Fashion Show!

After weeks of practising, the Fashion Show in Celbridge Manor was on this Tuesday and Wednesday. It was so fun! I did modelling, Irish dancing and music in it. On Friday, we all practised our ‘model walk’.

Our Modelling group. Dearbhla, me, Aimee and Ella

My group modelled for Born in Naas. On Monday we all went out to the shop to pick the clothes we would wear in the Fashion Show. The shop was so nice! There were loads of Christmassy clothes. We each got a casual outfit and a dressy outfit to wear in the show. Besides some stressful quick changes, the modelling went well and I enjoyed it!

I performed in a TY music group with Sadhbh, Hannah, Clara, Dearbhla, Eimear and Aoife. We did a Bastille medley with songs like Pompeii, Laura Palmer and Of the Night. I played my box drum and the other girls sang and played guitar. I also sang in a Christmas Carols choir with girls from 2nd year to 5th year. We got to wear Christmas jumpers from Dunne Stores which were cute. :)

Christmas carols

TY Music Group

For the Irish Dancing we danced to a song called ‘Cry of the Celts’. There were light dancers and Heavy dancers (Just means different shoes for non-dancers). Ms. H made us sparkly waistbands for our costumes. The dance went well both nights. It was extremely tiring though because it was very long! We nearly broke the stage apparently because we jumped so much, but I guess that’s a good thing? The dancing was probably one of my favourite parts of the night.

Irish Dancing practice

Our Mini Companies were allowed to set up stalls and sell. We were taking orders for Canvases both nights and we did quite well! For more information about our Mini Company look at my blog post http://evemcmahonty.blogspot.ie/2014/11/photobeau.html

Our Mini Company stall at the fashion show

In between my times on stage I did get to see the rest of the show. I really enjoyed the Ballerinas who danced to an Ed Sheeran song, and the Bridal section. The teachers appeared loads throughout the show and they were great. I loved seeing the Debs section because the dresses were gorgeous, although I only got to see it through a tiny opening in the door as I was waiting to go on stage! You can see other photos and information on the school website if you would like to see more: http://www.stwolstans.ie/

Now that the fashion show is over, I have so much free time as there aren't any after school rehearsals anymore. As much as it was fun, I can't wait to go home tonight and just watch a lot of TV and catch up on I'm a Celebrity…

-Eve xx

Fun Walk and Ed!

On Thursday we had our annual Fun Walk for friendship week. Each year had to dress in a colour and each class had to do a dance. Our colour as TYs was yellow. It was so hard to find something yellow to wear.. Who even wears yellow?

Fun Walk.. Sadhbh, Lauren

As we are class Ariel we did our dance with The Little Mermaid as our theme. We all dressed as flounders with Mr. L dressed in a homemade shark costume and we wheeled Sarah Mc out in a wheel barrow as Ariel. Although it was stressful trying to organise the dance the morning of the Fun Walk, it turned out great! We should have won, just saying... TYs led the walk and we were stationed around Celbridge. It was a good day.:)

On Friday, a few of us left school early and went to see Ed Sheeran play at the 3Arena. We waited for three and a half hours in the lashing rain with crappy umbrellas and got soaked, but we got to the very front of the standing section at the barrier. It was absolutely amazing! We were so close and it was a brilliant concert. It was so worth getting drenched! :))

Ed <3

Today was my third day of Work Experience in Avoca and it's going really well. I now know my way around the cafe really well and am enjoying it!

-Eve xx

Carlingforddd

"You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take."

On Monday the TYs went to Carlingford Adventure Centre for the night. We were all extremely excited. The bus was leaving at 7 so most of us had to get up at 6 or earlier (wooh) but everyone arrived to get the bus with loads of energy, most girls with a bag filled with food!

The journey was around two hours long. When we arrived we were divided into our rooms. There were 9 of us in our room ... but only eight beds. We had to make a bed on the floor with extra duvets for Emer (Thanks Emer :))  Straight away we started our first activity. We went down to the beach to do kayaking. We changed into our swimsuits and wet suits and put on life jackets and helmets. We looked just fab!

After kayaking and eating lunch we went out for the second activity which was laser tag in the forest. To get to the laser tag we had to basically hike the huge hill. I swear I nearly died it was so hard! Laser tag was so much fun. The instructor Martin told us loads of 'inspirational' quotes to get us pumped for the laser tag (like the one at the top of the post). We were split up into two groups and played different games like capture the flag and sniper school. I felt like I was in Call of Duty or something!    

That night we went out for an activity called Night line after dinner. We went back up the huge hill again, luckily taking an easier route this time. We put on blindfolds as it was getting dark out and formed a conga line with our hands on each other's shoulders. We had to hold onto a rope and walk through the dark in the forest. We could see nothing but all we could hear is each other screaming "Tree!"

That night we had cake in our room for Lauren's birthday. We had a disco in a room upstairs and all of us danced around in our pyjamas. It was like a cheesy movie! For the rest of the night we ate and ate but didn't really even make a dent in the huge pile of food everyone brought. 

The next morning you could hear loads of groans as we were woken up by a wakeup call at half 7. We were wrecked! Our first activity was Canadian Canoeing which is three canoes tied together. We went out into the middle of the water and jumped it. We also went on a water trampoline and jumped into the water from it. The water was freezing!

The instructors brought us through a tunnel on the the land on the other side of the water. There was a fountain of fresh water that supposedly gave you an extra day of life. We were each shoved under and held there for 10 seconds and the water was colder than the sea! Canoeing was definitely my favourite thing that we did on the whole trip.

The last activity of the trip was a challenge course. We were put into teams and had to solve different puzzles and were rewarded gems. Our team came last... but we were still the best :)) We packed our bags to go home but we wished we could've stayed longer. Everyone was extremely tired on the bus home. It was an amazing trip!

Our Room :)

-Eve x

Results!

On Wednesday we finally got our Junior Cert results after three months of waiting! We arrived at school at 11:50 and lined up in our old base classes to receive the brown envelope. I hadn't been worried that morning but while we waited in the line I was nervous all of a sudden because I didn't know what to expect!

When I got the envelope I couldn't bring myself to open it at first! I went outside the front of the school and opened the envelope. I was SO happy! I was so glad that three years work paid off. The other girls seemed to be happy too as everyone was smiling. I went to the car park to tell my mom and then called my family who were all really proud. We went out for lunch and then I went home to get ready for the night!

We were going to Wrights in Swords and I was looking forward to it for ages. My cousin Kariba did our makeup for the night which meant that there was no rush in getting ready. We left at eight, but we left our tickets at home (shout out to Ellen for forgetting them:) ) so we had to go back. We arrived at nine so the night wasn't lost. It was a great night! You could tell everyone had a good time by how tired we were the next morning in school, some with eye makeup still on from the previous night. Being allowed to take out a mat and lie down for PE was appreciated by all of us!

On Monday, all of the TYs going to Carlingford Adventure Centre and are staying overnight. I am really excited because I heard its amazing! :)

-Eve xx