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Thursday, March 24, 2011

TY is nearing its last few weeks.... NOOO!

Why hello there :)

Its only 8 more weeks until summer! I am looking forward to Summer in some ways... but once summer comes... TY is over! NOOOO!

TY has been an amazing year so far. So many Trips... So Many Competitions.... So Many Good Times.... Dress Ups.... Work Experience... Making New Friends... My list could go on and on....

I have enjoyed it immensly!
Some of my most memorable moments (To name but a few.. i could go on and on )....

- Got to regionals in F1 in schools...
- Got To Nationals in Mini Company... which is on April 7th :)
- Got best new comer award in national drama in Briary Gap Theatre, Cork
- Carlingford
-Dublin English Trip
- St Patricks Day Dress Up
- Trying new subjects... (To my surprise... i really got to love technology :) )
- Making new friends


I know i still have a few more weeks to do more amazing things.... its just that the year has gone so fast so far and i dont want it to end...

I have had so many great experiences both with Class Amina and Emnet

I just really dont want this year to end at all.....

Fáinne In Irish Class

Dia Duit :)

Well, In Irish Class, we are doing a Fainne Challenge.

Well, with it... people get a gold fainne (Ring/Badge) if they are fluent in Irish, or a silver fainne if you have a basic ability to speak irish.

The teacher of the other Irish class is going to come into our class and talk to each of us to see how well we can speak it.

I really want to get the Fáinne Ór (gold ring/badge) to prove my irish... so i really better get practicing my Irish Speaking!

Bhuel, Slán go Fóill :)

Gaisce hike coming up!

Hello

Well... Gaisce hike is coming up soon :)

for gaisce... we had to do 13 weeks of a community skill... 13 weeks of a physical skill and 13 weeks of a personal skill. We had to pick one of these to do 26 weeks of aswell.

Well... Gaisce hike is on April 1st -2nd. At first.. so many people were doing it, now only 16 are going on the hike, 14 TYs and 2 5th years.

Should be good :) We have to walk 25km, thats not too far :)

Cannot wait for it!

Dublin English Trip :)

Hello

Well today... all of TY went to Dublin on an english tour to see many museums. We saw the WB Yeats exhibition.. It was really interesting! They had many of his notebooks, awards, pictures, information on his family and friends.... even a hat he wore and his old school reports! I learnt that he was born on 13th June 1865 and died in 1939. He wrote so many poems during his life time. It was very interesting learning about him!

Next,we went to another part of the museum. We saw many things that were found in the bog. At first, we saw many old weapons, jewellery, hammers... all made of gold... bronze or flint. It was really amazing to find out that these items survived in a bog for thousands of years! Then... we saw the bog bodies... We saw four. Some were more well preserved than others. Some of them were amazing... you could see the hands of one of them amazingly preserved... saw another still had his toe nails and there was even preserved hair! It was interesting to see... but quite gruesome at the same time...

After that.. we had lunch... which was quite fun :) not many times that during school you can have your lunch in grafton street :)

After lunch.. we saw the Jack Yeats Art Exhibition. It was interesting as we saw that his style had changed as he got older from a realistic artist to an impressionist artist. Some of his art was really different,.. and he showed a lot of emotion and feeling in his impressionist art. After that.. we saw other art exhibits. Some of them were so realistic that they looked like photographs! Some were really colorful.. and others were complete different styles altogether!

I really enjoyed today :) hope we do it again soon :)

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Work Experience

Hello!

Sorry I havent blogged in a while...

Well, from the 7th - 11th of March 2011, t.y's had their second work experience. I went to 'Na Píobairí Uilleann' On Henrietta Street in Dublin. The first morning, i had to admit i was really nervous. It was scary going into a place I didnt know... with people i never met... but i settled in quite well. When i first went in, I met the administrative assistant. She was extremelly nice and helped me settle in quickly. We talked first, about the organistion, and then after coffee-break, we got down to work... i helped with orders until lunch. After Lunch, i then re-organised the files.. which was grand :) For Lunch that day, i met up with róisín, who was in the four courts for the week... and had lunch with her in a coffee shop. It worked well as we both had the same lunch times :)

Day 2:
On day 2, i definetly wasnt as nervous. There were more people in work aswell that day, as on the monday, they were at the their training centre down the road. The training centre was broken into early monday morning, and so they were there all day monday inspecting the damages. I finished sorting my files... which i was very pleased with :) and began to stock the shelves with new piping cds. Again that day, i met up with Róisín for lunch.. this time in a chocolate coffee shop in the Ilac centre.... the food was amazing there!

Day 3:
Day 3 was for me, my favourite day of my work experience. In the morning... some of the workers had a meeting to attend, and so it was then my job to look at the servaillance camera's from the trainig centre and to record the times at which i saw them :) i enjoyed that so much as i felt kind of like i was doing detective work which was fun :) I also saw the damage they caused on the camera's and saw exactly what happened on the monday morning. At lunch... myself and Róisín decided to spend it with our employers. I had lunch with the workers at my place.. i also talked to people who were on the floor above me doing FÁS courses on computer IT, which seemed interesting. After lunch... i was invited to sit in on a Sound Recording Course.... IT WAS AMAZING! I want to do sound engineering when i leave school, so this was great! I got to see all the equipment and exactly how it works :) after that.. i went back downstairs. For the rest of my day... i edited videos of previous piping sessions for their website on the MAC computer :) It was brilliant! I LOVED THAT DAY! :)

Day 4:
Day 4 was a good day... finished my video editing, i took more orders... did all the post (didnt mind doing it... the had this amazing machiene called a franking machiene which you post your letters through it... an it makes a stamp on the letter! Its amazing!) At lunch time that day.. i met up with róisín and we both went to the bagel factory for lunch...(Best soup there ever!) .

Day 5:
Last Day :( I was quite sad as i loved my work experience during the week... everyone was so nice to me and i settled in well. I got to do the posters for their next event... and printed them (Once i could work the printer :) ). I made brownies for the tea breaks and brought them in... everyone loved them! Again for lunch.. i spent my last day with Na Píobairí Uilleann....i really enjoyed it :) they sometimes played their pipes during lunch which was good :) After Lunch... I did a few last things for them and they sent me on my way home. I said goodbye to them... I really was quite sad :(


That Work Experience was one i will never forget! I really enjoyed it as it was in a musical environment... i didnt mind the admin. work :) I got on well with everyone and got my jobs done well :)

The building is amazing! They had the census from 1911 on the wall... with the names of everyone who lived in the house... their job, education etc. I saw the sets of pipes there that they collected... some dating back to 1850! And i got to play some pipes myself!

So what i got to say overall is thanks to Na Píobairí Uilleann for a fantastic Work Experience! I enjoyed it and it is one i will never forget!

Friday, March 4, 2011

F1 in Schools

Hello :)

Well, today i am writing to you from the f1 in schools competition in Griffith College, Dublin. We, team swift, and team éalú, have gone through to the regionals in th f1 in schools competition. Today we are competing to get into the finals. We had to go through four parts of our judging... the report, the scrutineering, the verbal test and the race. Hopefully we get through to nationals..... fingers crossed!

We had so much fun today :) we had reaction test.... roisin got 0.010! amazing! she was best today.... until she was beaten by 0.009 later on :P but she has got one of the best times! Also today... we got our tshirts... but we didnt get them until after lunch which was a bit of a pain... but it was good :) Our team is me, kellie, louise, roisin, patricia and sandra.... we work really well as a team :)

Wish us luck for getting to nationals! ill post up if we do! Fingers Crossed... :)

Bye :)