Briery Gap Competition

On Wednesday we went to Mullingar for the Briery Gap TY Drama competition. I think our play went really well! We got a chance to watch the other plays. There was a school from Donegal there as well and they did a scene from a musical which was pretty cool.

We got McDonalds so that was a bonus. The adjudicator gave us some feedback after our performance. I think he liked it? I don't know. It was a fun day anyway. We will hear if we got through to Cork for the final by next week.

-Eve xx

Zumbaaaa

Last week for PE we started Zumba which we will be doing for four weeks. A first everyone was a bit shy because some of the dance moves were kinda silly, but after a while everyone got really into it. It was so fun! And actually so tiring. More of a workout than I'd thought! I'm excited for next week :))

-Eve xx

English Play

On Tuesday, TY's will be going to Mullingar Arts Centre to compete in the Briery Gap Transition Year Drama Competition. For this competition we wrote plays in groups in English class, and have been working on them and performing them all year. In Mullingar, we will perform our play for judges to try and get through to the finals.

Our class has two plays that have been entered into the competition. Our play (it still doesn't have a name) is about homophobia and how attitudes toward homosexual people have changed throughout history. It has a wide range of different characters like hippies, soldiers and show girls. I've been involved in directing and also have a small role.

Everyone has really enjoyed working on the play and, although we need to rehearse a lot more, we are all excited to perform on Tuesday!

-Eve xx

Place I would like to visit..

A place I have always wanted to visit after I leave school is New Orleans, Louisiana. It's the Birthplace of Jazz music and there are hundreds of Music Clubs. During the day it's full of tourists exploring the city and its historical sites and at night time the streets are packed with people going to Music Clubs and restaurants. I would love to visit New Orleans because it's very cultural, I think it seems like it's full of life and it's beautiful. Maybe one day!...  

French Quarter

Mardi Gras celebrations

-Eve xx

My Community and School

I live in Celbridge and have lived here for my whole life. Around 20,000 people live here which seems like a lot. It's really historical with places like Castletown House, The Mill and Celbridge Abbey. I guess Celbridge isn't too bad as a whole, some parts are pretty. The best thing about Celbridge is the fact that there's a Costa to be honest...

The Mill

Castletown House

Celbridge

I go to St. Wolstan's Community School in Celbridge. We're an all girls school and there are about 750 students in the school. There are loads of after school activities like hockey, camogie, basketball and other sports and choir. There are also other groups and committees like the Student Council, Fair Trade Committee, Glee Club and Green Schools. 

-Eve xx

Young Scientist

Last Thursday, Ty's and 2nd years went to the BT Young Scientist Exhibition in the RDS for the day. We went to see all the projects and also support Eimear, Emily and Aimee, whose project was on display. For the article about their project click here.

Young Scientist

It was a really good day as there was loads to see and do. We saw Ryan Tubridy and also the boy band hometown perform. :)

                             

-Eve xx

Catch Up..

Yesterday was our first day back to school after the Christmas holidays and to be honest I wasn't that excited. I had such a good Christmas and I'm so sad it's over :( Because I was so busy before Christmas, I didn't have much time to blog. 

On the Wednesday before holidays we went to see the European premiere of  Elf the Musical in the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in Town. The audience was made of of all students. The musical was really good. During the interval two women came over to a few of us and asked if we would like to give a review of the show on RTÉ 2fm, and we said we would.

After the show Ellen, Hannah, Eimear and I went down to the foyer and talked to Colm Hayes about what we thought of Elf. They gave the four of us free tickets to go see Peter Pan on ice in March. I listened to the podcast later of our interview and I sounded stupid but at least we got the tickets! The rest of the week we just had exams and we got off on Thursday a day earlier than everyone else :))

Tomorrow is our first day of our second Work Experience placement and on Thursday we're going to the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition so it'll be a busy week! 

-Eve xx