Lights, camera, Action!

Today all the Fódlians went up to Mullingar to view the drama performances of class Banba, Eriú and classes from The Kings Hospital and a school from Co.Mayo.
The girls from St.Wolstans all did a fantastic job acting out their different plays which included, "Tich Miller", "Concrete angel" and "Midterm Break"amogst others.
The performances "tich Miller" and "Midterm break" were based on poems we studied for our Junior Cert. I thought that they were excelently interperated into a live drama. My favourite play in the whole competition(i think i might have forgot to mention that it was a competion-sorry!) was "Concrete Angel". It dealt with the issue of child abuse. The main character in the play was played by Grace, she played the part really well!Actually overall i was very surprised at the level of acting from the girls in my year as most of them were really good and i never knew that they could act before i saw them today!
Overall i thought all the performances were done to a really high standard and as a member of the audience and really enjoyed them all :-)
Acting and the performances aside, the day out in Mullingar was really good! We were allowed to go around Mullingar for a while and get food for lunch. We were looking out for Niall Horan but unfortunately we couldnt find him anywhere :( but we did find the Joe Dolan staue , which was the peak of the day! :-)

Desert Flower

In religion before Christmas we were studying the MDG's. To study the MDG about gender equality we watched a dvd called Desert Flower. It is about the Somalian model Waris Dirie. The movie is called Desert Flower because that is the translation of her name. The story of her life was very interesting but very sad and emotional to watch. It followed her journey from living in poverty in her home country of Somalia to her life as a famous model in London.
Her journey to London made her realise that the practise of female genital mutilation is not carried out on all females. This makes her think that part of being a woman has been taken away from her.
In the end of the movie she talks at a UN meeting about the issue of female genital mutilation. I found the movie really informative as i didn't know anything about this practise before and i found Waris' story quite extraordinary.
Waris

Farewell Christmas Holidays

The Christmas holidays are now over and we started back at school yesterday. The day before we got our holidays from school class Fódla held a Ty party. We had loads of food and played music and everyone had a really good time! The other Ty classes will hold parties at other times throughout the year, i think there'll be one at St.Patricks day and another one at Easter.
On friday we're going to the Young scientist. My group didnt get in, *tearflick* but three other groups did and we all still get to go so its all good:-)
My buddy Niamh's group got in with their project about surfing, so best of luck Niamhy love Rupenzel xoxo