Swim a mile with a smile

tomorrow we have the Ian daly swim a mile . everyones excited and nervous. im swimming half a mile (32 lenghts) and Leah is swimming the other half :)
wish us luck!

“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”

For my book review I chose to read "The Hunger Games" written by Suzanne Collins. The Book is part of a trilogy. The books are written in the voice of  a 16 year old girl called Katniss Everdeen trough her hard life living in a poor town and trying to fend for her family , in Panem.
The hunger games was incredibly written and thought out. South America is split into 12 districts or towns , Katniss lives in number 12 , the poorest district that produces coal. The capitol rules over all the 12 districts and to remind them of a horrible rebellion in district 13 that killed everyone who lived there, they host the hunger games.


The games are purely for the capitols enjoyment but the president claims its to remind everyone to follow the wealthy capitol and that they are on the districts sides.


The Hunger Games are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12 to 18 from each of the 12 districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised  battle in which only one person can survive.


on "Reaping day" primrose , katniss' sister, is called to be part of the games. Katniss volunteers, and a boy Peeta Mellark in chosen to join her in her fate in the arena.


The book is full of surprises and is constantly moving at an exciting pace. Things get hard for katniss when Peeta expresses his love for her on live television in front of all of Panem. The two must help each other trough the arena , with the help of wealthy sponsors sending them food  and medicine ,while overcoming some of the strongest districts along the way.


The Book is Fast, Fierce, upsetting and sometimes humorous , and the trilogy is an incredible series of books , following life after the Games, or so everyone thinks , until you start the second and third book. The books and story keep shocking me , with its originality and suspense .


“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.” 
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games


   
I Would rate The Hunger Games ( Book 1) 5 stars, because I loved every moment on the book , and it was always exciting and never failed to grab my attention!

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