Saturday 22 September 2012

Carlingford Adventure Center!! Day 2

So the next day we're woken up at 7:20 ( I have to say it killed me a little inside) , to pack and be down for breakfast at eight. As I have mentioned before, I am not a morning person so I was pretty narky all morning ( sorry to anyone who was near me). We had to walk over to the big field place where they have all their obstacles and stuff with our instructors for that task including Leslie, or as we like to call Lesboy or The Lessinator. (He is a legend.) Our activity that morning was a sort of obstacle hunt. We were put into groups of about ten and were given a map, on the map were a load of different obstacles, we had to complete as many as possible and for each we were given a certain amount of jewels. I think my team was the bomb, we were lead by The Lessinator .  We managed to get twenty five jewels, tying first place with another group. That was a fantastic activity and i really had fun!!
       We then had lunch and went to our second activity which was LASER GUNS!!! As you can probably tell from the capitol letters, I loved laser guns. We had to wear badass army gear and march up to a big forest area with army hide-outs and those things that you always see in movies were people hide behind and shoot from. It looked epic! We were all told how to use the guns and were put into two teams, the blues and  the reds. I was on the reds. There were loads of different games that lasted about fifteen minutes each. It was soo amazing! We all went into soldier mode. It was hilarious! : D
    When laser guns was over we had to go back to the place, get our bags and go home. That was sad, we all wanted to stay longer! Now we are actually trying to organize another trip to Carlingford because we all loved it so much, I really hope we get to go back!

Carlingford adventure center!!! Day One

It's  Friday the 21st of September, and Ty is still great! Even better then before to be honest. This Monday we went to Carlingford Adventure Center. It was the best two days ever! Seriously. We left on the bus from esso garage at 7 in the mornring. That meant I had to get up at 6 and I am not a morning person! : / I have to say it was worth it though. When we got there we were split up into two groups and we headed off to our first activity. For my group that meant kayaking! We had to put on wet suits that were ripped at the bum and already wet, that wasnt nice. Once we got in though it was so fun! We paddled out to sea in a group.I was on a kayack with cliodhna and we weren't the most talented rowers if I'm honest, we were miles behind everyone. Luckily we got a lift on the speed boat to try catch up.. that came with a price.. they toppled us over into the water!!
      We went back to have lunch after the water activities were over and got ready for the next one which was high ropes and zorbing. That was incredible, even though i was now feeling sick I think zorbing was my favorite. We had to get strapped into a massive ball after we rolled it up a hill. They then let go of the ball and sent us rolling down the hill. It was sooo fun!!
    After dinner we went out to the forest to do the night walk. I was wrecked at this point and having to walk up a hill was not my idea of fun. When we got up to the forest we were told to put blindfolds on and hold the  shoulder of the person in front of us and walk. It started to get really good then. We were all blind and walking through a forest , tying to dodge trees, a lot of the time unsuccessfully : ) Not to mention the fact that the instructors and Mr Kennady were throwing leaves and water at us at random times for a laugh!!
     After the night walk we had free time until eleven which was when we had to go to our rooms. We went out to get some Chinese takeaway and we chillaxed in the games room. It was a great day!

Tuesday 11 September 2012

ty so far

It's just about the second week of ty now and I have to say so far so good. At first I was uncertain that TY was for me. New people in my class and it's very different from other years, however, around the third  or fourth day things got much better. You seriously make a lot of new friends in TY, people you didn't even know the names of.
 So far there has been a lot of group work, most teachers mix you up so that you're not with your friends. At first I didn't like that but you get to know new people and have fun anyway :) . One of the projects we're doing is junk kouture. It's really good. We have to design a dress made out of recycled materials, we have to  pick a concept on which we want to design our dress and we have to pick a girl in the group to model the dress. We chose to do our dress on childhood, so we're making the dress out of old toys and stuff. It's really fun because you literally do everything yourself, you're the only one who will be disappointed if yo you get nothing done. We've only really started so there's a long way to go! I' ve seen some of the other designs from previous years and they look AMAZING. I hope mine turns out half as good as theirs!