There's Always Light at the End of the Tunnel

So tomorrow is St Bridget’s day and today in religion we spent the class making St Bridget crosses. They were easy to make. We made them before in second year I think well some of us anyway. I couldn’t really remember how to make them but once I was shown what to do I was on my way and made it without making and disastrous mistakes. While we were making our crosses ms KB was telling us about St Bridget and was telling us different stories about her. Some people were also singing a song about St Bridget that we learned in primary school. So it was a really fun class today.

This week we were told that it is almost time for us to make our subject choices .The third years will be doing their mocks, but before this happens they have to choose their subjects. We have been getting talks from different teachers about the subjects and what they invloved for leaving cert. Most of the teachers make the subjects sound great and interesting it’s like they are trying selling a product like on dragons den. It’s hard to know what they will really be like. I think that I have finally decided that I want to do biology home ec and history the late course. I’m looking forward to going into fifth year but I am going to miss transition year. Every things just going too fast. It’s like ty is almost over all ready but I guess we just got to take one day a time and then it might not seem like it’s going too fat. But I love T . Y.

For music night the T.Ys are going to be singing a song..... :) This is the song that we are going to be singing. I didn’t like it the first time I heard it but after a few times I started to like it... :)

Yesterday in science we spent the class planning an experiment that we would be doing today in class. The experiment was to make foam and it was really cool and pretty simple too. I was working with Jessica for this experiment. There wasn’t really that much that we had to do. it was really just mixing all of the different substances together into one conical flask. Ours didn’t seem to be very foamy but I was kind of foam. I think that we got the measurements a bit mixed up and that’s why it didn’t work as well as we had hoped but we did manage to make some sort of foam by the end of the class.

Today all of the tys headed off to the RDS to go and see the young scientist exhibition. It was a good day overall. All of the tys entered into the young scientist competition at the start of the school year to see if they got accepted. We worked in groups for this project too. Only one of the groups that entered from ty got accepted into the competition and there was also a group from fifth year that got accepted into the competition. When we got to the RDS it was packed there was lots of other school there too. We were allowed to split into different groups and go around where ever we wanted during the day but we were not allowed to leave the RDS. I spent most of the day with Kellie and Louise we always managed to lose Róisín and Niamh like every five minutes but we alas managed to be with each other at some point in the day. We first began to look around at all of the projects and some of them looked really good and interesting and people really did put a lot of effort into them a...

Today we had a talk form a very nice man from WEEE Ireland. We had it for one class after lunch. All the TY’s went to the demo room for this. The talk was about the things that WEEE Ireland does and it was also about a battery recycling project that we can do this year. The aim of the project is to make more people aware of recycling older batteries rather than just throwing them out in the bin. For the project you have to put boxes around the school and in other   places in the local community. You have to get people interested in recycling batteries and make them more aware of doing so. I think that it would be a really good project to do. The man who came in to talk to us told us about some of the other ideas that other school had come up with to let more people to recycle batteries and some of them were really good and things that i would never think about. To learn more about WEEE Ireland see their website.....   http://www.weeeireland.ie/