workshops 

On Wednesday we had the last of our work shops before we start work experience. Once again our classes were split up.

Firstly we had our positive parties. Denise talked to us about our work experience and gave us advise about our 1st days. She also played games like pass the parcel with us and she made us dance to positive songs. I really enjoyed positive parties and I will really miss having Denise in every Wednesday.

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We also had our etiquette classes again. This week the ladies taught us how to apply make up properly. We also had to walk down the red carpet with books on our heads once again.  Then they  showed us a  hilarious video from FRIENDS where Ross was having difficulties in a tanning booth. Here's a clip of the episode.

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Mini Company

On Thursday we went down to Naas for a talk our mini companies. The talk was held in the Moat theatre .

 The lady told us we need to be innovative and creative in order to have a successful mini company product or service. She taught us that there is different ways to be innovative in your product, for example she told us about how girls in the UK sold simple beanie hats for their mini company however they convinced celebrities like the model, Cara Delevingne and David Beckham to wear them on Twitter and they ended up winning the competition. 

She split us into groups and she challenged us to think of as many things that you could do with  paperclips and pens. She was very impressed with the creativity of all of our ideas.

 Afterwards we got to go to Mc Donalds for lunch. I had a cheeseburger, chips and a coke, it was delicious.

Overall I had a great day on Thursday and I cant wait to go again next month!

Carlingford

On Monday our class took a trip down to the Carlingford adventure centre in County Louth. I had to get up a 6am which was a bit of a struggle for me as I am definitely not a morning person! .We all met up for the bus at 7 o clock and we headed for Carlingford.

We arrived at around 8:30am. My 1st impression of Carlingford was that it was a very remote and quiet village. We were met by our guides at the centre and they gave us all a very warm welcome. We were then shown to our rooms I was sharing a room with 12 other girls.

For our 1st activity we did team building exercises. We got split into groups and we had to work together to solve various challenges. Fortunately I had a great team and we worked very well together. We won all of our challenges and we got to go to lunch 1st.

After lunch we went up to the mountains to I forest were we went laser combating. We were all dressed in army gear and each of us had a laser gun and a head target. We got split into 2 teams and we played many games such as 'capture the flag' and 'king of the hill'. The teams got very competitive towards each other. It was great fun and I would love to try it again sometime in the future.

That evening at around 7 o clock we set of to the forest again. It took us for what felt like hours to get to the top of the mountain. We were then blindfolded and we had to walk through the forest. We formed a line and we all held on to the person in front us. The experience was scary and exciting at the same time. When we eventually made it through the forest and took of our blindfolds it was pitch dark, if it wasn't for our guides touches we wouldn't of been able to see at all.

When we arrived back to the centre and to our rooms I was exhausted from the busy day. I feel asleep as soon as my head touched the pillow.

The next morning we woke up nice and early again at 8 o clock. We had kayaking  scheduled for the morning unfortunately it was raining and I had a cold, the last thing that I wanted to do was get into a wet wetsuit and kayak in the irish sea! However I did it anyway and I ended up having a great time. We paddled across the bay and we even visited a beautiful waterfall in a cave that has a legend behind it that if you wash yourself in it you would live for an extra day of your life.

After kayaking we had more land activities including archery, a maze and zorbing. I enjoyed the zorbing the most as it was really good fun tumbling around in them and bumping into each other.

After that we had to say goodbye to Carlingford and return home again to Celbridge. We all had a blast and I hope to return to it again sometime!

On Wednesday this week we had 3 workshops. For our 1st workshop we had Austin who gave us a motivational talk and he was very funny. After that we had a masseuse that taught us different massages and relaxing techniques. Finally we had a women named Denise that organised us a positive party. She taught us how to be more happy and cheerful.Here is a video of one of the songs we sung, hopefully it will make you more positive as well

new class Tabei

1st TY post 

  This has been a very exciting and eventful week for me, I started school on Thursday and have met my new class Tabei, named after Junko Tabei the first women to climb mount everest. There is also class Tereskova who is named after the first woman to get flown into space and class Cornero who was the first women ever to get a degree. These women are supposed to inspire us to achieve new goals this year. I can't wait to start going on our trips such as going to Carlingford next week.
Ill keep you posted