EASTER! :D

Im sooooooooooo excited for easter! :D its in 2 days whhhhoooooo <3 and its so sunny out these days aswel i cannot WAIT! ;D!
HAPPY EASTER EVERYBODY! :D

Hotel Ruwanda :)

We watched a movie called Hotel Ruwanda in religion class and it was the same as Sometimes in April except different actors in the movie :L I prefered hotel Ruwanda because alot more happened in it :O In it there was a very smart man called Paul and he managed the hotel and many tutsie refugees went to his hotel because it had UN protection :) But the interhamwe invaded them and killed a few people but the UN stopped them and eventually they got trucks and rescued all the refugees and Paul and they were saved :D nearly 1 million people were killed :'(

Intel talk :L

The school had people from intel to come talk to Tys because there isnt enough people doing engineering and computer science in colleges so they are trying to recruit more people to get interested in it for the future and give more people more information about it :) I didnt really understand it because im not intrested in them jobs at all but some girls are defonitley interested in it :) They brought in some models of chips that take a month to make and there are over 100 steps in the process :O

road safety :O

We had a talk in our school all about road safety :O Two gardas from naas garda station came into to tell us all about it :) They showed us videos of people who fell asleep at the wheel , people drink driving , people on the phone and people not wearing seatbelts :O A woman made a documentary of when her 17 year old daughter got into a car without wearing a seatbelt and she was threw out of the car and killed :'( We were showed another video of a taxi driver in new york and he fell asleep at the wheel and he was thrown around the car and then his head got stuck on the floor in the back seat and the car crushed his head when it crashed :( We were also shown pictures of when cars crash on motor ways and there was a truck , an oil lorry , a car and then a tesco lorry and the truck crashed into the oil lorry and it went like dominos and the car slid under the tesco lorry and the lad in the car wasnt wearing his seatbelt properly and the seatbelt split his body in two :/ And they were unable to get the body out of the car because there was so much damage done :O The last picture we seen was of a motorbike and the lad was known as a boy racer but there was a girl on the bike to and they didnt know who she was so when they had to the family they seen a picture of her on the tv and they realised it was their 16 your old daughter aswel :( So they had to tell the family their son and daughter was killed :'( They told us about when they have to go to peoples houses and tell them the bad news :( And sometimes they just fall to the floor or get sick and sometimes they even call them liars and its not true :/ Some people say the talk put them off driving for life and everyone in school is real cautious now but afterwards it didnt really effect me at all :L

sometimes in april :)

On Monday we watched a movie called sometimes in April :) It was about all the troubles that were happening in Ruwanda in 1994 :/ The Hutus turned against the tutsies because they killed their preseident , so the hutus turned against them and tryed ti kill every tutsie they could :( Even people that were just related to one were killed including children :( Nearly 1 million people werwe killed :/ They were shot and beaten and only a few people escaped :( The UN helped many people to escape but they couldnt shoot anyone for protection :/ The key scene for me was when girls in a catholic school and soldiers came barging in and they were going to shoot all the tutsies but the girls would not seperate , they were going to stand together as sisters and the soldiers just shoot them all :/ There were 3 survivors but 1 of the girls died along the way :/ 10 years later the survivors stood up in court and explained what exactly happened. the woman were used as inappropriate slaves for men :/ Eventualy ruwanda got back to normal :)

BRAVE FORCE ASSAULT COURSE :D

Yesturday we went to meath to braveforce assault course :D It was like a load of obstacles and challenges you had to do and it was a race againt another 2 schools :D We went through water up to our chest and climbing up ropes , crawling in mud under nets , jumping over bails , climbing up big fortresses and sliding down nets , walking through rivers , climbing on ropes over water , jumping over cut down trees , rolling down nets etc :L IT WAS SOOOOO MUCH FUN :D it was freezing though :L I have never been so mucky in my life :L I would defonitley do it again and i recomend it to everyone! :D Some people were so mucky they had to get hosed down afterwards :L I dont remember what place i came in the race , i didnt really care cos i had so much fun! :D

creative writing workshop :)

Debbie Thomas is a childrens book writer and she came in to talk to us about creative writing :D She gave each of us a picture and we had to imagine and describe about their lives and what they ate for breakfast and what happens in their lives :L Then we had to read out what we said to the hole class :/ It was really fun to make up our own story about a character though :)

par rum pa pum pum... :D

Last week we had a musical workshop with lots of insturments but mainly drums made in africa called jembe :D the top of the drum is made from animal skin :/ Jembe is a hand drum and depending on where you hit it , the drum makes different sounds :D It was a very long day , but it was worth it :) We learnt lots of rythems and we all got to try out very strange insturments eg, bells , shakers etc :)

work experience , again... :/

For work experience i went to the newspaper the Liffey Champion in Leixlip :) I was sooooo nervous on the first day because i didnt know anybody and i didnt know what id be doing :( All i did for the hole week was type up press releases like a receptionist :( I was also promised i could go on trips with the reporters and photographers but they never mentioned it to me again so i didnt :( I also rang people to find out more information about the press releases :O My lunch was from 1 to 2 for an hour and there were no cafes in leixlip so i had to walk around the town by myself for an hour :L I started at 10 and ended at 5 :) It was okay , i expected it to be better than it was so i was a little disapointed :(

LOLLIPOP DAY! :D

We went into town on lollipop day to sell lollipops and badges in aid of osephocial cancer :) We got buckets and balloons and lollipops and badges in the powers court :) Then we were in groups of three or four and we set out in different destinations in dublin and sold lollipops :D We went around shouting LOLLIPOP DAY, SUPPORT FUNDS FOR OSEPHOCIAL CANCER! :D It felt really good to know we would be helping out a good cause and alot of people donated money :) For lunch we went to macdonalds and shake away and i got an oreo milkshake :D It was probably one of the funnest days in Ty so far :D

mini company competition :/

2 weeks ago we had our mini company competition and we had to set up our stand for mod pod :O We were so nervous :/ We made a bid mod pod banner and a poster with pictures and explaining what our product is :) We had a red cloth and balloons on our stand :D We gor Mr.W to make us a proto type of our ipod cover and it really made our presentation come together :D Then we got called up to present our product infront of Orla and another judge :/ We each said our part and i got asked a really hard question :/ I didnt know what the answer was so i messed it up but i tried to come up with a decent answer :L But i tryed :) Then we listened to everyone elses presentations and the group illuminate were called to the final :)