Busy, Busy, Busy...

I have a lot going on right now, so much things to do!

At lunch time today, we're having a cake sale to raise money for our mini company. Right now, my locker is full of cakes, buns and sweets. Hopefully its a success and we make some money to help us buy our products, advertise our company and everything else necessary!

Our home ec fashion show is on Thursday. My group were a little behind and we had a lot to do but we are finally nearly finished our 'Black Swan' inspired outfit. Our outfit is kind of inspired by this picture:

This week I also have two presentations to do this week:
Geogrpahy: Our world trip is nearly coming to an end! :( It was a lot of hard work and stressful at times but it was a good project and I learned a lot of interesting things about different countries!
Spanish: We had to do a spanish project on any of the South American countries. I chose Colombia to do because I knew nothing about it. It was strange writing a project all in Spanish but I think it really helped improve my spanish.

Oh and our TY blog WON the Junior Spider award yesterday for Best Project :D Well done everyone!
So things are very busy at the moment - just a normal week in TY. :)

5 things to do this week...

Ok so Ms. L isn't in today but she's left us with the challenge of '5 things I have to do for TY this week.' The week is almost over so I'm going to do it for next week aswell...

1. Perfect our fun walk dance..
The fun walk is tomorrow!! In my last blog post everything was great, we were getting organised but then it turned into one big disaster. We couldn't organise anything but then at the start of this week with the help of Mr.Lawlor we finally decided on our dance. Hopefully we'll have another practise today to perfect it.

2. Finish the music script.
In music we're doing an opera to the movie 'Mean Girls.' I was put on the script commitee with Shannon so we  have to write the script. Its a lot harder than I thought but its fun and a challenge. We're hoping to get it finished after I finish this blog so i better hurry up!

3. Geography project
Our geography project is due in about 3 or 4 weeks so I have to keep working on it. I've completley finished Thailand so hopefully next week I'll be finished Nepal and Cambodia.

4. Home Ec....
We're still working on our outfit in home ec so I have to look around to see if theres any feathers, etc at home that we could use for our outfit. We're basing our outfit on The Black Swan and our colours are black and white. We have the top of the jeans cut to use as a high waisted skirt and next we have to sew our top to shape..

5. Mini company...don't mention it..
Aaah mini company is stressfull stuff!! Our group have our idea but we have to research and try find a company to make our idea. We're making a nail varnish pen that has the nail varnish on one side and remover on the other. I'm the finance manager in the group, lucky me! I have to collect the information from our survey to get the average price people would pay for the pen..

Busy times ahead...yay

Beginning of TY

We've been in TY for over a week now and I've already gotten pretty used to it. I was put into class Banba which I was really happy about. We all get on really well and I've become closer friends already with people I didnt talk to that much before Ty. :)

We've been given a few projects already such as our geography 'Around the World' trip. We are working in groups of two and we have both been given a budget of €12000 each and we have to visit two developed countries, two developing countries and two underdeveloped countries. We have decided to visit Australia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Cambodia, India and Nepal. I'm looking forward to doing this project :D
In home ec, we have been given a fashion project. Working in groups of 4 we are all given a plain white tshirt and white jeans. We have to design an outfit that will be modelled by one of our group at a fashion show beofre christmas. The outfit must incorporate the tshirt and trousers but you can also use your own ideas. My group have been given the colours 'Black and White' to base our outfit around.
In science we've been put into our groups for Young Scientists and we've started thinking about our idea. The 1 page proposal form is due in 3 weeks so we have to think fast! :)
Thursdays are the best days because after lunch we don't have any classes. First we do a dance class which is really fun :D then we have a photography class and finally we do pilates :D This turned out to be a lot harder than we all expected!!

 On Monday, class Banba had a social development day. At 9 o'clock we went to the library and we met Austin who would be spending the day with us. We sat in a semi circle in order of what day of the month we were born. This way we got to sit beside people we wouldn't normally sit beside. We talked to the person beside us about 3 achievments we've had in our lives, what we hope to be doing in 10 years time and our most embarrassing stories! We then told the rest of the class about our partner.
After break we did a few mini games like optical illusions and things that got us thinking! We split up into groups and we did two debates. One group were debating the pro's and con's of smoking while the other group were debating if students are motivated in school. Everyone got really into the debate which turned out to be really entertaining! :D Later, Austin told us about how there are 4 groups of personality's. There are the hot directors, the entertainers, the mediators and the cool observers. I was put into the medator group :)

Over the next few weeks I'm sure we'll be given many more projects and I look forward to see what lies ahead for TY :)