Any Caramel Squares going??

Today in Homeec we made caramel squares atm they are still setting... :) gonna have them in like a few mins just before tennis:) .. Anyway the mixture is pretty easy to make like put the butter, flour and sugar together until they look like bread crums then with the caramel add the tinned milk (cant remember the name) add the butter and also the golden syrup. Soo after all thats done leave them to set for like 10 mins and then add the melted choco on top... YUMMY!!! :)...
I hope it tastes good :)
Last week we made cheese cake.. Mine eh well didn't kinda look great :L it looked gone off I was scared of eating it. xP
But homeec this year has been fun!!! :)

Review on Ty :)

Well.. Transition Year!! What a year! Been fun meeting new people, going on trips work experience etc etc... I could go on and on about it.

With like the start of the year to now, friendships have changed soo much!! Its like scary how much change has happened over the year and how people change and grow up.. :)

I remember how stressed people got with the mini company an how to start in up and all, soo crazy.. The the english plays.. They were AMAZING!!!!!!!! They were brill haha Z.M, C.B, F.H.D and L.M being boys :L was soo good:)

I suppose Ty kinda makes you the person you are today really, like it'll break you down, with trying to get assigments done or projects.. The kinda makes you with new friendship, like even if friendship grow and change like at least you can look back and see the friends you have now are the ones your prob gonna have till the end of school :)

I loved how the students got to know teachers more on trips and the teachers got to know us too.. :L

Reminding of that coming home from the Sci fest the group I was sitting with on the bus, we were soo hyper, but we didn't really care that they saw us like that cause like its TY let lose and have fun I suppose. :)

Thats really it I suppose..
Aoife :) xx

Sci-Fest

So tomorrow all TY's are going to the Sci-fest in tallaght.. I suppose we are all very nervous.. But Hopefully it'll be a good day.
Write up about it tomorrow :)


oh underneath is my geography project read if you want :)

Gaelic Football.

Its mainly played in Ireland, its the largest supporting sporting organisation in Ireland with up 80,000 members. Its played outside of Ireland too but not soly played with members of the Irish diaspora, its increasing in popularity internationally. Teams from London and New York compete in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

It is also one of the bases for Aussie Rules as some rules match during the each games.

Aussie Rules

Also known as Australian Football. Its a sport played by 2 teams with 22 players 18 aside and 4 on bench. The ball can be moved with any part of the body the primary way of moving the ball is kicking, handballing and running with the ball. For the people that are running with the ball the ball must bounce of the ground, throwing the ball is not allowed and players must not get caught handling the ball.

The game is a mix with Gaelic football and Rugby. It involves the same movements with the two games put together. The game is played world wide eg Ireland.

Rubgy.. New zealnd

New Zealand is top rank for worlds best ruby team. The team is well known for the haka, its performed at each international match in 1914 is was established that it was apart of the All Blacks. In 2006 it was performed in the dressing rooms prior to the match as the Welsh Rugby Union had a disagreement. Usually the Haka is played on the field before kick off.

In 2008 New Zealand played Munster, before the match 4 of Munsters New Zealanders challenged New Zealand by preforming the Haka before the All blacks have started, on the same tour the All Blacks preformed the Haka but the Wales team refused to move and ended up being a staring match between the two teams until the referee forced them to move to start the match.

Many teams have tried to have a come back after the All Blacks have preformed the haka. One year on the Lions tour Brian O'Driscoll lifted a piece of grass which represented that he will take on the offer of the fight. There are many significant moments where other teams battle it out to fight back the All blacks.

Rugby.. Ireland

Ireland:

Ireland is ranked as the top 5 best team in the world today, as New Zealand is Number one. The team is captained by the well known Brian O'Driscoll, He has Captained the team to victory by winning the 6 Nations Grand Slam in 2009 and also lead out the Lions team in 2005 in New Zealand.

He was on the Senior squad at the age of 20, and even though losing to Australia established himself as one of the rugby top outside centres. He brought Ireland to victory when he played a hat trick of tries on the French team and winning to them since 1972. Brian's popularity in Ireland grew and supporters began to wear t-shirts saying 'In BOD We Trust'. In 2002 Brian starred in Ireland's win against Australia 18-9.

After the retirement of Ireland's Captain Keith Wood, Brian brought Ireland to success getting 2nd place in the 6 Nations. Which was followed by winning the Triple Crown in 2004. Brian captained the team to victory over South Africa.

In 2009 he brought the team to victory by winning the Grand Slam after 61 years, he scored a try in every match except one. On the 15th November of that year he was named he was nominated for International Rugby Board Player of the year, but losing by one point to Richie McCraw, but after much polling done by fans and supporters he was named Player of the 2009 6 Nations Championship.

In 2010 he captained every match but the match against Wales he picked up his 100th Cap in the Millennium Stadium. Brian has played the last 3 world cups and has picked up 13 caps and 6 tries he has became the most capped player on the 26 June 2010 against Australia.

Irish and British Lions team:

On the 11 April '05 he was announced the Captain for the tour to New Zealand, prior to that tour he had been named captain for the Northern Hemisphere side for the IRB Aid Match. But had to with draw due to shoulder injury but still showed up at match side to watch the game.

In 2005 playing against the All Blacks ended up him being carried off by a stretcher in the first few minutes due to a shoulder injury after being spear tackled by two of the All Blacks after the ball had been cleared out of a ruck. He extended his arm to protect his head but dislocated his shoulder on impact.

21st April 2009 he was selected for the tour to South Africa on June 1st was captained for the Golden Lions team taking place on 3rd June. It was the first time he had played with the Lions team since his spear tackle back in '05. He was forced to with draw on the 30th June due to head injury and subsequent concussion he suffered on the second test.

Rugby.. England

Rugby began in the 19th Century when William Webb Ellis has been said that he picked up the ball and ran with it down the pitch, Although this is a tale, the Rugby World Cup trophy has been named after him. Rugby football teams the play the game at Rugby Schools, which old pupils took to university. Albert Pell a student at Cambridge has been credited as forming the first football team, during this early period different schools used different rules to play the game. Eton attempted to carry their preferred rules through to different universities.

In the early development of the Ruby football there were a production of set written laws and Rugby School in 1845, the Black heath's Clubs decision to leave the Football Association in 1863, and the formation of the Rugby Football union in 1871, the code of was originally known as ' Rugby Football', it was not until 1895 that the separation code of Rugby league came known as Rugby Union and came to be used for the game itself Supporters of both of the codes will either refer theirs to 'Rugby or 'Rugby Union' unless they are differentiation between the two.

The first Rugby international match was between England and Scotland on the 27th March 1871. By then both Ireland and Wales had representative teams and the first international competition, The Home Nations begun. In 1883 the first rugby sevens had started, which is still held annually. 5 years later two important overseas tours took place, a British Isles team visted Australia and New Zealand, with this it laid the foundation for the Irish and British Lions team.Then in 1888 New Zealand brought over a team to Britain the British spectators.

Eventually in 1905 to 1908 the southern hemisphere rugby countries had begun their first touring to the Northern Hemisphere, all the teams brought new styles, levels of fitness and tactics to the game and the critics were surprised with what they brought.

In 1905 the New Zealand Squad brought in the Haka before each match, Welsh Player Teddy Morgan sang the Wales National Anthem as a response, as Morgan began to sing the Crowd joined in, this was the first time a national anthem was sung at Rugby match.

During the wars (WW1 and WW2) international games were not being played eventually after the wars were over the games begun again.

In 1973 the first sevens match was played in Murray Field as part of the Scottish Rugby Union cenetanry celebrations and then in 1987 the first Rugby World Cup was held in Australia and New Zealand and the regular winners were New Zealand. The first World sevens tournament was held Murray field in 1993.

Rugby union was an amateur sport until the IRB declared the game 'open' in 1995 removing the restrictions of payment to players.

Poem written for you. :)

This poem is written for you

I've never known how much friendship mean

when until there standing by your side

How things can bring you closer

and drift you's apart.

We were all just seperate people

then joined to become one group.

The year went by

went by too fast

all those photograph's that we'll laugh about

in the years to come.

This poem was written for you

as i never knew how much friendship meant

till it was right in my face

We are a clouds in the sky

stay's there constantly no matter where we are

it'll never say good bye

The walls aren't going to go into flames

the memories we have

will still remain

even if the smoke starts to rise

We'll look up to clouds

and know your there by each other sides.

Bog Bodies!! :L

We went to Musems in town on Kildare street beside the Dail.. It was fun.. We saw bog bodies and they were soo cool! As I have an interest in Forensic's it was defiantly an insight to what it was like. They was the bodies have been for years underneath bog and the conservation not alot of decoposition had actually on them its amazing! One of the bodies still have a tooth, hair and also his facial features we're very visible. Most of the bodies had be cut in different parts like some has to legs or torso I think one didn't have a head, but most of the bodies prob have been taken out of the ground and used as turf for a fire. In the musem we saw the bronze age we saw loads of different of different forms of Jewellery that was worn in that age. We also saw a boat that could of been used in the bog (... I think.. ) and it was amazing how the musems keep the conserved for the general public and nothing has decoposed or even fallen off the boat.. We also went to a W.B. Yeats musem. This gave us his general history but also different poems he wrote.. I never knew that he could so infactuated with a girl, it was amazing how he was basing his poems around women in was infactuated with. We looked at loads of different things and heard poems from the speakers over head as we were walking around the musem. Then after we found out loads of different information we went to the National Gallery Musem to look at his brothers art work. His art work was interesting.. He like's to draw pictures with meaning. He's like got some very interesting pictures. He had one with a horse going running through a forest, towards a woman figure, before he drew this picture his wife died so I think that he is running to his wife.. ttyl byeee Btw its end of class I'll continue it again sometimes

Music Night.

Well we're gettting ready for Music Night in the school thats going to be held on Wednesday the 30th March. We're singing Mamma Said, it'll be a really good night.. There is a good line up of acts and some have dancers in it eg ballet. Well I'll have more after its finished Ttyl

To Ty

So to Ty.

Our last few months,

We'll never forget those laughs.

From Carlingford to Carlow.

Mini Company to English.

Dressing it up or down.

Making friends.

And being insane

Not caring what anyone is saying.

Towards Music Night

Then Grad Night

Our Work Experience

and experiences for life.

From screaming running with a rugby ball

to try keep us quiet in music class.

Learning new things

taking on challenges

Making us who we are.

Opening our eyes to another side of learning

Getting to know others alot better.

So to TY..

Thanks to what you've brought

and what you'll help do in our years ahead.

No matter how much competition that went on between each class on dress up day.

It was all fun.

Glad that you were the year I went in with for Ty

Jabba Jabba Jembe

This was probably one of the best workshops ever.. I know I never reported it on this yesterday had project work to do. So I'm doing it today.

The guy (Dave) with his own business Jabba Jabba Jembe, is a percussionist for the last ten years. In the morning we got to use the different drums.. They are African style Drums: Jembe and Kpanlogo they were the main drums there, he also had base drums. But we learned loads of different things we did freestyle/ Solo too. We got to use each drum and also had alot of fun!

If i was to rate it out of ten I'd so give it an 11 it was that good :)..

We also taught him are own beats with our hands chest and clicks, he taught us one too at the end of the session. Alot of people got a bit carried away sometimes when he told us to be quiet, so it was a good laugh too!

I know this is short but atm that's all I can think of.. I'll report back tomorrow when we are back from our W.B Yeats and Bog Bodies exhibition is town!

Work Experience :)

Well.., I went to West grove leisure club in Clane, it was soo much fun the only day I had alot of fun was with Niall, he was only fresh out of collage and he showed me the proper insight of working at a gym ( and he let me off early :) ) He like showed me how to measure the body fat on someone, also the PH and Chlorine in the pool, and also the different machines and how they properly used in the pool, like the Jacuzzi ( how they get the bubbles going and the temp in the pool) and in the pool (bubbles, temp etc etc) Interesting fact: ( prob not but anyway) A jacuzzi needs 6 chlorine pellets to be the right PH. The pool needs 3/4 of a cup. The temp also needs to be 38 Degrees Celsius and the pool around the body temperature. When working out you need to have a warm up and a warm down. If not warmed up properly you will cause an injury to yourself and if you don't warm down you'll get a build up a lactic acid in the muscle and it can be very uncomfortable to have. Also the measurement of body fat, they have a machine to measure its called the BIA body fat analyzer *don't eat at least an hour before getting fat measured with this machine. Also the other machine: Body fat measurement calipers. This usually give the exact amount of body fat on your body. Niall the guy that I was with that day, he should me how to use them but doing it on himself. It was kinda cool the way it worked out the BIA machine, you had to give: Age, gender, weight and then it'd measure your fat, then on the wall a poster showed the fat on the body for heights, age and weight. I had this girl Orla for Monday and Tuesday and some part of Thursday. She was really nice and chatty (not comparing to Niall though he talked sooo much). She showed me how to clean machines properly and where each piece of equipment go. I had to help out setting up the rooms for each class, except for the aqua fit classes. :) The days the manger wasn't in the place was more relaxed and easy going. When he was in, he was really busy but also cranky as one of the girls said. He was really nice though. Although I started at 9 and finished at 1 (Most days I was finished at 12:30) it was still tiring, but I didn't know how some of the workers there were in from 6am and worked till about 2pm. It seemed to go really slow when I wasn't doing classes, cause I was always in the gym doing the same thing over and over again. On Friday Dermot (the manger) he said i didn't have to go in on that day, but my mum working at a gym I was told I can work down there. It was alot of fun, I know the Boss very well and as it's a small gym there was no point of me going in there for a week cause it'd be very repetitive. I worked from 5pm-7pm ( I didn't mind those hours cause i got a line in the morning). I helped count money, recorded who came into the gym and was helping my mum clean up after everyone left. Even though it was very basic stuff the boss didn't mind me staying there with my mum as they were her working hours. While working in the gym I learned alot about myself, I've definitely grown alot of confidence as I was left to do alot of things by myself and in area's on my own. Even though I wasn't working there people did assume I did as they asked a few questions but only basic and definitely ones I can answer with my mum working at a gym I've heard most of the questions before. That's all i can think of atm..Ttyl.. :)

Sometime in April

Its a movie which is really sad.. Some parts can be very upsetting in how the got treated in Rowanda. But the way the hutu's got treated was unbelievable, just getting killed because of what you are!
The movie is following this man and him going back on the memories of what he went through, loosing his family and children and him evening shooting his own friend. He goes to his brothers testomional to hear what he has to say, then he visits then in jail which there his brother tells him how his family dies.
The saddest part of the movie I think is the School scene, where many innocent girls are shot. In one of the rooms the teacher tells the girls that they are not going to be killed but one girl said she'll die to protect her sisters (classmates).. Eventually one after one said they'd die for each other which leaves the teacher in such a bad way.. The soldiers eventually come into the room and shoot them all, with only 3 surviver's, the last three that survived ran away across the country but one died as she is very weak.
The two that are left eventually go back to the school to help clean up all the bodies. This movie is breathe taking and only for those who have a strong head.
We still haven't finished watching the movie, but I cannot wait to see what happens in the end..

ttyl
Aoife. :)

Brief of the Next 3 weeks

Mid-term is Over :(


Mini Company Competition this thursday :)
Hopefully we'll all do well

I know its not apart of school but Celbridge talen show is this Saturday... Its gonna be Epic like it was last year :)
So many different acts perform and like its such a good line up for bands that are gonna be playing there :) Buy tickets. Its such a good night out with friends :)

Work Experience!
Next week :L
I'm doing it in the Leisure part of the West Grove Hotel.
I am excited.. One job i wanna do after i leave school.. It shall be awesome :L


Seachtaine Na Geailge is from the 14th till the 18th
Hopefully we'll have a dress up day the day before Paddy's day :)
It's fun in school with everyone dressed up. :)

15th March:
We're going to Glasnevan (Don't know if that is spelt right :L ) We are showing off our plays (again :] ) its showing what problems are going on ( in our plays) and if Margart Alward was there she would help them.. And how would she help them :) .... It'll be really good and it starts at 8 so it shall be a long night.. But a good one hopefully :)

This is just a random Brief of whats happening for the next 3 weeks :L

English Drama!!

Today in English to help us with our Drama's Ian who did a workshop to help us, (I didn't do it though due to an injury :L). It looked like fun though, the girls did loads of different warm ups doing loads of different movements.. Basically the aim of the movements was nearly like to help us be able to embarrass ourselves in front of each other. Its really cool though.
Towards the end of the workshop, they did this thing where they had to be in a position (A-which was one person) and then B (other person) helped to 'fill the space' as you could say, with that then when B filled that space A would fill B's space when A moved out of her position. Okay that probably sounded really confusing.. :/ but its the best way i could try explain it, last class on a Thursday.. Your kinda tired lol..

Last week though.. We went to Mullingar :)
I think I already said this in another post further down but I'll expand on it:)
Anyway..
We headed off at 9:05 to mullingar, which there we'd present our plays which we've been working on for months! They were soo good though.. And congrats to everyone! The play that I was in 'Time of your life' was amazing everything worked out soo well, especially the guys based in the plays :L.
Our plays weren't preformed in front of other schools though, they were arriving later on. But we performed it in front of the judge (who was really friendly and helpful).. When all the plays were performed we headed out to the town for lunch, and the other schools arrived, on came from Donegal and the other from Kilkenny. Those plays we're really good.. Some we're really weird.. But still good :L.
We are now waiting on the results to see if we got through to the Semi-finale/ finale in Cork, and there the plays will be performed again! But this time hopefully I'll be better at the lighting than last time..
Ttyl.. :)

Dessert Flower.. Book review:)

In school- Re and geog.
We read Dessert flower.
The book follows a girl who left home and ended up going to london which there she got a job in a modelling agency. The book is a true story.
It was amazing how Waris Dire (the girl in the book) the way her life was like in Samoli, hearding the animals, feeding them etc. But I was amazed at her father trying to get her to marry an elderly man, I know it can be in the culture that she lived in, but to me, no it creeps me out how someone can make a 12 yr old marry a 60 yr old man! But she is only worth 5 camels..
When it came to how she got circumcised, it shouldn't be done to children at such a young age, its not right, but it shouldn't be done in the first place! Girls don't deserve that torture and the physical pain the get in adult life. I understand where they are coming from that the girls need to be pure for their husbands but proving it in that way isn't right at all.
Being unhappy at home, she ran away to London england, which there a photographer from a modelling agency gave her his card as she was walking her Uncles and Aunts child to school, she was a maid for them, until they left for home. With that Waris refused to leave England, so she worked in Mc Donalds to support herself whilst living in a youth hostel, eventually she calls up the photographer and went down to the agency, there they took pictures and put make-up on her. From there on she became a world renowned model known all over the world.
With this it gave her the advantage to speak out about female circumcision.

2011

Its been a while since I've blogged....:(
But been really busy with school work, and dancing..
Ty so far is soo much fun:)
Mini Company is kicking off.. Our mini co group Baby cakes are selling our products... Hoping to get loads of people buying.
Last week we went to carlow for a competition in our plays that we created .. Unlike us other groups got teachers to help them create it.. we didn't we made it ourselves :)
We are also continuing with rugby :) Its really good.. and hoping to more competitions.