Ok so today I learnt how to hurl.. for those of you who don't know what hurling is.. check this link out:
"hurling"

basically death by sport. Think angry hockey meets airborne ball, which you catch, with your hand, with ten angry sticks coming down to hit the ball. Consequently hitting your arm instead. Bye bye arm.

Needless to say, the version I played was much friendlier, with only slight bruising to the shin and now a sore arm from all the ball-whacking (technical term).

The whole purpose of today was to revise ground engineering. Which, really, isn't very exciting. It's all about what roller to choose for what type of soil.. so the excuse of hurling was to be able to investigate the ground conditions should we want to prepare the soil for consolidation. The weather was so nice however, that I gave up on looking at the ground and concentrated on not getting my arm broken instead.