I Feel Pretty

Tonight is the Music Night. Its been busy getting ready for it . The TY Classes Banba and Eriu are singing Shake it out by florence and the machine , I am playing piano for that , which is fun but for some reason i feel alot of pressure, because i have to give everyone notes to sing on Que and stuff, scary. Then the choir is singing I feel pretty, and by the end of each rehersal im fit to pass out from the high notes! And then ive offered to be backstage because ,well, ill be there all night, might as well make myself usefull!

Music Night!

Music night in our school is coming up , and being in TY gives me the opertunity to by involved in it :)
Eriu and Banba are preforming "Shake it out" by the fabulous Florence Welch , andwe all have our own part in it. Im on Piano or should i say organ , girls are playing drums , there are solos, and the rest of the girls sing the whole song. Its coming together really well! We have practiced a few times , and theres a few problems , but its fun , espicially for  people who love music and music class :)
Then this year i joined Choir because lunch time isnt as valuble to me , as it was last year ! So we are Singing "I feel pretty" , which we all find hilarious,because we have to sing it with "confidence" so we all have some fun with it.

Learning..

We were given two talks in the last few days, one on Internet safety and the other on female engineers at Intel.
The First talk really opened every ones eyes to the type of things that can happen on the Internet  and on face book. The man who spoke with us was so down to the point and really got across how dangerous some people are and how careful you should be. He told us things to do and not to do and the impact his talk had on the seniors in our school was incredible. everyone acted on it straight away . people were checking their friends on  face book to make sure they know everyone , and unhooking web cams and so on . I'm so happy we got it, because i would not have known half the things that people can do to someones life over the Internet , it was truly shocking.


The talk about Intel was also really interesting. Female workers came to tell us to work at Intel and why and to be honest , if I didn't have an idea of career already i would have been sold! the work that goes into all those tiny chips that let us use computers and phones incredible!  They use robots , which obviously caught our attention , but not robots that we were all imagining. They girls were really great and all told us about their degrees.
 

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So for my last post i showed pictures of braveforce from the website, but now I have ones of us thanks to girls who daringly brought their cameras into the wilderness!

 

Cold , so very cold.

!We went to Brave force assault course today, and now that I'm showered and have had tea, I shall blog about it :)

First we set off to meath on the bus , all nervous to see what we had signed up for. When we got there we saw to other schools, who had trained their athletics teams for the race , and 10 from each school. We arrive , all 80 of us , ready to have some fun , NOT trained and NOT ready at all.
At the starting line people shot off, but me and some other girls thought to let them win seeing as they had trained , and we jogged it at our own pace , having such a laugh on the way!
The first obstacle was basically jumping in chest high below freezing point water, and getting out by climbing a rope, that was interesting.. we jumped right into it!
then we came across streams to walk trough, bails of hay to jump over, hills, logs and stuff like that. Then we can too a giant climbing frame and for people who aren't to sure about heights like myself , it was daunting! we had to climb logs with a very big space in between them up to the top and then slide down a net on the other side!
I love all the water obstacles the most, especially the one where we had to climb over logs! and then of course the last one where the water  was up to our chins!

I had a great time , and despite being freezing and probably more sick than ever.. it was so worth it. We are the first group of TYs to do it from our school , and hopefully they will do it again, always different girls!aha


 

Braveforce.. DUNDUNDUN

Tomorrow Most of the TYs, as it is optional.. will be facing BRAVEFORCE ! it looks really tough but it should be fun. Basically its a race but me being sick , im not sure if ill be running the whole way! We dont get showers , we get "hosed down" and get changed with other schools , it will be hilarious.!

Today we got our forms for our subject choices, and to be honest it made me really happy about TY  ( not that i was EVER upset with it) just the fact that we got this extra time to explore all subjects and think about what we are good at and what job we want  to aim for is amazing. I know now exactly the path I want to choose, and i was able to fill out my form straight away. Things are abit different this year , we dont choose 1,2, and 3, we just had to pick one on each row of subjects , and make sure they dont clash, lucky for me , my 3 subjects dont! :)
Im so happy because i was terrified that they would clash on the timetable , but i got very lucky!

Be jolly, buy a lolly..

last friday we set off to town to sell lollipops , for an Oesophageal cancer fund. Its called  lolipop day. you can read all about it , if you click the link there!
It was great fun , and it really showed me how hard you have to work to get people to support charities! next time i see someone on the street with a bucket ill be putting money in! its a logn day of standing and trying to get people to donate, but when someone does , its a great feeling:)
Me , Emma,Fiona & Jenny were together , and went trough 3 buckets of lollipops and pins , so we were pleased with the amount we had raised :D
It was a fun day out and of course we got mcdonalds which makes it better.. it just a thing we all do now , after alot of days out..not complaining!

Best Night...ever.

I love TY and everything 2011/2012 has lashed at me so far, but Friday night, 2nd of march , I went to the 02 to see  FLORENCE & THE MACHINE !
i can safely say, it was the best concert I have ever been too, she was AMAZING!
Ill never ever forget it!

work experience take 2!

For my second work experience I went to my old primary school ,St.Brigits. :)
I dont want to be a teacher of any kind, and i didnt think i was good with kids to be honest, but one day in the school , and i loved each and every girl in 1rst class :)
I still want to work with animals, but my work experience really showed me that i could maybe help out at schools with spare time ,( if i ever have it!) and I would actually enjoy it!
I do Art, so the teacher i was with gave me art for the WHOLE WEEK. I was in my element! i made displays & posters for the classroom and had so much fun. I even thought a girl english! It was so incredible:)
we had alot of freedom , and had our own lunch time in the staff room. we were able to go out to the village , and to each others classes ( leah and shanen!)
I really enjoyed it , and miss everyone there already.