Work experience and water safety

This week I went to work experience in the Antique and gift shop in Straffan. When i'm there I do a lot of cleaning but  I do enjoy it because the people there are lovely and I'm learning a bit about what its like to work in a shop which Iv never done before. This week was a bit stressful though because myself and Marie, the owner thought that we broke the cash register! They managed to fix it in the end but I was so worried there for a while because I was hoping to get a job there and I cant imagine them hiring someone who breaks their cash register.

I also went to water safety on Thursday night. Iv been doing it for a few months now and its really good. We have and exam next week. the exams are hard though especially this one because we have to do it all with clothes on and without goggles so hopefully that goes well.

Hip hop!

                                                               
Today in PE we did Hip Hop. A professional came in to teach us a dance for Ty night. We learnt a dance to the song 'Break free' by Ariana Grande. It took us a while but I think that we have the hang of it. We have a class again next week so we'll be able to practice then. We're really starting to get ready for Ty night, in music this morning we tried to decide on a song to sing for it. I think we're going with the song 'raise your flag 'if the rest of the year agrees.  Everyones looking forward to it I think. But more importantly we're all looking forward to summer!

Talk to you soon,
Aisling x

Ty so far

Looking back back on Ty I just realized that we have done loads! From Carlingford to work experience I think the best thing about Ty is getting out of our normal rueteens. After third year I definitely needed a break! I loved meeting new people in work experience and also going out side my comfort zone. After working in Peamount hospital I think that I would love to do nursing. Carlingford was amazing and all of the little trips that we have done this year have been great too. I especially enjoyed the time that we got caught in Dublin after the holy days collection because the water charge protest was on which was funny. There are days when you really just want to get the leaving  cert over with and move on though. I think i'm definitely ready to go into fifth year even though i'm not too sure if i'm ready for all the work after spening this year taking it easy:/. Another thing that I enjoyed about Ty is all the free time after school to spend doing things like camogie or swimming or sleeping and i'm not going to enjoy having to give up some things because of study. Overall i did enjoy Ty and when you think back to everything we've done you realize that even we really crammed a lot into the year even though some days were very boring we still did do a lot.
Talk to you soon,
Aisling x 

                                                  Drumming workshop
Last Thursday everyone took part in a drumming workshop. A man came into our school to teach us how to use these special African drums. He said that he had lived in Africa for a while to study the instrument. We spent the day learning different rhythms and learning more about the culture in Africa. He showed us videos about Africa and told us stories about what he did when he was there. He also spent a lot of time telling us about all of the different places he had been to when travelling which was really interesting. At the end of the day we all came up with our own rhythms in groups and preformed them to the rest of the class. We all really enjoyed the drumming workshop it made us all really want to travel and I definitely learnt a lot about Africa and the culture there and of how much drumming means to them as it was preformed by their ancestors. Although they probably gave everyone else in the school a headache we loved trying to make music with the drums.

Talk to you soon, 
 Aisling x

                                          Ruling the world at Wesley

 On Friday i went on a trip with the school choir to Wesley collage for a choir competition. We would be singing 'Rule the world' by Take That. Everyone was very excited on the way there. We found out when we got there that were to be preforming first! We practiced our song a few times before taking a break before the show. We all went straight to the cafeteria where we had the nicest chocolate chip cookies before going to get ready to go on stage. The performance went well but after we watched the other choirs and found out that they had been practicing every day a week we were all very nervous. In the end we didn't win but we got 85 points out of 100 so we were happy with that. 
Talk to you soon,
Aisling x

 Young enterprise awards

Last week myself and my mini company group got through to the next stage of the young enterprise awards! We were judged in the hall where we all had set up our stalls to show off our products and our poster. We then had to present our projects in front of a judge. After lunch we got the news that we had won!!!!!! We are now preparing for the next stage which will take place in two weeks. We are so glad that our work payed off and cant wait until its all finished!!!

Talk to you soon,

Aisling x

                                             
When I leave school I would like to go...

When I leave school I
would love to visit Australia. I have cousins who live there so we were there before a while ago, but it is one of my favorite places and Id love to go back. It was so beautiful and the weather was amazing! I love the beaches and if i go back i would definitely get a boat out to the great barrier reef and scuba dive there. I would also go to Bondi beach or maybe one of the smaller beaches around Sydney. I would like to see more of Sydney and Perth. I definitely want to explore more of Australia. The wildlife and beaches are beautiful and I cant wait to go back, hopefully soon.
Talk to you soon, Aisling x