St Davids Day & St Fagins Museum of Welsh Life.

Hello everyone :)

This blog bit isn't really about our training but we wanted to write it anyway because we thought you might like to know a little bit about Wales (we did do lots of walking too at the museum and we wore our new walking shoes!)

Dewi Sant

On March 1st it is St David's Day or Dydd Gŵyl Dewi. He is the patron saint of Wales and there is a place named after him in West Wales. Dewi Sant was a monk who lived in the 6th century who became famous throughout the country as a caring man who spent his life  helping others.His last words were "Gwnewch y pethau bychain" which means "Do the little things". We think that is a good thing to think, which is why we are walking up Snwdon for the Uganda Child Education Trust. St David's Day started in 1120, when Dewi was made a saint by Pope Callactus the Second.He always has a white dove of peace on his shoulder.

This is Dewi Sant's flag

On Dydd Gŵyl Dewi all the children in Wales dress up in their Welsh costumes (gwisg Cymraeg). This year Carys wore the traditonal costume and Sioned wore her Shane Williams top because you're allowed to wear a red Welsh top and Shane Williams was our favourite Welsh rugby player before he retired last year :(     

Shane Williams

 

This year for St David's Day our school went to St Fagans - Amgueddfa Werin Cymru which is the National museum of Welsh life for St David's Day.We LOVE St. Fagans because it has loads of things to see and we LOVE history especially Welsh history. We went to the museum many times with Mami when we were home-schooled because its her favourite place too! 

At the museum there are many buildings that have been  taken apart brick-by-brick and rebuilt at the museum like the Iron-Age round houses in The Celtic Village and the six  Rhyd-y-Car Ironworkers' Houses from Merthyr Tydfil. Each house is set in a different time from 1805 to 1985 and has different rooms, furniture and objects. Merthyr Tydfil was a really important town during the industrial revolution as it was one of the most important iron-manufacturing towns in the world in the 19th century. These are the workers houses. They are really small and have very low ceilings. We wonder if people were shorter then?


St. Fagans has been open since 1st November 1948, and is in the grounds of  St Fagans Castle and gardens, a late 16th-century manor house which was donated to the people of Wales by the Earl of Plymouth!

                      Last time we went we also had a chance to dress up!

Carys is pretending to be the baby!

This is the way the Welsh women used to carry their
babies.

  











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We walked around all the houses for ages until we had to come home! We had fun!

When we got home Mum had made Wenglish cawl (soup). She says its Wenglish because she's half English and half Welsh so she's Wenglish hahaha! Dydd Gwyl hapus iawn i pawb!

Thank you for reading our blog! 
lots of love 
Carys & Sioned
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If you would like to find out more about the charity that we are raising money for please join their Facebook page
 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Uganda-Child-Education-Trust-Kitende/216146361792463?ref=hl

and if you would like to sponsor our climb up Mount Snowdon we have a Just Giving page too

 http://www.justgiving.com/CarionedsChallenge

Thank you everyone :)