The Time Has Come...

As much as we all felt like it wouldn't happen, TY is coming to end with a bang. The past week has been all about preparing for our TY graduation and also unfortunately tests. Everyone has been practising hard to make sure our night goes well. We are all performing a mash up of 'Never Forget' and 'Wavin' Flag' to showcase what we have done in music. We are also doing a few hip hop dances that we have been learning for the past few weeks in our hip hop classes. The french students are singing 'Summer Paradise', in french of course. I'm really excited to perform all of these, we have put in a lot of work and I think we have all improved a lot, especially in hip hop we were all a bit clueless at first. My drumming skills for the music performance have also improved woo! Jack are you proud of your first drumming student? 

                                           

Looking back on TY now, it was definitely an unforgettable experience, that really helped to shape us all and I think most of us grew as people from what happened this year. I have to be honest and say it wasn't the best year ever for me but the good moments overshadow the bad ones. So my advice to future TY students is to really just let go and take part in everything without taking on more than you can handle (It doesn't work trust me you just end up not being able to do anything) Talk to people you usually wouldn't talk to because it's true what they say, Ty really is the year you make incredible new friends and keep the just as incredible old ones. Goodbye Ty, you were pretty damn great.

Swim A Mile With A Smile :)

On Wednesday out year participated in Ian Daly Swim A Mile With A Smile 2015 in the National Aquatic Centre. We were raising money for the Ian Daly foundation who help children and the families of children with cancer. It was set up in honour of a little boy, Ian Daly died at age 11 of a brain tumour. We all got sponsor cards and collected as much money as we could for the cause. You can read more about it here: http://swimamile.webnode.com/ 

When we got to the National Aquatic Centre we split up into groups of swimmers and lane counters, I was originally going to be in a group of 8 but we decided it would be a better sense of achievement if we were in a group of 4. I was in a group with Emily, Kathleen and Molly, at first it was hard because I hadn't swam in ages but once I got into it, it got easier. We had to swim 16 lengths of the 25 metre pool each to make a mile but after we finished we decided to swim it again because we still had energy.

After everyone had finished their mile, we all got t-shirts and took a picture, then we went to Blanchard's town shopping centre and had a well deserved break. It was a great day and I would enjoy doing it again next year since it is for an important cause.

Driving

On Monday our class went to the Leinster school of driving for a deriving lesson. When we got there we were split into two groups and one group was doing a mock theory test first and the other group were driving first. My group were driving first and we all split into groups of either 3 or 4, I was with Ciara, Olivia and Liveta. Olivia drove first (well done bro) then Ciara, then me and lastly Liveta. I think we were all better than we thought we would be, I thought I was going to crash and none of us did so that was great.

After driving we had lunch and did the mock theory test, we did it in groups like a quiz and had time to get bonus points and correct our answers. When we first did the test we only got 34 marks so we didn't pass oops... We got 36 marks after we corrected some answers though and then in the bonus round we got two more points for thinking of funny meanings for road signs. If you count those then we got 38 points and we passed woo! Then we all went outside and put on beer goggles which were designed to show us what it is like to try and drive if we were very drunk. We had to pick up a cone, put it on another cone and high five the instructor after. Some people were great at it and others struggled a little... I think I was somewhere in between.