Thank You

QueenOfTheQuad

Hi there everyone I think everyone knows who I am by now.

Firstly I'd like to thank everyone who was invloved in both sessions of CTYI this year. I knew nothing about it before the orientation day and that was the Saturday before Session 1. What was originally an excuse to spend the Summer in Dublin turned out to be the best six weeks of my entire life.

I have learned so much about so many different things from CTYI'rs but more importantly I have discovered more about myself in the six weeks than I have after three years in college (even 20 years on this planet). That is down to the most amazing group of people I have ever worked with. The two proudest moments of my life have been both closing ceremonies this year and thats a fact. None of you can imagine the personal transformations I've seen over the course of each session and it is the most amazing feeling to think that I may have been in some way involved.

Every day was a reward in its own special way.

Now that its over, and theres a chance I may not get to work with CTYI again I feel you all deserve the biggest THANK YOU imaginable. Make sure to keep in contact and if you ever need a chat dont hesitate to e-mail me

budycazude@yahoo.com

I firmly believe that each and everyone one of you made CTYI what it was this year .I must say that I will have a special fondness for all the guys in Berties Boyz and my group in session 2. My favourite part of the day was sitting at our table for each meal(its a little known fact that I had to fight another RA for that table, hard luck Bobert). When everyone was gone after session 2 I found myself at the my table for the last time. I have to admit that I had a bit of a moment

Anyway before I get too soppy I better go
Keep in touch

and

WEL DONE

Bertie

Piste

Aw Bertie I love you, you're so sweet! You were such a great and adorable RA, so sweet in fact, that I just couldn't bring myself to kill you in your sleep.


Liz

Mocha One Sugar

Aw Bertie, sweetie!
I love you so much! You are such a frickin' legend!
I'll always remember the obscure chats we had such as the reproduction/menstration one on the way back from Santry or us waffling on about how aeroplanes stay up in the sky while both of us were ever so sleepy in the Street!
stay cool and always continue calling people "precious" but in a non-Gollumish way! apply for TA next year.... OR ELSE <insert empty threat here>
Lotsa love, fíodhna xXx
stay in touch fidebi@gmail.com

Aoibheann

Bertie!

Thanks so much for all the hugs! I miss you! You'd better show at reunions!

Anyway, I go! keep in touch. Aoibheann@gmail.com

Love ya loads!

Aoibheann (obviously)

Spraypaint

Aww Thanks Bertie
It wouldn't have been the same without you.
Sorry about any derogatory things I said to/about you during session 2. I shouldn't have. You're a pretty sound guy. Take it easy.
-Killian

Mammy

I'd like to back up what Bertie said completely. As an RA (I'm Conor the RA, btw), you see a side of the course even hardened nevermores can scarcely imagine. We all cried at some stage on the last Thursday and Friday. I hardly got to say goodbye to any of my guys (I was in the train station when everyone was leaving) and I'm so sad I didn't. They were a great bunch of guys and I'll really miss them.

One testimony to how great the CTYI students are is that the RAs never thought or spoke about the money they were being paid. Each day was its own reward and the absolute icing on the cake was when ye gave us a standing ovation on the last night, not even letting Colm O'Reilly finish his sentence. Thank you.

LiamD

No, really, thank you guys.

Aoibheann

Conor!

Hah, I have the photos of you as a pregnant woman. They're extremely entertaining(though somewhat disturbing)...*laughs evilly*

Thanks for a great session, you're a legend!

Love, Aoibheann!

Lady penelopy

aw, you guys!
conor, im sorry the only interaction i had with you was being caught by you, shona and elanor with two other people in my room at 12.30...you seemed cool.
bertie, you are a legend. im glad you were so affected by ctyi, because you truly deserve to have it in your life. you rock. dont stop rocking. and come to reunions, stay involved, etc.

ellen

RefulgentGnomon

Thanks Bertie (my RA), Conor and all the RA's, all the instructors, TA's and CTYI staff.
My only comfort when leaving was knowing that I can return next year.
Cheers,
Neil

P.S. Bertie, you said you'd do your impression on the last night but we forgot about it! Are you coming to the big reunion (provisionally Sat 27th Aug)?

Hugh Hefner

Awwww Mammy. I was wondering why I hadn't caught sight of you on the last morning. I reckond it was something like that. Anyway, you were a fan-freakin'-tastic RA. We had a good group too.

P.S. This is Kevin (not the "Cork" one).

Jarge!!!

Bertie, you're a ****ing tank. I'm not going to say you were the best RA I've ever had as some of my past RAs still check boards every so ofter, but I am going to award you equal first with any of the others who read this. And remember: When in doubt...

**JazzHands**

okily,
really can't attempt to be as coherant as Bertie. As an honorary student and the baby RA, I too want to say thanks a million to the others for minding me and making the session abcolutely mad- in a good way. However, as Bertie said, the students make CTY. I had a whale of a 2.5 weeks that wouldn't have been a mammal without you popples (i never claimed to make sense). Anywho- Please Please PLEASE e-mail me and keep me posted on your antics. You've been amazing. I'll never be the same again...
muchos huggles!
Róisín

DOUBLE TIME!

Aoibheann

Róisín!

Arrgh, I miss you loads! It's so crazy without the handjiving and hugs and general craziness of the RA group!

Anyway, keep in touch!

Love ya!

Aoibheann

Outcast

Thanks for all the Session 1 morning runs Bertie. You rock

Crash

Its like a giant staff lovefest in here

gotta throw in my lot then - It was an insane experience coming back to work somewhere that had given me some of my closest friends and best memories - and a part of me was a teensy bit terrified but i think i'll always look back at session 1 as an RA with such great memories and such great people, and always remember my Theoretical Phsyics class in session 2

and thanks for not all being little bastards

Neil.

Outcast

Another morning run RA. Thanks. You rock too!

Crash

Heheh man, katie Cullen drove me fecking insane about the morning run :P

Outcast

I know I'm Katies less aggressive friend who ran with her. She used to ring me everymorning to tell me to get up.

Mocha One Sugar

wow, in the hours i was slpeeing and desperately trying to let imagestation.com upload my pictures loadsa RA's have been on....
as you guys know at this stage, every single RA rocked in their own little was....
I LOVE Y'ALL!! (Ali Zuckerman, you turned me into a right ol' American!)
to Mammy: C'mon the mBreathnaigh!!
to Roisin: stay funky and chickenish and NEVER forget your RA group's honourary member!
Love always, Fí xXx

synge

it seemed like everytime you guys were going to do the morning run in session 1, one of my friends in my ra group kept missing it and she claims you people who ran it lied to her (Neil-this would be your fav girl in my group, Georgia the completely NOT insane one)
Bertie-a message from me and my roommate
"just goes to show, you never know who's watching"

Outcast

No we didn't! She came out most days anyway.

synge

yeah, but she and Mary (our RA) were always outside of my doorway (she was right across the hall) in the morning talking about how she could never find anyone when you were supposed to be having a morning run and how Bertie was always lying about when they were

Outcast

Yeah it was basically just that Katie would bully someone into it last thing at night there was no time to tell anyone really. We ended up running by ourselves outside the library one day looking like right fools

carlowboy

Bertie, get Bobert on Boards

Crash

Hehehe, Georgia was cracked ah god how i miss giving out to her at night... :P

synge

yeah, she had lots of fun annoying you when you went around throwing rocks at eveyone's windows.....we had so many funny stories about it, but when my roommate and I try to throw candy out our window at you you don't even remember! you're lucky we gave it to you at all.

Liquorice

Aww Bertie,

I'll make sure that when Liz starts cloning me and marketing the clones as Áine Dolls you'll get one. Fully poseable, you can put her on top of the piano, just don't let her sing.

Piste

Ah yes, you'll have hours of fun discovering the many erogenous zones on our patented Áine Doll Deluxe(tm) You can abuse her as you like without fear of being frowned upon or arrested. Yes, the Áine Doll Deluxe(tm) really is a worthwile addition to any home.

david

Piste wrote:

Ah yes, you'll have hours of fun discovering the many erogenous zones on our patented Áine Doll Deluxe(tm) You can abuse her as you like without fear of being frowned upon or arrested. Yes, the Áine Doll Deluxe(tm) really is a worthwile addition to any home.

*`Awkward Silence*

QueenOfTheQuad

You might need to send me more than one, in case i get over excited and break the first one doing.............well you know

Love

Bertie and Roisin - you guys rocked. I love you both, and you give great hugs. Reunion on the 27th of August, be there or be triangular.

Cyas around.

Sophia (",) xXxXxXx *huggles*

P.S. Email me at: umbrellahead@gmail.com or msn me: piranhas_ate_my_shoelaces@hotmail.com

Jack Lynch

Hugh Hefner wrote:

Awwww Mammy. I was wondering why I hadn't caught sight of you on the last morning. I reckond it was something like that. Anyway, you were a fan-freakin'-tastic RA. We had a good group too.

P.S. This is Kevin (not the "Cork" one).

Why, may i ask, was Cork in inverted commas. And you do know that there's more than one Cork Kevin, although the other one lives in Kerry............ Ooooooooh. Never mind.

Thanks, Bertie, for bringing me to the doctor, even though it caused you to be attacked outside of Pizza Hut by Ciara's RA group. Your pink umbrella rocked

Mammy

By the way guys, if any of you are ever around Cambridge (it's only about 45 minutes from London), you're more than welcome to visit and I'll give you a grand tour of the place. Also, if any of you are considering applying to Cambridge (don't even consider Oxford: it's ****) drop me a line: cem56@cam.ac.uk.

Undergod

Mammy wrote:

(don't even consider Oxford: it's ****)

Literally. The entire city is built from hardened turds.

Mammy

Undergod wrote:

Literally. The entire city is built from hardened turds.

Really?! That explains so much...

Jack Lynch

Not everything that comes from Oxford is bad. Look at me, for example. Well, alright, that was a bad example, but look at His dark Materials

Bertie et Conor(et shona, et Donal, et Barry, et Phil, et Ciara et Helen et "any others that are up for it"), same story next wedesday, you bring the food, Niall and i will take care of everything else.

(air of mystery)

don't touch me

alright guys

i've come out of my post session hiding and put away both my antipathy for the internet and for sentimentality. I want to echo what the other R.A.s have been saying. The last 6 weeks brought back some great memories of when I was a student and gave me many new ones to add. Me, Conor , Phil, Rob and Hannah had some good laughs looking back over the session in Galway at the weekend. I want to specifically thank the guys in my R.A groups, diamond geezers the lot. I hope that life post CTYI is going well for all of you and remember what I said in the last meeting - I meant every word (bet the rest of ye feel really left out).

Emmet, I don't quite know what that invitation was about but sure, Im up for it....

Karlusss

Jack Lynch wrote:

Not everything that comes from Oxford is bad

Greenwood, Colin
Greenwood, Jonathan
O'Brien, Edward
Selway, Philip
Yorke, Thomas

head, Radio

[/obsessive fan]

Spraypaint

don't touch me wrote:

alright guys

i've come out of my post session hiding and put away both my antipathy for the internet and for sentimentality. I want to echo what the other R.A.s have been saying. The last 6 weeks brought back some great memories of when I was a student and gave me many new ones to add. Me, Conor , Phil, Rob and Hannah had some good laughs looking back over the session in Galway at the weekend. I want to specifically thank the guys in my R.A groups, diamond geezers the lot. I hope that life post CTYI is going well for all of you and remember what I said in the last meeting - I meant every word (bet the rest of ye feel really left out).

No Barry (assuming that this is in fact Barry), thank YOU, from myself in particular and from the RA group as a whole. Thanks for the leniency, loaning us stuff, the great memories, the craic for 3 weeks and for being the soundest RA in general EVER.You really added to the experience. Thank you. Take it easy

-Killian McCarthy (No. 12)

P.S Can I interest you in a TJ?

Piste

Barry. You were and still are I'm assuming, an absolute legend. You were the first RA I hugged. ('twas on the second day iirc, I chased you around the quad and then gave you a massive hug) I knew you'd be great from the moment you said 'Hey, we should have an underwear tree!' when we put Suzy's bra in the tree. You were one of, if not the best RA there this year. Thank you soso much.

Liz

Shellie13

Ok so I know I'm a bit late posting this but thank you sooo much to all the RAs this was by far the most enjoyable and memorable session for me and I'll never forget all of ye (guys ye were hilarious in the fancydress- esp conor!) And as for Bertie and Rosin- never before have I known mortal RAs to have their own cult following! And thanks to Shona my RA for not going too ballistic catching us all out of our rooms!
Liz and Áine- count me as first inline for an áine doll... could be very interesting! lol!

Piste

I'll make sure she comes with an electric toothbrush

don't touch me

Spraypaint wrote:

No Barry (assuming that this is in fact Barry), thank YOU, from myself in particular and from the RA group as a whole. Thanks for the leniency, loaning us stuff, the great memories, the craic for 3 weeks and for being the soundest RA in general EVER.You really added to the experience. Thank you. Take it easy

-Killian McCarthy (No. 12)

P.S Can I interest you in a TJ?

Ah wud you ever f**k off...!

mentalimplosion

ah barry, we'll always want your sex, more than anything

réaltín

Hello!
I just wanted to hop on the RA thank-you band wagon and echo what some of the other RAs have been saying. First of all, I want to say a huge thank you to all the students involved in Sessions 1 and 2 this summer. You made your sessions what they were, and you created some wonderful memories for yourselves and us. I also want to say that I had an absolute ball for the 6 weeks I was involved with CTYI and wouldn't have missed out on them for the world.
I want to thank my own groups in particular (just remember what I said to you in the last meetings)
I hope life post CTYI is going well for you all, and I'm sure that our paths will cross again at some point.

Indubitably

Ahoy hoy
As band waggon jumping is the style these days I'll do just that. RA withdrawal symptoms weren't in the job description but they are felt as keenly as curled eye lashes. Twas great fun working there and thanks to everyone especially any of my lads still alive- hope all is well and good.

Emmet you did not come thru on that offer

TalkISCheap

Liz, are batteries included??

Berteh - merci beaucoup!!

Piste

TalkISCheap wrote:

Liz, are batteries included??

No! Who the hell do you think I am?!

Adesina

Ok, it took me ages to post in this thread but I want thank all the RA's so, so, SO much. You were all legends . Thanks so much for making me first session absaloutly brilliant. I'll never, ever forget any of you. Grace you were the best RA ever, keep being you cause you're fantabulous. Barry, sorry again about the bag thing on the last day (I swear I didn't know about that other handle ). Bertie, even though you forgot my name I love ya anyway. And to Neil, Helen, Shona, Mary, Ciara, Robert and James, you were all great and thanks so much for making it a great session .