There's Always Light at the End of the Tunnel

Last night we had our annual music night in school. The aim of music night is to raise money for the music department in the school and to have fun of course. All of the T.Y,s were performing a song called Mama Said. We had been working on the song for a few weeks in music and then we started to work with the other T.Y class to make it sound even better. We added actions to it and a bit of movement to make it more lively not that it wasn’t lively enough or anything all ready but it made it more fun. In the beginning I didn’t really like the song and then we sang it so much so I didn’t like it at all but the days before music night AI began to like it again. I t was a good night and it was really fun. It was like the holy faith drama again waiting in a hall way until it was our turn to go on stage. I was so nervous about going on a stage in front of people. I really don’t like it and I really didn’t want to do it but I did it anyway. Once I got up there and started to sing with th...

So tomorrow is music night and today we were practicing our song Mama said. I'm looking forward to doing the song because after todays practice it was a lot better. the only problem that I have is standing on a stage in front of people :/

Yesterday in religion we started to watch another movie. The movie that we started to watch is Hotel Rwanda. Lauren very kindly brought it in so that we could watch it. This film is about the Rwandan Genocide. We have all ready watched a film about this topic. The film that we all ready watched was Sometimes in April. That movie was from an American perspective where as Hotel Rwanda is from a Rwandan perspective. This film is easier to watch now that we all ready know what’s going on after watching Sometimes in April. So Far the film has been god and it hasn’t been too hard to watch like sometimes in April. There has been nothing to bad and shocking but I’m sure that it will all come but hopefully it won’t be as bad as sometimes in   April especially at the end. The cover of the movie. Source of this picture.

Yesterday for our first class we had a talk about cycling. The talk the reasons as to why you should cycle. We were also told the reason why people don’t cycle. We should cycle for lots of reasons; here are some of the reasons: It’s better for the environment, It’s healthier, It means that there is less traffic on the road. He compares Ireland with another country. He compared Ireland with the Netherlands. Almost everybody in the Netherlands cycle everywhere. They have much better cycling facilities than what we have here in Ireland. It is normal to see people that are well off or have a very good job to be cycling in the Netherlands rather than being transported by car. They cycle in all kinds of weather too. It’s completely different than here in Ireland. In the Netherlands around 50 % of the population cycle while here in Ireland only 2 % of the population cycle regularly, what a difference. Next week in school we are having a cycling week. This is to help us get our next green f...

Today all of the tys headed into town for our English trip. We had a jam packed day ahead of us with the plan that we were going to visit three different places. We were divided into our two lasses and despite our best efforts we were not allowed to Have Kellie in Amina for the day. Amina went to the W.B Yeats exhibition while Emnet went next door to the museum. Here is what I learned about W.B Yeats: The Yeats exhibition was really good and I found it very interesting. There was so much that I learned about William B Yeats that I didn’t know. He was such an interesting person. We were told that he wasn’t very good in school and it just shows you that anything is possible. He went from not being very good in his subjects to becoming a famous poet. I think that’s amazing. Maud Gonne was a person that was very involved in his life.  He met her in 1889 and was very much in love with her. He proposed to her many times and each time she refused. He proposed to her five times formally...

Today a few of us from Amina went down to ms O C science class during Irish. She said that we could come down to work on our science projects for sci-fest. Yesterday we made the agar so today we were taking swabs of the different things in the class room. We took two swabs of a door handle a stool a sink and a desk. After we had done that we out our agar dishes into the incubator and we will leave them there until next Tuesday when we can look at them during science. We have been working on these projects for a while now but there different from all of the other projects that we have been doing. In most classes we are given every day to do our projects like in geography and in other classes we are only given certain days. It’s good that we only get certain days in school to do our projects because it means that you can do more work for that subject on other days. But it can also be hard to remember that you are doing it and what you were last doing in the projects. I’m kind of lookin...

Today we were back in the science classes that we started the year uin. We were doing some more work on our projects for the sci-fest competition comming up soon. For our project we are trying to show people the importance of washing your hands to help prevent the spread of germs and bacteria. To do this we dont tyweo main experiments.  First we showed people how fast germs spread by putting vaselin on our hands and going around the classe room touching things. We then looked at the hand prints under a UV light and took photos. To learn more abouyt the first part of our project see this blog post.... http://siobhanb.blogspot.com/2010/11/first-day-back-after-mid-term.html The next step was to make agar and we made that today with another group that is doing a similar project to us. The agar smelled so bad it wasn’t funny. I never want to make it again. Once iot was made we poured it into the different dishes and then put the lids back onto them and put them in...

Today I was my second training session after school for the West Leinster schools competition in Santry in April. I am hoping that I will get to go after the trials. I think this year I am going to try and do the hammer rather than the shot and I’m hoping that I will be able to keep doing the discus. So Mr L show me and another girl today how to do the hammer and let’s just say thats for me it was a disaster... :/   It wouldn’t go up and it wouldn’t go straight and it almost went over a fence. I’m surprised I didn’t hurt someone or even myself. I think it would be better if i was to go back to my shot put rather than the hammer. After a bit of hammer training it was time to move onto some discus. Now this I could do. I love the discus so much. I won the west Leinster last year so I’m hoping that if I get to go to Santry this year and I’m also hoping that I will be able to get into the top 5 and I’m aiming to be able to throw 22 meters and break my P.B of 21.40. Nothing to big but ...

So last night at the Irish blog awards I won. When you go up to collect the award you had to make a speech and seeing as how I had convinced myself that I wasn’t going to win I didn’t have a speech ready. When I went onto the stage I froze. All I could manage to say was “em em thanks I guess” and then I pretty much ran off the stage.  So today I was thinking of what I could have said. If I was able to speak while I was on stage my speech would have went something like this..... “ Wow well this was a total surprise. I was not expecting this at all.  I really have to say thanks to a few people. Firstly the person that got me to start a blog as part of my I.T class Mrs L. She also nominated me for this award and I am really grateful. She has helped me make my blog what it is now. So thanks Mrs L. I have to thank Tom Tom. My blogging motivator. Without him I would not be able to blog so much. He always makes sure that I have blogged. So thanks Tom Tom. I have to thank my dad an...

Here are some photos form the Irish blog awards.... :) Air guitar. Rick showing off the awards. Damian accepting an award for someone. Everybody at the Irish blog awards..... :) All of these pictures have come form pix.ie    www.pix.ie

Mrs L sent me this link.....    http://snarah.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/iba2011/ " A brief synopses of the 2011 Irish Blog Awards, brought to you in MS Paint. Enjoy…"

So yesterday I headed up to Belfast with my dad and my brother Paul. It was an eventful start to the day when nobody knew what time we were leaving at and when Paul kept throwing things at me. Yeah I have a nice brother don’t I. We headed off at around 11 with the hopes of doing a bit of shopping in Belfast city before we made our way to the Europa hotel. To be honest on Saturday morning I was more excited about going shopping than to be going to the awards. After a couple of hours shopping with Paul I soon wanted to be at the awards more than anything. At around 6 we went back to the hotel for something to eat and then headed back down to the lobby and waited for a little while until we could go into the awards. At this point I was getting really excited. All that was going around in my head was the song “I’m so excited”. Once the clock went 7 I wanted to go in but we waited until about 7.10.  By this time had seen nobody that I knew so it was just me my dad and Paul. I wasn’t...

I have just arrived home from Belfast where the Irish blog awards were being held and I am glad to say that I have won the award for the "Best youth blog" I will have a proper post tomorrow but now I think it is time for bed.... :D

On Saturday I will be getting up bright and early to go up to Belfast for the Irish blog awards. I have gotten into the final of the youth category for the awards. My I.T teacher nominated me and I was surprised that I got into the final. The awards are taking place on Saturday on the Europa hotel in Belfast and my dad and me just booked out tickets. I didn’t have a clue about anything to do with the awards to I emailed one of the other finalist in the youth category. I emailed Tommy because form reading his blog I found out that he had been to the awards before and he had won too. He was a huge help to me. So thanks Tommy for your help its much appreciated. :) Check out Tommys blog at http://trusttommy.com/ . So on Saturday morning I will be heading off up to Belfast with my dad and Paul. Thanks to everybody who has helped me with my blog.  I have to say thanks to Tom, my blogging motivator without him I wouldn’t have blogged as much as I have done so far this year. He is the best...

Here are the links to the blog finalists in the youth category. These blogs are amazing you should read them. http://aceofaoife.blogspot.com/ http://trusttommy.com/ http://www.loladee.com/ http://lavieenross.wordpress.com/ Good Luck to everyone in the final. :) 

So before mid-term we were told about a fifth and sixth year trip to Poland that is going to be happening. When I heard of this I really wanted to go. It’s all we talked about for a while. Especially me and Louise. When I got picked I was over the moon. I am so excited to get to. It is going to be amazing and it is going to be a once in a lifetime trip. The thing that I am looking forward to the most is going to the Salt mines and the concentration camp. It is going to be so good. I am so excited I can’t wait to go. November can’t come soon enough. Ever better yet almost all of me really close friends are going to. 

Today in religion we finished watching sometimes in April. A movie about the 1994 Rwandan genocide. I didn’t get to watch all of the film because the first time that we started to watch it Kellie couldn’t watch it so to keep her company I sat outside with her. I’m glad I didn’t watch it to be honest. It was explained to me so I had a fair idea what it was all about. Today we watched the final scene and it was horrible I was not expecting what I seen. I am never watching that movie ever again. It was horrible and I’m not usually like this when it comes to movies but that movie was just I can’t even describe how I feel after I watched it. The cover of the DVD. We are doing a work shop on it. We have to interview people. We were put into groups then each person got a role and then they have certain questions that they have to answer. The group that I am in is big so there was enough people to be one of the three main people from the movie. Once we have done the interview for the ...

For your science project the group that I am works in our doing our project to show people the importance of washing their hands. We did not to get accepted into the young scientists but now it is time to enter into sci-fest. We have been doing some more work on our project so that we can make it better for sci-fest. We have also started to do some more work on our folder for our project. Everything for this project seems to be going well and I hope that it keeps going well. 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.

On Monday we finally got into our groups to perform the song that we have been working on for the most of the year so far. I was so nervous to get up in front of the whole class to sign with my group but it didn’t turn out to be so bad in the end. We sang the Man who can’t be moved by the script. We didn’t have any music to go with it was just our voices. Me and Lauren only had to sign the course with the rest of the group whilst Karen Davina Lauren and Oriana sang a solo each. After a few pauses filled with laughter we managed to finish it and it wasn’t too bad. It was fun I have to say and something that I would have never done before and I don’t think that I will be doing it again in a hurry. All of the groups got to go but one I think. It was good fun and something different. I don’t like music and I hated it at the start of the year but it’s not truing out to be so bad after all. I don’t really have any interest in music at all. I will listen to anything really. What kind of...

During the week I found out that I got picked as one of the finalist for the Irish blog awards youth category. My I.T teacher Mrs L nominated me for the award a few weeks ago. I'm only new to blogging so I didn't know anything about the awards. It was a surprise for me that I got nominated or even that Mrs L thought that my blog was go enough to be nominated for the Irish blog awards. There were ten people in the youth blog nomination at the beginning. I really didn ’t think that I would get into the final for the competition. The other blogs that have been nominated in the youth category were amazing. I read them most days and they are really good. I'm really happy that people thought that my blog was good enough to go into the final of the competition. I think that no I have to go up to Belfast for the competition. Good luck and congratulations to all of the bloggers that got through to the final of the Irish blog awards