Music Night :)

Last Wednesday we had the schools annual music night :) Ty's performed a song called Mama Said by dionne bromfield . I played the guitar with leah and roisin power :) i think it went realii well but i wouldnt know because i had my back to the people . after we performed the song all tys went into the demo room and watched school of rock which was great fun . The whole night was a great success and i think everyone reallii enjoyed performing together :D

mini company competiton :)

we went to the red cow for a mini company competition . my mini company is can-do and unfortunatly saibhdh our team mananger couldnt make it . but steph , alison and davina joined our team so we were alright. we got name tags labelled A , B and C and we had to swap them around and do diffrent actitvities . some people stay at the stand for the judeges , some people go around and look at some of the other mini companies and some people went into a room to meet others schools and discuss our compainies. we all had a really great day , sadly our company didnt win anything but other companies from or school did :D

Work Exp. :)

we did our 2nd work exp from the 7th to the 11th of march . i went to K n B music for thw week . i really really enjoyed working at K n B as I am very interested in music and would like to do something involving music when i leave school . the staff were all realy nice and friendly and i got along realii well with all of them :) i got to work at the register and with customers , i also tuned and re-strung instruments and sorted out stock . like i said before i really enjoyed working there and would highley reccomend it , however if your not interested in music it wouldnt be a good idea because you have to have a good bit of knowledge to work there . i was sad when it was over because i learned so much and got so comfortable working there , i could definaltly see myself working there in the future :)

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 :)