All Around The World In Sixty Days!

So far in TY one of our main projects has been our geogarphy project. We were put into groups and we had to decide to do research on six countries. I'm doing mine on Japan and the Ukraine. I love Japan, the culture is so different from our own. We are about halfway into our two month long project and we still have so much to do. I still want to do a bit on geisha but i still have to finish up my factfile etc.

geisha

Work Work Work!

This week everyone is finally getting over their tiredness from all the events of last week. What with Carlingford, the results, time, and school everyone was half dead last week and were eager for the weekend. Now along with the new week we also have alot of work, we projects in science, geography, irish and religion and all of us feel that we really need to start really concentrating on them properly. Looks like I'm going to be tired this weekend as well

Results are OUT!!!

Last Wednesday, the 14th of September was the day we had been building up to for the past three years.... the day of our junior cert results! We Had to wait untill lunch before we were called down. No one could concentrate in classes and everyone was really quiet with either nerves or excitement.
It was weird when we were waiting for our envelopes to be given out and when we finally got them no one was sure if they wanted to open them or not. After a while everyone had to open their results and most were happy to find that they had gotten the results that they had wanted. After that everyone was relieved to feel that the pressure was off of us.... at least for this year anyway.
People were happy that the results were finally over because now it was time to celebrate, and most of our year were going out to the nightclub Time for the junior cert night!

Carlingford!!! :D

On Monday the 12th of September we went to the Carlingford Adventure Centre in Louth. We had to get up really early because we had to be on the road by 7 a.m. It was exciting because there were 77 of us going. When we arrived we got straight into the activities. Our first one was the adventure course, where we had teams that had to get past lots of different challenges e.g. a blindfolded maze, the low ropes, the bomb, the spider's web, and buzz.
After that we got to have an hour off for lunch and then it was straight back outside for a lazer war in the forest where we had to walk up this huge hill and dress up in soldiers clothes. That night we went back into the forest and up that hill again and we had to walk from one end of the forest to the other blindfolded and holding onto a rope. It was really scary because the forest was on a mountain so it was easy to fall. Later on that night we had two hours of free time before we had to go to bed so we went down to the common room with the boys from another school where we had a sing-song and we got to watch one of the centres instructors do a fire show. The next morning we were all wrecked and after breakfast we went orienteering where we had to walk around the forest for two hours. Later we had lunch and then it was time for our last activity which was rock climbing. Eventhugh I am afraid of heights it was really fun and I would definately do it again. On the way home from carlingford we were in the mini-bus again and my friends decided that we should sing along to all the old songs on my phone.....ugh! I really hope that we get to do something like Carlingford again it was great crack. 

T.Y Fun :-D

Well this is the first blog that I've ever written. On my second week of T.Y and already I can tell that its going to be a fun year. Its nice having no pressure on me to study for big exams! Already we have loads of things planned for the year..... like next week we are going to Carlingford Adventure Centre for two days, and next month we are going to see a play in the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
Eventhough the pressure is off this year we still have a lot of to do. We have a geography project where we have to plan a trip around the world, we have an irish project, as well as that we have started to plan our science project for the BT Young Scientist Competition. The thing that I love about T.Y is that eventhough we have lots of work it always seems fun and schooldays are never boring!