Bye, bye.

A hostel manager has a tough job because she has to do many difficult things but if you love organising people you might think about becoming a manager, too.

PREPARING OUR NEXT INTERVIEW!

In class today we prepared questions for our next interview. We are going to interview a famous Irish surfer called RICHIE FITZGERALD.We studied the structure for organising our questions with the sample interview that we downloaded from the internet.We chose 8 questions two each.

We are also going to interview Father Munster from the church where we go to mass on Sundays.

THE LIBRARY

On Tuesday we went to the library. We spoke to 3 nice women. We discovered the following information about Bundoran´s history:

Bundoran was settled in 1653. It was originally 2 villages- The East End (where the Catholics live) and in West End (where the protestants live). 

An interesting thing that we learnt is the meaning of the irish flag: the green part represents the Catholic people, the orange part represent the Protestant people and the white in the middle is the union between the two.

Bundoran means: “the foot of the water”

The first inhabitants were fishermen and farmers.

Tourist information office

Monday, 8th of July,2013

We went to the tourist information office and we spoke to a very nice man called Thomas.
We asked him  many questions about Bundoran. We  discovered the following:

• The population of Bundoran is 3,000 inhabitants in winter and 5,000 in summer.
• In bundoran we can go to the beach, swimming, surfing and kayaking and we can go to the waterpark which is called WaterWorld!!

• Bundoran has a mayor. Her name is Denise Connolly. She was appointed last week!

• The mansion in front of the beach is owned by a family how have a chain of pharmacies around Ireland.

• We discovered a famous place of Bundoran that is called the Fairy's bridge.

• There is a fire station in the east end.
• The typical food is a 99.

• A famous person of Bundoran is surfer called Richie Fitzgerald. He owns a surf shop in the town.

• The people are very friendly and proud of there community. 
• Thomas gave us a folder with lots of leaflets about Bundoran.

Hi!!!

Hello. We are the intrepid reporters from Bundoran. Our names are: Ángel, María, Nerea and Elvira. This blog is our project from the English class. We are doing interviews with different people from the town to find out information about Bundoran.