Hip Hop

Every Friday for the past few fridays we have been  doing hip hop classes .We have been dancing to an Ariana Grande and Beyonce mash up. We will be showcasing the dance on TY night. I take dance classes outside school so I love dance and Ive been enjoying it. I thinks it been a fun thing to do every week and the teacher is really nice. We are currently planning our costumes for the showcase so its a good experience.

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I haven't posted a blog post in ages due to Easter Holidays and LOTS of projects! I'm struggling to think of what to say. March was a pretty quiet month as far as trips away go. However, I have really been loving my work experience at the moment. Its our last week next and I'm really sad as I have loved the experience. I'm working with a Cathy O Connor, a fashion stylist.. Last week I got to work on a shoot with 'xpose' and I was in charge of photography which was great. I got to talk with one of the  presenters Kate. I have also got to help work on shoots with Ireland Am and attend fashion shows and meet loads of people like bloggers and a jewellery designer called Melissa (who designed jewellery for Michelle Obama when she came to Ireland)
 At fashions shows and events like that catering is always provided and the food is amazing. As much as I look forward to seeing the clothes I love getting the food :P last week there was sushi and Japanese inspired food and I also went to a fashion show rose garden themed where there was pink donuts, cupcakes and pink lemonade so I'm happy out :))

Tomorrow myself and most of the other Tys are going on our Gaisce Hike. I am looking forward to it I need to pack asap though. Hopefully the walk won't be too hard and we wont all be dying.......
I don't know what house I'm staying in yet So I don't know what food to bring so I am just going to wing it and bring hot chocolate powder ;)) We are getting to do  lots off out door activities like archery and high rope so it should be fun.

Every Friday for PE we are doing hip hop classes. I love dance and I do it outside school so I have been loving the classes. Michaela and I just bring our inner sass throughout the whole class !

Besides that we are working on lots projects for the end of the year which is in like 5 WEEKS :O
and we are all starting to plan for TY night which is on the 25th of May.

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☆ Mini Company Competition ☆

Today was an important day for Tys.... Our Mini Company Competiton. Now a lot of people hate the word mini company and everything about it as it can be a difficult task. However I think it's nice to be able to showcase your products and create a nice display. My company 'casevana' had a big poster in the back and then we decorated our table with a nice table cloth some of our best cases and a mini demonstaration on how we make the caeses. The judges came and everyone was suprised to see Mrs Leahy was one of the judges. (Mrs Leahy was ther Ty co-ordinator last year but she retired this year). 
The judges had a quick look at the display and I mean a quick look they were gone before I even had a moment to speak lol but then came the presentation time. Everyone was a bit nervous as they had to be three minutes long. Michaela and I kept going over our parts as although we were in different comapnies, We were both Marketing directors. The presentation went well we were 5th to go up so we were in the middle which was good and I don't mind making presentations when I'm up there but I'm always nervous before hand . Onece our presentation was over we listened to the other groups, walked around the stalls and got a bit hyper with our snapchat ( sssh)  but it made the day more fun.
Unfortunately our group didn't make it to the next round as there were lots of companies competing iProtect and Bam Beauty did though so I wish them the best of luck. I think we will continue to sell for a while as we still have people interested in buying our phone cases :)

☆ What have we done this week??.. Who said there was no work in Ty :'') ? ☆

This week has flown by.. like at first I couldn't think of anything to write about...What did we actually do this week? ...I feel like that is a common question for Ty students across the country...But, I eventually realised that this week has been more of a preperation week than anything else for exciting stuff that is coming up over the next few weeks...

We have been prepraring for our Mini Company competition which is taking place next week Thursday in school. There are two judges coming from the students enterprise board                 http://www.studententerprise.ie/. 

We have been writing our booklet and making sure that it is perfect and all that fun stuff :P I definatley think that mini company has been a good learning experience even though a lot people complain about the stress, I think it's beneficial to see how  you work with others and how to solve obstacles in a group situation :P Im proud of our company I think we have a good product and were still selling :)

                                                         

 



We are also nearly finshed our zumba worksop. Next Thursday is our last session. I thoroughly enjoyed zumba overall and I think it was nice to do something new as a year group and all be on the same level and have a bit of fun. As I find that sometimes in year groups there can be lots of cliques and judging and it was nice to do something all together that was fun and still healthy I suppose aha ;P I personally think that Ty should include more workshops like that :)
                             




 ...Then we have Gaisce.  http://www.gaisce.org/ I signed up for Gaisce literally last mintute possibly half an hour before the deadline.. oops. I am doing/ completing the silver award  Not everyone in Ty is doing Gaisce but I think it is a really cool idea and I'm going to try best to make time to learn all my new skills etc. To be honest  I am  most looking forward to to the two day trip away I'm really curious to know what it we are going to be doing ;)  So hopefully Gaisce works out and it is fun :) 

Besides that we got the news about our Ty jumpers. Bascally every year a commitee within the Ty griup design a unique jumper for our year group. We decided on a royal blue colour with Ty spelt out in our names. I really looking forward to seeing them in person! 

Besides that we are just busy tys lol { whoever said there was no work in Ty :'') }

☆ #Idon'twannagrowup ☆

This week we had a very big task ahead of us...We had the Briery Gap drama competition on Tuesday in Mullingar. We had been preparing for a few months now and we had all wrote our own scripts. In my class four groups competed. My groups play was called schizophrenia we did this play to rasie awareness about mental health. I played one of the lead charachters Lucy, who is a symtom of the psychosis.

We arrived in Mullingar after 10 o' clcok we were the first school there so, we competed early. My group was the third group on but I was happy about that as I didn't want to be first or last.  

Before the play I was very nervous about my lines but I was fine once I was on stage I love drama so I enjoyed the experience! The feedback from the judge overall was good and I think we did well and I'm looking forward to getting the results.

                                            

As we had competed early we spent the rest of the day going around Mullingar and watching the other plays. Michaela, Emma and I went to McDonalds and got very excited while spinning on the big chairs. Then we went to the most amazing toy shop ever (haha) and tried on all the mask and spun around on the scooters #Idontwannagrowup haha {only Michalea will understand this ;) } then we tried to find a playground but it started to rain so we went back to the theatre and watched two other plays.  

We then got on a bus and went home. It was a really fun day!

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A VERY long blogpost........... including elves, zumba scientists and plays ;)

It has been awhile since we have been able to blog as this is our second week back since the christmas holidays and SO MUCH has happened!

Before the Christmas holidays we went to see  Elf :The Musical in the Bord Gáis Theatre http://www.bordgaisenergytheatre.ie/. Michaela and I were singing the whole way through we very excited! The sets were AMAZING and the acting was soo good. As a year group I think we all really enjoyed it and it was a really nice treat! I love theatre and I take part in it outside school so I really enjoyed it and Michaela loves everything musical so it was funny to see her reactions. I also enjoyed eating Emmas doritos on the way back ;) 

More recently we went to the BT Young scientist in the RDS. Every year the second years and the Tys go. I really enjoyed the last time I was there so I was excited. Also one of my best friends Emily was competing with Aimee Finegan and Eimear Delaney. Their project was on the idea conditions for learning and they got a highly commened Badge. Also Ryan Tubridy was there and I got a selfie with him to I was very happy with myself. It was hard though Michalea Emma ansd I had to like chase after him because everyone was pushing and screaming ....Irish girls are such fangirls ;) There was also a really cool 3D movie in the theatre part of the exhibition and they gave you these big yellow 3D glasses!  I like going around and talking to new people about their projects etc.  Overall the day was really fun but alos tiring 

                                     

We had a Zumba workshop today which was soo fun. We had to dance to loads of  music from different cultures and countries around the world. Everyone was gettting really into it and lauging a lot. It was a really fun experience and I'm excited to do some more zumba workshops.

                                                               

We are also VERY busy!  We had a mini company workshop last week and we are working on getting our companies together for the competition and selling our phone cases. Make sure to check us out online we have a twitter @Casevana and a facebook 'Casevana' 

We also have a theatre competition in Mullingar in a week and half. We have been working on our plays very hard. Our play is called schizophrenia and I hope we do well we're really nervous so wish us luck ;) Also Scifest is coming up soon so we are working on our projects really hard. I'm doing my project with Clara and we're testing if different types of food effect your reaction times. 

                                                

So as you can see a lot has happened recently which explains for the very long blogpost lol ;)

                                                                 Aislinnxx 

✴ An update with a hint of my worst nightmare ✴

We haven't really been in school much this week due to work experience and the strike but we are still very busy... On Wednsday we had our last day of work experience for our first placement. I was working in ABsolutely FABulous flowers. http://www.abfabflowers.ie/ Which is a florist and giftware shop. I really enjoyed my time there it was so fun and great business with everything from hats to flowers to candles. I'm really looking forward to my next placement.

Today we had the annual prefect decommissioning service. As we are in Ty now I knew some of the new 5th year prefects who you used to my in my year so it was so strange seeing them wearing the prefect badge time flies so fast I still feel like I'm in first year sometimes. It's always funny hearing the stories of the prefect training night... I hope I get the role of prefect next year :) 

We also have a maths trip tomorrow (bad) and we will be gone for the whole school day (good). Although maths isn't really my thing well it's more like my enemy... But its more about team work tomorrow so I'm  looking forward to it as it will good fun out in the countryside and then of course the singing on the bus and we get to go to blanchardstown shopping centre for lunch so thats a plus right ;) 

I have also joined the Web committee at school Im looking forward to seeing the new website up and running :) Also we have been working on our plays in English and we have to perform them in front of the whole year on Tuesday so I'm very nervous :/ But hopefully it goes well...