Dancing

This term we have started dance classes! I do not dance outside of school but I have found all the classes really fun . At our first class of dancing I was quite embarrssed but soon I really got into it and I didnt care! The moves were so fast that I kept falling behind so I just added in a bit of my own free style moves :) I enjoy dancing every week as we have so much energy and I can't help but smile and laugh my way through the class! All of us were roasting after the class and the hall was so stuffy that we all were relieved to go outside to the fresh air! The music we dance to is also great, it really gets you up and ready to dance! I have found that everyones attitude towards dancing really make the class so fun ! I have enjoyed dancing and I would love to do more dancing in school!! :)

Bag Packing!

When I heard the opportunity to bag pack for the Irish Cancer Society, I jumped at it! The girls who organised it did a great job as what I saw when I was there was that it ran smoothly. I got the bus into Celbridge and then walked from the village to Tesco's. I was on the slot from 2-4. I had a great time doing it as many people were very nice and let us pack their bags. We also spent a half an hour selling raffle tickets and badges. We first sat down but we found that people didn't come over,so instead we stood up at the front of the entrance. And then we got lots of customers, and we sold lots of tickets. I liked this part of selling as it was fun and funny how people pretended not to hear you when they walked by. I felt really happy after helping out that day and it felt like I had done my good deed for the day. :) 

Fashion Show

The fashion show was on Friday and everyone was nervous but still so excited for it! We had our dress ready weeks before the show , so we thought we were prepared until when we were getting ready for the show we noticed we need a few items as our dress was not staying together. Thanks to quick thinking, we ran to reception and got a stapler! it saved the day! We had great fun getting our model ready, we did her hair,makeup and prepared our mood board, music and speech. Everyones dresses were amazing. I found it amazing how they were just a shirt and jeans a few weeks ago. All the models strutted there stuff on the catwalk and then we waited for the results. I didn't expect to win anything so when our groups name was called out I was shocked. As I thought our dress didn't look near as good as the other dresses. But I was also so surprised when one of our teachers said that our dress was her favorite!! I was so proud of our team afterwards and we then split out the chocolates evenly. The show was amazing even though I was disappointed for the teams that didn't win anything as before the shows I picked three teams that I thought would win but in the end none of them won anything!!! Overall it was a great day and it was an event that made me love being in TY even  more :)

Snow days!!

On Monday, we were back to school from 4 days off . The snow was amazing! I love snow and when I see it I feel like a five year old! The snow was constantly pouring down over the week and soon the place became a winter wonderland.The snow was so thick that when I walked through it my foot sunk deeply down. The snow was so fluffy too and I took lots of pictures as I never want to forget I thought we were never going to see the green grass again. I made a snow man and had several snowball fights. I was frozen in about two minutes of being outside but it was all worth it. I enjoyed all the days we had off school as the roads and path we so dangerous that I wouldn't have liked to go to school anyway.

Podcasting!

Podcasting was a great way to start a Friday! It was great fun and the men who did it with us were so funny! We had to be creative, funny but witty to come up with a podcast. Our podcast was called 'Im a faker' it was based on the idea that on reality tv people act differently and put on a persona. For our podcast we did an interview with Gillian Mc Keith who a girl in our group acted perfectly. When we recored it we had to be so silent as even the turning of a page would be picked up on the microphone. I didn't have my phone with me that day so I couldn't Bluetooth it onto my phone, so sadly this blog wont have our podcast on it :( . So after an hour we all gathered back into a room and listened to everyones podcasts. Everyone went for a funny style so I was in stitches of laughter listening to all them. It was a great day and everyone was ranting and raving about it afterwards and many people said they would definitely try make a podcast at home. It was a great day and it was an experience that I learnt a lot from!! :D

Geography Presentation.

On Thursday, I presented my Geography project on Spain. I was quite nervous so I brought up notes to the presentation with me , but in the end I didn't use them at all. I loved researching Spain and I found it to be an amazing and such an interesting country. But when I was doing my presentation I talked for like 15 minutes! This surprised me, but I was happy I got through the presentation without having a total blank. I am not used to presenting projects as I get nervous so I found this to be a great experience because the more I do it the less nervous and the more confident I will get. I sadly didn't have food (chocolate) for everyone but instead I had a flamenco dress! My friend brought that in for me and I was very happy to have it even though I nearly forgot to show everyone at the end of my presentation. I found the project was so interesting and I think everyone should do it as I learned so much and also had so much fun learning it!! :)

Self Help Africa, Carlow

On Tuesday, we went to Carlow to the Self Help Africa Work-shop , We left at 9 on the dot and surprising it only took around an hour to get there which was strange because I have always perceived Carlow to be far away. So when we got there I was surprised to see there was other schools there, CBS in Carlow and Scoil Muire, Clane. So we were then mixed up into around five groups and brought to different rooms. In the first room we talked about sectarianism  in different places around the world and opinions of us and other people. We talked about what we thought conflict was and what flags mean. The next room we went to we found a young girl who spoke to us about the development and how she invented items to help others. She was so naturally smart and I really looked up to her. I was really interested in what she was talking about . She also spoke how she was in the Young Scientist and how she made a pressured cooker as she found out that the second biggest killer in poorer countries was of cooking spoke, so with her cooker she solved this problem. Then we had lunch and then in the last room we learned all about HIV and AIDS. It was a interesting talk and it contained some shocking facts and statistics. After that we went on the bus home which was quite funny as many people fell asleep after the long day. It was a good day and it was fun to meet with other schools.