Another Day at the Company

Today in Mini-Company, we made more bracelets but people have sort of stopped buying them because they have already got bracelets. A lot of people are still buying the Action Breast Cancer Ribbons though. We came to a decision that we are still going to make the bracelets but we are asking Ms. B whether or not we can go to primary schools to sell our bracelets there. It could work because our bracelets are very colourful and it might attract the children :P

March Work Experience

I got my Work Experience for March like 2 weeks ago. I was really happy because it was something that I really wanted to do. I will be working in my old primary school; Scoil Naomh Brid. I went to that school for 7 years so it will be nice to go back to see where I spent my early years and to see some of my old teachers. I got the idea from loving being with children and sort of taking care of them. I want to be hairdresser when I leave school but if that didn't happen I would want to be like a child carer or a minder. I sent my old principal Ms. P an e-mail saying that I wan interested in doing work experience there so a couple of day later she e-mailed me back saying that I could, I was so happy and excited. So about 2 weeks ago I went down to there after school due to us having a half-day. When I arrived there, there was a whole new building attached on to it. I still saw it as the 'prison' I went to as a kid. It brought back a lot of memories like where I use to play and sit for lunch. At this point i was actually tearing up. As I walked inside I went to where the principal's office was but I ran into my 6th class teacher, Ms O'D and said that the offices had moved. She even asked me who I was, when I told her she was shocked and she said how much I had grown up :) Anyway I saw the principal and she signed the confirmation sheet so I was happy that it was sorted and I can relax now and I can't wait to go back and work alongside some of my old teachers for a week. Should be fun :)

Web Committee

Me and my friend Aisling wanted to do something in school, like join a club so Last Monday we went to the Web Committee just to see whether we would like to go to it again. When we got there, there was mostly 6th years, nerves kicked in. Ms. McG and Ms. W are the teachers that run it. I have heard from another girl who goes there that the two of them are really fun and let you have fun there. Me and Aisling just walked around just looking at what the other people were doing and they we updating the school website. Ms. W came over to us and asked whether we would like to do our first sort of mission. We said ok and asked what it was. She wanted us to go down to the kitchen where the 6th Years we having sort of a little party because I think they won a Maths competition. So I took a list of the girls names so that we could congratulate them on the website. Aisling took a piture of the group of students and Ms. B and Ms. L was there aswell so the picture turned out very well.

School Stuff

At the moment me and Niamh O'R. out of Emnet, (my cooking partner) are desciding what we should do for our second dish. We had already descided that our country was New Zealand so we have already made our sweet dish; Raspberry Friands which were yummy, so no we have to make something that can live up to them :) We came to a descision that we are making a traditional New Zealand hambuger called "Hambuger with the lot". Should be fun and easy to make. Next week on Thursday I have a meeting with Mr. C. about what subjects I want to do for Leaving Cert, it'll only be like 15 minutes long so it wont be that bad, I just hope I get the subjects I want.

Projects in February

In TY so far, we are doing a lot of projects. This term we were given our History project which is part of our Summer Test. We can do our project on any topic, so I'm thinking about doing my project on the rise and fall of Hitler. Which means I have to write/type a five page essay on his life. In Geography we have to do a tri-fold brochure on a disease found in a 3rd World Country. I think I'm going do mine on Malaria in Africa. It will be an interesting topic to do because it is so common.

Rain

"Rain rain go away, come again another day" The rain is really starting to affect me because it's really bringing me down. The rain also weirdly affects how I behave in school :( If it is raining when I'm in school, I will be in a bad mood for the day, don't know why though. I just wish it would go away because its supposed to be Spring and it's bringing everybody down. :(

Spanish Presentation

On Thursday 3rd of February 2011, I made my Spanish Presentation to my class. I did my project on this that you can do when you go to Spain. I spent about a week looking up things on the Internet; statistics and stuff. I ended up doing like visiting the Royal Palace, beaches, taking part in Bull Fighting and the Tomato Festival, etc.

I was so nervous about making the presentation because I haven't got a lot of self-confidense, but that is what TY is all about, improving self-confidence. So after making the presentation, I thought it went well, and I learned things about Spain that I didn't know before so I was really happy.

It was like killing 2 birds with 1 stone. :)

Subject Choices

OMG, I don't know what to do because next week Mr. C is giving us the sheet that we have to fill out saying what subjects we want to do for Leaving Cert. I honestly haven't even decided so I better hurry up. I did have two subjects in mind; Geography and Biology and I still have to choose 1 more. So I ran through all the subjects, Religion- I don't want to do because I think it is really hard. History- You need to be good at writing essays because there is a lot of that involved. Technology, Art and Music- You need to have done it for Junior Cert, which I didn't, I did Business and Home Ec. which leaves them 2 subjects; I didn't really like Business at junior cert level because there was a lot of new words and different techniques to adding up accounts. Then there was Home Ec, I wasn't bad at it but vice versa I wasn't good at it either. So I am thinking about putting Biology first, Geography second, Home Ec. third and History forth just in case i don't get one of my other subjects, at least I'll have something to fall back on. I hope I get all the subjects I want. :)

Music Class

Over the last couple of weeks in Music class we have been put into groups and given a genre of music. My groups in acoustic and in it there is Karen F., Davina J., Orianna McF., Siobhan B., Lauren T. and me. We had descided to sing the song "The man that can't be moved" by the Script, but we don't know wether that is it perfect song to sing so our song has yet to be descided.

We have also been working on another sort of Music project, where all of the TY's will sing a song on TY night in front of parents and teachers :O The song that we will be singing is "Mama Said" by Dionne Bromfield.

I'm really looking forward to it because it is a happy song which is really catchy.

Careers Interest Test

On the 3rd of February we were in Careers and Mr. C told us to go on a website called http://www.pathfinderlive.co.uk/. It asked us hundreds of questions about different jobs. I found that I have an interest being a choreographer and like a child carer and a midwife. So I was happy with the result. And it knew exactly what i wanted to do when i leave school. :)