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

Class Eriú

geography project

Recently i have been working on our geography project. We were put into groups of three and we have to plan a trip around the world to 2 first world, 2 second world, and 2 third world countries. Our group are planning to go to morocco, nepal, vietnam, malaysia, japan and ukraine. I have been working on vietnam and morocco, they are both very interesting countries.
i'm planning to visit the chu chi tunnells in vietnam, they were used by the vietnamese soldiers in the war with america and are now a major tourist attraction. and we are going to go to the souks in morocco

chu chi tunnells

moroccan souk

junior cert results

last wednesday the 14th of september was the day of reckoning.... the day we had all been waiting for. Everybody came into school full of nerves and exitement. We all sat in our classes staring at the clock hoping the time would pass quicker and when finally the time had come we all rushed to the hall and stood in our old classes from third year (BEECH :'(.......). We all waited patiently as Ms. Barry and Ms. Watson gave speeches and then we were given the dredded envalopes.... we ran outside and opened them and i think everybody was happy. I got all honors (6A's and 5B's whooooooooooooooo). we all went out to time in naas that night... 'twas great craic

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

photography

this afternoon we had photography with rob... we were put into groups and sent outside to take some pictures... here are some that our group took

social developmant training

Yesterday we had social development training with Austin Dunne... it was great craic and we all had a good laugh. First we had to tell each other our most embarrasing moment and then we were split into groups to do a debate... we all got really into our debates and by the end of it we were all screaming at each other. we also learned about our different personality types, my type was an observer http://www.enneagram.net/type5.html.   we were then all put into groups according to our personality types. in our groups we had to come up with a plan to get all of santas toys ready for christmas.. it was really interesting to see how each if the different groups worked. Austin also taught us to be confident and how to shake someones hand properly ( apparently i have a weak handshake) . It was a great day and i think i got to know my new class better

T.Y. Baby :-D

So far T.Y. has been amazing. One week in and we have already done so much. we have plenty of projects to do already.... in geography we have to plan an around the world trip, in irish we have to do a project on something in our local area, inscience we have started our young scientist project, in Home. Ec. we're doing a project on clothes ( and people said T.Y. was a doss year)
On thursday afternoons we get a break from classes to do Pilates, Photography and Charlston dancing,which are all really fun.
Another thing different about this year is how our option subjects work... we get 8 weeks at each option, and I have technology for my fist 8 weeks ... i hated technology in first year but this year i dont think its that bad. We made keyrings last week and i finished mine today.
Next week is going to be really busy because we're off to carlingford on monday, back on tuesday and junior cert results on wednesday (eek).
Thats all for now.
Laragh