Ciao, la mia visita in Italia fino ad ora....

Ciao, Come parte del mio progetta geografia di questa settimana mi sto occupando Italia.

Venice at Night-Time

Well I went to Italy this week and what can I say...... It looks great from a computer.I was in Venice and it is one of Italy's most beautiful and romantic cities, built on the water in a lagoon. It's small, traffic-free streets along the winding canals are great for walking. Venice has many magnificent churches and palaces, lively squares, and interesting shops. 

Leaning Tower of Pisa

After getting a gondola ride to Venice, I went to Rome, where I seen the Leaning tower of Pisa which is a freestanding bell tower in Pisa, Italy. It is situated behind the Cathedral and is the third oldest structure in Pisa's Cathedral Square after the Cathedral and the Baptistry.A popular tourist activity is to pose for photographs pretending to "hold up" the leaning tower and preventing it from falling. The tower of Pisa leaned at an angle of 5.5 degrees but after restoration works it now leaning at an angle of 3.99 degrees.




Check back here for more about my around the world trip............. in the computer room!!!

Hiiiiiii :) !!!!

Hi again, just thought I'd say Hi, Tomorrow is Monday and We have double Science so we are going to work on our proposal for The Young Scientist and We also have Irish so I think I will work on my folder about myself. The one thing I like about T.Y so far is that you don't get set homework but you have lots of projects so have to choose what one to work on each night.

Chat Soon,
Eimear :)

Work experience.... soon to be teacher :)

Well......... I can finally say I have both work experiences sorted, For the November placement I am going to Aghards, my primary school which I am really looking forward to. Meg is also going so we can have lunch. You never know we could be both teachers there in ten years!! For the Febuary Placement I am going to Clodagh Mckenna Cookery school. I love Home ec so I think this will be fun but Im really nervous becuase I won't know any one. For anyone who does know anything about Clodagh Mckenna cookery school here is a link to it:

http://clodaghmckenna.com/

Projects, Projects and more Projects !!!

T.Y is going great so far I am sooo busy, escpecially with projects but the projects we have are fun and we are all working in groups. Its great fun because we all have our own jobs to do and you know you can trust you friends :)
Some of the projects we have already are:
Home Economics: Our Project in Home Eco is were we have to design a dress from an era in the past 200 years and make it using a plain white tee and white jeans as the base. My group is Me, Courtney, Sarah D. and Amy and we got a main colour for the dress to be and ours is Black and white.  We have gone for the flapper era and guess what....... I have to model it !!!! we are dying the tee tomorrow black and then we will start thinking what we will put on the dress to get the flapper look!! I'm thinking we could use the tees as the flaps and cut them up into lines.. maybe
Geography: In Geography we are going on a virtual world trip to six different places, Two are developed, two are developing and two are underdeveloped. We have a year to go to the six places and 12,000 for each three countries  My partner is Emma R. We are going to South Africa, Ethiopia, Ireland, Mali, India and Italy. Its not as easy as you think. you have to do something everyday and find out how much it costs and cost flights and make sure you flight out around the same time etc......... its very hard but I think I will survive, I might even click buy on one of the flights and head off to Italy for a month !! wanna come ?
Irish: Our project in Irish is not too hard but it still requires alot of effort. we ave to put a folder together about yourself including stuff about your hometown,whereabouts you live, what your pasttimes are and include pictures.  
Religion: In religion we only have a mini project, but a project is a project !! My group has to find out about the millenium development goal 2, which is to achieve universal primary school education. This means hopefully by 2015, children everywhere boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary school education.
Business: This is the mini company project, We have to get into groups of 6- 10 people and make a product to sell to our school and outside competitions. We still havent came up with an idea but we do have two or three !! So keep looking back at this spce and we might have made a decision on what product we our going to sell..... hopefully !!!!!!!!
Science: Every year in science T.Ys have to enter the young scientist and come up with a project. My project is with two other girls and I am the leader so I organise the details I.E setting up accounts etc. our project is based on sports and fitness so if you hear of a sports and fitness project winning the Young Scientist then hopefully it will be our group !!:)

Pilates, Photography and Charleston dancing

Well we had our 3rd Thursday of afternoon activities this week. We started off with Photography were we took macro photos of nature out to the back of the school. We had to take photos of dead leaves with a clear background, Rob told us if we kept practicing we will get really good at it !!! Look out for my name in the Herald or Gazette :) After photography we had Pilate's which was really hard cause we were all still bruised from Carlingford which I am still on a buzz from hehe. We did loads of stretches. After Pilate's we had Charleston dancing with Ms. OR. We did some warm up but then went into our groups.  Meg went home sick early so we were left on our own. She was the leader so we went our last weeks routine. the class was like zombies we were so tired from the Junior Cert night which I think everyone has forgotten about. some people had hockey and other activities after school but I went home and relaxed !!!

Chat soon,
Eimear :)

This is what we should look like by May !!!

Junior Cert Night

Well the day has come that I think everyone has been dreading since the end of June. I went into school yesterday nearly getting sick with the nerves and then we had to wait like hours to get the results. When i got handed the envelope with the results in them i could barely open it  but when i did i nearly cried with happiness i had done so well and my mam and the other parents were outside waiting. it felt like a huge wait off my shoulder and i felt i could enjoy my night. We went back to my grannies for lunch and then got dressed up and went out for a lovely dinner. Thankfully i can say The Junior Certificate is over for me thankfully:))

Carlingford :) excitment

Well the big build up to Carlingford has come and gone. I got up at 6am and met the rest of T.Y at the petrol station at 6:45 am. Lets just say I barely remember getting on the bus!!. We all said our goodbyes to our parents :). We arrived at Carlingford at 9am and went straight into activities. We had to like hike up this really steep hill to get to laser tag in our army overalls. I was so tired by the time we got up the hill I didn't think I was that unfit, hopefully that will change by the end of T.Y. In laser tag we had of hide behind barrels and wooden bars to stop the other team shooting us. It was a draw in the end !!!! ( The other team cheated :-D) we went back for lunch and then went to a challenge course where we took part in activities were we had to work as a group. My favourite activite hear was were we went into a metal shed and there was a maze in it, we all though we would get thtrough it in lie 5 minutes but it took over 25 minutes because it was pitch black. we finished up at the challenge course and went back for dinner. After dinner we went on a nightlink walk in the forest BLINDFOLDED, Would you not think this was too dangerous well i think everyone is with you we were petrified. I was really dark and off we went into the dark forest. There were leaders walking behind you to make sure you didnt fall but they kept rubbing there hands off yours to make it feel like there was something on your hands!!.When we got back to the hostel there was a singalong going on so we all had showers and joined in. When it was time to go to bed Mrs.L did a really good rap telling us it was time to go to bed:)

The next day we were up bright and early to have breakfast and then left for that horrible hill again. We all realised it was up that hill that everything happened!! Well we went up to Rock climbing and absailing. I was terrified  when i seen how high the wall was but off I went and climbed to the top. I have the bruises to prove it :)) There was a really long queue for absailing so i would have just left it but i wanted to take over my fears and I DID IT :) It was so scary looking down to everyone but you feel so good after accomplishing something hard. We had lunch after that and put on wellies and went off to orienting. It was really all uphill but we got through it. It involved walking up lots of hills and had to find a letter for every number, we finished first and got back by 3:50 pm. Everyone else didn't get back until 4:45pm. our group went to Candyford, the local sweet shop with everything you could everywish for. We ate and ate until we felt sick.

The Bus arrived and we left Carlingford buzzing with happiness. I think I can say on behalf of ALL of T.Y 2011-2012 Carlingford was AMAZING :) and we want to go back !!

Talk soon
Eimear x

Quadblogging !!!

I just found out we will be reading other T.Y students blogs from Australia, U.K and U.S.A. Its so excited I can't wait to find out what their T.Y program is like and whether school is diffent over there !!!
Chat Soon,
Eiimear x

I love Thursdays!!:) x they are the best ever (:

Its official................... I love Thursdays, Today we had Pilate's, Photography and Charleston dancing. In photography we were split into groups with our cameras and had to take different pictures from different angles which all turned out looking really well!! after Photography with Rob we went to Pilate's which was really sore cause we had to hold the positions. When we got to Charleston dancing class we were knackered. we were put into groups to make up our own routine and had to perform it in front of the class............ Ours was the best:) !! Carlingford on Monday so i have to pack my bags........... sooooo excited hopefully it wont be too wet :D

Talk Soon xx

Coming up!!

Well there is so much to look forward to next week. For starts we are meeting at the petrol station at 7am on Monday morning(yehh 7AM I think we will all still be asleep!!) for Carlingford which I have heard is AMAZING!!. When we arrive at Carlingford we will go straight to our first activity:) we Are coming home at around 7pm on Tuesday. We have school the next day at 9.05 am so everyone one will probelay be sore and knackered after all those activites. We then have our J.C results on Wednesday. On Thursday we double P.E and Pilates,Photography and Charleston dancing with Ms.R.

http://www.carlingfordadventure.com/pages/index.asp?title=Carlingford_Adventure_Centre_-_Activities&catid=224  

Doesnt it look great!! ^^^^^^^

Social Development Day :)

well this is only my second blog and I think im getting pretty use to it. The first week of T.Y went by so fast, I feel as a class we are getting to know each other better thanks to the social development day we had as class. Tuesday, the 6th of September was Fódla's social development day. We all met in the library at 9.05am for Registration and we met Mr.D, the man who was going to help us all learn about ourselves. At the very start of the day Mr. D put us in order of our birthdays, we then had to get into a group of 6 with the people sitting beside us and we had to write down our objectives that we wanted to get from the day but also from T.Y. Some of the points we put forward were that we wanted to Bond as class and be one big group of friends, We also felt we needed to gain more confidence. When Mr.D read through all the objectives it was little break. After little break we were separated into pairs and did all these random exercises on conversing with people, body language and how to be a good listener! After this we got split into groups based on our personalites:

1. Choleric: You are very competitive and like things done you way and organise a group.
2. Sanguine:Also known as the "entertainer". You like to be the centre of attention and make people laugh.
3. Phlegmatic: You are very calm and can deal with tense situations without getting stressed. 
4. Melancholic: You are organised and like something to be finished before you move onto another problem.

After this exercise we were in our personality groups and had to this exercise were there was only 3 weeks to christmas and the Elves at the north pole didnt make enough toys so we had to come up with a plan to "save christmas" :) As a Melancholic my group made everything very organised and had it laid out in a very neat pattern. I think my personality match was very correct.
I think i learned alot today and we all bonded really well and this day was worthwhile.

Chat Soon,
Eimear :)

T.Y Activities

Well this is my first post on my blog in T.Y and so far I'm thinking T.Y is AMAZING. We had our first T.Y activities which included Pilates,Photography course with Rob who was so nice and Charleston dancing with Ms.R which was really funny. We had our first double P.E and I found out I have really bad balance!! haha