Nm, nm, just chillin' in Carlingford ;)

'Tis the Friday after Carlingford and all through the school, TYs are tired because it was so cool :)

I think my whole year is actually ready to kill me, along with most of the people living/working in Carlingford... Awkward. Let's just say I wasn't the most reserved person on the trip! ;) It was actually so brilliant! Or to use my own word that people are sick of: SAVAGE! No, in all seriousness, it was amazing!
 And whatever the teachers say about teenagers it's not just because of the amazing instructors.... ;) They were all actually so sound, and you know, quite a handsome bunch of lads.... Then there was the lovable older one and the nice ex-wollie! The activities were also really good! Especially the Zorbing we did with Chris. :') And the Nightwalk with Andy! And almost everything else, like the high ropes, low ropes, challenge course, laser guns, kayaking and everything else! :D
  Song of the trip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYLQXz0D9LU But I think everyone slightly hates it now... :/
  So that's the story of the monumental amount of fun we had in Carlingford... 
  It was so sad to leave... But we all know that someday we might convince our very nice and obliging teachers to bring us back... PLEASE. :)

P.S. I'll be keeping everyone informed on how many days it is to Christmas... Here it goes: 95. :D

So that's the scéal of Carlingford and now everyone knows how amazing the trip actually was... Slán! :')

That Friday Feeling! :P

Welcome all to the second week of my TY... 

We've just finished our second week of TY and it's going great! We're really starting to really get into it. We're all still super tired from Wednesday (results!) night, so my post might not be as imaginative as last week's! :P 

This week has been fairly eventful... 

   -Monday: We continued our "Junk Kouture" projects on Monday morning in our double art class and we're all feeling like proud mammies seeing it really start to take shape, come together and start to actually look like a piece of clothing! :D My group, Cliódhna, Alanna and I, have almost finished the paper mache bodice part of our dress and it's looking well!

In P.E. we started doing team-building exercises. We did the infamous "skateboard challenge" which I'm sure provided Mr. L, our teacher with plenty of amusement with our strange methods... :) 

In Science we got into our groups for the BT Young Scientist Project and began to brainstorm and choose ideas and experiments to work on for the competition coming up in January.

  -Tuesday: Second class on Tuesday morning means technology with Mr. W! We're making key rings from plastic using a lot of the equipment in the room. And in Home Ec. we were picking up from where we left off on our J.K. projects from Art the day before.

  -Wednesday: On Wednesday we had a lovely treat, courtesy of our year head, Mrs. L. As we were getting our results at one o'clock that day she decided to surprise us with a lie-in, telling us we didn't have to come into school until half past twelve! :D It was a great start to a very nervous day... But we got our results and I know that I at least was surprised (in a good way!) at how I did! Turns out that supervised study actually works! 

Thank God. :')

  -Thursday: On Thursday, everyone was really tired from the night out on Wednesday and it seemed like the teachers had a mutual agreement to take it easy on us, as our brains weren't up to much strenuous work! :) We had a nice day, watching a film, "La Bola", in our Spanish class and brainstorming our ideas for mini-company later on in the day. :)

  -Friday: Talk about getting that Friday Feeling! We really just spent the day today winding down into the weekend and talking about all our wonderful plans for Carlingford on Monday! We've made a class shopping list for all the goodies we're going to bring on the trip and starrting making plans for which rooms we'll be sleeping in and who we'll be sharing with! All in all, it was a good day and really got us pumped and ready for our bonding trip at 7 o'clock Monday morning! :)

Have a nice weekend, everybody! Slán! :)

And so it begins... :D

Welcome to my TY blog, live from IT! ;)

We're a week and a day into TY here in Wollies and it's already brilliant! :) We've already settled into our new classes and started doing a few projects. We started making our "Junk Kouture" after the past week of designing and stressing over picking what to make it out of and what to have it look like! :P We also started a new religion project on the Millennium Development Goals and a geography project in which we're planning a twelve month trip around the world! 
Last Wednesday we had no classes and so we had a day of fun in three workshops which helped us to really settle into our new classes and have an overall fun day. :) We hadn a great time in our Positive Party learning how to keep positive even when we don't feel confident and happy all through song and dance! In our Social Development workshop we learned how our body language, tone of voice and eye contact effect all of our social situations and we learned many other socially important lessons. In our Etiquette workshop, we learned many tips from the two ladies about our health, make up and what to wear while on Work Experience.
All in all it's been a brilliant week and I can't wait until the beginning of the next one and the rest of our fantastic year! :D 

That's all for now, folks! Until next time... Slán! :)