Carlingford!! :D

On Monday 13th of september, ty's headed off to carlingford. It was a very early start, with us having to meet at 7 in the morning! We arrived there at about 9. My first impressions of carlingford town was that it was very pretty. When we got there, we were brought on our 1st activity which was the high ropes. From the minute I saw the ropes i felt sick, because I have a HUGE fear of heights. After the high ropes, we went for lunch, and then we were brought to our 2nd activity, which was kayaking. We got changing into our swimming togs and wetsuits ( which were very hard to get into!!). I didnt think that kayaking would be very hnard, but it really hurt my arms! :P It was so windy, which made it very hard to steer in the right direction and we kept getting blown off course into the wall. It was so much fun though :) We then went pier jumping, we was awesome. I started off on the small jump and then decided that I was going to conquer my fears and jump off the higher wall. It took about 10 minutes of convincing myself to do it, but I eventually did :) It was so much fun. That night we were all knackered, but then we were told that we were going on a hike. It sounded fun, but I soon realised that it was so tiring. We were climbing uphill for about an hour, and that was bad enough! Then it got really dark all of a sudden and it started lashing rain. To make matters worse there was gale force winds and we couldn't see a thing! Everyone was feeling wet, cold and tired, so to cheer ourselves up we sang christmas carols :) the instructors probably thought that we were mad!
the next day we did orienteering and archery which were both really fun. then we did the challenge course which taught us teamwork and good communication.  We left carlingford at 5, and I was so tired. I had never climbed uphill so much in my life! Carlingford was really great fun and definitely something to remember!!

Social Development Day :D

On monday the 6th of september, our class amina had social development day. we started off by introducing each other so we could get to know everyone better. we had to say what we would like to do as a career, our greatest achievements, our hobbies and our (hilarious) embarrasing moments. we did many excercises and fun games, one was finding out our personality types. there were the directors (red), the mediators (green), the observers (blue) and the entertainers (yellow). i was red :) we are very direct, strong minded, quick thinking, extroverted and set a lot of targets. this was a very worthwhile excercise as we got to learn more about ourselves and each other. we all became more tolerant of other people personalities. we all learned how to communicate effectively with other people. :) overall this day was so much fun and definitely worthwhile. TY has been really great so far, and i'm definitely not regretting doing it...its definitely not a doss year!!!