Oisín McGann :P

On wednesday an author called óisin McGann came in to do a workshop with us :)he talked to us about his books and read extracts from one or two of them and from what he read they sounded very interesting so i would be interested to read one of his books in the future . He also told us some very interesting and useful things about writers such as lanuguage and how they come up with stories :) he then came up with a very funny story on the spot about a vampire shoe :L I realii enjoyed the workshop and i found what oisin had to say very interesting :)here is a link to oisins website ;) http://www.oisinmcgann.com/books/novels.html

Croke Park :)

On monday all of Ty went to Croke Park . I had never been to Croke Park before so i didnt realii know what to expect . We left the school at 12 . As we approched Croke Park i was suprised to see how big it was . we got off the bus and went into the stadium , first we went into a little cinema room where we watched a short film about what happens behinde the scenes on a day of an all-ireland final in Croke Park . I found this very interesting as i never realised how much work went in to organising the day and making sure everything runs smoothly , i also never realised how many people were involved in all this . Next we went on a tour of the stadium we strted by going around the tunnels and we learned a lot of interesting facts about Croke Park , then we got to see the players lounge room where they go after a match and the dresing rooms. Then we got to go up to where the presidnet sits during a match and then we went up to the highest stand to see the view which was realii amazing :) when the tour was over we were aloud to look around the museum and do some activities before we went . I realii enjoyed the whole experience and hopefully ill go to a match in Croke Park one day :)

Double Chocolate Italian Brownies :P

This week we made our second dish in home ec . Oriana and I decided to make double chocolate italian brownies . I had a lot of ingredients to bring in as the brownies needed a lot of chocolate in them :P We decided to add marshmallows and alomonds to the brownies to make them more interesting :) they took a bit longer to cook then we thought and the burnt a bit but they still tasted really nice when we scraped off the burnt bits and put some ' betty crocker chocolate fudge icing ' on them . They were so nice that i think i might make them againn myself at home someday yum yum

At the moment we are trying to decide on our second dish to make in home ec . This time we are going to make a desert so we are thinking about making double chocolate italian brownies yummm :P we are doing a lot of things next week :) we are going on a history trip and we have an english workshop too . Its valentines day next week ( not that it realii matters in an all-girls school ) also we are having one to one meetings with the guidance counsellers about our subject options for the leaving cert :O so it will be a busy week next week :)

Calzone :P

On tuesday in home ec myself and oriana made calzone . It took me ages to make the dough while oriana made the sauce . Eventually the dough was ready so we rolled it out with a rolling pin and knead the dough into four pizza shapes . then we put the sauce on two of the pizzaz . Then i grated some cheese and we put that on too. We then put on the topping of our choice . We decided to make two seperate calzone beacuse i do not eat meat and orian does :) i put a load of peppers on mine and oriana put chorizo and chicken tikka on hers . They took longer to make then we thought so we didint have time to cook them in class . so ms mcA cooked them for us when emnet were cooking and we collected them at lunch time . Mine tasted amazing :O so ill definatly want to make calzone againn :)