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Fun Walk

This week was our school Fun Walk. The "Fun Walk" is a thing are school does each year during Anti Bullying Week to promote anti bullying. Every class and there tutor organise a performance with a dance and music to promote anti bullying. As a TY student I had to dress up in yellow with all of the other TYs. The first years were pink, second years;purple, the third years were green, fifth years; blue and the sixth years were black and white.Our class name is class Belle named after Belle from Beauty and The Beast. We already new we could work with this as Belle wears a yellow/golden dress. So we immediately came up with the idea of using Beauty and The Beast as our theme.Our tutor is Mr. Lawlor and we thought it would be very funny if we dressed him up as Belle instead of the beast. He was on the fence at first but we got him to agree.All that was left to be decided was who was going to be the beast. Sinéad lee offered to dress up as the Beast for our performance.We basically did Beauty and The Beast meets The Ugly Duckling. Sinéad would be bullied by everyone at school and then Mr. Lawlor would strut in and become friends with her as well as stop all of the other bullies(played by the rest of the class).We got Sinéad a mask and she got herself a onesie to wear, but the funniest part was getting Mr. Lawlor into a dress.We got him a yellow dress with a yellow t-shirt and a big brown wig.Sadly our class did not win but we all had great fun making up the dance routine instead of PE.I was a great day!

Carlingford

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Wow how time flies ! It has been 2 weeks since my last post, and so much has happened.Last week, we all went to Carlingford Adventure Centre for two days.It all started bright and early on Monday morning at 7:00 at the Esso station, Where we all met to get on the bus to Louth.The bus ride was not as long as I had expected. My friend Emily and myself spent the whole ride listening to music and watching youtube videos together.When we arrived, we were greeted by our instructors in the volleyball court, our meeting area. We were split into two groups; A and B and given our rooms. I shared a room with my friends Emma, Emily and Serena. We all stocked up on food supplies for the trip so when we got to our room, we all rationed our sweets and drinks out (We brought WAY too much food HAHA )As soon as we got our rooms we grabbed our swimming suits and headed down to the beach to go kayaking. We got our wetsuits, got changed in the changing rooms and headed down to the sandy.. I mean ROCKY beach. We played some fun games on the rocks but in one of the games we had to lay down and that REALLY hurt my back. We kayaked out to the sand on the other side of the beach. I go kayaking in the summer so I didn't find it difficult to paddle. I really enjoyed that day as when we got back to the building we had lunch and headed to the forest to play LASERTAG !!!My favourite activity of the trip was the lasertag. It was sooooooo much fun ! We were split into groups and we fought against each other. We had trees to hide behind and bunkers to hide in. We played a game of sniper, a version of catch the flag and just reds against blues. Then that night we all went back up to the mountain and went on a walk in the forest BLINDFOLDED ! It was very dark and the instructors told us to find are way around to follow the rope. It wasn't really scary... I was more afraid of falling over than anything :PThe next day we were up bright and early again for breakfast and then we went off to the beach again but not for kayaking in twos, We all went canoeing in groups out into the sea. This was so much fun as we paddled out into the sea and climbed onto a raft to jump off of. Then we swam out to a trampoline in the middle of the sea where we all jumped on and off of into the water. I did a frontflip into the water but I got salt water up my nose Ew! We also went to nuns Island where legend has it, the water keeps you young so we all went into the cave and one of the instructors poured water on top of us. Since there was a constant flow of the water and it was in a dark cave THE WATER WAS FREEZING ! Worse than the sea!We went back to the building and dried ourselves off then headed off to to an obstacle course. I didn't think this was as fun as the other activities but it was still a good time as the activities were different to any other obstacle course I have ever done.And then that evening we had to say goodbye to all of the instructors who were so nice to us on our trip and head home. I loved this experience and I am so happy I got to enjoy it with my friends. 

Digital Footprint

I have just watched a video called "My Digital Dossier", also known as my digital footprint. Your digital footprint is the data you leave behind on digital services. Everybody has a digital footprint. I already knew about this and I think that it is a good idea to have a record of all the data you have created online. This means, every email you've created and every profile on social media you've created is kept of record and is listed under your name from the moment you are born.I believe this is a good to have on record as it could be used as evidence in the case of online bullying with fake accounts. If someone were to end up in court for whatever reason, their digital dossier could be checked which contains the data accruing about the habits and interests of their online life.I don't think it is an invasion of privacy as it could be beneficial to you in the future and only some of the information in that dossier will be publicly accessible and some will be private and protected by the agencies who generate the records or information.I am 100% positive my digital dossier is a little big as I do have accounts on various social media and 2 emails (one for school work) but I don't post anything online that I am not proud of. 

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TY Week One

So I have completed one whole week in TY and I have to say ... I LOVE IT !!!

I was extremely nervous going in on Thursday, Not knowing who would be in my class or what teachers I would have or who will be my tutor? But I was worried for nothing. I have an amazing class with some old friends and I am making some new ones. I am enjoying every class I have and I have a wonderful year designed for me.

Last Wednesday was my first week of workshops. We started the day with "Positive Parties" and we all had a great laugh at that. We all danced the Chacha Slide and made eachother laugh with funny dance moves. Then after break we had "First Aid". Our instructor; Garry was so nice and informative and I learned a lot. Then to finish the day we had "Etiquette", which is about how to act "lady-like", how to walk in heels and a general talk about girly things.

The junior cert results are coming in this Wednesday and I have to admit I am a little nervous but I have no need to be. I studied very hard and I did my best and that's all that matters.

I am going over to my friends house on Wednesday night for a party to celebrate ...(The fact it's all over LOL) and then I am going out to dinner with my family on the weekend.Once i get my results, The Junior Cert will be the last thing on my mind and I can enjoy my TY experience.

I am so excited for the year to come. There is so much planned for us and I could not be more thankful that I can share this experience with my friends. We're heading off to Carlingford next week and I am SO EXCITED ! We're going to do water activities, canoeing, build rafts, go rock climbing, absailing and archery. I'm gonna take lots of photos to put up on this blog :D