Work Experience :)

Haven't blogged in a while, sorry bloggers. Ive been busy over the past week with a week of work! I was working in South Dublin County Council in Tallaght. I really enjoyed it, it was a great experience. I was mainly doing office work, im not gonna lie but some of the stuff was pretty boring.. like stapeling and putting stuff into envelopes but thank god it was only for the first day only!
I got to do some work on the register of electors and filing peoples addresses and deaths in the south dublin area which was actually real interesting. Since I was working in the county managers office I had my own desk so I felt so greaat! I took messages and sat in on general meetings, I also did alot of computer work investivagating complaints of the residents of Dublin some which were quite strange!
I also helped out in a social inclusion workshop and that was really fun and a great oppurtunity :)
Overall it was such a great experience and really opened my eyes to what going to work everyday is all about. Looking forward to the next work experience week next year now:D 
Well that's all:)  over and out
-x

History talk :)

Yesetrday we got a talk about the history of Celbridge from my old primary school principal, Mr. Doohan- whatta man! <3
He wrote a book on the history of celbridge and was in the school to talk to us about it. Most of the stuff he was talking about we already learned in 6th class because he brought us on a tour around celbridge. It was still very interesting though. You always forget how much history is attached to Celbridge so it was nice to listen to:) I find the history behind castletown house, the main street and the mill really interesting. 
I would definitley reccommend his book it's 12 euro and on sale now!

Juno and the Paycock:)

Yesterday was great fun:) All TY's went into town for the day to the WB Yeats exibition, the national muesum and libraray and to the Abbey theathre to see a production of the play we read ' Juno and the Paycock'. The bog bodies we saw in the national muesum were really interesting, they were bodies from thousands of years ago perserved in the bog. It was really weird and horrible to see most of their features still there.. one of the bodies even had a tooth! .. lovely-.-
The Wb Yeats muesum was real good aswell, we had to fill out a sheet and i learned alot from it.
Then we went to MACDONALDS!:D It was soo good because everyone was so hungry!
Me, Sarah, Emily , Aoibheann and Sally then went upto Stephans Green to get a shakeaway :D it was so goood, oreos mmmm. After that we went to see Juno and the Paycock:D It was actually much better than I thought it would be! I personally LOVED johnny boyle in it:O Ronan Raftery.. im not a stalker at all...
hahaha. Awh im in love, whatta hunk!
Overall I really enjoyed the day:) Thanks to all the english teachers who organised the trip, Ms Cosgrove, Ms Brogan and Ms Guilfoyle:D

Educating Essex

Over the last week in religion with Mrs L we have been watching a reality tv show called 'Educating Essex'. The show revolves around a school in Essex and the seriousness that bulluying can lead to.
It followes up on diferent teenagers and the situations they are faced with in school.
One girl who was head girl of her year was receiving threatning horrible text messages from an unknown number. They included texts saying that the person was able to see her and could see her sleeping. Gabby,the victim was very scared and upset and got the principal to investigate the situation. He tracked down the number and rang the people saying that he was aware of what was happening and he knows he they are. I turns out in the end the people behind the text messages were friends of Gabbys. They had gotten into a fight over her getting head girl and were pulling a "harmless prank". They discovered they would get a criminal record and could easily be reported to the police. This was a great example of how serious this was and how a "joke" can lead to so much more than it actually is..
There was also another boy called Sam who was being accused of bullying a boy called Dean. Deans mother and sister were called in to the principle and there was serious consequences for Sam. They all talked it over and they realise there was no need for the bulluying that was going on. The bully ,Sam had come to his senses.
Overall this programe really made me think about how others may feel in a certain situation and how serious bullying of any kind wheter it is verbal, physical or emotional really is. Thanks Mrs. L!

Abso Errr'bodyyyy

Last Friday was the FUN WALK:D Our class Fodla put in our blood, sweat and tears into our dance routine to 'Absalutely Everybody' and the classic "Eveybody dance now"! Our tutor Ms OC' even took us out of class to practice for this.. competitive? I think not....
Our colour for TY this year was yellow , so we all wore yellow tops and made a yellow mini (which was the same car as kaza ironically..) We came out to the judges in our yellow mini and then burst out in to Absalutely everybody:D It was a great buzz altogether and we had so much fun, we even added in really cool stunts at the end , which included girls in our class being thrown up in the air and standing on us and falling back , while swinging... fairplay on that one aifric btw!<3 hehe
So it was all fun and games.. until monday morning when Ms.Smyth announced the winners for each year.. "and the winner is.. BANBA!" Us Fodlaians were abso devasted. But congrats to banba, well deserved guys, everyone did great:D afterall it's the FUN walk:)


Woooooo FODLA<3

5 things to do before next friday..

1: I have to continue doing my project in geography about Chad and Austrailia:

2:Before next friday Fodla will win the fun walk!

3.I shall do my irish project:)

4.I will blog, blog .... and BLOG again!

5.I have to start a survet for the young scientist project

that is all..

Mini Company Stress

Last Thursday all TY's went to Naas for the first or our three mini company workshops:) My group hadent setteled on an idea, so the pressure was on to come up with a brilliant product to sell as we need to start getting a move on..
The workshop itself was really good, and was very interesting. I learned alot about the mini company competition and all that is involved in it. We then came up with an idea for lights for your door, so you can see where the keyhole is when its dark. We all like this idea and our doing extensive market research on the product and have discovered that it has great potential so its definitley a possibilty:D
We elected positions for our mini company.. I am the financial manager and I will have to manage the companys money and prepare accounts for us.. hopefully I can do them! ah well the group seems to have faith in me so we'll see how it goes..:L
I will keep all you bloggers out there updated anyway;)

Thats all from me,
Rebekah:) xoxo

Did you know?

Ok so over the past few days Sarah and I have been working on a small religion project. Well 'small' is an understatement in our case! We got so into it! haha. We had to choose one of the 7 Millenium Development Goals and write facts about it, with pictures etc..  We choose gender equality.We spent more time than intended on it! and added in all kinds of coloured paper.I had a great idea to make a 'did you know?' flap:) whuich looked really cool on the poster.We then presented it to the class and it is now on the wall of room 23:D so proud. LOL
Still working at projects in Geography, science, mini company, tech and home ec so that will keep us all busy:L Really enjoying doing them:)

Special shoutout to my school chums NOMAD& FITZER:D
lovee yas loadss girlos

that is all...

image from here

Scrubs Vs Suckers!

Hey Nomad,

This year in TY we are all entering the BT young scientist competition:) We were split into groups straight away to start working on good ideas that would get us through to the RDS:) Sarah and Sally are in my group , which is great because we could choose our groups and they are people I can work well with:) After a few weeks of thinking of project titles we could do we finally came up with an idea "scrubs vs suckers". Congrats to Sally on that one!:D hahaha. Its a project about the effects of itcheotherapy , ( when fish 'suck' on your feet'!) compared to a normal foot scrub. I think this is an interesting title because I don't know alot about the treatment and its cheap enough to do aswell:) Hopefully it's enough for us to get through to the rds, fingers crossed! We are in the middle of our one page proposal , hopefully the judges find it convincing!

results buzzzzz!

After an exhausting 2 days at carlingford , our long awaited junior cert results were out on wednesday at lunchtime. Not going to lie , ide never ever been so nervous! The day coulden't have gone slower until we heard that anouncement from Ms Smith telling us it was time to go down to the hall to get our results!
Everyone was just a bag of nerves but excited at the same time! I have to say I was extremly happy with my results and excited to say NO MORE JUNIORR CERT EVEEEEEER.! wow that feels good to say that!
Me and my freinds then went off to time on wednesday night and had a blast of a night:D Well thats all I havto say..  I shall return soooon
shlaaaaaaan

Carlingford:D

On Sunday night we were all excited to get up at 6AM for the bus to carlingford! Yes as weird as that sounds , I was willing to get up that early.. We arrived at Carlingford at about 9 and got divided up into our teams that we would be doing various challanges with throughout the 2 days:) I loved my group , it was the best buzz ever! woooo
We then got stuck in straight to the activites , the first ones we did were sort of teamwork challanges which were great fun:D they included going into a pitch dark maze called 'communication breakdown' with my team  and we had to find our way out, with great difficulty and our codenames 'penguins' 'peacocks' and 'elephants'. Our instructer wayne made a bet with our team that we wouldent win all our challanges , if we didnt win we would all have to eat our dinner with our hands , if we did win he had to, unfortunetly we lost the bet and we had to eat with our faces which was quite awkward but funny at the same time:) 

After that we went out to the forest and did lasers , this was so much fun and I really enjoyed that definitely one of my favourites despite being unexplainily exhausted and in great need of a nap! (Emilys a witness to that.) To finish off the first day in carlingford we got our rooms which I loved cos we were away from the centre and I got to share a room with all my friends:) We went on a nightline walk which was good crack in the forest again , this time when it was pretty dark and blindfolded which was fun:D After that then we went back to the common room and had the bant with another boys school which was a blast:)
After  an hilarious sleepless night, we headed down to the centre for breakfast and start another day in carlingford:) This time we started off with orienteering. We had to walk up the mountains, up steep hills and through little rivers and search for letters to crack a code at the end of the hike. If the trip has thought me anything , its that Im so scared of sheep! sheepophobia , if thats a word?:S To finish off our trip we did rock climbing and absailing, the sound of this did not sound fun because i dont like heights! It was suprisingly so good though and I even got to the top! YAAAY! 
Sadly it was time to come home:( Safe to say it was the best possible way to start TY off:) Definitley a a great 2 days to remember!

social development day :)

Hey Nomad,
On wednesday our class Fodla had a social devepment day in the library, it was a great day and i learned alot about myself and my personality. It was a good oppurtunity to get to know everyone a bit better in my class and learn all about their personalitys aswell :) We set goals for ty, like what we wanted to get out of ty most people said fun and to bond closer as a group. We did alot of teamwork which involved splitting up into groups based on what type of personality you have , this was really fun and interesting to see :) On Monday we are off to Carlingford , Im so excited, should be great crack :) We'll be back on Tuesday evening until then, bye for now :D

First Blog! :D

1st day of blogging:)
Hey guys:) this is my first time blogging in TY and my fourth day in school. So far its great i love it!
Im so excited to be in a new class with lots of new people that I wasent really close with from 1st-3rd year , its a great time! My class is called Fodla, best class! hahaha
I don't really know what to write hmm.. well it IS my first ever blog so gimmie a break here!
anyways I must go , heres to blogging I guess :):L


xoxox NOMAD