English Class

Surprise Party

Siobhans family really know how to throw a party. It was siobhans actual birthday on tuesday but we threw her a party on friday cos she wouldnt b expectin it and we could stay up way longer. Myself and siobhans dad had been planning this party since monday, and we threw it cos she doesnt like parties or a fuss being made of her. Well anyway, she didnt suspec a thing. She came back from liffey valley later that expected so we were waiting for a while. So when she came in we all blew party poppers and she got the shock of her life, it was funny to see the look on her face. So we all gave our presents and sat and talked and laughed for ages.
Then her dad and brothers brought the cake out and we all sang happy birthday and when she blew out the candles her brother hit the cake up so it was all over her face. Then a big food fight started with people getting covered in chocolate moose. Everything was being thrown, bags of crisps and minstrels and maltesers. It was brilliant fun, and then because all the food was being thrown the floor was really slippy and aoife was in heels and kept sliding all over the place , I think at one point she had fallen so much she didnt bother to get up so she sat on the ground and people just handed her food and drinks if she wanted them.
Then we started singing. That was something, considering some of the time we were majorly out of tune. But siobhan was really getting into it and got up on chair, which is a very dangerous idea to someone who is very accident prone, and started shouting songs out.
The party ended for me at about ten to twelve, I don't know when everybody else went home. But it was one of the best parties I have ever been to.
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Work Experience.... Day 5 the final day

Today was my final day in my work experience and it was very sad. We stayed in the Garda station for the day because 2 detectives came in and explained what they did in their department. It was fun. They passed around a bullet and a gun.... seperatly i might add so we couldnt load the gun. Then they passed around battons and extended battons they use. I bought a card and got everyone to sign it and gave it to Niall and Aidan at the end of the day. They were very grateful and thanked us all very much. Everyone else went home and myself and 2 other girls from my school stayed because we had to interview Aidan because we were given a diary with questions and we needed Aiden to help us fill them out. That is what happened during my week in Leixlip. I really enjoyed it. Blog again soon.

Work Experience...... Day 4

Today was a good day and a bad day. The good part of the day was that we went to the Garda Water Unit in Santry. We were shown all the equipment used such as the diving masks and the boats and all the equipment they use like sonar and all that sort of thing.

The bad part of the day was when we went to Naas Garda Station to get a talk from the Traffic Corps. The talk was very very boring. We even said it to Niall and Steven. (Steven is a reserve Garda who was filling in for Aidan on his day off). They weren't impressed with the talk either. That was my second last day. Blog again soon.

Work Experience........ Day 3

Today was brilliant. We were brought to the Mounted Unit in the Pheonix park. We were shown all the horses and a slide show of the mounted unit preparing for the St. Patricks Day parade this year. The horses were all really calm it was nice.
Next we were brought to the dog unit somewhere in Dublin. The handlers brought out 4 dogs. 2 were german sheppards and 2 were labradors. The dogs are either cadaver dogs, drug dogs or explosives dogs. They were really calm and really good with people.
After that we went to the Air Support Unit in Baldonnel. We were supposed to go into the helicopter to see all the equipment but it was called out so we couldnt see it. Blog again soon

Work experience- Day 2....

Todays work experience was brilliant. We laughed ALOT today. Aiden and Niall were hillarious, just randomly telling jokes. We first went to the 4 courts but didnt stay long because there were no cases on for another while. After that we went to Richmond Hospital which is another court house. We stayed there a good while sitting in a couple of cases with people on minor offences like no insurance ar driving without a license. After that we went to the Criminal Court of Justice where we first sat in 2 cases where the accused were on minor assault charges. Then we went to level 4, where we went into the assault case of former world boxing champion, Steve Collins. We just sat there and listened to witness statements. It was really good.

We were all really hungry at this point so we went to liffey valley to the food court for lunch. We had great fun there, all of us sitting together and taking pictures as a big group. Straight after lunch we went to the Garda Museum and looked at the different types of uniforms the Gardai wore and we we told about the history of the Gardai Siochana and that Ireland were the firt country to have an Official Police service in the world. It was really good and really enjoying myself and I have made some really good friends out of this from other schools. Blog again soon.

Work Experience- Day 1

Today was the first day of my work experience in Leixlip Garda Station. There are 12 of us doing work experience this week, 5 girls and 7 boys. Our supervisors, Aiden and Niall, brought us down to Templemore in Tipperary for the day and it was brilliant. We visited the museum inside the college and we got a tour of the rest of the building. When we were getting on the bus to go back to Leixlip we took a picture of the 12 of us with our supervisors and they said that they would be using the picture on a catalogue for something I couldn't hear the name of. Over all it was a really good day and tomorrow should be good aswell because we are going to the four courts in Dublin. Blog again 2moro.