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*TY OFF-TOPIC THREAD* 2014/2015

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    #482
    ElmW13
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭ElmW13


    It already looks like it's going to be raining when were camping - typical irish weather!


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    #483
    VG31
    Registered Users Posts: 3,405 ✭✭✭VG31


    I was on my Gaisce hike last Friday which was one of the wettest days of the month. No one had any changes of clothes left by the end.


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    #484
    MissCupcake
    Registered Users Posts: 204 ✭✭MissCupcake


    VG31 wrote: »
    I still have another two weeks left in TY!

    Me too! Does no one else have summer exams?


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    #485
    Manutd_4life
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Manutd_4life


    MissCupcake wrote: »
    Me too! Does no one else have summer exams?

    We get graded on small class tests and assignments. Do you have proper summer exams????

    Anyway what are people planning to do this summer.


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    #486
    ElmW13
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭ElmW13


    MissCupcake wrote: »
    Me too! Does no one else have summer exams?

    We had them in English, irish, maths and our language. They were are an hour/hour and twenty long...


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    #487
    VG31
    Registered Users Posts: 3,405 ✭✭✭VG31


    MissCupcake wrote: »
    Me too! Does no one else have summer exams?

    I have summer exams in English, Irish, Maths and some class ones as well I think.


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    #488
    Mr Rhode Island Red
    Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭Mr Rhode Island Red


    I finish TY on Friday. A small prayer service, a few speeches, and a drama presentation after school on Friday and then we're done.

    Although there were a scatter of weeks I nearly despaired from the boredom, I'd say 75% of the time there was always something to be doing...between trips, a musical, community work etc.

    Although I am really thankful for having done TY, I still feel rather glad that it's soon going to be finished. It's time to move on. Well, for me anyway.

    I'd say a good number of students in my year will never snap out of the TY mindset for the foreseeable future. Dossing, mitching, and signing out of school early for a good while to come.


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    #489
    Manutd_4life
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Manutd_4life


    Are any people on this thread working in the summer. Might try and find a job, I know it is a bit late but no harm in trying. Just wondering if anyone has got themselves a job and if so where and how?


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    #490
    meganob
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭meganob


    smiles_1998 wrote: »
    We graduate on Monday and then have classe for the rest of week (like how can we even say we have graduated if we still have class?! :rolleyes: )

    Anyway, I and a couple of others are volunteering in Lourdes the week after and the rest of the year are going camping in Tipperary. Afteor that, we are on holidays! :D

    All in all, I am glad I did TY. Yes there were (more than a few) bad weeks but overall the positive outweighed the negative and I feel having done TY I am more prepared for all the work of Leaving Cert.

    How did you get involved In the volunteering in Lourdes


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    #491
    meganob
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭meganob


    smiles_1998 wrote: »
    We graduate on Monday and then have classe for the rest of week (like how can we even say we have graduated if we still have class?! :rolleyes: )

    Anyway, I and a couple of others are volunteering in Lourdes the week after and the rest of the year are going camping in Tipperary. Afteor that, we are on holidays! :D

    All in all, I am glad I did TY. Yes there were (more than a few) bad weeks but overall the positive outweighed the negative and I feel having done TY I am more prepared for all the work of Leaving Cert.

    How did you get involved In the volunteering in Lourdes


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    #492
    smiles_1998
    Registered Users Posts: 336 ✭✭smiles_1998


    meganob wrote: »
    How did you get involved In the volunteering in Lourdes

    Our diocese organises it every year and allocates places to each school. We had to write an application essay and then do an interview in order to get a place on the trip :)


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    #493
    thetalker
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    Manutd_4life wrote: »
    Are any people on this thread working in the summer. Might try and find a job, I know it is a bit late but no harm in trying. Just wondering if anyone has got themselves a job and if so where and how?
    Nope at least not here, I did my work experience in a cafe last week which proved an interesting and certainly enlightening experience into how business's look at people who take up a job there. I saw a few people come in and hand up their Cv's to the lady at the counter for Summer, but when I asked her whether she said if they were illegible she said that the cafe was looking for people with 2 years of experience already!
    I've learnt that simply handing in a Cv and mumbling a few words of thanks just isn't enough, you need to give them a reason why they should hire you and make them have a lasting impression of you :D


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    #494
    ElmW13
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭ElmW13


    Manutd_4life wrote: »
    Are any people on this thread working in the summer. Might try and find a job, I know it is a bit late but no harm in trying. Just wondering if anyone has got themselves a job and if so where and how?

    Think I have a job for the summer, my sister works in a local restaurant and dad would know the people running it so he asked was there a job for me and hey presto. I might also work for an English family I worked for last year, babysitting and teaching maths and English - Great money :)


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    #495
    Mr Rhode Island Red
    Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭Mr Rhode Island Red


    Last day was brilliant. Really summarized all that TY is about as a year.

    I'm done. Summer 2015 here goes :cool:


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    #496
    ElmW13
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭ElmW13


    Finished yesterday in cappanalea. All in all ty was great, there were some moments were I was bored out of my tree, but it really changed who I am as a person. Though I'm glad to be back at the books come September, it was nice having the break.


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    #497
    Bored_lad
    Registered Users Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Bored_lad


    Is everyone else finished we don't finish until next Wednesday. We have a big graduation ceremony as well that night that we must attend that is completely over the top that the teachers take way too seriously that no body but then sees the point of now other schools seem to have it either. Did anyone else have one?


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    #498
    Liordi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭Liordi


    We finished over a week ago, had a graduation ceremony of some sort, wasn't too over the top although we were required to wear formal clothing..


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    #499
    meganob
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭meganob


    Summer has kinda worn off :/
    Anyone know of anything for me to get involved in?
    Really anything...


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    Mr Rhode Island Red
    Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭Mr Rhode Island Red


    meganob wrote: »
    Summer has kinda worn off :/
    Anyone know of anything for me to get involved in?
    Really anything...

    I'm in the exact same boat. Most of my friends seem to have gone off the grid altogether. I've been spending most of the past week on the computer getting bad eye strain.


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    #501
    ElmW13
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭ElmW13


    The new crowd have moved in :( can't believe the year is over already :'(


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    #502
    MissCupcake
    Registered Users Posts: 204 ✭✭MissCupcake


    ElmW13 wrote: »
    The new crowd have moved in :( can't believe the year is over already :'(

    I know! It flew :'( great year tho, feel way more able for fifth year than I would have if I had skipped.


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