English Tour

On Thursday the 24th of March TY Emnet and Amina went to the national history museum, the national art gallery and the national library.
First of all my class, Emnet, went to the "bog boddies" exhibition in the national history. It was amazing as we got to see humans that were preserved within the bogs from hundreds of years ago.

I found one body particularly interesting. This was the body of what is thought to have been a noble or a king of a village who had been sacraficed to the land. The archeaologits believe this because the only remains of the body is his torso and his two arms and hands. This suggests that he would have first been be-headed and then his legs chopped off.



A guide braught us around the rest of the museum and she went through the different ages showing us many different artefacts. I loved the exhibition on prehistoric ireland and i found it interesting to see all the different types of objects they made out of bronze, stone, gold and glass.

After this we went to the national library for a guided tour of the W.B Yeats exhibition. I found this very interesting and i loved hearing about his love affairs and his unforunate luck with love in life. There were loads of artefacts around and videos that we were aloud to look at.

After this, we were aloud and hour and a half to get lunch. I went to a lovley "all you can eat" Chinese with Zoe, Laura, Fiona, Jessica and Rachel. It was amazing and we ate so much!

After our lunch we made our way back to the national art gallery and got a guided tour around. Some of the paintings were amazing and you could sit in front of them for hours. I realy enjoyed our day in town and plan to go back to the national history museum soon :)

Work Experience

For my work experience i went to the DSPCA Animal shelter. I had a good week however i prefered my first work experience in an equine hospital.

Every morning i got up at half 6 with my dad. I had to wear old, warm, waterproof clothes. I made my lunch and was out the door by 6.55. The bus stop is right outside my estate so i was there on time to get the 7.00 bus. It took me about 25 mins to get to huston station. From there, i got the luas to tallagh. This took about half an hour. Finaly i got a taxi from the last luas stop to the shelter and i was there roughly around 8.20 every morning.
I wasn't expected to start work until nine o clock however after a cup of tea, i started.

For the first three days i worked in the rehoming section of the shelter. There were so many cute dogs that had awful backgrounds and needed good homes. Every morning i had to help clean out their kenals, feed them, and take them for walks. Each dog needed 3 walks a day and some time in a run to get attention and play. I loved taking out the pupies because they were so playful.

After the morning jobs were done, i went and had my lunch. Lunch was from 1pm - 2pm. There were four other people my age on work experience there too.

After lunch we had to take the dogs on their second and third walks. There was no other jobs to be done until the evening so we basically just played with the dogs.

On Wednesday evening, i got moved to the treatment section of the shelter. I realy enjoyed this part of the week as it was way more interesting. In this section, the dogs were separated and all of them were under treatement. Many of them had horrible diseases that looked very painfull. I had to help the manager, Paul, to give the dogs with skin diseases baths. The dogs hated them so i got soaked ha.

My favourite part of the week was spending time with the vets. I had to bring some of the dogs in treatment up to the clinic for vaccines and different medicines so i got to talk to the vet about loads of things. I found this very interesting as i want to be a vet when im older.

I realy enjoyed the last part of my week that i spent in the treatment setion and i will hopefully volunteer there in the future.

Sometimes in April

We Recently watched a film in school called "Sometimes in April" during our Religion classes. Sometimes in April is filmed by Raoul Peck and tells the story of the Rwandan genocide of 1994. The cast includes Idris Elba, Oris Erhuero, Carole Karemera, and Debra Winger.




In Rwanda, there are two main ethnic groups that divide the country. The are the Hutus and the Tutsis.

Hutus are a mostly Roman Catholic and Protestant there are about 11 million of them and they populate Rwanda, Burundi, and portions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Hutu arrived in the region before the Tutsis.

Tutsis are a mostly Roman Catholic, there are about 2.5 million of them. The Tutsi monarchy existed from the 15th century, when the Tutsis came to the region from Ethiopia, until it was abolished by colonizers.

The film "sometimes in April" tells the story of two brothers, Honoré and Augustin.
Honoré worked for a Rwandan radio station and Augustin was a captain in the Rwandan army.



Augustin was married to a Tutsi woman, Jeanne, and had three children with her, Anne-Marie, Yves-André, and Marcus. They all bear witness to the killing of almost 800,000 people in 100 days while becoming divided by politics and losing some of their own family.

The film depicts the attitudes and circumstances leading up to the outbreak of brutal violence, the intertwining stories of people struggling to survive the genocide, and the affect it has on people as they try to find justice and reconciliation.