It's almost Christmas!

Yesterday was the last day of tests and today while the rest of the school were doing the rest of their exams we had our Christmas party in the library :) We did Kris Kindle and had loads of food (too much food, actually..) and made big bowls of hot chocolate :P Then we went bowling! I came last, of course - even with the bumpers and the ramp thing :'( Oh well... :D It was a good way to finish off before Christmas : )

Hope everyone has a lovely Christmas! Looking forward to Santy coming! ;D XoX

Desert Flower

In religion we learned about the Millennium Development Goals. One goal our class focused on was gender equality, so we watched a movie about a Somalian woman named Waris Dirie who was forced to undergo female genital mutilation when she was a very young girl. She had to do loads of work and at the age of 12 she was getting an arranged marriage with a much older man. So in the middle of the night she ran away. She travelled for days in the heat with no food or water. Eventually she got to the city to meet her distant relatives, who sent her on a plane to England. She ended up in the Somalian embassy, where she was treated like a slave. A couple years later she got a job in a fast food restaurant and was spotted by a famous photographer. She soon became a well know model. She know is an advocate for other women like her and is working to stop female genital mutilation. We all made mood boards about the movie.. this is mine and Caoilfhionn's one... :L

Eye Candy :)

For mini company, we are selling instant eye shadow called "Eye Candy". They come in all different colours and designs and I can't wait to start selling :D They will be €4.50 each and we are hoping to sell them this week!


We have a non-uniform day tomorrow and the Carol Service will be on this Friday. It also snowed today, but it doesn't look like it will stick :( So it's a good week!

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 (: