TY Retreat

Yesterday, we had our annual retreat. This year since we were in TY went to a different place outside of Celbridge for our retreat. It was called the Dominican Retreat Centre and it was in Tallaght. It was a very unexpected day as I thought it would be completely religion based, but it was far from that. It was a very reflective day that got us to think about our lives and the people that are in it. We were all together in the morning talking about what's important in our lives and our worries for the future. These topics made us really think and i thought it was a good way to start off the day. From then on we were split into different groups and went to different rooms with a different worker each. We filled out a questionnaire about our family life and friends and then we discussed the answers together. It was a day filled with laughter but also seriousness as we discussed things that made us sad and difficult times in our lives.
After lunch we did an exercise where we said something about each person in the group. I really enjoyed this as you felt really good saying all these lovely things about people, but also hearing what they have to say about you.
At the end of the day we all wrote down a prayer and they were blessed in an urn and then burned. I got the honour to do this, which i was happy about to give further participation.
I thought it was a very good day!

D-DAY.....

Last Friday was the competition for Sci fest. It was the day that everybody had been working towards since the start of the year, and it was safe to say the nerves were running high! Me and my group felt very confident as we had our poster completely finished and we knew exactly what to say when the judges came around. There was 4 judges in total, with every group seeing at least 2. Our group though ended up talking to all 4 judges. We were very confident whilst talking about our project and we felt that we had explained our project well. It must have worked in our favor, all of our talking, as we got through to the next round! We were so happy as we also won the best communication award!
As well as out victory in science, that same day was the Wesley college choir competition. So even more nerves! We were on first in our category, which we thought was a good thing because we would be waiting then We felt that we had done pretty well and that we sounded very well for a newly formed choir this year. Unfortunately we didn't win, but we came third which we were delighted with.
All in all it was a very jam packed day, but it was all worth it and we all enjoyed it!