'Today Melanie and I began our journey in Galway. First stop, Barnacles Hostel. Here we were given our first challenge - in order to earn our first night's stay, we needed to convince fifteen people to dance the Macarena in front of the hostel with us. This was no easy task. Armed with our Barnacles t-shirts and positive attitudes, we were promptly rejected by everyone we tried to convince at the Spanish Arch. Clearly folks are not as keen on making spectacles of themselves as we are. Eventually we decided that the only way to get the participants we needed was to lead by example. And so we danced. And people stared. And we danced some more. And the staff took pictures. And we danced, and hollered at tourists walking by, and eventually some folks took pity on our cause and danced alongside us. It took a few goes, and a few starts and stops of the music, and a few perplexed looks and outright refusals, but in the end we got more than the fifteen people required. We rounded off a good twenty minutes of dancing with eighteen participants and earned our night. We retire with the rhythmic beat and awkward gestures ringing in our memories.' Jennifer Mara
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Barnacles Hostel students are looking very funny. Here we were given our first challenge in order to earn our first night's stay, we needed to convince fifteen people to dance the Macarena in front of the hostel with us. When we are going outside of the home , there we making very much fun with friends.
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