Christmas Cakes

Today in home ec we made Christmas cakes. We were supposed to make fruit cake but we made chocolate biscuit cake instead because fruit cake is gross. We made penguins for the top of the cake and they're so cute :) 

School :(

We haven't been on any trips this month. We've just had classes... and more classes.... and even more classes :(

Fun Walk

Our theme for the fun walk this year was yellow. For our dance, the class decided to dress up as sunflowers and our tutor dressed up as the sun. We had to do the dance in front of the whole school and it was so embarrassing. The other class did a dance about snapchat and they won :( After every class had done their dance, the school went on a walk around Celbridge.

Castletown

We went to Castletown house as part of our history course :)

English Trip

TY's went on an English trip to Dublin city. We were divided into groups. My group went to a World War I exhibition first. It had primary sources from the war and was about the lives of different Irish people during the war.

Then we went to the National Library to see the WB Yeats exhibition. When we were there, we saw the President of Ireland. We were allowed to have our lunch after that and my friend and I went to Gino's and bought a crepe and ice-cream!

After lunch, we went to the National museum. There was a bog body exhibition there and lots of viking stuff.

Workshops

The Wednesday before our work experience started, we had two workshops. One was about your appearance and how to present yourself and the other one was a CPR course. Our year was split into two groups. I completed the workshop on appearance first. We were told how to dress for work experience and how to do our makeup properly. They also had a catwalk that we had to walk down while balancing a book on our heads. Some people wore high heels too.

After lunch we did a CPR course. We learned how to help people in certain situations e.g. if they have epilepsy, if they're choking. The CPR workshop was really good!

Art Trip

Our second trip was an art trip to Kilkenny. We had to get the bus there at 8.15 :( When we arrived at Kilkenny, we went to the cinema to see an animated movie called Song of the Sea.

Then we went to an exhibition about the animation. One of the animators gave us a tour of the exhibition. He showed us the original sketches and explained how the movie was created. He told us there were twelve drawings for each second of the movie. The film was also nominated for an Oscar. 

After the exhibition, we had our lunch. We were allowed to go to the market where they were selling crepes! We returned to the school after lunch.