Driving

On Monday the 27th of April our class Aurora traveled to the Leinster Driving Campus for a short driving lesson and mock theory test.

We were split into two groups, mine started the day off with driving. I was in a car with Olivia, Laura and Liveta. Olivia was the first to drive, then me, Laura and last Liveta. We each spent at least half an hour driving. I didn't crash the car in the end which came to a surprise to probably everyone I was in the car with.

When we finished we went inside and did our theory test in the same groups. Ours got 34 questions right so we failed...

Afterwards we went outside and each took turns in wearing "beer goggles" that showed us what our vision would be like if we got very drunk. We had to try pick up one cone and put it on another one handed and then give the instructor a high 5. I failed miserably...

Schizophrenia

On Tuesday the 27th of January, we traveled to Mullingar (Niall where you at) to compete in a drama competition. Everyone in our year contributed to an individual play, in our class their were four different dramas entering but in the other classes there were only one or two.

The drama that my group wrote was called 'Schizophrenia' it was based off a short story Laura and I read so we were the main writers of the drama. Schizophrenia is a long term mental disorder which is commonly known as an unawareness of what is real and what is imaginary. It is about a girl suffering with the mental illness schizophrenia and is refusing to take her medication because her illness has caused her to create an imaginary best friend in her mind that she believes is real. This figment of her imagination threatens to leave her if she takes the medication. This is only causing the disorder to get worse so the main character 'Grace' takes her medication to make the confusion go away. When the figment of her imagination starts disappearing Grace has had enough and gives in to Lucy's (her imaginary 'friend') demands to kill her mother, so the audience think.

The performance went well over all, we got feedback such as it was short and sweet but we needed to use the stage more and focus on our projection, I personally think it wouldn't have been a problem if we had gotten to practice on an actual stage first rather than just in the classroom.

It was our best performance of the play in my opinion as Laura only had to prompt one or two lines.

After we had performed Laura, Emily and I went to McDonalds and Euro Giant where we found a hell of a lot of One Direction merchandise (surprise, surprise) 

Unfortunately our quest to find Bobby Horan failed miserably but One Direction stationary is close enough I guess.

BT Young Scientist

On Thursday the 8th of January all Transition Years and all 2nd years in our school traveled to the RDS to view the Young Scientist exhibition. There were 550 projects from around the country that qualified to be a part of the exhibition, including one by students in our year. It was a project based on the ideal conditions for learning. 

We spent most of the day looking at the projects and talking to the guy who did a project with a guitar that could potentially help people who have had strokes get movement back into their fingers.

Work Experience

Yesterday the 3rd of December was last day of our first term of work experience. I spent my first block week of work experience at FM104 and then moved onto Waltons music shop in Blanchardstown. I worked here almost every Wednesday for the last 8 weeks. It was a lot of fun, i was with two other guys from schools in Dublin for the majority of my time there, if there was ever nothing for us to do we were always busy, I ended up attempting to teach one of them guitar which did not end well.

Most of our time there was spent in the delivery room breaking down boxes that once held all of the products we had bar coded and put onto the shop floor. Its fair to say that all three of us are sick of even the sight of boxes.

Playing and testing out the instruments (mostly guitars and keyboards) was another thing I loved to do there. 

Over all it was a great experience and i would go back again if i could.

Fashion Show

This week was a busy week for everyone in the school, St. Wolstan's held their own fashion show in the Celbridge Manor Hotel. It was on for two nights, Tuesday the 25th of November and Wednesday the 26th of November. 

Models were selected from each year to model clothes from different shops in the area such as Oasis in Liffey Valley and Catch in Manor Mills, Maynooth. 

There were  entertainment acts such as Ballet, Irish dancing and many musical acts.

Mini-Companies in our year were also given the opportunity to sell our product outside the entrance to the fashion show.

"Art" Trip

On Tuesday our year went to Carton House in Maynooth to visit the "Vanishing Art" exhibition held there. There were two parts to the exhibition, the one indoors which included smaller pieces of art and the outdoors one which included larger pieces of art that would not fit indoors.

We saw many sculptures such as a pink T - Rex, dresses made completely from bronze and an owl made from paper.

Everyone's favourite part of the trip wasn't the art but was the Irish rugby team who happened to be training in Carton House while we were there. Unfortunately I didn't get to meet any of the team but a few people in our year did and I am extremely jealous.

Hey Laura i finally updated my blog so you have something to read in I.T.  you're welcome, btw act my age is on rn and I'm Irish dancing in my head okay bye #liara #ashaura