Christmas Partying (A tad late!)

To end our first TY term we held a Christmas Party!
Our class FÓDLA held the party. We spent weeks deciding on food, decorations and music.Emma D and I dressed up as Santa to give out all the Kris Kindle presents. The urge to shout *AND FOUR FOR YOU GLEN COCO, YOU GO GLEN COCO* was unreal! Also thanks to Sarah H for the great present :-) We drank hot chocolate, danced to Cha Cha Slide and sang Christmas song, it was really so much fun. Ms. O'C did a great job helping us to organise everything so big thanks to her! After we cleaned up everyone headed for the double Decker bus which reminded us all so much of Carlingford *sigh*.
Next it was on to bowling. Once again the joys of having weirdly small feet struck, they only had size 3 and 8 left by the time we reached the top of the Que and who's a size 3? ME! And then, BAM, i got a spare on my first go! Things went slightly downhill with the bowling after that, I think I came 2nd last. But it was still very fun! Rachel amazingly got about seven strikes! GOO   RACH!
[Image]We played some of the arcade games after bowling which were so much fun, I seemed to play a lot of the games for five year old.. What can I say? They were very exciting! 



 We then headed home and were all delighted to be off for two weeks of Christmas holidays! I hope everyone had a great Christmas and a fabulous New Year :) 

Fabulous Friday

Today, was another wonderful day in the world of TY! 


The day started when we found out the winners of yesterday's fashion show, congratulations to all the winning groups! Thanks to the Home Economics teachers for helping us with that project, it was defiantly one of the most enjoyable projects we've done.




Next we had our annual school carol service. We all had so much fun singing out hearts out. Sive, Emily, Rebekah and I had been practicing all year to get a chance to sing, we even had some dance moved thrown in. At the carol service, the girls who achieved great results in their Junior Cert received a certificate to acknowledge their works. Well done to everybody and a huge congratulations to Lana who got all A's and was given a gold medal! Great work Lana :)





Also six of us from Transition Year had our picture taken on behalf of the year for winning the Edublog & Spider Award's! It's great to have won two blogging awards within one week so GO TRANSITION YEARS!

In Spanish class we drew festive pictures and put them around the room. 

Here's some Spanish Christmas words:

Mary: María
Baby Jesus: el niño Jesús
Father Christmas: Papá Noel
Holly: el acebo
A crib: un pesebre
Angels: los ángeles
Merry Christmas: ¡Feliz Navidad!


And here's our classes favourite Christmas tune, hope you enjoy! 

Snow is falling... almost!

Oh how I love Christmas!


We're really into December now and everything is feeling oh-so 'christmassy' and I love it. We put up our Christmas tree and decorations yesterday and the house is sparkling with red and gold glitter. 
In school a few of the teachers have transformed their classrooms into little Santa kingdoms. Ms.C's room is amazing with so many lights and tinsel, I cannot wait for English now!


It's freezing cold out and everyone is wrapped up in hats and gloves. There are thousands of Christmas shoppers buzzing around town and every shopping bag seems to have some Christmas design. The Christmas spirit around town is amazing with people caroling and collecting for charity.


I spent today sorting out Christmas presents to St.Vincent De Paul which is an Irish charity. They do huge collections every Christmas for struggling families. We donated toys and food to this charity in school to try and help out. Today my friend Clare and I helped her mom to sort the girls and boys toys into different age groups. It was great to see even though most families will probably find it hard this Christmas, people are still thinking of thoes less fortunate and giving what they can. This charity makes such a huge difference every year, please check it out here! 


Finally here is one of my all time favourite Christmas songs, hope you enjoy it! :)

Merry Christmas Everybody :) xo