Jaba Jaba Jembeing!!! :)

Yesterday we had a drumming workshop for our class. It was amazing!! We were all in a big circle in the music room, surrounded by a load of African drums. A man named Dave came in and taught
 us how to drum properly. Now before this I just called all those type of drums bongo's .. I will NEVER make that mistake again... Yeah Dave doesn't appreciate people calling those drums Bongo's. Apperently they are all called different names, the one I can remember is the jembe drum. :)

So he got us to warm our hands up by doing all these warm up exercises  Then we finally got to the actual drumming. It was so cool. At first we did these drumming games that were kind of like like a Mexican wave but drumming version! After this we started to develop on a prober beat. Once we had the hang of this we made a kind of drum band were we all got different types of drums and we made different beats with them, then put them together to create this rhythm. We had a bass drum, these shaker things, maracas and loads more. It actually sounded really good! I felt like I was in a tribe or something ; D We then recorded our beat!!


When the workshop was over I was sad. I'd really enjoyed it!
Here's the link to the jaba jaba jembe website: http://www.jabbajabbajembe.com/

Yesterday was the competition for mini company. We had to set up a little stall, showcasing our product and we all had to do a three minute presentation. Our mini company is called Stuzic. Its a study accessory app. We put study notes to popular songs to make study easy!
Tyhe stall ended up[ looking really good I thought. We got a professional poster done and we had helium baloons with our company name on it, we also got t-shirts done with our names, position in the company and logo on it. The judges came around and looked at our stall. They seemed really impressed and said that the quality of our songs were really good.
 After that it was time for our presentations. I was so nervous about the presentation that we had to do because we all had to stand up in the middle of the hall and talk in front of everyone. We all had our own little thing to say. When it was my go to speak I was so nervous. I'm terrible at public speaking! I stumbled through, stuttering but trying to act calm and professional... It didn't work.
After we gave our little presentation they asked us questions. They asked this question that I didn't really understand but for some strange reason, like the idiot I am, I decide to jump in and answer it. So there I am standing with no idea what to say. I managed to say some rubbish about something, but judging by the judges faces it was not the right thing to say : L. Luckily Ciara jumped in and answed it right.
After everyone had finished their presentations we were told who were shortlisted.. We were! Yay! We also won the innovation award. It was  good day :)

BT young scientist

Last Thursday I went to the BT Young Scientist exhibition in the RDS with my year. It was a good day but I was too tired to enjoy it really if I'm honest.
I skipped looking at all the projects and went straight to the place that give out loads of free stuff, I entered a load of competitions to win prizes but didn't win any in the end :( ....  disappointing.
 After a good while looking around there It started getting really packed and we were hungry so we went outside to eat. Usually they have a big chocolate fountain there, but for some reason this year it wasn't there!.. Damn. I'd spent most of the day searching for it.
After sitting in a cafe without buying anything for as long as we could we were forced to go back to the crowds. We decided to look around at the projects for a while.. You'd be suprized how many projects were on cows or something to do with cows... seriously.
We went over and looked at the project from Wolstans that made it this year. After that we found a stall that nobody was at.. so we decided to sit there and pretend it was ours... unfortunately while we were there a judge came over and started asking us questions... We started answering confidently.. but that lasted 10 seconds because I'm absolutely terrible at lying

.After apologizing we got up and walked around some more. While walking we came across a Que so me, Ciara and Alana decided to join it. It was to a 3D movie talk on space. That was good as we could sit down. The 3D worked really well! It was actually pretty cool. Also I found out there's like 10 different suns and our sun is like a midget sun.

After that we went outside to meet up with the rest of the year to go home. :) 

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junk kouture fashion show

Yesterday, after what feels like years our junk kouture was finally finished!! Yay! We had a fashion show, to show off our final product. We were judged and we had to do a catwalk in the hall. Well I didn't do the catwalk as I was not the model(thank the lord!).. Juliette modelled our dress.. poor her as the dress was not all that great if I'm honest. A lot of the dresses were actually surprisingly really good though. The competition was close, I don't know how the judges made a decision. I still don't know who won even though it was yesterday. Ah well... My favourite dress was probably Sinead and Sorchas dress made out of pots and garden things. It looked really good and professional. That's all really. It was a good day.

james bond!!

On Friday we're going to our second workshop thing for mini-company.. well It's really our third. It's going to be pretty cool because it's on in white water shopping centre so I'm hoping to maybe slip a bit of shopping in there too:). The last ones were on in the odeon cinema in naas, we we'rent actually watching a movie , just for some reason it was held there... I dunno

 The last time we went there we were supposed to get a talk on mini company but the speaker fell sick at the last minute. Hopefully she was okay. The teachers went out to discuss what to do.. they finally came up with a conclusion...... Watch a movie!!!!  We all started  cheering , it was epic. We got to watch SKY FALL 007! For free! I'd already seen it but I really enjoyed it and wanted to see it again. We were all so excited and could'nt believe our luck! Seriously, we were like aw that poor speaker I hope she's alright, then as soon as we heard we could watch a movie we completely forgot about it.( I feel kind of bad if I'm honest : / ) but it was a good day! After the film we we're all still buzzing and the cinema people just started handing out everyone free popcorn, drinks, sweets and these Madagascar cups. It was a very good day.

junk kouture and mini companying!!

  It's the first week back from our midterm break, it's already like it never happened!! We're back to our usual work; junk koutore, mini- company....I havn't actually mentioned these projects much at all have I?..  For junk kouture we've gotton pretty far. We're finished the whole corset which we made from chicken wire , and paper mache. We then stuck little toys onto it to make a design. I think it actually looks quite good : /  .. I don't know what we're going to do next though.
   For mini company I'm in a a group with 6 other girls. We've decided to make an app where we replace the normal lyrics of popular songs with study notes so far from the junior cert. We're hoping the lyrics will get stuck in peoples heads and it'll help them remember  the chapter. The only problem is , we have no clue how to make an app or how to actually make money out of it. We're going to write songs after school today :)   That's all for now really!