Wednesday 31 October 2012
Ghouls in School
So since it's Halloween today I thought my post for this week should come in a different style. Please enjoy a video of the great costumes worn last Friday ! try not to be too creeped..
Friday 26 October 2012
Hurry Along Halloween!
Hi guys,
Back AGAIN after ANOTHER week in Transition year, and it's definately been a fun one!
We've advanced on to making an adorable hand bag for our junk kouture project and i've almost finished my Geography project ! But, what I want to skip right to is what has happened on this craaaazy Friday!
So, I told you last week that I was going to dress up as a zombie this Friday. Well, I have. And I might have mentioned it was going to be pretty crazy. Well, it was. After ruining my brother's shirt with gashes and blood (fake of course) and making my face up with special 'shadow' effects and a lovely glob of blood around my mouth, well, I was good to go. All this day has consisted of is eating a bunch of sweets and watching the likes of 'hokus pokus'. It's been great, and I hope you enjoy your halloween this October, just wish it would hurry up already!
Till next week,
Ciara
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Back AGAIN after ANOTHER week in Transition year, and it's definately been a fun one!
We've advanced on to making an adorable hand bag for our junk kouture project and i've almost finished my Geography project ! But, what I want to skip right to is what has happened on this craaaazy Friday!
So, I told you last week that I was going to dress up as a zombie this Friday. Well, I have. And I might have mentioned it was going to be pretty crazy. Well, it was. After ruining my brother's shirt with gashes and blood (fake of course) and making my face up with special 'shadow' effects and a lovely glob of blood around my mouth, well, I was good to go. All this day has consisted of is eating a bunch of sweets and watching the likes of 'hokus pokus'. It's been great, and I hope you enjoy your halloween this October, just wish it would hurry up already!
Till next week,
Ciara
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Friday 19 October 2012
Halloween is coming!
!ZOMBIES!
Hi Guys,Back again after another week in Transition Year. This week involved many mishaps with our Junk Kouture outfit, another Wednesday of work experience and more work from something I might not have told you about yet, Mini Company.
As myself and Eimear were one man down this week for the making of our Junk Kouture outfit, it is only fitting that we have encountered a slight problem with our design. We had our skirt made when we realised it was stapled onto our waistband. This wouldn't work as we needed to weave the two together in order to complete the piece, but of course, we couldn't do that without drilling some holes first. And as we prepared to drill these holes in our skirt, we quickly realised it just wasn't going to work that way. We had to take it ALL apart, quite a big problem. But, after finally drilling the holes and spending about 4 hours re-modelling our skirt, we finally completed it and are well on our way to finishing the whole design! Also, Eimear(our chosen model) tried on the whole outfit and I must say, it's looking pretty promising..
So, something that I haven't mentioned yet on my blog is another one of my projects called 'Mini Company'. This will be carried out by all Transition Year students during Business Studies class. It involves groups of 2-12 people forming a mini company coming up with a smart, unique product to sell throughout Transition Year. Each group will be submitted into a competition for all Transition Year students accross Ireland and there will be an over all winner based on things like cleverness and product sales. My groups design is top secret for the moment, so keep reading every week to find out what it is we're doing.
Till next week,
Ciara
Friday 12 October 2012
What week is it again?!
Hey guys,
Back again after another week in transition year. This week involved my whole school participating in our annual fun walk, Eimear, Zoey and I coming very far with our junk kouture outfit and the beginning of many more exciting new projects. Let's catch up :
So, to begin with, I took part in the Fun Walk with the rest of my class last Friday. I realised quickly on Thursday evening that I hadn't made my costume for the walk, and that I had infact not even gotten the materials needed to make it. This, of course, lead to a late night scram to the local supermarket to find myself a cardboard box and some very dodgey yellow paint. And although it was a very late night for myself, it was completely worth it as we danced our hearts out infront of the rest of the school. Very badly. Unfortunately, we did not win, but we had a great time losing!
But, on a lighter note, our junk kouture project is coming along GREAT. We're all super excited about it and have been working hard on it for the best part of TY so far. This week, we've almost completed the skirt for our outfit, meaning we have the skirt, bodice, accessories and headpiece done and dusted. That just leaves shoes.... and don't worry, i'll be posting a picture of our progress very soon!
Also, last week I mentioned the BT Young Scientist competition, an important science event run every year in the RDS for students and businesses all over Ireland. I also mentioned that myself and Eimear have to come up with a project and enter it in this competition, but I regret to inform, that we've missed our deadline. Oh well, best of luck to all the St.Wolstans girls that entered!
This week, I have also been working on TY blogs, mostly about work experience and Transition Year as a whole, and on projects. Still working on my exciting Geography project, I have begun new ones in Maths and English about famous mathematitions and my favourite movie scene ( mine chosen from Forest Gump of course).
That's all I have to report on from this Transition Year week but make sure to check out my other blog about work experience for more posts from me.
Till next week,
Ciara.
Back again after another week in transition year. This week involved my whole school participating in our annual fun walk, Eimear, Zoey and I coming very far with our junk kouture outfit and the beginning of many more exciting new projects. Let's catch up :
So, to begin with, I took part in the Fun Walk with the rest of my class last Friday. I realised quickly on Thursday evening that I hadn't made my costume for the walk, and that I had infact not even gotten the materials needed to make it. This, of course, lead to a late night scram to the local supermarket to find myself a cardboard box and some very dodgey yellow paint. And although it was a very late night for myself, it was completely worth it as we danced our hearts out infront of the rest of the school. Very badly. Unfortunately, we did not win, but we had a great time losing!
But, on a lighter note, our junk kouture project is coming along GREAT. We're all super excited about it and have been working hard on it for the best part of TY so far. This week, we've almost completed the skirt for our outfit, meaning we have the skirt, bodice, accessories and headpiece done and dusted. That just leaves shoes.... and don't worry, i'll be posting a picture of our progress very soon!
Also, last week I mentioned the BT Young Scientist competition, an important science event run every year in the RDS for students and businesses all over Ireland. I also mentioned that myself and Eimear have to come up with a project and enter it in this competition, but I regret to inform, that we've missed our deadline. Oh well, best of luck to all the St.Wolstans girls that entered!
This week, I have also been working on TY blogs, mostly about work experience and Transition Year as a whole, and on projects. Still working on my exciting Geography project, I have begun new ones in Maths and English about famous mathematitions and my favourite movie scene ( mine chosen from Forest Gump of course).
That's all I have to report on from this Transition Year week but make sure to check out my other blog about work experience for more posts from me.
Till next week,
Ciara.
Thursday 4 October 2012
Hi Guys,
Back again after another week if Transition Year excitement. This week has been spent preparing for our school's annual fun walk and our many up and coming projects.
The 'fun walk' happens every year in my school. Each year is appointed a colour and each class is left to organise costumes, dance routines, you name it! It's great fun and is held in light of our Anti- Bullying week. The idea is that everybody comes together to achieve a fun school day where we perform our dances and parade around our locality in our hand-made costumes. This year, my colour is yellow, and we've chosen to be Lego men, while dancing to the well known hit 'hey-ya' by outcast.
I'm really looking forward to the Fun walk tomorrow, and let's hope my class win ! (did I forget to mention the class with the best dance routine wins a prize?). I'm going to make my outfit by cutting arm and leg holes out of a large cardboard box i've managed to get a hold of. I'll then attatch toilet rolls to the front and colour it with yellow paint for the 'lego man' look!
Other than focusing on the Fun walk, we've also been working hard on projects we've been assigned. They're great projects that really get you thinking, take for example, our geography project where we have to 'virtually' visit 6 countries in 1 year with 12,000 euros spending money. It's hard work, but heeeapps of fun and it's something I've never done before.
This week was a great week for me and I hope you enjoyed reading about it. I also went on my second day of work experience this Wednesday so you can check out what I got up to on my Work Experience blog (you'll find a link to it on the top right-hand corner of this page).
Till next week,
Ciara
Back again after another week if Transition Year excitement. This week has been spent preparing for our school's annual fun walk and our many up and coming projects.
The 'fun walk' happens every year in my school. Each year is appointed a colour and each class is left to organise costumes, dance routines, you name it! It's great fun and is held in light of our Anti- Bullying week. The idea is that everybody comes together to achieve a fun school day where we perform our dances and parade around our locality in our hand-made costumes. This year, my colour is yellow, and we've chosen to be Lego men, while dancing to the well known hit 'hey-ya' by outcast.
I'm really looking forward to the Fun walk tomorrow, and let's hope my class win ! (did I forget to mention the class with the best dance routine wins a prize?). I'm going to make my outfit by cutting arm and leg holes out of a large cardboard box i've managed to get a hold of. I'll then attatch toilet rolls to the front and colour it with yellow paint for the 'lego man' look!
Other than focusing on the Fun walk, we've also been working hard on projects we've been assigned. They're great projects that really get you thinking, take for example, our geography project where we have to 'virtually' visit 6 countries in 1 year with 12,000 euros spending money. It's hard work, but heeeapps of fun and it's something I've never done before.
This week was a great week for me and I hope you enjoyed reading about it. I also went on my second day of work experience this Wednesday so you can check out what I got up to on my Work Experience blog (you'll find a link to it on the top right-hand corner of this page).
Till next week,
Ciara
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