Mini Company Competitions

I forgot to say that on the 3rd of March all of us TY's were heading off to Clane GAA where we would take part in our TY mini Company competition, well one of them. My team was sad because we didn't get a board to stick things onto like about our mini group but that didn't stop us because when we go there, we got 2 tables in a good place. We set all of our stuff up anyway, we put a pink sheet over the tables, put some clear christmas lights on the tables and then put our beads on it along with our charity ribbons and baloons. We 'borrowed' the box that the boards come in off another group and stuck our things on that. It turned out great and worked just as well. We managed to go for a walk around to see the other mini companies and we had a lot of competition. Some of the other people were from Clane and Dublin and other places like Naas. It was only in the last like 10 minutes of judging that a judge finally came to us and asked us about our group, it wasn't that bad and he was really nice, bad thing is.....we didn't get through in the competition but it's ok because we had a lot of fun doing the mini- comapny and have enjoyed doing it right from the start. After our Transition Year work experience we only found out on the Sunday before we went back to school that on Monday we would be split up and going to another competition. Seeing as my group didn't get through we had to split up and join another group. 4 of the other groups that didn't get through in the first competition had a second chance to get through. I joined Real which was a online book where it would show girls how to apply make-up, style hair and make their skin look more natural. So for the groups that didn't get through the first time went to the Red Cow in Dublin and for the groups that did get through they went to Naas. When we go there we had to set up the board where we out things about the group and pictures of different things. We spent the whole day there and it was fun because we got to go around and ask other groups about their product. We spent 1 hour going around and talking to other groups, 1 hour in another room taking about our product and 1 hour for the judges to go around and interview us about our mini company. Ms L was with us for the whole day while Ms E and Ms L went to Naas with the others. In the end from about 2-3 the judges revealed who got through to the next round and who won a trophy. Real won a 2nd place trophy but sadly they didn't get through to the next round. It was a fun day all in all but me personally, I'm just glad that we don't have to go to another one of these competitions because they really take a lot out of you and you get stressed about trying to impress the judges.