Thursday 25 September 2014

Carlingford

Its hard to believe Carlingford was more than a week ago because it seems like it was just yesterday. Even though we had to get up early Carlingford was still amazing.
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 As soon as we got off the bus and into our rooms we were staright into the wetsuits and into the water. Are group was group B and our first activity was kayaking with Emer which was very fun even though I fell. After kayaking we went to our rooms and we put all of our sweets on a table(we had a lot of sweets). We then had our lunch and did laser tag, which was my favourite activity we did. We walked up a really long and steep hill but it was worth it when we got to the forest. Our instructor Martin would tell us inspirational quotes like "you miss one hundred percent of the shots you dont take" and then we would play games like capture the flag. That night after dinner we had an activity called night line. We had to be blind folded and put one hand on a string and the other on the person in front of you and if you lost the person in front of you, you would shout "dib dab".
After night line we ate lots of our sweets including cake for laurens birthday and we had a disco in our pjamas.
The next day our first activity was canoeing. We went over to a water trampoline and got to jump into the water which was really fun. We then canoed over to a tunnel and we got freezing cold water thrown on us as it is supposedly meant to give you an extra day to your life. We then tried to canoe back to the island which was hard as we were getting splashed and our canoe almost sunk but our instructor, Lily took out the water and we sang all the way back. The last activity we did was a challenge course. We had to complete different challenges in our group and we were awarded with gems. The group I was in won because we were so amazing.
We then had to go home which was very sad because I really wanted to stay longer. It was a really great trip and I had a great time!


-Aoife.

Thursday 11 September 2014

Its my second week of TY now and so far its been great! Its different from last year as we get less work but a lot more projects and we don't have any books to carry around, unlike last year. I just got my junior cert results and i am very happy and i'm very glad there over.
 I am now doing subjects that I haven't done since first year and i'm doing technology which I have never done before. In home economics I am making a teddy bear and I am going to be cooking scones tomorrow. In art we are drawing leaves and we will be making clay tiles with leaves on them to put on the wall.In music we are doing graphic scores which are very confusing because I don't have any knowledge of music at all. And in technology we are learning how to use a computer program called GIMP.
Carlingford is on Monday and I cant wait to go. I am very excited to do the water sports and to eat a lot of sweets.

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-Aoife.