History, Poetry and much more....

Not another trip.... If anything this is not a 'doss' year, with two trips in one week and plenty of projects to be done too. This time we headed into town to visit the national gallery, natural history museum AND the national library!! all thanks to Ms. B :D

As usual we were divided into class groups, class tabei went to the national art museum first  to view paintings from the time of W. B. Yates and also two that were painted by his brother.

Liffey Swim by Jack b. Yates

Johannes Vermeers painting 

I decided to put this photo in because we are currently watching the girl with the pearl earring in art so far it's good. Anyway back to the point ... I found the museum interesting but i cant remember the name of my favorite painting typical... 

A Lunula 

After this we went to the museum of natural history. I love history so i was looking forward to this part. We got a tour of the exhibition about the bog bodies. We had to wait in the gift shop area for the tour guide it was rather dull until you looked up. The ceiling was beautiful, it was a complete contrast to the walls around the gift shop. There was a minor distraction to some waiting as there was a boys school there also nothing to noteworthy though... 

Tollund Man from Denmark

This is the best preserved bog body in the world, they injected it with wax unlike the other bog bodies. Seeing these just amazes me how little our anatomy has changed over the years, but it also evokes great emotion from me at how they were all brutally murdered and their corpses are on display, some say that if your body doesn't decompose you don't reach the after life, but everyone to their own.

a hyper Claire and I

And then we were let lose on Grafton street for lunch and obviously we went where every TY would go Mc Donalds... again... And there was a cute guy behind us also hahah im not only concerned about boys... And lunch is complete without starbucks for dessert typical teenage girl

After lunch we made are way to the Yates exhibition in the national library. It was a lovely exhibition showing us the many different things associated with W. B. Yates and his family. It was a great day and a special thanks again to Ms. B for organising it !!

Science Week

It's Science week !!!

This post may be a bit late... but as they say better late then never! Monday was the start of science week and to mark this we went to the Institute of Technology Tallaght. As usual we got the blue doble decker bus, lets just say its not as nice as other buses.. Well when we arrived we were directed into a laboratory. The laboratory created bacteria in machines like below.

But just as we were about to move on Lauren fainted (queue exasperated gasp) but she's all right now thank god! We had to pass through the hallways of the college to get to the seminar room it looks so cool in college. We were sat in the classroom and were told there was another school coming, first thoughts were ..... will there be BOYS?!?!? Someone must've been watching over us as there was and a whole lot of them at that. Aoife even got caught trying to take a picture of one...creep (jkjk). Then the show began....

The presenter was British so he had a cool accent lol, anyway there was a whole slideshow prepared and it was brilliant with a hint of humour which was quite funny. So many things happened he shot a bottle in the air just by increasing the pressure within it, made a potato gun, told us were carrying 10 kg's of air at any one time if you hold your hand out flat and blew up a balloon containing hydrogen it made a huge bang and scared some people eeeeek!! He also showed this video of a vacuum...

Tank Vacuum

I found it really fascinating... 

Had my phone stolen by these two idiots...

Then we were informed my Mr. L on his "stage" that we were going to Liffey Valley wooo (queue girls shrieking). We went to Mc Donalds, surprise surprise, and of course sanpchat was involved... but we'll leave that out for now. We had planned to do a prom for mini company but the idea fell through, even so aoibheann and I tried on our prom dresses ... 

But as always these days come to end, but a brilliant day it was!!

Thoughts on Physio and Cardiology...

Last we week we attended the talks in Naas General hospital. I attended the Physio talk and the cardiology talk. I didn't find the physiotherapy talk as good as the cardiology talk, it sort of turned me off training the be a physiotherapist. It was well set up but was rather boring. They showed us the sort of equipment we would be using as well such as the wobble board, and the zimmer frame etc.

Zimmer frame

I also attended the cardiology talk on Friday. I found this talk amazing and so fascinating, she had it well laid out and it was very easy to understand. She showed us ECG's, ultra sounds and many other scans done by a cardiologist. Also a woman came and talked about respiratory cardiology which would have a link to asthma, i would be interested in this as i have sports induced asthma myself. At the end of the talk she had people bring in loads of the equipment they would use on a daily basis, we were shown how the machines worked and go to try some of them.

Ultrasound of the heart

From attending these talks i would consider a career in cardiology as it was very interesting and it doesn't need a lot of points to do the course. 

Birthday alert!!!

On Friday it was also Claire birthday :D we celebrated by brining food in. Jayne made Oreo brownies which were delicious. We also brought her present into school for her as well, later that day some of us were invited to her house for a while to watch a few movies which we didn't even do in the end. But I made a cake for her which I brought then :) HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLAIRE !!!

Here's a picture or two :) 

We've got that Thriller

On Friday we got have a dress up day in school, Halloween themed. TY's were villains from movies. Loads of people but great effort into their costume such as Jayne ...

She dressed up as Shere Khan from the jungle book. She had to get up at 7 so her sister could apply the face paint. Others were the usual like robbers and some not so usual like Cal from Titanic, Rose's fiancée before Jack came along. She even put cologne on...

But they didn't dress up for nothing of course ! Each class gets to nominate a person from their class to be in the parade. Class tabei nominated Jayne :) 

The nominated girls then have to show off their hard work to the judges at lunch time. The results are then announced after lunch. We sat in anticipation in English awaiting the result but there seemed to be a mix up in the announcements :( Jaynes name was called out but with the wrong class name so they claimed Jaynes prize. But overall it was a fun filled day and can't wait for next year :D

BARCELONA

Barcelona Barcelona olay olay olaaaay!! Today was the draw for the Spanish school tour and I got picked :D ahhhh I'm so excited.

We're going on the 13th and coming back on the 16th. Unfortunately I'll be missing my friend's birthday but I'll bring her back an amazing present! And make her the best cake ever as well when i get back :)

And the most exciting part is we're going to portaventura it's so exciting ahhhhh :D the countdown begins for April the 13th... 189 days and counting....

Clockwork Princess

My Book Review 

Why did you select this book? Did you have any expectations?

I picked this book because i am a big fan of the author's, Cassandra Clare , various novels. Upon embarking on reading the mortal instruments i fell in love with her novels and style of writing and carried on to read her prequel, The infernal Devices. This is the third and final book in the series.  I expected it to be a brilliant book and it has lived up to its expectation so far. I have not completed it yet but have read about three quarters of the way. I also expect to find out who Tessa chooses will it be Will or Jem? only time will tell.

Genre of the book and Author.

She is an Author of young adult fiction. And writes in the genre of Fiction.

Plot outline.

The book is set in the Victorian England era. Tessa has been sent to England to live with her Brother as her aunt as died. She leaves New York with little more than the clothes on her back. She believes her brother is collecting her but is surprised by the appearance of the dark sisters. She was held captive by the dark sisters believing if she didn't do as they said Nate, her brother, would be killed. That was until she was rescued by Will Herondale. A Shadowhunter from the London Institute. The tale continues through the three books delving into the choices Tessa must make that affect everyone around her and even the whole world.

A Character I found interesting.

I found the character of Will Herondale to be very interesting. He's very interesting to me because of the struggles he has to deal with including hiding his love for Tessa. At first I didn't really like him because of his attitude, but the more i learned about his background the more i fell in love with this character. 

What style of writing does the author have?

Cassandra has a very descriptive style of writing to me. The detail she gives in her books allows me to really feel as if i was there. She also leaves a lot of cliff hangers through out the novel creating a heightened feeling of suspense.

Insight into the cultural context

As the book is set in Victorian England it is a world very different to ours. Its a world of the horse and carriage and large frocks.  I would not liked to have lived in this world unless i was a higher class citizen. In the lower class a girl would get better pay depending oh how pretty she was. The pretty maids were parlor maids who served the house guests. But the others would work in the kitchen or clean the house for less pay because of their looks.  Due to this fact I would not like to live in Victorian England.