Hubu

Even though the date says it what yesterday that I posted this, it was actually the 8th of November that I was working. After having a good nights kip, I am all ready for my second day of work and I am a little more relaxed because I sort of know what's to come. Today me and Davina we allowed to watch the other girls wash people's hair and Tony (the owner) said that if it's not busy later on in the day that we would be supervised washing people's hair so we were pretty excited. It wasn't till like after 2 o'clock that these 2 women came in at the same time and they wanted us to wash one each so we could compare how fast we both could go because it is very uncomfortable if you take too long. We still did the other things as well like sweeping the floor and making tea/coffee. But it was fun because we got to wash about 10 people's hair each by about 6 o'clock.

Hubu

Guess Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!?!?!?!? Today is the first day of my Transition Year Work Experience and I will be working alonside Davina in Hubu Hair Salon and I really can't wait to be in an actual working place because I have never worked anywhere before. I was really excited about not having to be in a place wher I didn't know anybody so that was good to know. When I woke up this morning I felt really good because I was just soooo excited. It took me ages to get ready because I wanted to make a good impression, so I was on my way there and I saw Davina coming and I knew she was so excited without even seeing her face. So we got there and the door was locked due to the fact that everybody was late getting there. About 15 minutes went past and then somebody came along who had a key and we all went in and we introduced ourselves and we said that we there because of Work Experience. They were all really welcoming and happy that we were there. They gave us a list of things that we had to do on the first day which included taking the hair off brushes and cleaning rollers and drawers. It was a bit boring at first but I didn't expect them to let me cut hair on day one so I new there was things that you had to do first before you started the complicated stuff. We worked until about 12.00 and the owner Tony said that we could take an hour off for our break. I went home and I had like loads to eat because when you're in school you have a break at like 10.00 but we were working like really hard so we were knackered!!!!

We went back to work at 1.00 and we sort of did the same things, we were allowed to watch the other girls wash hair and see what they were like when a lot of people came in. We were allowed to great the people and ask them what they having done and bring them to the basins so that was good that we got to interact with public. We also made tea and coffee and folding towels. That was the main work that we did on the Monday we got off at about 6. By the time I got home I was so tired I just went to bed. :)

More School :(

Hi we are now back to school again the day after Halloween and OMG ther as a lot of people out and a lot of people tired because of the craaaaazy night they had!! Not a lot of things happened this week in school more to the fact it was just school but I did voluteer to come into school on Saturday because it was the open day for the incoming first years. There was abiyt 6 of us in the computer room and when people came in they would just look at some of the projects that we are currently working on at the minute. And what fun things you can do in Transition Year. That lasted for about 2 hours and acturally a lott of people did come in and most of them looked about 8. But it would be nice to have more people come to our school next year.

Mid-Term break and Halloween

Haloo again sorry I haven't blogged in a while my computer was broken but we are on our mid term break from school which is really good because now we can all have a little time to relax. The first time in ages. In a couple of days it will be Halloween and I can't wait because you get to have great fun with family and friends AND you get free sweets,best time of the year. Halloween was good because I had great fun just sitting watching telly and playing games. And when my brother came back after his hunt (as he calls it) there was so much sweets so my mam doesn't need to buy food in the shops for like a week!

Halloween

Today we had our Halloween dress up day so all the years had to dress up like monsters and stuff so it was good. There was a lot of good costumes which had a lot effort gone into them. Not a lot of people out of my class didn't dress up. There was like a fashion show in the hall for all of the people who's costumes were really thoughtful. Ciara out of my class won because she dressed up as the Mad Hatter. she even made the hat herself, she looked really well. About 2 teachers dressed up and one of the teachers refused to take off her costume for the whole day!!

Accord Talk!

Today we had a really nice person come in from ACCORD to talk to us about relationships and how we react. She seemed really open and said that there woudln't be a teacher in the room at the back listening so we could talk to her about anything not having to be shy about what we say. She came in at 9:30 and she started talking about relationships and gave us hand-outs to answer. She was there for about 4 hours and at 1:20 we went back to doing school work. There was a lot of information and she said most things in a lot of detail so it was a good day.

Mini-Company!

We are now nearly finished our first term in school seeing as we are coming up to Halloween. On Wednesday all of the Ty's we set to go to the Motte Theatre in Naas for our Mini-Company workshop. We left school at 9:10 and we got there at about 9:40 there was 2 other schools there (both mixed):(, and Orla,the speaker went through different advertisements and went through our ideas and how we could improve on them. So she went through the first session and let us have a break at 10:50 until 11:10. That gave us a chance to go down to the village to get something to eat. We then went back in for our second session and in this we went through averts that had been put in newspapers etc. and the errors that were made when printing them. After the second session the teachers had told us that we could go back to village, so we all went in McDonald's to get some curly fries and wraps. we had about 30 mins so that was grand before we went back to school for more lunch.:] We arrived back in school at 1:40 so we missed half of our lunch but we didn't care because we had a McDonald's!!!

Guest Visitors!

This week in school we had a few guests come in and help us with projects. On Thursday we had a man come in from NUI Maynooth, his name was Martin Ryan and he just came around to all of our groups and listened to what we said we were planning to do for our Mini-Company projects. He seemed really nice because he was so helpful and understood what our plans were. On Friday we had two woman come in and give us some advice on what colours suit us most and what suits our body shapes. there names were Louise and Lys and they were really helpful and thought us allot about what colours do and do not suit us and they put us into categories according to our eyes, hair and skin colour. I was in the clear category and they told me that I should be wearing really vibrant colours, which I already do so it wasn't that bad! :)

Geography Project

Last week our Geography teacher Ms. Leahy told us that we were going to do a fun project. I was so excited because I love doing projects, anyway she said that there was 2 or 3 people in a group and we all had to imagine that we were going on a trip around the world. We had 12,000 euro to spend on the WHOLE trip. In my group there was Lauren T., Bebhinn C., and me. Lauren decided that she wanted to take a trip to countries in the 2nd world.(eg) Bosnia. Bebhinn was doing the 3rd world countries.(eg) Kenya and I was going to do the 1st world countries.(eg) Australia. We all had to pick 2 countries from our chosen worlds so we had to pretend that we were actually going there because we even booked airline tickets! We are still working on it at the moment so I think at the end of the year we will be presenting our projects to the class and our parents/teachers :O

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.