Christmas cake

                                                so for the past 2 weeks in home ec we have been making "Christmas cake". well it was supposed to be Christmas cake but everyone in our class hates Christmas cake so we made chocolate biscuit cake instead and just decorated it like a Christmas cake. 

                                                last week we made the cake and then went through a week of torture because we weren't allowed to eat it. then today we decorated it and it looks so cute. i'm going to cry when i have to cut it in half at the end of the day. my home ec partner Linda and i came up with the design of a gingerbread house on top of the cake with a fondant Santa and penguin figures and we were both really happy with how it turned out. we just hope it tastes good now! 

                            mini company

                                 before i begin could you please support our new mini company page on facebook. its called sockafellas. please note they still they are not complete as we still need noses! i'll explain more as i go on.

                                 mini company has to be one of the most stressful things about TY. you either love mini company or hate it and personally i hate it! at the start i couldn't understand why my sister said that it was the worst thing about TY because we were just watching the apprentice and talking about all our ideas and stuff. it was great! then we were put into our groups and that's when the trouble started

                                  my group has 4 of my friends and me. our first idea was to sell fluffy socks filled with sweets and we were all set about it. we made our social media accounts and even bought the sweets we were going to use. then we made our first prototype. it looked terrible and suddenly we all started to panic about what we were going to do! we needed an idea and quickly because we were now so far behind everyone else. 

                                 then when i was in spain during midterm i came up with an idea that i thought might work. i saw a video on facebook on how to make snowmen christmas decorations just using socks and rice! it looked so simple and i was so excited to show everyone.

                                 when i came home i showed the girls the video and we all agreed that this is our new idea. some girls needed more convincing than others but in the end we all gave it a go and we made our first prototype. it looked pretty good but we needed to do some alterations to make it look better and be safer for kids. 

                                last weekend we started our production and were just about to get started. we only have small issues left like what socks to use for hats and scarfs. but we are almost ready to go full on and start selling! 

                               so as i said please like our sockafellas facebook page or even follow us on instagram @sockafellasmc. thank you xo.sockafellas facebook

                                   Kilkenny art trip

So for our art trip we took a visit to kilkenny castle and went to the cinema to see song of the sea. we had to get up really early because the bus left at 8.15 am. i was asleep for the 1 and a half hour bus journey. 

we arrived at the cinema and got a private screening to the irish animation movie called song of the sea. it was a lot better than i expected but a bit weird. but all the animation in it was really pretty and i can see why it was nominated for an oscar. 

when the movie was over we walked over to kilkenny castle and had our lunch. we had a look at the exhibition of song of the sea that was in the castle. it was really interesting and it confirmed that i never want to go into animation industry when i leave school. do you know that there is 24 pictures drawn per second? i wouldn't have the patience for it.

so overall it was a really good day apart from being kicked out of the playground by a security gaurd in kilkenny castle.

Carlingford ty

                                          Carlingford 

i was so excited about going to Carlingford. every ty year say it is one of the highlights of the year. we arrived to a gorgeous medieval style town, surrounded by hills and beside the sea. it was funny the difference of the landscape from Dublin.
When we arrived at our hostel they split us into groups and led us to our activities for the day. my group started off with challenge island. in challenge island there were loads of activities that were both mentally and physically challenging. my favourite one was the maze in the complete darkness, which felt like i was on the tv show i'm a celebrity get me out of here. unfortunately after all the activities my team lost the competition because we were the slowest to complete the challenges. after challenge island we headed back to the hostel for our lunch which was a lot nicer then i expected.
in the afternoon we did water sports which included peer jumping, kayaking and going on the trampoline in the sea. it was freezing outside and lashing rain and it didn't help that we were in the Irish sea in the middle of autumn! i woke up with a cold not surprisingly.
after dinner we went and did a walk in the dark forest blind folded and it was a lot easier then i expected! our guide said we were one of the best groups he'd ever seen. when we came home we were given our rooms and i was delighted to be one of the bigger rooms with all my friends and some girls i didn't know as well. we all got on great and 4 of us stayed up till 3am chatting.
the next day we did this zip wire obstacle course in the trees which was so fun but scary at the same time. i got stuck in the middle of one of the really long zip wires and had to pull myself to the other side. it was a full workout and i was almost dead after. pretty sure i pulled a stomach muscle.
we were all sad to be leaving and we all agreed that it lived up to the expectation and would recommend all schools to do it for a tour.

Beginning Of TY 

For once i wasn't sad that the summer holidays were over because i knew i was going into a fun year, where i would have new subjects, class, teachers and make new friends. I was so excited going in on the first day while my sister was going into sixth year. "make the most of TY because when fifth year comes, you'll have to put your head down for the leaving cert" is what she told me. When we walked in i met with my friends and we went down to the hall to find out our new class and tutor. i was relieved when 2 of my friends were in the same class as me but disappointed because 2 of my other best friends weren't in the same class. when i got talking with some of the girls i'd never talked to before, i realised that my class so nice and it made up for the fact that i wasn't in the same class as my best friends Megan and Ciara. The day went quickly and i went hope excited for the year with all the fun things we were going to be doing.