sometimes in April and hotel Rwanda

So this week we learned about conflict and watched two movies. one was called hotel Rwanda and the other was called Sometimes in April . The conflict in the movies was devastating . The movies taught me a lot but I don't think i would like to watch them again , because they were so sad . what was happening in Rwanda was horrific . I was really upset to learn about what the people of Rwanda suffered through  . 

Drumming

This week a man , i can not remember his name , but Emma r says his name was Dave , so I'm going to take her word for it . he came in a gave us a workshop on African drumming . We spent the day playing drums like the jimbi - probably spelled wrong . It was so much fun we learned a lot of cool rhythms and stuff and they actually sounded really good . I really enjoyed it .

work experience .....

Last week we all went on work experience , again . this time I went to a hotel . In the hotel i was a waitress . All day i was giving people coffe and tea , and serving food - that wasn't bad , i liked that part of work experience .
What I did not like was cleaning . in the hotel i had to scarpe filthy plates into a bin like thing , i also had to put people's USED tissues  into another bin ....it was disgusting to say the least .
I also had to go into what was like a shed to get ice ...it was cold but it was grand , i didn't mind doing it .I had to set tables - i liked this i mean i like making things look nice so that was good thing  .
 I spent a lot of time polishing glasses , knives , spoons - desert and soup spoons and forks . There was a lot of things to polish . I mean it was ok but I was on my own doing it and i like working with people  .
Back to the positieves the people were so nice , they have to be the nicest staff ever .
 Another positieve was there was a wedding on , i didnt get to see the wedding or the wedding dress - but having to geting  ready for the wedding was a great buzz .I would have loven if i fot to help organize the flowers and the colour scheme of the wedding , but i was happy enough just having everything perfect for it .
By the end of work experience i learned the hotel work wouldn't really be my calling , but being a wedding planner could be fun .
If i was offered a summer job in a hotel , i would take it cause overall there was more positieves the negatieves .

round towers , wells and starbucks !!

This week we are all doing a project about saint Brigid , We are making websites and blogs and everything we are hoping that our project will help people learn all about saint Brigid and her life . On Tuesday we all of ty went to kildare town , there we went to saint brigid's well (both of them ) we visited Brigid's catherdral and learned all about the history of Kildare including the round  towers after our pillgrimage we went to Kildare village , most of us went to starbucks (i got the nicest hot chocolate ) . It was a really fun day and i learned a lot ! .

Spring is a'coming

Spring is tomorrow ! . Come tomorrow we don't have to wear gloves , hats ,scarves and heavy coats -this isn't really true , considering it is Ireland we will probably still have to wear them . Tomorrow is not just the beginning of Spring it is also Saint Brigids day . Saint Brigid is Known as Kildare's saint .Our school is in Kildare and most of the people in our school are from Kildare so saint Brigid's day is a big deal here to show everyone just how much of a big deal it is we have a blog all about saint Brigid .There is a ton of info about saints Brigid .The blog is definitely worth looking at .

death in the theatre

Today all of transition year went to Mullingar (Niall Horan is from here :) ) .We went to see plays , two of the transition year class's performed plays. My class( class fódla ) were the audience - the best audience ever !!
The plays were really good both class's did two plays , one based on a poem - one class did "Titch Miller" and the other class did "Midterm break" . For their second play they wrote their own script . - You could not tell that they wrote the script because they were so professional .The plays were all really upsetting (in a good way they were supposed to be sad ) - in every play a character had died.
I thought all the plays were amazing , the acting was brilliant - i really felt for all the characters , the music was affective . Everything was great i had a really great day and i would watch all the plays all over again , i can honestly say that everyone one who was involved in the plays did a fantastic job .

Young Scientist

Even though our project didn't get through to young scientist  , i get to go to the RDS with the rest of Ty to look at the projects that did get through . I am looking forward to it not just because its a day off school but also because i will get to see my friends project that did get through and you always get loads of free stuff at the young scientist  , it is a really fun day so i can't wait .!! :)