Busy Week This Week

To start off our busy week we had sports day on Monday!!

We all came into school in our tracksuits all ready for the day of sports ahead of us. Just before lunch before we went outside it started raining but stopped soon after. After lunch we all went outside to part take in sports activities. There were loads of sports, relays, high jump, long jump, spot put, plus some other fun races such as the three legged race, and the wheel barrow race.

I did the relay with Chloe K, Chloe M and Sadhbh. We came 5th out of the about 10 teams. There was also a game of soccer between some students and the teachers, and the annual game of rounders between the sixth years and teachers. That was pretty funny. That day was good fun.




Next on Tuesday about half of the year had SciFest in IT Tallaght. The bus left really early at 8:40, it was suppose to leave at 8:20 but it was late. Since I needed my laptop for some things for our project, myself and Roisin watched a movie on the way to IT Tallaght.

The whole day was pretty boring, we set up our posters, got judged a few times, ate lunch, talked to friends, went to talks, took down posters and set back home on the bus. Surprisingly the judging was quite tiring and we needed a well deserved break after talking so much. On the bus home, myself and Roisin continued the movie. We were watching The Fault In Our Stars which Roisin hadn't seen before!

  

Last big thing we did this week was our retreat on Wednesday. We left from school to go to Maynooth for our big retreat. When we arrived we went into a room in the College where we sat down in seats. We then had to sit in a big circle and pushed the chairs back. We played a game, where there were four people in the middle of the circle and then everyone around in the circle linked arms. We had to hold on tight because the people in the middle had to pulled us apart. The way the retreat people described it was that we in the circle were teeth and that the people in the middle of the circle were the dentists that had to pull us out. That was actually fun to play and then we played a game where we pretended to be people drowning after the Titanic was sinking. When the captain said groups of four we had to get into groups of four of a "lifeboat" and anyone left over died. That was okay too, after then we had break.

When we came back after our break and split into groups of about ten and got a question. We had to discuss our questions in our groups and then we got back into one big group. Once in the big group we discussed each question as a group. Once we got to my groups question, Who has it easier in our society, girls or boys, we spent ages and ages discussing it. We even had to stop in the middle for our other break. We then picked up where we left off after break and spent the rest of the day discussing the other questions. We finished up about 3 o'clock and headed back to school.

All in all the busy week we had was actually fun. I hoped next week is as jam-packed as this week.