Fun walk :D

The fun walk 2010 was different. Instead of the usual dressing up and walking forever, we were only allowed wear a coloured top with navy tracksuit bottoms, alot of people were complaining about this but it was because parents rang up complaining about how much we had to spend. We also had to make a dance up and dance in front of the whole school. We danced to reach for the stars by Sclub 7 because everyone had to dance to a song to do with friendship because it was friendship week in our school! Ms O.C our tutor dressed as a star and at the end of the dance we had a big finale where she ran up people who had their hands linked like a stairs then fell back into their arms :) Then some of the tys were doing traffic directing like me. Me, Orlaigh, Jessica and Rachel were put at scoil na monistrach to do traffic directing we had to wait for everyone to go back where as the people on the other side of the road got to go back to the school when everyone passed them! Me and Orlaigh were on a hyper buzz! we ran the walk back to the school, well jogged it. When we got back we had a "RAVE" in the courtyard and had some bars :D pretty good day :)

Minicompany talk in naas mote theatre!

We went to Naas mote theatre for a talk on mini companies. We were there with 4 or 5 others schools. We had a talk on ideas for mini companies and what would be a good idea and what sells the most. We watched short movies about previous mini company competitions, to get a look on the winners in the previous years. Then the woman who was hosting it got us to come up with 50 ideas in our mini company groups. This was really helpful because it made us actually think about products to sell after watching the short movies. It was really fun and after it we went to McDonalds :D I didn't have any money but Ciara was nice and bought me the nicest cookie ever! We went on a bus up and back and for some reason there was this man on our bus back? He got off in Clane i think, we went a longer way just to bring him there? didn't bother me if we got back to school late though. We  got back at lunch time (1.20) so we still had are evening classes :( We have 3 more sessions in the mote theatre and the one on one sessions in our schools before christmas. After our first workshop we really have to get stuck in now! 

Carlingford :DD

On the 13th and 14th of september we went to carlingford lough adventure centre. All 60 ty students went. It was AMAZING! We left the esso garage at 7 in the morning on monday and arrived at half 8 that day. We started off by getting settled into our rooms. There was 12 people in my room and we're all really good friends so we were really happy :) ..in my room was karen, orlaigh, ciara, grace, alison, stephanie, niamh, niamh, niamh ,aoife, laura and myself:) we had a drawer full of sweets to keep us going through the night. That morning we had activites Outdoors where we had to work as a team to find the quickest way to do the tasks. then at half one we had lunch which was chicken nuggets and chips and we could get as many as we like which i liked alot :) then after that we had watersports, where we went canoing and we had three big canoes tied together. our instructor on the canoes was called diarmuid, to keep us motivated he called out PADDLE so we would know when to paddle, we all jumped out of the canoes into the water which was FREEZING! but we had wetsuits on so we got used to it. We had to get paddling back to the shore by a little speed boat because our boat was going to slow. then after we brought all the boats back we went piar jumping. i was really afraid of heights and i didnt want to do it. there was a high piar and a low piar, i only jumped off the low piar twice. afterwards i taught it was really fun :) after the piar jumping we went for dinner which was stew, i dotn really like stew but i taught it was really nice :) and we had icecream for dessert with chocolate sauce :D after dinner we had an hour free time and then we went on a little hike up a hill. it was really really FUN :D 

Social development day :D

On Monday the 6^th of September class Amina had a social development day in the library. We worked in groups and we’re put into them according to our personalities. We got red, blue, green and yellow cards each meaning something else. The red cards were the people who were very direct and liked to be the leader. They were also very impatient; they were represented by a bull. The blue cards were people who think logically and are comfortable in silences. They always take time to work out an answer; they were represented by a cat. The green cards were people who were very calm and caring. They always think about other people, they were represented by a dog. The yellow cards were for people who love a laugh they are always trying to make people laugh and be happy, they were represented by a MAD cow.   

The guest speaker was called Austin. He talked to us how people think and see things differently. He showed us a picture of an old woman and in the picture was a young woman. He wanted to know who could only see the young woman, the old woman or both. I could see both of the women in the picture. 

it was such a good day and we learned alot about ourselves. i also learned how to work as a group propperly. i taught the whole day was a good buzz :D

Ty week one :)

I’m in ty class AminaJ. We started ty this week on the 31^st of august 2010. We have to do all the subjects like art, tech, music, home Ec, mini companies, Spanish, and all the other basic subjectsJ. We had pastoral care on the first day where we played speed dating with each other. I was partnered with Niamh Plunkett and I had to learn her favourite part of the summer, her favourite music, her zodiac sign and her interestsJ. We also had Home Ec where we were given our Home Ec projects and groups. I’m in a group with Niamh, Bebhinn and Róisín. We have to make an outfit out of a white t-shirt and jeans. My group is making a breakfast at tiffany’s style outfit. In art class we had to draw an item to show off our abilities. I was a bit nervous about this as I’m not the best at drawing. I gave drawing a teapot a go and it wasn’t too bad if I’m being honest. In science we got put into our groups for the young scientist. In my group is myself, Ciara and SaidhbhJ. We have to come up with an idea to do a project on for it. That sums up ty week one. It was really just about getting settled. We have a bonding day on Monday and a bonding trip to Carlingford on the 13^th and 14^th of September J CANT WAIT J