Last day cooking for American Cusine Project

On Tuesday I made Baked Alaska. I didn't realise how little work was required to make such a nice dessert! I made the sponge base, allowed it to cool, made the meringue and then all that was left to do was slice up the icecream and pour over the meringue! I forgot to beat the egg whites on their own before adding the sugar, so the meringue wasn't as big as I needed it to be! With the help of Niamh Mc I put it on anyway, but not all of the icecream was covered (the meringue mixture was too hard for some people to resist! :P) So when I put it in the oven, the icecream began to melt! When I took it out it looked really cool, the sugar had gone golden brown and the meringue had grown. As the icecream was melting fast, I brought it up to the lunch room where everyone was more than happy to help eat it! :)

Oisin McGann Visit!

Yesterday morning, Oisin McGann, an Irish author and illustrator came in to give us a talk. He was really enthusiastic about his work, and even the way he talked to us made it evident he writes brilliant stories. He asked us what we read, and read some extracts from his own novels. Then he drew us a picture of one of the characters from his books. It was amazing. He signed it and we got a picture with the whole year and him. The talk was over an hour, but I didn't get bored because he speaks with such enthusiasm and energy!

Noughts and Crosses get through to final!

Yesterday we were deligthed when Ms. Guilfoyle told us Noughts and Crosses have gotten through to the final of the Briary Gap Drama Competition in Cork! My happiness was short lived though, when she said it was on the 5th of March. I have a race that day in an eight, and so I can't abandon that, or the other seven girls and my coaches will KILL ME! It's so disappointing because going to Cork with everyone would be so much fun :( I did the lights in Mullingar, and I really enjoyed it. I wish it was on another day, but there's nothing that can be done. I hope the girls do well, they have worked so hard over the last few months :)

DIT

Yesterday I went to DIT with Kate to meet a man about getting a prototype for our mini company. We arrived at the room we were meeting him in to find a lecture in progress! Eventually he came out and called us in. He showed us our design on his computer, but to our horror it was our old design! He was pretty scary so we didn't have the heart to ask him to start all over again with our new design! So when we thought it was finally over, our search for a prototype continues!

International Cuisine Project

We began cooking ofr our international cuisine project last Tuesday. I am with Aoife and we chose America for our country. Last Tuesday, I made Southern American Sausage Stew. I know the name sounds disgusting, but I made it because I wanted to try something new and something eaten by your average American. I thought it was actually really nice, but if I were going to make it again I would probably use chicken instead of sausages. The vegetables and the sauce with the rice was really good. It was quite spicy because I included chillies and paprika, which gave the dish loads of flavours. We haven't decided what to make next week yet, but I am thinking it should be something a bit more appetising as the sausage stew isn't the most attractive looking!

Subject Choices

Today in Careers we did a new interest test. We are having meetings with our guidance councellor in the next few days, and mine is tomorrow. There was a business talk at lunch time today, and it made me consider doing Economics again. I think I will probably do Chemistry, Biology, Business or Economics; although sometimes I think I should do Home Ec or Music instead of Chemistry or Biology. I was thinking of doing Medicine in college, but I know that it's a bit too hard for me. So I don't know whether to do Chemistry which I would need for medicine, because I probably won't end up doing it, and I think I might find Chemistry hard. But then if I don't do Chemistry and I decide I want to do Medicine, I won't be able to. Hopefully I will have a better idea of what I want to do after my meeting tomorrow.

Drama Workshop

This morning all of TY had a drama workshop. We began by stretching and then we did this activity in pairs. The first partner would make a shape using thier whole body, and then the other partner would have to fill the space around them. Then the first partner would move out and look at the position the other partner was in and fill the space in a different way. It went on like that for a while, it might sound very monotonous but it was really good fun! I have never done anything like that before, so it was something new and I enjoyed it :)