Work Experience

  Tomorrow is my first day of work experience. I'm going to a music shop called Waltons in town which I'm pretty excited about. I hope to pursue a career in music so I decided that a music shop would be good fun for me. I have no idea what kind of tasks/jobs I'll be carrying out so I think I'll be a bit nervous tomorrow morning on my first day but I'm sure I'll get the hang of it soon enough. This year, for the first time, work experience is on every Wednesday for 10 weeks. We start on tomorrow (the 26th of September) and finish on the 12th of December. After that we have two other work experience placements. One for 8 weeks  and the last for 6 weeks. I haven't got any others confirmed yet so I'm working on that at the moment. I'll leave you with a picture of the music shop I'll be doing my work experience in for the next 10 weeks.
   Fiona :)

                                             

Carlingford!

    Carlingford! It was one of the best two days ever. We had so many activities to do. My favorite was the zorbing, partly because I had never experienced anything like it. For those who don't know what zorbing is, it's being strapped (very tightly) into a big plastic blown up ball rolling down a hill. Two people go in the same ball each time and I have to admit it was very funny watching the other person screaming their head off and laughing. 
   The lazer guns was  also one of my favorites. We all had to wear army overalls and a cap. We looked a bit odd walking down the main street with our guns. At first we were a bit weary about shooting each other, especially the teachers but soon we realized that Mr Kennedy had a hidden talent with the lazer guns. Unfortunately for us he was on the other team and had killed most of our team mates but a few rounds after we got our revenge!
    Along with the great activities we also had amazing instructors. We were all really sad saying goodbye (especially to Chris).  After the two days when we arrived home we were all exhausted but so happy about our experiences. We all got along great together and bonded even closer as a TY group. Overall it was a fantastic two days and I hope I can return one day. Here's a picture of us before lazer guns :)
    Fiona

                          

First thoughts of TY

      It's my second full week in TY  and I love it! We have lots of projects to complete already to keep us busy. My favorite project so far is the Junk Kouture. The basic idea of it is to make an outfit out of completely old unusable materials. We've only started making the outfit but we have our designs all ready to go. 
    Since we have our work experience every Wednesday, on the days we're in school we have workshops. Last week we had 3 different workshops in the one day. My favorite was the positive parties. We came into the library and there were banners, sweets and music playing. It was great and we got the chance to learn more about the girls in our class.
   Tomorrow all of the TY's and the 5th years from our previous year are getting our junior cert results. As it's a Wednesday the plan was to have a sports day but it fell through so we're going to be allowed a lie in and come in at 12.30 to collect our results. I don't think any of us are particularly upset about the lie in! On the other side we're all getting a bit edgy and nervous about the results but can't wait to have them in our hands. 
    Well that's it for my first blog, although it's only my second week I'm so happy I did TY and can't wait to have a fun, active year :)
    Fiona