Livin' for the Midterm (L)

Aah only 1 more day in school and then we're free for a week, can't wait :) This term has gone by so fast though, it hard to believe that we're going to be getting ready for Christmas when we come back. I won't really be free for a week though, 'cause I've two English essays due and I've to finish/start on two countries for my geography project.. oh well i'll just fit them in on a rainy day :) I'm eeexcited for Halloween aswell, though hopefully I don't get any fireworks thrown at me?
Yesterday we had a talk from my former principal of Scoil Mochua, Tony Doohan.. I love that man :) In primary school he used to teach 5th and 6th class history and would always let us read from his book, which he is now selling. He even brought us all (3 6th classes) on bikes down the Maynooth road to visit The Obelisk which was on our school crest. Yesterday he told us some old facts about Celbridge like how the bridge was blown up my someone living in St.Patrick's park.. and that everyone on the main street used to live in little mud cabins! He was eager to answer anyones questions & I'm really glad he came in because he made a really interesting presentation and I love history <3
When we come back after the midterm we only have a week of school and then we're going off on work experience! :D Ah im really excited! I'm going in to Trinity College to sit in on music lectures in the mornings and then in the afternoons I'll be working for a few hours in Opus II music shop.. I've a feeling I'm going to be wrecked after it all.. haha :) I probally won't be blogging until after the midterm.. bye til then :) x

Sound of Music (L)

I felt kind of bad that I wasn't getting at all involved in the musical which everyone is talking about in our school, 'The Sound Of Music' which I actually really like,  so me and Courtney decided that we'd ask Ms.Ward if we could take part, so now we're getting involved with Ms.Leonard and doing peoples makeup! Haha gonna be great <3

Day Out in Dublin :)

Yesterday all the TYs headed off on our bus and mini bus in to town for our 'daaay out'. Firstly we went in to the W.B Yeats exhibition, and our class was shown around the place by Ms.Brogan who knew alot on information about it as she'd been there a few times before.We were all given worksheets and paired up to help focus us and so that we'd gather facts about Yeats and his history by looking around the place. This exhibition was actually my favourite because it was really pretty to look around and was generally super interesting, like who'd have known Yeats scored 69% in English in Year 5? There was loads of his original writing in glass cases which you could look at aswell as pictures of his family and the 'love of his life' - Maud Gonne, who inspired my favourite poem 'He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven'.. soo nice:) There was this little circle at the beginning of the exhibition where you could sit and listen to some of his poems being read out and watch a slide show, it was a pretty relaxing start to the morning :)
Next we went to the nli (national library of Ireland) which had a few different artifacts placed in glass cases which were covered with blankets which you could lift up, to protect them from the light. We saw what ads looked like back then aswell, there was a poster of a missing cat and an ad showing that Germany were playing Ireland in football, really cool to see. The last of the exhibitions was a trip to see what were described as 'Bog Bodies' in the National Museum. The bodies were hidden by a circular wall which you had to walk around to see them, I got a fright at first as I didn't actually expect to see it straight away.. haha. The bodies were really interesting but kind of scary to look at. One of the skulls still had red hair attatched to it, making it seem so much more real.  It was weird to think that those people were alive and walking some time, especially as all that was left were the yellow rotting bones :/
We were then free for 45 minutes and me and my friends got the long -awaited McDonalds.. yum! So nice, then Me and Niamh went up to the Disney shop and had a look around, best shop ever!<3 After lunch then we all met up at River Island(love that shop too) and walked down to the Abbey Theatre to see the play 'Juno and the Paycock' which we had all just read in class. The play was much better than I expected and had some really funny parts aswell, I actually understood what was happening because I got pretty confused when reading it in class.. Overall it was a really fun, interesting day out and another highlight of TY, bring on the rest :)

Week 9.. what?!

Time in TY is actually going ridiculously fast.. I don't know what I'l do when all of this is over and we're meshed in with the third years and are put in to 5th year! nooo. The highlights of TY for me so far have been making friends with some of the girls in my class who I never really knew before but I get along great with now:D. Also going on the mini-co trips, junior cert results night, pilates on thursdays & the funwalk :) I heard people are saying that the gov. might cut TY really soon, so I'm really glad I got to do it! The stress of finding work experience is really annoying me, some people are so rude and don't write back to the nicest e-mails, haha :/ I have my second one though, so hopefully I'll find my first one pretty soon.. considering its in like four weeks. We got another project from Mr.O'Callaghan the other day, which is to research and present a piece on a woman in history who we admire. I think I'm doing Rosa Parks, who was a coloured women who refused to be told to get off a bus which was for 'white people'.. I think shes great :) probaly my fave project so far, i love history <3

naaas

Yesterday we went to Naas to meet again with Orla to talk more about marketing our product and getting it ready before the Christmas time.. yay that makes Christmas feel so soon!:) There was another school there.. St.Marys i think, with basically exactly the same uniform as us.. abit confusing at times. They had some really good ideas like cosies for your tea mug, i love that one:)  We didnt get to talk to her personally but she told us the last day that she really liked our idea, so hopefully it works out how we want it to. we had to have our surveys and stuff done, which we did on tuesday.. was abit busy but we got them done in the end. We didnt get to go to mcdonalds:(, but its grand cause I got sausage rolls in centra and they were deeelish (L) yummy. Anyways gotta go.. lunch time yay <3

Newbridge :)

So the funwalk is all over, our class was a great buzz:D We did our banana dance with hardly any mistakes and must of shouted 'GO BANANAS' i dont know how many times last week, haha<3 catriona and martha looked greeeat. The other class were good too, especially Banba, so we didnt really mind that they won:)  me, aoife, hel and claire were assigned to the traffic lights beside the boys school where we basically just stood there and watched all the classes go by, wasnt too hard I must say. Tomorrow we're going to Newbridge for another mini-co talk, mcdonalds yay!:D Our group is gettin abit stressed out cause we dont have much marketing done, but we'll just do some surveys today at lunch probs. Next week we're going in to town (more McDonalds) to see juno and the paycock which is the play we've done as well as going to the Yeats museum.. sounds good, I like how we get to get out of school and do things a good bit in TY. I've decided today that I don't dislike Tuesdays as much as I used to.. double art in the mornings just make my day <3 love it.

GO BANANAS.. GOGO BANANAS

We have our funwalk tomorrow and our class has decided to do a banana theme..yay:) we're not really competitive and not dying to win.. so I'm just taking part for the fun.. haha. We're trying to do these gymnastic stunts atm.. and everyone is getting pretty stressed out.. but I know that we'll all pull it off in the end:D My favourite colour is yellow, so thats a bonus:) 
''GO BANANAS, GO GO BANANAS!'' <3