Dia Dhuit gach duine.
Anois i mo rhang gaeilge táimid ag déanamh an dráma. "Phádraigín is ainm dom" é an ainm atá ar an dráma. Tá sé faoi cailín óg agus thug sí drugaí as an mealltóir (is mise an mealltóir). Tá a lán línte agam agus táim ag foghlaim mo línte gach lá. Beidh an dráma ar súil tar éis Cáis tá mé ar bís agus tá sceitimíní an domhain orm!
Tá mo chara Kate ag scríobh faoi an dráma freisin tá "link" anseo ag dul go dtí a blog...
For all those non Irish speaking viewers heres my blog translated:
We are doing a drama at school called "Patricia is my name". Its about a young drug addict who takes drugs from a drug dealer( I play the drug dealer). I have loads of lines to learn and cant wait to perform it after Easter.
I also provided a link to my friends blog...
Last Wednesday most of our year travelled to Puddenhill, Co. Meath for an assault course. Basically it was a track through fields with pools of mud, hay stacks to jump over, ropes to climb and streams and rivers to swim through. It was freezing cold but I gave it my best shot, yes none of our school came first in the race but we thoroughly enjoyed the day! I arrived home that evening with bruised knees, soaked clothes and both physically and mentally drained. I'm glad I did it as its a personal acheivment I'm proud of.
Heres a link to the Brave Force website:
Last week my class did a drumming class. We learned all about African drumming and the traditions behind the drums.
We also learned about the "drum language", this is a method of understanding the rhythms. Its through vocal noises made to sound like the drum beats like for example, Boom Patta Boom Patta Boom Patta Patta. This tells you the rhythms length and beat, I really like this method of learning music as it is far more memorable and realistic than counting 1, 2, 3 etc. I play the clarinet and learned to play it in the "correct musical" way but learning to count rhythms this way was much better. I enjoyed playing music this fun and rhythmic way!
We played on various different drum types here are some pictures of them...
This is a Jembe drum
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This is a kenkeni drum
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I really enjoyed this day. Especially learning about the African dances and traditions.
I spent me week in the K Club kitchen, Straffan. I'm so tired after it, I did loads of work from 9 to 5 every day! I spent me days cooking rashers, chopping cucumbers, carrots, celery and peppers. Shaping pastry and helping to make the salads during service when the chefs were really busy. I enjoyed talking to the chefs, waiters and kitchen porters who passed through the kitchen everyday. It opened my eyes up to how people interact with one another under stressful service situations. On the last day I made a lemon drizzle cake. Now perhaps it didn't work out how I planned it to but I would blame the huge mixers that were about the size of my oven and the fact that the oven was far hotter than any oven I'd used before so my cake came out slightly on the blacker side. But my fellow employees seemed to enjoy it. I really did enjoy this week I spent as it was so different to my first week where I was in an office situation. I don't think that cheffing is the job for me as it is very stressful and it is long and hard hours according to chefs I talked to. However I still had a really great week!
