October

We are now into October and it's been over a month since we started and it is getting a bit tough; learning a lot of new things and how do do out mini-company project, our science project, our technology work and a lot more. I guess I was sort of expecting it seeing that it's Ty. Nothing really happened this week in school, just our geography teacher Ms. Leahy gave us a geography project to do in groups of 3. I was in a group with Lauren Tierney and Bebhinn Cullen. All of us had to pick either 2 1st world, 2nd world or 3rd world countries. I was doing 1ts world, Lauren was doing 2nd world and Bebhinn was doing 3rd world countries. First of all we had to get some interesting facts about the countries that we were doing and then we had to pretend we were actually going there, so even had to book times and flights. Ms. Leahy said that we had 12,000 euro to spend on all 6 trips and we had to go to all 6 countries in a year so that's about 2 months for each trip and 2,000 euro per trip. At the end of the year we might have to present tour projects to the class and possibly our teachers and parents! :O We also had to do a science project over the past few weeks and me a Róisín Power were in a group together and we decided to do our project on how food affects the vocal chords by way of different temperatures and/or textures. We are actually entering into the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition in the RDS, Dublin. We had to enter it online first and pay a fee of 20 euro per person for our science project to be read and hopefully they will let us take part in the competition. There is a lot of schools entering into the competition as well as our school. We really hope that they will look at our application form and think that our project is interesting enough to be entered into the competition. Nothing is really happening this week in school apart from an English drama that we have to perform in like January so we are really excited. There are 2 groups, one are doing there drama on a best-selling novel;Noughts and Crosses. And the group I am in are doing our drama on the poem "But you Didn't" and actually acting out scenes from the script that we wrote. It is going to be really funny because we are working on it at the moment and we all can't take it seriousley! In the group there is me, Bebhinn C., Stephanie S., Alison L., Lauren T., Ciara M., Grace D., Davina J., Ruth F., Chloe O'D., Niamh P. and Jessica Mc H.