Last TY Trip of The Year: Xtreme Activities

May 20th, Wednesday was the last day out with the whole of TY. For our last TY trip we went to Xtreme Adventure Centre in Balbriggan. As soon as we got there we were divided into groups and started our activities. Our first activity was the Aerial Trekking obstacle course level 3 and I'll be honest, I was petrified at first but half way through the obstacle course it started to feel easy. At first my heart started to beat so fast, thinking that I was going to end up falling 14 metres down. 

My favourite activity was the obstacle course because that was the only activity I feared to do and I'm glad that I made it through the whole activity. My second favourite was the archery even though I'm not so great at it but I found it really good. 

It's sad to think that's it coming near to the end of TY. It has been a great year and I made lot's of new friends. The year gave me a lot of opportunities to experience some things that I have never done before and it gave me the opportunity to improve on some skills. I strongly recommend Transition Year and I can guarantee you that you will have the best year. 

                   

RETREAT: Weak or Strong

On the Wednesday of May 13th, the whole of TY went to a retreat in Maynooth University. The retreat was held in a seminary. Firstly, we formed a big circle with our seats and we were then given an introduction, and met our supervisors. We were told that it's our decision to choose to have a good day or not so they advised us to participate as much as we could.

Our first task was to link arms and sit while still linking arms with the people beside you, this shows our strengths and weaknesses. The first four people that fell were chosen to be "dentists" for a game that still shows strengths and weaknesses, to do so we were to sit down and link arms with the people beside you and hold onto them as they get dragged away from the four dentists.. Now you decide what role we played. The second game that we played was to get into groups of whatever number was called out.

After our 10 minute break, we got in to groups of 10. Each group was given a piece of paper with a question and discuss about it with the group we were in. The question that we got was, 'If you were to change one thing about one or both of your parents what would it be?' After discussing with our small group we then had a huge discussion with the rest of the groups about each of the questions from each group. The discussion became serious with a bit of laughter of course.

In honesty, I thought I wasn't going to enjoy the retreat but as it started I ended up having a good time and I enjoyed myself throughout the whole retreat. I definitely recommend it and I would love to go back again.

                                        

Break Freeeeeeeeee!

The past few Thursdays we've been doing hip hop for P.E. These past few Thursdays we've been learning and practicing a dance for our TY Night and the songs that we're dancing to is, 'Break Free' and 'Run The World,' the dance routine is pretty easy to learn. Dancing is one of my favorite pastimes and I'm enjoying it so far. We have two weeks left of hip hop and I want to make the best of it, and have fun. I look forward to TY Night and can't wait to show our parents what we've learned and what we did during the past few weeks of being a Transition Year student.