There's Always Light at the End of the Tunnel

So over the mid-term I started to work on my history project for the end o the year. I have found out so much about Hitler since I started and some of it is really interesting too. Here is some of the work that I have done so far on my project. This is part of the essay that we have to write for the project. Adolf Hitler was born on the 20 th of April in 1889. He was born into a big family. He was the fourth child of six. He became very much attached to his mother after his brother died. He had a very close relationship with his mother while he had a troubled relationship with his father who used to abuse him. When Hitler was growing up he wanted to become an artist but his father disagreed with this and wanted him to follow in his footsteps and become an Austrian customs official. After Hitler’s father died he became an artist and he moved to Vienna.  But he struggled as a painter in Vienna and he soon became poor. His mother died in 1907 from breast cancer. The doctor that t...

On Friday we started to watch a film called sometimes in April. This film is about the Rwandan genocide. We started to watch it for religion because we are learning about genocide. Both of the .Y classes went to the demo room after break to watch it together. We had planned to watch it for the three classes until lunch. The film was about the Rwandan genocide and it was between the two tribes called the Hutus and the Tutsi. The Hutus wanted to kill any Tutsis or moderate Hutus. I found the film very confusing but I dint watch it all. Kellie wasn’t able to watch the film because she found it too upsetting and from hearing everybody’s comments about the film it clearly was a horrible and sad film. I sat outside with Kellie to keep her company and to help keep her mind of things and I think that we managed to do a very good job at that. I dint mind sitting with her. After hearing what people said about the film I’m glad that I didn’t watch it in school. I think that I might see if I c...

We have now started do some more work on our science projects that we are going to be e=entering into sci-fest in May. We are working in groups and I am working with Bebhinn and Grace for this project. We are trying to show the importance of washing your hands especial when you are in an environment such as the science lab when there is lots of different things around the room. So far we have done a lot of work but there is still more to be done. We are going to take swabs of different things that people always touch in the science lab an then let the bacteria and germs grow on the agar and we will look at our results. We were also told today that we would have to make a presentation to show the rest of the year in April. Everybody will be making a presentation to all of the T.Y's. they don’t have to be very long. We have made a weekly plan of everything that we have to do and we will be starting to work on our project book soon so hopefully if things keep going good and everythi...

Today we went to Croke park to see the GAA m museum. We left school at 12 and it was a really fun and packed day. We started off by getting show a video and it show us what happens in the stadium before a match is played. It also showed us all of the different people that are involved in the different things in the stadium. After we were shown the video we went out under where all of the seats are and we were shown different things and told about them all. We went into some of the different places like the dressing rooms and the players’ lounge and where the players would go to physic and where they would warm up and things like that. It was pretty cool if you ask me. The players’ lounge was amazing. Once we had a bit of a look around in there and we all got nicer and warm and found cosy seats we were told about the history of the GA. What better way to be told history the on nice seats in a lovely warm room. One we had done that we then went to see the stadium we went out to the gra...

For the last few religion classes we have been preparing to watch a film called sometimes in April. This film I think is about the Armenian genocide. So for the last few classes we have been looking at the meaning of genocide. And we finally started to watch the film today. We started it at the end of lass so we didn’t get to see much. But we have religion tomorrow so I’m sure that we will get to watch it then.

On Friday we got a talk from Mr Daly about the Swim a mile with a smile. We were told that we would be taking part in it this year on the 15 th of April in the National Aquatic centre. www.nationalaquaticcentre.ie We were told all about the swim and where the inspiration for the swim came from. Mr. Daly told us about his son Ian who was sick and all about his sons life and how he loved to swim. After Mr. Daly told us about his son Ian and a bit about the swim he told us about a place called barretstown. This is a place were seriously ill children can go and just be children and have fun. he then showed us a video of what the people in barrestown do and how they make the children really happy. http://www.barretstown.org/ we were told that all the money that is raised will be going to Crumlin Children's hospital and Barrestown. We are able to swim the mile on our own or we can swim the mile in groups. The mile is 64 lengths of a pool and i think that im going to try and swim it on ...

On Thursday during geography Mrs L told us about a 5th and 6 th year trip that would be happening in October during the mid-term. The trip is for 4 days and it is to Poland. There are lots of different things that we are going to be doing while we stay there for the 4 days. We will be staying Krakow. Some of things that we will be doing if we get to go to Poland are visiting that Auschwitz concentration camp going to Schnlinders factory seeing the birthplace of Pope John Paul the second and going to a water park. It sounds like an amazing trip and I would love to go but there are only 40 places available on the trip and there are lots of people that want to go. There is going to be a draw held to see who gets to go. All of the people who went to France in second year will be put into the draw but if their names get picked out they will be put on the waiting list giving everybody who didn’t go to France a fair chance.

Yesterday because we had double rugby we done it during lunch ad we then had our lunch when everybody was in class. Mr L was supervising us. Before the end of lunch he called Jessica and me over because he wanted to talk to us. I didn’t have a clue what he wanted to talk to us about. He told us that he wanted to start up and athletics committee in school. He said that there would be repersentives form each year on the committee and that he asked Jessica and me to be on it from T.Y because we had taken part in the track and field a lot during the years, I have done field event and Jessica has done track events. He told us that he wants to get lots of people involved in it this year and that he wanted Jessica and me to canvas form people to start doing athletics in school.

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In science today we switched classes. Since the start of the year i had Ms. O C and we were doing chemistry. Now we are doing physics and we have   Mr. D. I don’t really like physics and I’m not going to do it next year for 5 th and 6 th year. But I’m sure that it would be fun to do some of the different experiments and things like that that you can do when you do physics. We are still working on our projects that we were doing for the young scientist. We are going to be entering into the sci-fest competition so we have to keep working on them and trying to make them better. For the project that the group I’m in we are do a project to show the importance of washing your hands and how fast germs and bacteria can spread. We have finished the first part of our project and now we just have to make the agar and take the swabs of the different things that we want to test and then leave them in an incubator to see what happens. Ms O C said that we will be able to do that next Tuesday s...

In music today we started to work on our song for music night Mama Said. I kind of like it. I guess that we could be doing a worse song. Most people don’t like it. I guess that’s because it is very repetitive and there is not much words in it. I guess that its good because the it’s an easy song to sign it. But I’m sure that it will sound good on the night once both of the T.Y classes start to practice it together. We were also told about different things that we would be doing in music over the next month or so. We were told that we would be performing the songs that we have been working on inn groups for the other T.Y class next week and if not everybody got to do it we would finish them after we come back from mid-term. I am really nervous about signing in front of a class considering I can’t sign and well it’s just weird signing in front of people We were also told that in March we would be doing a percussion workshop. That a guy would be coming into the school to do it with us. I...

On Friday I had my meeting with Mr. C about the different subjects that I wanted to choose for leaving cert. I all ready had a pretty good idea of what subjects I wanted to do and Mr C was able to help me decide what order to put them in and things like that. The subjects that Im going to pick for next year are history home ec and biology. We also talked about the different things that I would like to do when I leave school. I wanted to be a nurse but no I really have no idea what I want to be when I leave school. After we talked about that we talked about work experience and where o went for my first placement. I went to a hospital in Athy and it was kind of like a nursing home and there wasn’t very much for me to do so I didn’t like it very much. For my next work experience I’m going to fire brigade training centre and I’m looking forward to it. I hope it’s better than my last work experience.

In religion today Ms KB was out so we had Ms R and we were watching Gran Torino again. The last day that Ms KB was out we started to watch it with Ms. so we watched some more of it today from where we left off. It’s a good film so far. I’m really starting to like it. It’s about an old man and a car and he was in the war and his wife died. So at the beginning it was kind of sad but now it’s stating to get better and more interesting. I’m looking forward to getting to watch the some more of it sometime soon in religion. I really want to find out what happens in the film.

Today in science we were testing the ph levels of different shampoos. In class yesterday we started to learn about cosmetic science and the first thing that we looked at was hair and shampoo. We were asked to bring in shampoo and when I went home from school and told my brother that I needed to bring in some shampoo to school he gave me a weird look but not to worry I got some any way. It was a pretty simple experiment we just put different samples into test tubes and mixed them with a little bit of water and put in a strip of universal indicator paper and hey presto we were pretty much done. We just had to leave them for a while and then compare then to the different colours for each of the different ph levels. It was a really good experiment and a bit random too but it was fun .