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...