I know I haven't written in a while but since march we've had so many projects! :O End of year graduation is coming up and everyone is up to their eyeballs in rehearsals, project and so on. Can't believe T.Y is almost over): Only a few more days, its been a good year:) For me the trip to Carlingford  was the highlight:D Made alot of new friends and looking forward to next year. Hopefully everything goes well on graduation night, wish me luck:) 

Shake It Out :)

Hola:)

Tonight is the music night(: and our class is performing florence and the machine's 'shake it out' :D Curtains go up at 7:30 tonight, and we're on seventh in the second half so there will be planty of time to practice:L We're singing the song with fellow ty class Eiriú. There will be many other acts on as well, I think class Fodla are doing wake me up(: and there'll be lots of third and sixth years performing too as well as our choir:D  

Hope fully it goes well(:

Yesterday was the first year sports afternoon which my class Banba organised. It was a great afternoon and the first years seemed to have a good time:) My favourite event was the hurdles and high jump. I was in charge of countinh the points for class Emerald, they did very well and so did all the other classes, but there had to be a winner and class pearl came out on top:)   

Scifest is also coming up, and every ty is enetering a project in either twos, threes or fours. Its being held in IT tallaght and everyone is busy making posters for their display. Our project is the same as it was for bt young scientist. It's on make-up and our experiments and surveys are nearly done so we should be ready to start printing our poster very soon :)

Well thats it:L Hasta Leugo..

 

St.Patricks Daaay Weekend(:

Hope everyone had a great Paddys day(: To celebrate Paddys day in school we had a dress up day and everyone seemed to get into the spirit. We had a céilí in the p.e. hall because it was raining so the courtyard was out of the equasion): The school was packed with farmers, people dressed up as bags of tea, shamrocks and every other irish or green thing you can think of(: It was a great day and all the money that was collected from students
 went to some very worthy charities:D

There were loads of amazing parades all around Ireland on Paddys day and I hope that everyone got a chance to see you. My personal favourite is of course the Dublin parade(: This year was amazing as usual:) The only downside to the dublin parade is that it is always thronged with people and sometimes its hard to see the parade:)

Like I said hope everyone had a greeeat day:D

Later:P

Washing mud out of my hair for half an hour! (:

Yesterday we went to an assault course on puddenhill, called braveforce(: It was great fun. My knees are now a mass of bruises and I can safely say last night I was asleep before I hit the pillow, even though I slept on the bus home. I loved all the obstacles, it was the long stretches inbetween them that had me panting and gasping for breathe. I probably never would have finished the course if it wasn't for Lauren screaming at me to keep going every five minutes :P My favourite obstacles were the water ones, every time you felt like you were starting to get sweaty or two hot, there was a big muddy, water filled trench to cross, it may not sound it but it was great fun :L Here's one of the obstacles we had to climb ! :L

Harder then it looks! :L

Well that's pretty much it(: Byeeeee

Work Expirience:D

Last week all Tys were on work experience. I went to Trócaire in Maynooth:D I had a great time and would really reccommend going to Trócaire as a work placement to anyone(: I got to talk to loads of different people from different departments. Everyone was really friendly and I setteled in really quickly. I got to go to a school in Mullingarr and talk to the kids there about Trócaire, Daniel and their lenten campaign. We also went around to all the classes and thanked them for supporting trocaire in previous years by putting money in the Trocaire box.That was my favourite part(:
I also had to write reports on all the interviews I did, as well as doing a bit of shredding. Which by the way is great fun if you need to let off a little steam:L

I got to learn all about the developing world and what Tróaire is doing to improve conditions in those countries. I learned a lot about Uganda in particular as Daniel's hometown in Uganda is the focal point for this years Lenten campaign(:

Well thats pretty much it, cya:D

St.Brigid :D

Hola :)
Today is Thursday and I have a cold -_-
As you know it was st.brigids bay on the first of febuary and to acknowleged this my year took a trip to Brigid's well in kildare village. We saw her cathedral, which is now used by the curch of ireland, we saw Brigids kitchen, the round tower and the site of the eternal flame. My favourite part of the day was Brigid's second well, it was peaceful and eventhough some people in the class weren't that religious I think everyone enjoyed the day. It was great to find out about Brigid and see things that have been around for hundreds of years.

First of Feb:)

It's the first of Febuary so happy St.Brigids Day :L Our class has organised the prayer room to celebrate St.bridgets day (: we've painted a round tower, built a well and made a wall hanging as well as making about a hundered brigids crosses (: Hope everyone has a good day in memory of the amazing woman that was st.brigid, we're going to visit her well in kildare on monday (:

Looking for a part time job this week inspired by a talk we were given in careers :D so hopefully that goes well and I'll have a job by the end of the month :D

Later, Madeleine :)                                 

What are you looking at ? :O

We performed our play 'what are you looking at ?' (hence the blog title)  for the first time on a real stage in Mullin Garr :) All the actors were great and although the lighting and sound was abit off the play still went very well and i felt proud to be a part of it :) Hopefully we'll go on to the next stage of the competition but even if we don't I still enjoyed the whole expirience.
Second week of work expirience is coming up and im going to trocaire :) I'll talk more about it after i've actually done it.
Things are calming down for a while anyway, I think. Not too many trips so I shouldn't be too tired in the weeks to come :D But it's never boring in TY so I probably wont get too realxed :P
Later..
Madeleine :)

Young Scientist

Attended the young scientist on Friday had a great day and came home with a bag full of freebies :)

This week I've been mainly concentrating on subject choices and future career paths, I know it seems a bit early but mock subject choices are coming up and I think I've almost decided what subjects I want to take for leaving cert, at the moment it's History, biology and music. However that could change in the next week or even by the next class as every teacher is trying to promote their subjects and I'm quite easily swayed :L

Apart from the stress of deciding my future :L our play rehearsals for other briary gap are in full swing, they would be going pretty well if we had to perform in three weeks, but the reality is our first performance is next week and it will decide if we continue to the next level of the competition or not. We've put alot of work into it so I hope it goes well. So wish me luck :)

Although our project didn't make it into the young scientist it will be appearing in scifest so there's still alot of work underway there. Come along and have a look if you want haha :L 

Later :) 

First week after Christmas holidays :/

Back after the christmas break and finding it very tiring. Getting up at six or seven everyday :/ ah well life goes on wether I'm awake or not :L
Young scientist this week and although my project didnt get in some of my friend's work did and all tys are going to the rds on Friday to show are support and to get a look at some of the projects from other schools around Ireland. Not to metion bag couple of free pens :P So I can't wait :)
School pictures twomorrow so ties up and collars down, they were supposed to be today but fortunately uit rained, giving everyone another day to prepare :L

Christams exam results are coming back and so far I'm pretty happy with my marks, just hope my parents are equally pleased.

Wish me luck

Later

Fashion, Cakes and CHRISTMAS :)

We won the spider blog award and came second in the edublog :) Thanks to everyone who voted :D

Lots of things to do this week, next class I have to present my geography project. Hopefully it goes well as I've slaved over it for ageees :/

We watched the TY fashion show today :) All the outfits were amazing especailly the black swan outfit, my personal favourite ;)  We'll find out which outfit won later on today :)

 

We had a backesale for our mini company yesterday. We sold nearly everything, I think there were like four buns left and that was it :) We raised over a hundred euro for our mini company 'sweet dreams' so hopefully we can start selling soon :P I have to tye dye a sheet this week and then make some pillow cases out of it. As our mini company idea is pillows with suction cups on the back fro travelling, in car, plane ect :)

 

Christmas test next week ): But who cares when its this close to christmas, can't wait :D

11 DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS :D

 

 

A christmas treat!

I dont particularly like Just Bieber but I love this song :)

Schoooooool Stuuuuuf :)

This week we wnet to see the ballet :) They danced the nutcracker and the ice queen. The dancers were all very talented and I really enjoyed it. It was held in Belvedeer in Dublin. The dancers ranged from about fifteen / sixteen to ten / eleven :) They were all amazing :D It was about two hours long and we were very near the front. It was a really good expirience there was also three girls from our school in the ballet. Afterwards we went to McD's :D



In school we're presenting our geography projects, I presented thailand yesterday and im doing the rest next week... nervous :P

Later :L x

Work & opeera ;)

Yesterday we went to see Don Giovanni in the Swan cinema, Rathmines. It was five hours long :L and in italian. Thankfully there were subtitles. We got the bus from school at half nine and arrived at about quater past ten. Interesting but tiring :)





Work expirience was last week :D I went to Insight theater group. We went on the circuit to prosperous, skerries, rosmore and loads more venus. I got to learn lighting sound, how to prompt, budgeting, costumes and setting/striking the stage. It was a great expirience, everyone was really nice and I would definietly recommend it. If you like theater and travelling.

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Do you know what I'm saying ? ;)

Today is Wednesday and I don't really have much to write, funnily enough. Classes have been going on as usual but we haven't been on any trips ): However work expirience is looming in the near future. For the first week I am going on the circuit with insight theater. For the second week I'm going to Trocaire in maynooth. I'll tell you more about them when they actually happen.
Halloween is coming up and I'm dressing as a banana :D We have a dress up day in school on Friday and i intend to be in full banana mode eventhough we're supposed to be the adams family :/
Classes are going well, still alot to do, a geography project & a history project. But I'll manage them over the midterm.
Well Imma go now so bye :)

Let it snow

The 24th of October :) Snow is supposed to be coming so fingers crossed it comes before halloween :)
Anyway there's alot going on in school at the moment so a few days off to catch up would'nt go astray. But everything will work out in the end, I hope :/ :L
I'm still in the middle of my geography around the world trip, this week I'm jetting off to mongolia :) Fun but very tiring.
We went to see Juno and the paycock in Dublin yesterday. It was a great production and really helped me with an essay I have due on one of the characters. The actors were graet and the set was amazing. The only thing that bothered me was the imaturity of some of the other schools there they laughed at all the serious scenes which I thought was very disrespectful to the actors :/ The cast got a standing ovation at the end that was well deserved.
We also went to see the bog bodies in the natural history museam this was also very interseting :) We went to the yeats exhibtion also. This especailly interested me as I love yeats and the exhibtion was very well laid out. To top off a great day we got to spend half an hour on grafton street for lunch :D
That's all bye :)

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
Jimi Hendrix

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life. Jimi Hendrix

Pushing on with projects :)

Hello everyone, who speaks English ;)
Today is the 13th of October :D .... That has no significance I just thought I'd mention it :) So, not much exciting things going on this week, well unless you count essays as exciting. Which some people might I guess :L I have two English essays to do, I'm still working on my geography project and I also have a history project to complete, on everyone's favourite topic at the moment... the government :P

The fun walk was last Friday We Won :D We all dressed up as builders :) and danced to big fish, little fish. All the Ty classes were good, but I'm happy we won :D It would have been a great day even if we hadn't won. We got a free can of coke or whatever when we finished the walk so it was worth it ;)  We all had to bring in two euro and we're making a donation to pieta house this week.



Yesterday we had a mini company workshop in New bridge :) We got loads more tips on advertising our business and learnt how to make a swat analysis. And before we left we got abrakabara ;) nom nom :P that holds your locker key :) We're still working on production but the main problem we're having is pricing the product at the minute no one can decide a good all round price :L So we'll have to work that out soon if we intend to be selling by Christmas :) Only two months to go !! :D

We're going to see Juno and the paycock in the Abbey theater in Dublin next Wednesday :D I like the play so that should be fun ;) This blog is getting way too long so cya :L

Another Day, Another Quote ;)

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. John Lennon

Try the one week development education challange. Going without all material possesions for a week, like ipods, phones, tv, cameras ect. I'm gonna try and blog about how I get on.