Don Giovanni

Last Tuesday we went to an Opera called "Don Giovanni". It was a good day out - we got to have a look around the shops before it started. As for the actual opera... it wasn't the 'best' 4 hours of my life -.- Well, I was actually asleep for most of it, but what I did see was good! (just not for me). The singing was amazing though! ........

This Friday we're going to see a ballet! I'm looking forward to that, it should be great :D

Back from work experience!

So last week we got back to school after our week of work experience. I did mine in a boys primary school in Maynooth. I was in different classes every day, but I was mostly in with the junior infants :) I did things like art, PE and reading with them. It was fun, but so tiring! One time the junior infant teacher left the class and asked me to watch them. When I got there, they were killing each other! They were on top of each other with pencils and scissors and they were throwing books around the classroom! It took a lot of energy to calm them down... the teacher came back like 5 minutes later so I left as soon as I could! It was a really good week overall :)

Gender Equality

Yesterday in class we were learning about gender. Today, we did that some more. Mrs. L gave each of us a piece of paper. On it, it had the name of a girl and a bit about her life. We all lined up at the end of the hall. Then Mrs. L called out questions like "Can you go to school" or "Can you wear what you want" – stuff like that. If you thought that your character would reply yes to a question, you had to take a step forward. As more questions were called out, it was clear that there was a big gap in the middle of the hall. My character, Francoise, was a girl who lived in Paris and had a very good quality of life, so I was towards the front of the hall and answered "yes" to most of the questions. The girls who were on the same side of the hall as I was were those in the 1st world. Then at the back of the hall, those were part of the 3rd world. It was a good way to understand the differences in gender equality in different parts of the world.

Work Experience Next Week!

So next week we're all doing our first week of work experience! I'm really looking forward to it :) I'm going to St. Mary's BNS in Maynooth. On Friday we're having a meeting about it and we're going to have to keep a diary of next week too (:

Jewellery :D

We have a new teacher for art and for the next couple months we're going to be making a necklace to do with autumn. Today we made leaves using wires and papier mache, which was fun but my wire broke :( For homework we have to make a mood board for the necklace that we will be making :)

FINALLY finished the geography project (sort of..)

The geography project is due next class so I'm really happy we finally finished it! We thought it was due for Christmas, but then it got changed to straight after mid-term :/ It's really long.. we counted the pages and it's almost 80 pages long! It took ages and we still have to make a powerpoint for it. So we will have to transfer all that information onto powerpoint :/ fun..