So mid-term was good, I lazed around, visited family, hung out with friends, went to Time (a disco) etc, etc.. I came back to school on Monday morning feeling relaxed and was looking forward to getting back into routine. However this past week has been anything but routine! Emotions/feelings of the week include: Happiness, Anxiety, Excitement, Stress, Ecstatic, Exhaustion, and like a dream!
Only in TY!...
Monday: Did teddy rolls in PE, handed in a 4 page essay in English, had bank bant for the rest of the day :D
Tuesday: Designed b-e-a-utiful jewellery in Art based on a deep inspiring concept (of which I'm still waiting to find out), ran around the school for a while dressed as a Super Hero, and watched a french movie/slept with my eyes open :Z/ate lollipops :)
Wednesday: The day of the long-awaited Mini Company Competition! Illuminate was short-listed! :O
Thursday: It's hard to believe that anything really happened that day or if I imagined it all! Read all about our bank launch day here with The Original Rudeboys and Johnny Doyle!! Us Illuminators also found out we got through to the Kildare County Final for the mini-company competition! :D
Friday: "Please support Lollipop Day for the Oesophageal Cancer Fund!" - Never said a single phrase more in my life! We sold lollipops and badges in Dublin City to raise money for the Oesophageal Cancer Fund. It was also a great day :) Lollipop Day Website
I'm absolutely buzzing for next week now too! I'm going to FM104, a huge radio station in Dublin, for work experience! I hope I will get to meet lots of famous people and do fun things there :D
So last week on the 1st February it was St. Bridget's Day. (also Harry Styles' Birthday! Yay :D ) We have been learning a lot about St. Bridget recently and working hard on our projects. St. Bridgid is the patron saint of Kildare, where we live, so on Tuesday we took a bus trip to Kildare town. First stop was a look in the Kildare heritage centre where we watched a video all about Kildare. We then walked over to St. Bridgid's Cathedral, a church of Ireland cathedral. It was a huge stone building with stain glass windows that had pictures of loads of saints. At the cathedral, there was also a round tower that used to be the tallest tower in Ireland until the top got knocked off. We walked to the original St. Bridgid's Well, which is just beside the National Stud and the Japanese Gardens. We said a prayer and then blessed ourselves with the water. Some people collected the water in bottles to bring home. We then went to the other St. Bridgid's well which was in a lovely garden. We walked around it while saying one decade of the rosary. There were five big stones in the garden, each representing something different. We walked back to the bus very tired and cold, but it was still a great day and we all felt good for going on the pilgrimage :)
Click here to see what my class have been working on and to learn more about St. Bridgid!
