Becoming Entrepreneurs!

At nine o'clock this morning, Transition Years headed off on yet again. We went to a Mini Company workshop in "Odeon Theatre" in Naas. What a pleasant way to end a fantastic week. St.Wolstans along with three other schools were greeted by Orla and we were given a fabulous workshop by her. After today I feel a lot more eager and excited to begin Mini Company. An inspiring group from another school had already created their product. 
I hope my group and I come up with a successful idea for Mini Company, as the prizes seem unbelievable! The top prize is a trip abroad to a city in Europe... who wouldn't love that?! On the way back from Naas our bus driver kindly stopped off at Lidl and let all of us TYs buy some sweets for the rest of the trip. I was looking forward to going back to school as we had Junk Kouture and now IT. Loving TY so far... I'm having so much fun already. I can't wait for what else is in store :)

Memories that will last a lifetime.. Carlingford 2012

The thoughts of going to Carlingford had waking up at 6.am in the morning so easy! All of Transition Year met at Spar at 7am. Spirits were high as we were all really excited for this highly anticipated trip. The buses came and within no time we arrived in the enchanting town of Carlingford, Louth. 

          We were split up into our groups and met our instructors. They were ever so friendly and up for a bit of craic. Our first activity was Laser in the forest. My group and I got changed into army suits and we each got a laser gun each. I was on the blue team and my code name was "Romeo 001". I had a fantastic time. After lunch we then went Kayaking. Zoe and I shared a kayak. It was a lot of hard work trying to get the kayak to move, but it was certainly worth it. When we got back to the centre, dinner was served. Our last activity of the day was "Night line". All of us TY students were blindfolded in the forest in the dark. Sounds scary right..? We had to follow the ropes around the forest, whilst the instructors attempted to scare the living daylights out of us by pouring water on us and screaming. It was hilarious to say the least!

 Time for Chinese food! The staff at Chinese restaurant must've been fairly surprised when a bunch of TY students suddenly appeared in their take away to order food! We ate our food in the common room in the centre..and it was time for bed.

     There was twelve girls in the room where I stayed. We stayed up chatting for a good while, and bonded quite a lot. We were up early the next morning for lots of more exciting activities.

We were woken up at 8am. We had breakfast then we were off for our activites. We did High Ropes and Zorbing that morning. I was feeling fearless so I attempted to face my major fear of heights. It didn't go down to well when I started crying when I was about two metres up in the air. Our instructor Paddy came to my rescue and I was soon laughing over the whole incident. Some girls were up metres in the air, I couldn't believe how daring and fearless they were. After, we did Zorbing. I can honestly say, I have never laughed so much in my life. I discovered that rolling down a hill in a giant ball can bring great happiness to someone! 

Later on that afternoon we did team challange's. We then headed home on the bus and we were back in Celbridge for 7pm on Tuesday evening. I had one of the best times of my life in Carlingford, and I'm glad that I got to share it with such great girls!

Below is the site to the adventure centre, I would definitely recommend it. http://www.carlingfordadventure.com/

 

Here's a few pictures from the fantastic trip...

Carlingford here we come!

So we all got our results on Wednesday morning... The atmosphere in the hall was indescribable as we all waited for our results. The teachers came along with the envelopes and we all stood in our original class groups. I was going to wait until I got home, but the anxiety was killing me! As I heard the screams of happiness in the hall from the girls who opened their results, I couldn't help but open mine. Overall, I was happy with my results and celebration was in order!        Now with all of that out of the way, we have Carlingford to look forward to. Mrs. L gave us all a list of what to bring with us, so I will begin packing soon. I am so excited to say the least. Usually, I would dread the horrid thoughts of waking up at 6am, but I'm actually delighted. I've heard a lot of stories about Carlingford from last years TY students, and I can't wait to make my own memories with my friends in Carlingford. Excitement is an understatement of how I feel now! 

Junior Cert Results

I Can't believe September the 12th has arrived! It seemed so far away when we were doing the Junior Cert, but I can easily say that time has flown by since then. This time in three hours, all of last years Third Year students will be handed an envelope which will show how hard we have worked in school over the past three years...

To be honest, I'm really excited as I've awaited this day for months! To finally know my results, but I'm also really nervous. I hope I'm happy with my results as I did work quite hard over the past three years. I'm so excited!

Musical legend Bob Marley once said, "The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory". This is true, the harder you work, the more you will achieve :) 

Got that Friday Feeling!

Can't believe we're in Transition Year a week and a day already! This week has certainly been one to remember... in particular Wednesday. Wednesday was jam packed with three workshops. A Social Development workshop, a workshop on Etiquette and last but not least a "Positive Party" in the library. They were all great fun, and I can feel all the girls in my class becoming closer already!
       In the Etiquette workshop, we learned a lot about personal hygiene and lots of make up tips! They also advised us how to wear our make up for work experience. In the Positive Party we reminisced on positive and happy memories and danced to music!
      We have began our projects in many subjects, such as Home Economics, Geography and Religion. These projects are interesting ones, and I'm quite eager to get cracking on them. 
 Nerves are rising as our Junior Cert results are on Wednesday. I have anticipated this for months, and I can't believe its nearly here...
Excitement and fun are two words I would use to describe my experience of TY so far. We have many things to look forward to this year, such as Carlingford, work experience, Junk Kouture, Young Scientist.. the list is endless!
 Although we do a lot of projects and learn a lot in Transition Year, I feel much more relaxed than last year and I have more time after school to practice music and spend time with my friends.
        So far TY is great and I'm really looking forward to what's in store for the next year.

Here's a link to positive parties.. I would really recommend it as we all had an amazing time. http://positiveparties.com/

BT Young Scientist

 The BT Young Scientist is a competition which is held every year to showcase the talent of all secondary school students in Ireland. As Science is one of my favourite subjects, I'm super excited about entering! 
       For the next few weeks in science class we'll be doing a lot of work on this project in our groups. It will definitely be worth it if we get through! If not, there's another science exhibition that we get to take part in - Scifest. Right now I'm on the internet trying to come up with a good idea for our project.

 My brother got through to the Young Scientist last year, and he said it was an amazing experience, so it'd be a great opportunity!