SGEULACHDAN BEATHA

A Personal Story Telling component will wind throughout the immersion retreat in which we’ll each develop and produce a story about some personal experience that was meaningful to us. It could be funny or melancholy or reflective or pretty much anything. It might be prose, a poem, a song, or a children’s story. In any case, we’ll develop our ability to express stories of our life in Gáidhlig, and be part of the seanchas tradition in a very personal way. 

• It’ll be a creative challenge for students from Beginner to Advanced. 
• Each attendee will produce something tangible to take home as a memento of their weekend.  
• The Story component winds throughout the weekend in formal classroom sessions and other opportunities for story development.
• Participants develop and produce a written account of some memorable event in their life, a life lesson they have learned, or really, any personal experience that was especially meaningful to them. 
• It may be recorded in prose as an essay, a journal entry, a children’s story, or a poem, or a song, as they please. 

Along the way to the written product participants will call on the whole range of vocabulary and grammatical language skills they have acquired to express themselves in Gáidhlig, and perhaps some that will be new  tools in their toolbox.

One session of orientation for each learning level will be followed by three hours of class time to propose, develop and polish their creation before presentation at the Sunday morning debrief and farewell, when they will have the opportunity to either read their document to the group or to tell about it and what they learned through the process of writing it.