Tuesday 27 September 2011

Photo of the Week




Carlingford memories  
Taking a picnic break during orienteering :)

Tuesday 20 September 2011

Special blog to Becky Crickley, Sive Ftizer, S.Kelly, Em's Daily and Fifi Trixabell!



 We're all getting eachother through this I.T class with Emma's hilarious blog 'kicked our heels off, painted the town red' and listened to some banging J.Lo tunes ;) 
Some facts about 'ma gurls': Becky's real name is Rebekah and she has a deaf cat, which she loves!
Sive is going to a ploughing vestival on thursday, cool kid.
S.Kelly loves Ali G, 'Boo Ya  Ga Seeh'
Em's Daily is really 'Daly' I just though the newspaper pun was awesome. She also is known as nomad.
And Fifi Trixabell, well this girl is awesome she only eats banana's which smell nice 'Its hard to find a good smelling banana'. Odd one Fiona!
The rest of Fodla are superstars too but thats all I have time for this I.T class.
Much love xo-M

Scientists are born!

This year we're entering the Young Scientist Exhibition. We broken up into groups of two or three and we have to think of an idea which is somewhat scientific. There's a huge range of projects from 'Onions tears', 'do shampoo companies fool you?' and 'scrucbs v.s suckers!'
Aoibheann, Rachel and I have called our project 'Could this be a Cool Current?'. We're showing that fresh water is denser than salt water which is shown in the melting icebergs and the North Atlantic Drift. It sounds complicated at first but once we talked it through (a few times) we really found it interesting and decided it was the project for us :)
Now we have to write a one proposal about our project which will hopefully get us into the Young Scientist to show everyone what we're researching... and get a day or two off school.

Heres a link if you want to get involved or see what the Young Scientist is all about! http://www.btyoungscientist.ie/

Monday 19 September 2011

Monday morning blues turned upsidedown

This morning i dragged myself to school after a great weekend, school free. Everyone was tired and not in school mood. This all quickly changed with our first class though......
We had P.e with our tutor Mrs.O'C, we pushed back all the tables in the library and got ready to dance. Why? Because the FUN RUN is less than three weeks away! *Alarm Bells* 
For most years this wouldn't mean too much, but we're Ty's and it mean a lot. Our song and dance is top secret and not for the eyes reading this blog but once the day comes round everything will be revealed in shiny glory and maybe even a video of our triumph will be uploaded.
Lets hope it's amazing now! Go team Fodla :)


xo-M

Friday 16 September 2011

And the stress ends...

On Wednesday we gathered in our 3rd year class groups for the last time to collect the results of the Junior Cert exams. Nerves were high to say the least, with tears before we even saw the results (me being one of these over emotional people!) Although some results were disappointing, most people were delighted and saw their effort had paid off. 
The A, B, C and D's were quickly forgotten as the celebrations began! Most of our Ty and 5th year group headed out to time nightclub, where everyone danced all night. It was definitely a night to remember :D 
All I can say now is thank god I never have do to my junior cert again, and good luck to all the 3rd years!


xo-M

Thursday 15 September 2011

Carlingford Baby (day two)

Woken up at what felt like 3 in the morning everyone of us stumbled out of bed to hear the crazy music blaring out of the intercom, Carlingford really knows how to wake teenagers up! 
We started off wild day number two with (once again) a trip up the mountain this time for ab-sailing and rock climbing. Ab-sailing had me shaking with fear but thanks to the great jokes of the instructors  I managed to jump down the cliff edge hoping I could go on forever.
Finally our last adventure of the trip was orienteering which also brought us on our last trip up that dreaded mountain. Our team of four soon became mixed into a team of about 10 stopping half way up a very long steep slope for a picnic of two bars of chocolate and a few lolly pops! Everyone's mood was lifted and orienteering became the best fun around.
 It left us with some of the craziest sayings possibly due to the lack of sleep or maybe just the enormous amount of sheep. Here are just a few of the examples: 
'Its a 'G' and there's a ram!'
'Leah you use to wriggle' 
and my favourite 'It's hard to find a really nice banana'
After it all we were so sad to get on the bus and leave the great town of Carlingford! Luckily I had the funniest bus trip of my life, half asleep singing my heart out with Vicky and having some very odd conversations about swans. 
It was a really great experience, so thanks Mrs. L for organizing the trip! 
http://www.carlingfordadventure.com/


xo-M

Carlingford Baby (day one)

It was an early start to Carlingford Adventure Centre in Co. Louth, everyone was so excited that the tiredness did not enter the bus! When we arrive to the quaint village of Carlingford we all thought we had entered an movie set from an olden day Disney movie.
We dropped our bags and headed straight up the steep mountain (the first exhausting trip of many). Our instructors Matt and Daniel got everyone buzzed and into our camouflage jumpsuits and matching hats. We then began laser tag!
It was unbelievably fun and everyone got involved straight away, we felt like little kids with toy guns, but I guess that's what we were really! I got the very lucky job of minding Bruno Junior who was the laser tag mascot, a little teddy bear who I kept by my side for the whole duration of our Carlingford visit :)
Sadly we had to leave laser, but not without the blue team (GO BLUES) beating the red team on numerous occasions.
The day continued the lunch, a challenge course and dinner. By dinner time everyone was half asleep and up to their necks in dirt. That didn't stop us though, we could not wait to head out again for Night Line!
We headed up to the forest, by the time we arrived darkness had fallen everywhere, which in a forest is pretty scary. Not so sure why but I decided to stand at the front meaning I would be leading half my year though a dark forest, BLINDFOLDED. Good thinking Meg! Once we got started though I began to overcome my fears, slightly. Luckily the very good looking Simon, was beside me telling me if I was about to fall over a log or walk into a tree. Using our Chinese whispers skills we got through the forest and completed Night Line without losing anyone to the bears!
Recked but still buzzing from the Carlingford air we spent our night in the comfy common room with our friends from St. Marys in Drogheada.  They were a school of Ty boys and everyone made friends instantly. We had a huge sing-song and a great laugh, disappointed the night was over we headed to bed. Luckily most of my 12 man room got a few hours sleep since we were recked from our amazing first day! 

to be continued......

Thursday 8 September 2011

Carlingford Countdown :D

Only about 114 hours till Carlingford now! I've been talking non-stop to the past Ty's about the trip and all I've heard is 'its the best 2 days ever, I'm so jealous I can't go again!' so I'm very excited for to get on the bus Monday morning at the crack of dawn, I wonder is it okay to wear your pj's for the bus trip? I'm bringing my pillow for sure! 
I can't wait to get loads of sweets for the trip, I hear you can melt marshmallows over the fire in the evenings. Only thing to say is Ty's will be backing yummy s'mores for sure this Monday night, CANT WAIT!! 
xo-M

Hockey's Back!

Thursdays evening have happily brought back hockey, I'm exhausted after our first training session but delighted to be back. This year I've moved to the senior team along with about half of my junior team, it was pretty intimidating running around with the 5th and 6th years at the start but we quickly forgot about ages as we worked up such a sweat!
We also have a new coach, she's seems to know her hockey so everyone is pretty excited to learn some new tricks this year and hopefully head towards the final! Although we all defiantly miss Ms.V who was an amazing coach :)
My legs hurt from all the drills so there's a real sign I better get back into shape...
Bye for now, xo-M

Socially Developing

Yesterday, Tuesday, I took part in a social development course with my class Fodla. It was really great fun, breaking up into groups and working out methods to insure Santa gets all the presents ready as the elves were slacking off.
We learnt through coloured cards what personalities we had. I was a red director, closely followed by a yellow entertainer. The other groups were the green mediators and blue observers. It was crazy to see how we all fit into our groups and all had our own way of doing things.
We had other fun activities to 'socially develope' ourselves such as learning the importance of a firm handshake (the limp ones were depressing) along with walking with confidence and embarrassing moments from our classmates, like Emily's fear of spiders causing her to strip in the middle of her green when he friends said there was a spider on her.
Got to go now, blog soon :)

Thursday 1 September 2011

Thursday's fun

We had our first Thursday of Ty today and that meant our first fun afternoon! We all changed into our comfy tracksuits at lunchtime and were ready for our new activities. The three classes; Fólda Eiru and Banba each rotated in the three activities. They are dancing, photography and pilates.
Firstly our class Fódla had photography with the lovely Rob.
 He told us about himself and how he got interested in photography. Rob showed us slides of amazing pictures he had taken, and explained some tricks like slowing down the shutter speed and mainly using the flash for people only. A black and white picture of baby's feet with a brightly coloured flower at the toes was one of my many favourites.
Next we headed to pilates, everyone was anxious to know what to do as we quickly realized it was much more of a work-out than yoga. We really enjoyed it though and had a great laugh as some positions were a little impossible for us newbies.
All stretched and ready for action we headed for the last activity of the day, dancing. It was no ordinary modern dancing though, we're learning 1920 and 1950 swing style dancing! Straight away everyone knew it would be a blast, with Ms.O'R getting into every move and pouting her lips (telling us to copy her!). No doubt my favourite move was the charleston, but all the quick movements of your feet and swinging of the hands is so much fun! 
Now everybody is saying how much they love Thursday so bring on next week! :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSFzLfgKKLI
p.s here's a link to a cool example of charleston dancing, hopefully we'll be dancing like them soon, dresses and all.



This is my first blog of Transition year and it very exciting! Its thursday morning, day four of ty. Everyone here in class Fódla is buzzing to blog but IT is coming to an end so the blogger's of Fódla will continue later :)