Who would have thought there would be days like this!

ty has been such a blast since we started, with thursday being my favourite day of course.. but tuesdays arnt bad either! this morning instead of double art we had our opening school mass... its very rare that we get to gather as a whole school all at once but this morning we did and it was a great start to the year... the local priest came and the whole school gathered and  i must say it went really well..
as part of enlish, we were given a list if books to choose from and we had to read one in our spare time.. i dont usually enjoy reading but when i saw 'my sisters keeper' on the list i said i would give it a go... im only a few pages in and im enjoying it, but i can feel that death is going to come at some stage and im not sure if thats the right thing i should be reading about after loosing someone that was so close to me during the summer but i ll keep reading and see how it goes..
this thursday is going to be even better! we are going on an outting to naas on a mini company workshop on thursday and i have to say, i cannot wait! i love mini company and am getting really excited about our product so watch this space!

thank god its thursday!

since i started ty, thursday has been my new friday! its the day that gets me through the week! once lunchtime comes on a thursday its no more classes, its activity time... i missed thursday last week because i was away but iam extra excited for today.. first pilates which is my new favourite hobby... it relaxes you lots and at the same time you have great craic with the girls and its great excercise too! after that its onto dacing and photography :)
we got our junior cert results last wednesday which means the jc is officially over! everyone was in very high spirits last wednesday morning, despite all being exhausted from our carlingford trip.. we had to get through 6 long classes before we were finally called down to the hall... everyone was buzzing and finally the envelopes were handed out!  everyone was really happy with their results and everyones hard work really paid off! we finished the nite in time in naas which was an amazing nite for all (:

Carlingford :D

Where do i start! our bonding trip started in what felt like the middle of the nite last monday morning at 6am... all the TY's met at the garage near our school at 7 to head off on our trip... everyone arrived with their bags and bags of gear, and still half asleep. for the two day trip.... despite the tiredmess, everyone was in great form and excited for the two days to come.. we headed off and arrived in carlingford for 9am... before we knew it we were on a treck to the challenge course for some team work.. here we did lots of tasks to build our teamwork skills in groups... after a few hours here we headed back for lunch before my favourite part of the trip, the laser tag.... we all dressed in army suites and headed up a massive hill (worst part of trip) before FINALLY reaching the forest where the laser course... we were split into two teams and had to fight against eachother... the course had hideouts everywhere and everyone took the game very seriously and did their very best to win!
that night after dinner, when it was starting to get dark we were brought back up the mountain into the forest where we were blindfolded and had to hold on to the persons shoulder infront of us to find our way out.. we all had such a laugh but were very glad to get home in one piece!we then all sat around the fire with another school we met and sang some songs and chatted to eachother before being told to go to bed by a rap from ms leahy.... the next morning we woke early and geaded off for more activites... it started with  orientering which was my least favourite part of the trip because we ended up getting lost at the top of a mountain.... after lunch we did rock climbing which was great fun... before we knew it, it was time to go home... we were all exhausted from our hectic two days and we were all glad to see our beds that nite!

overall it was a brilliant two days away and a great start to TY!

Back to School!

it was my first week back at school this week and so far T.Y's been great! on our first day back we talked alot about the B.T young scientist competition that we are entering soon! the first few days seemed to fly and before we knew it, it was thursday.... on thursday afternoon instead of classes we had activities.... it started with pilates which was the highlight of my day! we all had such a laugh before moving on to jazz dancing... we learned the charleston and learned lots about 1920's dancing... then lastly was photography to finish off the day nicely!
next monday all the ty's  are heading to carlingford for two days to an adventure centre and we cant wait! roll on the rest ty!