Two weeks ago I came across something incredibly worrying. The Marshall Lerner Condition. According to our book, it states ”That a devaluation will only improve  a countries balance of trade if the sum of the elasticities for exports and imports is greater than one in absolute terms’. After pondering about that in a class test, I though to myself ’wow that means that they could both be inelastic and improve the BOT’, but then it hit me, that’s rubbish. How could it work for two that are inelastic. So instead of sum I wrote down average. And lost marks. I questioned my teacher about it (an absolute genius) and even he was baffled. I tried a few examples with the PED at -0.6 for both, (which are greater than one in absolute terms) and predictably, they dis-improved the balance of trade. Marshall and Lerner, you pair of gimps. That fact that I’ve thought this probably means there is a logical explanation, but I dare any Economics student to try it, the results are quite shocking….

All Ireland Senior B Colleges Semi-Final. Last Saturday. Two points. Two bloody points off a schools All-Ireland. Beaten by a team from Tipperary no less. Tipperary? I didn’t even think they knew what a size 5 was down there. Seven points up at one stage, and thrown away. Their Machiavellian approach to sport is comparable to that of Edmund in King Lear, les grosse legumes (had to keep it educational)! Imagine getting to an All-Ireland final in football, it would have been a class way to end school. But hey, I still have a Dublin and Leinster medal in my pocket. Anyway, that was my crappy start to the Easter break. I probably should start with an apology for the damage I inflicted upon our belle langue, Gaelique. Even reading over it I felt like throwing up. What it did make me realise is that my Irish grammar is like that of Shakespeare, utterly non existent. So I did a bit of research. Apparently this guy, Da Animfhocail, is going around making lots of extraneous rules about when two nouns come together. Fourteen years I have studied Irish. Not once has this guy ever been taught to me. For fourteen years, I have been convinced I was rubbish at Irish. Don’t get me wrong, I probably have the best Irish teacher in the country. But if you saw one of my Aistí, you would understand. There must be a good litre of red ink used per page with corrections, lots of slight spelling changes, sheimius and úrús. I took it upon myself to actually find out when to use these grammar points, but the use of an úrú after ’na’ was never mention. Baffled so I was by things like ’fadhb na ndrugaí’ yet ’na bhpaistí’ was mícheart. Me being Mr. Logical and all that. Baffled that is until today. Fourteen years this T.G guy has escaped me, until I accidentally stumbled across him today. I’ll admit, we touched on it in the Gaeltacht last year, but like Organic Chemistry, you’re not going to get it the first time around. So fun times ahead over Easter getting to know this T.G guy…

Time is quite literally flying out the window. This time two weeks, my scrúdubhéil (imagine, prime example of the T.G, I mean, wtf is a bhéil?) will be thart. Three weeks et mon francais oral sera fini. Eight weeks and I graduate. Imagine, no more school? Ten weeks, English Paper 1 will be completed. Twelve weeks and I’ll be re-capping on my last Economics paper. Not. I shall be getting rather merry with a few friends!
It really does seem like only yesterday I was going in to help the incoming first years acclimatise to secondary school life, and the day before that, as if I were a diminutive first year with my oversized bag. Funny how the bag condition has reappeared in sixth year. My current one could probably hold a decent sized first year. Discontent with getting a bottom locker this year, all my books remain in the bag. Couple that with a few days without shaving, and my friends claim I could pass as a suicide bomber, a disguise to go with my explosive personality. Ok, awful pun I know, but sixth year really does drain all humour from you.

As for the whole study situation, it’s going ok I guess. I haven’t really started killing myself just yet. We’ve had great weather of late. Great weather for study that is. I’ve been getting the Exam Brief supplements in the Irish Independent of late, and while I admit their useful, all I have managed to read so far is the student profiles. One girl claimed that recording all of the Chemistry definitions onto her iPod helped her remember them all on the day. So me being me, I copied her style for Chem. Biology and Economics too. And sure hey, if they are going to work for those, I may as well try it for my oral work. I’m not sure how successful it has been so far hearing myself ream off notes about A l’étranger, but it can only help! One thing I’ve noticed from doing masses of exam papers in Maths is that the exam is getting bloody harder each year. Algebra for example. Take any of the questions from the past three years. Easy? I shall think not! Now have a look at 1998 Q2. 5 minutes it took me to do the entire question and get the 50 marks. So to all of you who claim the Leaving Cert is getting easier and think ‘oh how hard it was back in the day,’ f!@# you! Your A1 in 1998 wouldn’t get you a C3 now!

Now that the hype of the mocks is dead and buried, it’s time for post mortems. English my best result? It’s probably evident from reading my blogs that it’s not my thing. Still, 78 left me over the moon. If I got a B2 in the real thing, I would be rather satisfied! My B3 in French is another thing I laughed at when I saw the result. Albeit a four year old mute could answer the comprehensions and get full marks, I was still pleased. Again, a subject I expect to see a C beside in August. As for the other four. I know in my heart and soul I am capable of getting A1’s in Chemistry, Economics, Biology and Maths, but a serious amount of work needs to be done. A serious amount of work = time, and well time, it’s something we’re all running out of. I got 460 in the mocks. I set that exact aim last October and thankfully I reached it. Looking around and seeing some people not even reaching triple digits is worrying, I have a friend who improved by 250 points from his mocks, albeit he 90 in them. But I really have to break 500. It’s not like I’ve a choice. Actuary was 530 in UCD last year and 485 in DCU. With applications up by 10%, it’s going to rise. Being honest, I’m not sure if I would be happy doing Primary Education or Economics and Finance in NUIM. It’s not that I think they are below me, but I love a challenge. I like to think of myself as a bit of a workhorse, and frankly, those courses are quite laid back. So how fitting, I’ve to work my socks off to work my socks off for the next four years, or I can take it easy, and take the next four years easy! Some reward eh?
Anyway, I shall wrap up, I’ve a date with this Tuiseal Guinideach guy, I’d hate to be late!
Enjoy your Easter, well except for those in sixth year, as that would be awful advice! As a learned man once told me,
‘Avoid present pleasures for future happiness’
Bon(ne) chance

Hey everyone!
I owe you an apology for vanishing for a few weeks there! I suppose the only school related topic atm is the mocks, well down this part of the country they are! I have all mine back except the most dreaded! That would be Irish and Maths, so far I’ve calculated that I have 465 points, hopefully at least a B3 in irish or A2 in maths (pass) will bring me up?(updated-465 are my total points..not exactly what i hoped for,,)Overall, apart from English,which I will get to later, (believe me), I thought I did really well.  I had my mock French oral and got 92/100.So that along with my actual mock got me an A1 in french! Delighted so I was! I keep asking myself what was my problem back when I was young, *sigh* a C in the Junior Cert was pathetic in my case, considering I LOVE french and am decent enough in it I know you shouldn’t really go by the mocks because who knows? I could get a horrible paper on the day and totally screw it up (hope that won’t be the case though). I thought my art exam may have been marked too easily, but I cant complain.  Actually, just thought I’d throw this in here, my friend got into NCAD!! So 140 points-yep that’s all, and a few months later she shall be walking into the NCAD college building, dressed like one of those indifferent, aesthetic, expressive art students (which in my opinion are the coolest frickin’ people on earth!!). 

Anyway,what was I actually bringing myself to say…? Oh yes! PLEASE if this has happened in your school too COMMENT and let me know..because to say this as politely as I can possible say, I am absolutely furious, mad, raging, fuming pure angry! Ok, so for the next minute please excuse my ‘big-headedness’ as I’m not going to be modest at all. Basically, I’m an A1 student in English, I’m hoping for an A1 in the actual thing this summer.  I think I’ve only once or twice gotton lower than a B1.  Since 5th year my average has been in the high 90s. This is honours English we’re talking about, there is about 25 people in my class. Not everyone is the same standard. So how is it even POSSIBLE to have given not only my English class, but EVERY higher level English class in the SCHOOL a C1. Yep, everyone got grades ranging from C3-C1. Ridiculous, was the examiner just not bothered or did she actually think that we were all C3 students? The proof? There is no ticks beside my work, no coding, no nothing, nada, zilch, nothing:( yet he/she just marked it in ‘general’. A few people don’t mind, a C3 was shocking to get after failing the whole year, (these students don’t exactly attend school). I hope I’m not coming out as insulting or arrogant but I’m seriously mad at the way the English mocks were corrected.  I mean we pay good money to do these exams, what’s the point if they come back not corrected right and don’t give any significant idea of where a student stands? I mean, i honestly thought I would have gotten a B or something…a C though was just, sickening, and just left me disappointed really. The teachers have filed a complaint but I doubt that will do anything.  The other schools were marked properly. Yet, we were apparently ‘bunch marked’ as they told us. How can over 100 students all get a C?

Has anyone else been getting the exam briefs with the Irish Independent? I find some of them helpful, mostly I just dwell on how well the past students have done, ha,  sad, sad Ally. The total opposite of what the papers are meant to do.  Well done *pats self on back*. This Wednesday are all the business subjects, then the following is the Junior Cert.

Hmm, what else? I’m kind of rushing this blog because I have my Irish mock oral on Wednesday, not as good in Irish as I am French. I also have chemistry revision to be doing. Right now I feel as though I should be doing something productive,I mean I think we have 3 months left? Wow, seems shorter when I type it out Ohh! I also finished ‘The Road’ last week, by Cormac McCarthy, a very different book might I say, well written but the style was something I’ve never experienced before. A good read, it’s a movie now too I think? On another note; isn’t the line up for Oxegen amazing? Muse AND 30 seconds to mars??

Isn’t it funny? (ok not really), this year is just pure mad.  I mean we’re definitely going to remember it forever, hopefully for all the best parts but just the whole experience, the stress and everything, it’s something we’ll keep for the rest of our lives.  After all they pretty much depend on what we do this year!

Bonne Chance mes amis!

-Ally.

Salut!

First of all, I know I’m a tad late, but WHAT A MATCH! TOMMY BOWE you legend =D It left me on a high all week. Beating the English is always so so sweet. And it’s even better when in their own back yard. I would also like to add my tupence worth to the Sexton V O’Gara debate. SEXTON ALL THE WAY =D

Well now that that out of my system, back to reality (and a bit of moaning!).

I’m sorry to say that running up to and during my mocks I had to avoid my blog like the plague in case temptation would bring me to the spoiler threads! I don’t see the point in them! Ok, fair enough, you might not have left enough time to study, and yes we all know how long it takes to revise seven courses. But there is no point in spending money sending papers off to be corrected if you knew exactly what was coming up. That’s my little “everyone-else-should-feel-bad-so-I-can-feel-good” rant!

My chemistry teacher did something that can only be described as sneaky and malicious. During our second last class before our mocks, when most students were at home taking a study day, she told us an experiment that would definitely be on our paper, having previously told us another. So, being lazy, they were the only two I learned! One came up, the other didn’t! It resulted in me making a mess of the one I did know because I was so annoyed, and getting poor marks in another that I hadn’t learned properly =( The rest of the paper went okay though, despite the fact that I managed to get considerably more marks for answering on a section that we hadn’t done, than on gases! Lol!

So, what about the HPAT? Any thoughts? I have absolutely no idea how I got on, I was just happy that I handled the exam pressure/stress pretty well! Heard a few not so nice stories about the Trinity Examination Hall centre, and that somewhere in UCD got very, very warm! I was in Goldsmith Hall, in Trinity, and apart from a little difficulty in finding the entrance the whole thing was fine =D I’m sure it went fantastically for everyone. I don’t know about you, but I for one am so relieved to just have it out of the way. Now I just have to convince myself to just sit down and study =/

In both Irish and French at the moment we’re concentrating mainly on the oral work. I like this part because, as any of you who know me will know, I never shut-up!! Last year I got into a big debate about doping in sport and the whole Cian O’ Conor and Denis Lynch fiasco at both of the previous Olympics. My French was poor and my argument was even worse!! Ah well, what can you do, at least I gave the class a laugh!!

As far as results go… I have to say that I’m pretty happy =D I managed an A2 in Irish and Maths (pass) and my only C was in Chemistry. One positive I suppose ill have to take is that if I hadn’t made 59marks worth of stupid mistakes, I would have gotten a B1! Stupid mistakes include; not using graph paper X2, mixing up words in definitions that I never get wrong X3; calculating g/mol wrongX5…… the list goes on!!! I was happy enough with English (B2) and Biology (B1) for now…. And a little disappointed with my accounting (scrapped a B3). But I have now definitely made the decision to leave out Q5 (interpretation) so that will give me time to concentrate on everything else.

French has to have been the surprise of the centaury!! No matter how hard I try, I just don’t get Bs in my written… so I was thrilled with my B1. Admittedly my tape brought me up a huge amount, and it’s generally a major downfall for most. One tip; upload those practise tapes you get with the exam papers onto your iPod and listen to them. You won’t get every word, but you’re not asked to. Just get the gist of the piece and work from there.

Anyways I had better get back to the books.

Chuala mé go bhfuil Seachtain na Gaeilge ag teacht agus bainfaidh mé trial mo chéad blog eile a scríobh as Gaeilge.

Slán

Katie xxx

Mar ata Seactain na Gaelige ar suil, deanfaidh me an iarract a scriobh mo bhlog i nGaelige! Ta bron orm faoi an litriocht agus an gramadach, tá fhios agam go bhfuil mé cáic!Ar aon nos, tá mo thiortaí ó mo mhocks air ais. Bhí siad….Bhuel…. ceart go leor is dóigh liom. Táim fós ag fanacht ar mo thiortai i mBearla, ach seachas sin, fuair mé 445 phiontaí. Bhí mo aim timpeall 470, agus tar éis na scrudú, chéap mé gurbh é easca i gcompáiroid lena hArdtieste.
Fuair me 66 i Matá, 63 i nGaeilge (sin é mo leathscéal ar mo bhotúiní sa blog seo!) 76 i mBitholaiocht, 71 i Francais, 70 i gChemic agus 77 i Eacnamiocht. Táim dochasach go mbeadh mo thiorthai i mBearla níos mo na 65, ionas go gheobhadh 450 ó mo reamhscrudú… Bhí mé lán sásta leis mo thiorthai i Francais áfach, dá gheobhainn sin sa Ardteiste, bheinn áthas orm! Ní faigh mé B i Francais riomh go deo (Bhuel seachas an Teastas Soisereach, ní fhios agam conas fós!)

Thainig rud maith amahain ó na ramhscrudú, fuair mé kic mór suas mo thóin! Thuig mé an realtacht den saol ar chead uair. Dá gheobhainn na tiorthai seo, gheobhainn ‘offer’ amhain ó an CAO, eacnamiochta i Maigh Nuad. Táim ag cónaí deich kilometres ó NUIM, ach beidh gach waster i mo scoil ag dul ann, agus gach daoine eile a aitint liom. Agus an chursa freisin, meh. Is aoibheann liom eacnamiochta, ach níl sé an rud ceanna le actuair. Ní chaillím dochas a faigheann leigis tar éis an HPAT, ach beidh gá orm a gheobhaidh timpeall 540. Tar éis mo reamhscrudu, ní fhios agam más féidir liom….

An reasuin eile a scriobh mo bhlog i nGaeilge, fuair mé amach go bhfuil mo mhathar ag léamh é. Sin  saghas ait i mo thuarim! Agus mar tír ghrá orm! Is aoibheann liom an teanga, agus ba mhaith liom a bheith liofa leis í, ach bhí mo chaighdean an ísle riomh cúíg bhlian. Ach is laoch í mo mhuinteoir ag an am seo. Tá sí ag toghtha mo rang Gaeilge go dtí Conamara i rith Casca go dtí a Gaeltacht. Tá 24 daoine i mo bhlian ag deanamh ardleibheal i nGaeilge as 125, agus i scoil cailini in aice linn, tá trí ranganna lán le daoine. Mo thuarim, tá buachailli cáic ar Ghaeilge!

Ar aon nos, aon daoine liofa ag léamh seo, tá an bron orm. Tá sé pianmhar a leamh! Dheanfaidh mé tuilleadh iarraht sa chead blog eile.

Slan ar anois!

I apologise, its been a while, I’ve also got a lot of slagging cause of these blogs, pfft .. Well i have     stayed away from allhonours.ie blogging simply because there’s the temptation of mocks spoilers, so i decided it was safe to come back after mocks (: loads of students from school knew what was coming up on the exam or either had it printed off already and handed out.. i didn’t seem to bother! I only did 3 mocks, business, economics and math paper 2 ( which was an utter sham) I was in China/Hong Kong for two weeks  and i came back right in the middle of them, so meaning i had to study for a month and never practiced any math til the night before my paper.. anyways, enough bladdering on about nothing, its 98 days til the Leaving Cert i hear? At this stage i just want it over with!.. I’m confident with business and accounting to be able to go into the leaving exam now, music is progressing along with economics.. German shall always be my down fall better start studying for orals and practicals.. and lvcp exam again.. Hope everyone had a lovely mid term and Easters round the corner and im 18 in 8 days . Partt-ayyyyy!! Anyways one last thing, i said I’d mention Gera in my first blog back, Hi Gera! He’s too cool to blog anymore.. Good luck to those just starting mocks. Don’t worry they don’t mean anything, Anyways see ya soon (: x

March! Friggin’ March! Hold on a moment….

Yeah, it’s just as I thought, my heart is contemplating shutting down and locking up for good – but in all fairness on Larry (random name for my heart), he has been working overtime on ye oul’ stress levels! Gone are the days of yore when one could read Shakespeare’s King Lear leisurely, or write out a baffling Tableau de Conjuguez – from this moment on, we are now confined to actually doing something productive, maybe in learning something – but this takes time and effort, and poor oul’ Larry is probably not up to it! I mean I’m seriously considering holding a sign above my head saying, “If found, please return to September 1st 2009″.

This year has flown by in a tornado of exam papers, worry, ink, foreign languages, C.A.O forms, laughter and Ben&Jerry’s Ice Cream – at least Dorethy ended up in Oz, singing and dancing with the Munchkins after she had been spun off her heels- all I’ve got is a headache . And to cap it all off (Side Note: I want a nice green cap! *He stares into space, distracted) …Woah! Sorry about that…As I was saying, to cap it all off, my synapses and neurons are working perfectly which means every morning I’m reminded by these little nuggets of baffling protein -(I think they’re constructed of protein? God, my bio paper is going to SUCK!)- that we only have a short amount of time until the exams (As Caoimhe was only too nice to point out…Oh Caoimhe? You’re off my X-Mas Card List!) and we really need full steam ahead. Ooh pretty light……

Really, I must stop getting so distracted! So, how is everyone coping? I can almost hear the clock (we shall call him Tim) tick tock, as if laughing at the beads of perspiration that blossom like dew upon my brow (Watch out Yeats!!), until I feel capable of punching Tim in the face – thankfully, aforementioned synapses remind me that Tim is made of glass and punching him would be a very bad idea! Seriously though, if March is here already, after I procrastinated that it wouldn’t be here for ages, why, that means that tomorrow is June 9th! (This is not logic! Merely, it is my brain). But, I think I make a valid point -even if it is wayward ; we’re at the finish line now and I can almost taste the hot-cross buns – Woah! Tangent again – Easter is nearly here. What did you give up for Lent? What is your desired Easter Egg?- So, another few months hard studying is all that is required from us. Pity the new season of Desperate Housewives has begun. Pity I’ve decided to re-watch all the previous seasons. Pity Education must take the burden of deprivation. I promise to love you one day Education, but really, there is only another few years in D.H. – you wouldn’t want me to miss out now would you? I’m talking to a word- tad worrying, is it not?

Maybe reading Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has had some sort of effect on me? I could be a reflection of the Mad Hatter. (You may all be wondering why on Earth I’m reading a children’s book for? Simply because I can! I love children’s books – it could be my brain remembering, and longing for, a simpler time! A time where one was allowed to be stupid and not worry about the strain of making a complete fool (or as we say in the country: a complete arse!) of one’s self in one’s Music Practical) Worrying really that our Orals, Practicals etc are only a month away….that is it! My heart has gone haywire!!…….*mother calls “Ian? Ian!….Ian lies still….

Bet I scared you huh? Anyway…anyone else excited for Tim Burton’s version of Alice in Wonderland or am I the only one that gets excited when this man gets behind a camera!? Pure genius- I cannot wait!!!

So, word to the wise: don’t over do it people! As long as you go to school, study each night for a few hours (including homework) you’ll be fine!

A bientot,

Ian

Hi guys,

This is prob going to be one of my famous pessimistic blogs, as Ray William Johnson would say, “I’m just saying”. So my friends, you’ve been warned. Ok. I don’t even know what to say or how to put this, and i am dead serious. No sarcasm. None.Have you ever felt so confused and anxious, as if your bottling something up inside and feel as though your going to burst and fly away,crying and zooming through the air like a balloon…?  well that’s how i feel right now because basically, im moving this August. I don’t want to get into too much detail but its outside of Europe (Asia to be a tad more specific). This August,after the results are out whenever,im going awaayyy:( I shall defo still be applying to the colleges for medicine in that area but its all messed up. Ill be using my LC points so still need like mostly all As and then I’m hoping they’ll take my HPAT test instead of their own stupid entrance test…one must sit a test where there’s 70 Qs each on Biology,Chemistry and Physics .. jeez like i don’t even DO Physics whats that about? anyways,,apparently its not for definite,but the way my parents are looking at houses & making plans here and there, talking to people like we actually are ,i have a feeling there’s a 95% chance we are going. Its such a sock to say the least, ive been living in Ireland my whole life, i have friends and family here,,,But then again, I’ve also moved my whole life, ive lived in Clonmel (Tipp),Carlow,Kilkenny,Waterford and then Carlow again,where we’ve been living for the past 6 years. Whatever hospital my Dad gets a new position in,that’s where we go. Lately though he’s decided to commute since we’re all so set here.

So if we do (and are) move, do i just ignore (if there IS any) any offers made on my CAO? would that matter? i have no idea. All i know is that there’s a chance i wont be studying in RCSI this year…sickened. Ill also miss the Debs in my school. I don’t even know how to tell my friends yet,,that will come eventually. The only decent thing aboout this whole mess is that i no longer need higher level irish,,well at least im telling my self that. So im thinking of dropping to pass for the simple reason that I cannot be bothered. Correct,Irish at higher level is far too long of a course, requiring me and my little, easily distracted mind to overwork and melt. Strange , as i know im able for it,,,im even applying for a gold fáinne next week,no big deal but still. Anyway, if a dwell on this too much ill probably be causing havoc around my house and people will end up shooting me for moaning 24/7. According to my mother and younger sister (who are annoyingly alike) i let out my anxieties on others..ok so what if i do. (I did warn you guys:()

On a happier or rather not as worrying note; as Cillian blogged, the HPAT was…an experience. Overall i thought it was alright,totally guessed half of section 1. I was happy afterward and thought i did my best…that’s all you can do. I was in the UCD exam hall, i thought at first it was quite intimidating,,1000s of people all wanting the same thing..Thats another thing, im not even going to be competition for most you guys now,seeing as im jetting off after the actual LC..Arghhhh!!:K

My french mock oral is on the 22nd so i should be working towards that. I said id make a new study timetable for this month, that has yet to happen. Cleaning my study room has also, yet to happen. Ive started reading though,to calm my nerves again ‘The curious incident of the dog in the nightime’ and ‘The Road’. I finished the first one on Monday,after starting it, well on Monday.  Really interesting,something i wouldn’t normally go for,,good though.I was sitting, roasting and burning away living on dairy milk bars from the vending machine in the waiting room in Crumlin Hospital from 6.30pm to 11.25pm,watching little kids from about 1-4years of age,playing in a corner with a ‘little tikes’ kitchen,half of them had the tummy bug and one girl’s nose was in bits, like it was spilling blood but that child was kissing and hugging every other kid in that room. My brother walloped his knee off the stairs at school and fractured it,now he’s got a lovely red cast and crutches for a week.

We should have most of our mocks back by this week,something im kind of neutral about. I prob could have done a bit better on some of the papers..but ive got the LC for that I also feel as though i should say that ‘Valentine’s Day’ has GOT to be the most cliché film about love EVER..so what if Patrick Dempsey is in it ? I was wrong,  so wrong,such a waste of my time.

Btw, i was wondering if many people are using a document in their oral (French),is it a photo or an article or..? sorry im just curious:) You all prob know im using a photo.

Bonne Chance!

-Ally XD

I’m back! I felt unbelievably stupid for not managing to sign in for months on end but after swallowing my pride here I am! I’m all for technology and progress and all that  don’t get me wrong, but when you see “password incorrect” for the 147th time it’s easy to get disillusioned. I’m happier being a neo Luddite if I’m honest.

Anyway back to the task at hand (which in my case should be my French Mock tomorrow! ) I cannot believe how fast this year is going, one minute its October Tests, then you blink and you’re in the middle of mocks! How did that happen??  From writing this sentence it is only 99 days, 16hours, 55minutes and 29seconds until English Paper One begins on June 9th….. Just thought I’d give us all a little heart attack there (don’t kill me!)

Ah all panic aside I cannot wait to leave secondary school. Im quite young at 17 in sixth year but I’m sure you’ve all looked at first and second years and thought “was I really ever that small??” (and standing at 5′4″-ishI’m hardly Goliath myself!) Seriously though, I can’t help but look at some of them with their teddy key-rings on their schoolbags and little decorated lockers and think “GET ME OUT OF HERE!!”

When CAO deadline came around on the 1st of February it was such a relief, it was like “that’s it! it’s done and I’m not thinking about it until may!” My first preference is UCD for International Modern Languages (DN069) but since it’s only in it’s first year I don’t know anyone who’s taken it. Languages at Third Level are supposed to be pretty difficult so I’d love some advice if there’s anyone out there  who’s been there?!

Anyway for me it’s back to my Jounal Intime

Bye!

Caoimhe