Swim a mile with a smile

Last friday, all of t.y. and 5th year L.C.V.P. took part in the Swim a mile with a Smile.
Swim a mile with a smile was set up by Brian and Laura Daly (eimear's parents) in memory of their son Ian sadly passed away due to cancer.
The swim raises much needed funds for barrtestown and crumlin childrens hospital

I swam a mile with my team (louise and emma) and then i swam an extra 12 lengths to bring it up to half a mile

and in total we all swam 40 miles (beating the wolstans record!!!!!!!!)

Retreat

On Tuesday class eriu (and Fiona) went on retreat to glendalough in co. Wicklow. On the bus there we passed through a town called laragh…. Yes I have a town named after myself, I’m just that cool

When we got there we did lots of silent walking and reflecting and we learned about St. Kevin.

It was a really nice and peaceful quiet day.

BRAVEFORCE

So last wednesday, all of T.Y. went on an assault course in co. meath... it was called braveforce. I can safely say that it was one of the best days of T.Y. so far. I absolutely LOVED IT.
There was lots of muddy water and things to hop over, and it was tough, but we all managed to finish. By the end of the day we were soaking wet and we had to go up inot a freeeeeeeezing cold warehouse to dry off and get changed. words cannot desribe the coldness of that room. My hands were shaking and my lips were blue, i could actually see my own breath. It was well worth it though!
When we were all dry and changed we went into a room for the presentation of przes, and our school won the biggest enrty :) we got a trophy and brona got a medal for doing so well.
It was such an amazing day and next years tys should definately do it!!!

Scene 1 everybody get in your positions, pay attention and listen

Today, we went to mullingar for the briery gap TY drama competition.
The class split in two and we each wrote a script, and assigned actresses. My groups drama was based on the song concrete angel by martina mcbride, it's a really sad song about child abuse.
The main character in the play was Holly, a seven year old girl who was being abused by her mother. She has a close relationship with her father, but he didn't suspect anything and by the time he realised it was too late!
We based the drama on the lyrics of the song, with some of the most poignant lyrics a main focus
Like "the teacher wonders but she doesn't ask" and "she hides the bruises with the linen and lace". The play was seen through the meighbours eyes, as they read an article about hollys death in the paper, wechose to end the play on the lyric "The neighbours hear but they turn out the lights".
My role in our drama was the director, and even though it was tough and there was a lot of work involved, I really enjoyed it, and have all my fingers an toes crossed that weber through to the next round!

Creative writing

On Monday we had a creative writing workshop in town, it was really good and interesting. When we arrived the girl running the workshop asked for two volunteers, she told them to pretend one of them had a crush on the other ones brother... Then after that we developed an introduction to a story based on what they acted and then we had to finish it off ourselves. I really enjoyed the workshop.

Young scientist

On Friday, all of the tys and second years went to the RDS for the BT young scientist exhibition. There were hundreds of projects there, some of them were very interesting. I really liked the one on criminal motivation. There were also projects from our school in the exhibition, they were also very interesting... One of them was on the news and the radio.
There was also loads of fun stuff to do at the back of the exhibition where lots of different organisations had stands, my favourite was probably the analog devices stand, there were lots of games there, like lifesize operation, a laser room, a balance game and a floor piano. Other stands were also very interesting, at the European union stand I learned how hard it is to use a glovebox and at lots of stands we entered competitions...
It was a great day overall, everyone enjoyed themselves and learned something new :)

BACK TO SCHOOL

Well after a long two weeks of late nights and lie-ins, we're back to school and back into the swing of t.y. life.
A couple of things have changed since we were back, we changed options again, and now I'm in art. I'm really exited for art because I picked it in first year but I never got it and I've always wanted to try it out.
We have also changed Thursday activities, we are now doing Zumba, Massage and Music composition, I cant wait to try them all out on Thursday :)
We're also going out on a trip to he young scientist exhibition on Friday to see some of our own schools projects and we're going to a creative writing workshop for English on monday

T.y. Life ;)

So it's been a while since I've posted, and lots of things happened since I was gone.
We went to go see Laura (a fellow eriudlian) in the nutcracker valet, she was pretty amazing, I didn't think I would enjoy it as much as I did.
Today we had a dress up day in school, lots of people dressed up but we didn't have a parade like we usually do :( it was still a good day though, well done to everyone who dressed up, especially fiona caitriona and Brona
We've also been working on our home ec project, we have the fashion show tomorrow :), my groups theme is Cinderella.
There's been lots of project work going on, we presented our geography and history projects, and I'm kinda gkad theyre over because I hate speaking in front of people.
There's also the English drama we're doing, our group is doing a drama based on the songs concrete angel and how to save a life, the main theme of the play is child abuse and we are entering it into a competition in January
And of course the big news this week was the eircom spider award our ty blog won
WELL DONE EVERYONE :D

colour me beautiful

last week we had a colour me beautiful talk, we learned all about what colours suit our skin eyes and hair. i learned that i was a soft and the colours that suited me were soft colours like brown, green and red.
it was a very interesting talk and i learned lots

we also went to see don giovanni in the swan cinema in rathmines,it was streamed live from the met opera house in new york! it was very well put together and i enjoyed the day

'tis a darlin blog post..... a daaaarlin blog post

Yesterday we took a trip into town to see juno and the paycock. We also visited three different museumas, the w.b.yeats exhibition, the national library and the national museum. Everybody had a great time looking at the exhibitions and the play. Thanks to all of the english teachers for their help !!!!!! :)

irish projct

So lately in irish class we have been working on projects. We were put into groups of three and we were allowed to choose our own title. I have been working with shauna and caitriona and we decided to our project on TG4. The first thing we did was look up information on the internet, but the internet didnt really give us the information we needed. We got thinking and we decied the best way to find out about TG4 was to actually go there. It took a lot of planning but we finally got there. On wednesday the fifth of october, we arrived at the train station (after much deliberation we decided to take the train instead of the bus) and we were off...... but when we reached athlone the train broke down and we ended up taking a bus after all :-(. We arrived in galway city (an hour late) and we were picked up in a TG4 van and we asked our chauffer, the caretaker at TG4 lots of questions (thanks john). when we arrived at TG4 HQ. we were taken to reception and greeted by Caitrionas uncle (who very kindly arranged our tour), he took us to orla the hr manager of TG4. She brought us to a control room to watch PONC being filmed. After that we met the presenters of ponc who were very nice and gave us free hoodys and mugs (thanks colman and maire treasa). then we did a tour of all the studeos and got our picures taken presenting the news. When we were finished that we went for lunch in the TG4 canteen. When we finished our lunch we went and visited sile, the girl who presents the weather and does the voiceovers and she showed us tow to present the wheather. We also met the sound engineer and he showed us how they do the voice overs and the promos. Last but not least we visited the set of ros na run, it was unbelieveable how small it was. And then it was back home to our beds. :-)
It was definately my favourite project of all time

mini company work shop

Well today we went to our second mini company workshop.... It was very interesting hearing other peoples ideas and learning about S.W.O.T. And yet again we didn't get to go to mcdonalds ..... But it's okay though because we went to centra and chick king .... Thanks mrs. L mrs. B and mrs. McM

mini company

Today we went off to naas for a mini company workshop....... Twas a good day and we learned lotss... My minicompany groups idea is clip on arms for your glasses frames so that you can wear different frames to suit different outfits at a low cost..... We were all elected to different roles In our group an I am the financial manager..... I get to deal with all of the moneys €€€€€€€€€€€€€.... When we got back (without going to mcdonalds) we had our Thursday activities and we took some pics in photography .... Here's one of them

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CARLINGFORD !!!!!!!!

Last monday we got up incredibly early (6AM) to go to carlingford in louth. when we got there we got straight into our activities.... we were put into 8 groups and group 1-4 (I was in 2) was doing the challenge course first with john ( harry potter ) and we did lots of challenges like the spider web the low ropes and the maze.  After lunch we trecked up a really steep hill to get to a huge forest where we did laser guns. we all dressed up in army jumpsuits and hats and we were armed with (very heavy) laser guns and set free in the forest to try and kill eachother. when we came back to the ostel we finally got our rooms (we got a pretty good one if i do say so myself) And then a few of us went down to the common room where we met some people from a boys school in dundalk and played charades (which was hilarious) and we went off again after dinner up the hill to do a nightline in the forest and a tunnell crawl. when we got back we joined the boys again for a sing song and at about 11.30 we set off to bed ( not saying we went to sleep though). The next morning everyone was exhausted after having to get up at 7.30, nevertheless straight after breakfeast we went orienteering which was VERY tring because it was all uphill, half way through we did some archery. After lunch we went rock climbing and absailing which was TERRIFYING because im afraid of heights but i made it half way up the cliff before i started to panic, so i was very proud of myself. we headed straight home after rockclimbing and i got into my much needed shower and bed