Ready... and ACTION!

Every year T.Ys get the chance to compete in a drama competition that is open to all schools around the country. Ther are two stages. The first stage is when schools either go to a theatre in Mullingar or Cork. A judge watches your play and then gives you advice on what could be improved. If you get through to the second stage, you and your group get to go to the finals in Cork. The over-all winners win a trip to a different country. Two of the classes in our year took part so we had four dramas all together. My group based our play on the song 'Concrete Angel'.
Everyone was nervous on the day but it went by really quickly. All the plays went really well and afterwards we were allowed get lunch in the town. We also got to see some plays from other school which were very good as well. All in all it was a great day and I hope that at least one of the groups from our school get through to the finals. Good Luck Everyone!  

Fighting Words

We went on another trip recently, on the 16th of January my English class got to go to 'Fighting Words' in Dublin. It is a creative writing centre set up by the author Roddy Doyle. It was a fun experience as we all had to work together and make up a good story. The challenge was that we had two characters who were best friends and one of the friends was to have a crush on the others brother. The employees were very nice and helpful, as well as funny when they helped give us different ideas. It was interesting to see everyone creativeness and funny to see the absolute randomness of it all. I'm glad that we got to go because it gave us a few pointers for next year when we are backing to writing seriously again in 5th year.