Opera..5 hours of fun .. or not...

On Tuesday all TY's went into Rathmines to the cinema to see an opera being shown live from New York. It was called Don Giovanni and woah it was long!
It went on for ages with a 15 minute interval which was definatly not long enough! I probably would of been a lot more interested if it was shorter but anyway, it was still an experience!

Work Experience Number 1 :)

Last week, all TY's went on their first week of work experience. I went to the Chemistry department on Maynooth College. My friend Caitriona was doing it aswell so I wasn't really that nervous on the first day because she was going in with me.
On the first morning we met with our suprivisor Ken and another girl from Maynooth PP who was doing work experience. We were told the rules in the labs and given a rough idea of what we were doing.
Last week was Science Week so most of the week we were getting ready for science night that was on friday. We got to set up and do loads of really fun experiments. One was called 'weird custard.' When you put your hand slowly into a basin of custard it went into it and got covered but when you punched the custard it was rock hard! We also got the make different chemicals which was fun because we were given so much more freedom than in school.
We were also sent on a few shopping trips to get so many random items for the experiments. One of this trips included us being reported to the college by a mature student for stealing a trolly !
Overall,  it was a really great week and now I'm almost certain I want to work in something to do with chemistry... :D

Build a Bank :)

So the week before midterm I had an interview in school to be on the build a bank team. Build a Bank is a competition where we have to set up and run a bank in our school and then we go to competitions and compete against other schools.
I applied for the position of auditor and a little while after the interview I found out I got it :) Theres only 6 people on the team so I was really suprised I was chosen! I can't wait to start working on our bank and our team is great. Its going to be a fun few months :D

Work Experience

Next week, all TYs are going on a week of work experience. This was one of the things that convinced me to do TY because everyone always says its one of the highlights of TY.
For my first work experience I am going to the Chemistry Department of Maynooth College. I have an interest in science and I think I want to do something to do with science after school so I thought it'd be good to go here :) We just had a careers class talking about work experience and thats gotten me really excited for it!
On Monday morning I'm sure I will be a bit nervous but really excited too! Its Science Week next week too, so they will be carrying out lots of different and unusual experiments for it.
I'll blog after it and write all about it!