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A Quick Summery

Every year on St. Walpurga's Eve, Caldella's Witch Queen lures a boy back to her palace. An innocent life to be sacrificed on the full moon to keep the island city from sinking.

Review
The Dark Tide is definitely one of my favourite books, and it's one I'm not going to forget.
The world building in this novel is one of the best I've seen, as well as character development. There was never a boring chapter and I always wanted to continue reading.
I had stopped reading for a while and the Dark Tide is my second book I've read since starting again. It's a book I definitely recommend, as it also avoids typically clichés that often occur within YA fiction.

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One Sunday morning I looked out my door to see a group of people my age with the Tidy Towns, helping out to clean up the green. After noticing a few of my friends I went out to talk to them. I found out that they were helping Tidy Towns as part of An Gaisce. I had missed many weeks of it, but decided to join in for the day, as it was my estate and I hadn't seen my friends in ages.

A few weeks later, I'm still helping out. We cleaned up Greenfields, and we cleaned up outside Supervalue. I had decided to stay helping out as I enjoyed it, it was helping the community and my friends were helping out as well.

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It wouldn't be lockdown without binge watching all the movies you've put off watching.

Throughout Lockdown, I decided that I would once and for all watch the Marvel Movies in order and finally understand all the movie references.

Below are my Top 5 Favourite Marvel Movies so far..

Top 5 Marvel Movies

1. Thor Ragnarok - It is a change of style compared to the past Thor movies. It brings in more Comedy and new twists.

2. Doctor Strange - I might be slightly biased when it comes to Doctor Strange. As a fan of the BBC Sherlock, hearing that Benedict Cumberbatch was going to be playing Doctor strange, definitely made me like that character from the beginning.

3.  Spiderman Homecoming - After being lightly introduced to the new Spiderman in Avengers Civil War, we final got a Spiderman movie within the MCU.

4. Avengers Endgame - I can't say much without spoiling so I won't.

5. Marvel Avengers - The first Avenger movie with the most likable Villian.

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I've always loved looking at property online and the variation in prices depending on area and style. So when I came across DNG who were holding online work experience over the period of 3 days, I signed up immediately.
I got to learn about a day in the life of an Auctioneer, the selling of second-hand homes, the selling of new homes and got to meet some of the people working within the company.

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I've always loved animals so any work experience related to them was something I was interested in. Usually we would have gotten to meet the puppies and be on site, but due to covid it was all online.
It was all really interesting, and I enjoyed it very much.

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I had heard of EYP in junior cycle and it was something that I was very interested in doing. EYP is exactly what it sounds like, European Youth parliament. We were assigned teams depending on what topic you were interested in, we made points and ideas on how to help or solve certain issues. At the end of the week we had a General Assembly (GA). In the GA each team got to speak and put forward an idea or resolution, the other members of the GA would then vote. I believe only one resolution didn't pass.
I was under CULT, we were in charge of minority languages and the rate of which they are being lost. We wanted to try and help these languages, to keep them alive for generations to come.

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My main goal for TY was to try and find out what it is that I want to do after school. I'm really glad that I got to sign up to STEM for women as I got to see the different jobs within STEM, some of which I never knew existed. Cryptoart was something that intrigued me, as I had never heard of it before.

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I've always had an insane love for writing. I'd often write on a daily basis in many different forms like poetry, stories/novels, lyrics, prose, and pretty much anything.
I received an email out of the blue from someone who I had done a course with previously, saying that she was running another workshop over the course of 5 weeks. After enjoying the last one (which was about 2-3 years ago) I decided that I would sign up.
We learned many different techniques to practice writing. How to write scenes, good characters, and how to vary the mood.

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Although I love writing, playwriting was something I had never thought of before. It wasn't until my cousin in Mayo messaged me, saying that she had signed up to this course, and would I also be interested. I ended up doing one before Christmas and one after January.
I learned many different skills from playwriting that I had not learned from other methods of writing. I had always struggled with dialogue and this definitely helped that.

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As mentioned before, I love writing, and have dreamed of one day publishing a book. I came across the workshop on a website called 'Outschool' which is brilliant, and has thousands of online workshops.
We learned about self-publishing as a teenager/young adult and the easiest and best ways to that. It is surprisingly easy to publish your first very own book using Amazon, with little to no starting expense. Amazon just takes 15% of the sale, and they will print and ship it. I was amazed at how doable it sounds. Ebook was also a really good way to go.

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Although I ended up learning a lot this year, it was a big disappointment that we never got to do the TY show. It was something that I had looked forward to for a long time.
But sadly, with covid, it just wasn't possible to do it this year. It was still nice to get a video together so we'll be able to look back and remember the year.

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Species: Dog
Age: 2 years
Breed: Border Collie Crossed with an Old English Sheep Dog
Colour: Blue Merle
Info: Loves her teddys, playing fetch, jumping, a complete dramaqueen, loves the cat.

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Species: Cat
Age: 11 years
Breed: Unknown
Colour: Tuxedo
Info: A rescue cat, sleeps and eats, loves attention, if she's not in the house she's in a neighbors house (they even have different names for her), either Loves the dog or hates the dog.

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Species: Horse
Age: 19 years
Breed: Irish Sport Horse (Connemara X Thoroughbred X Irish Draught)
Colour: Dark Bay
Info: Quiet, grumpy, hates babysitting Bucky.

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Species: Pony
Age: 4 years
Breed: Shetland (we assume)
Colour: Tri-coloured Tobiano
Info: A rescue pony, we got her in December 2019 and realised during the first lockdown in spring that she was pregnant, still a little nervous but a lot better.

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Species: Pony
Age: 1 year old in June
Breed: At least half Shetland
Colour: Flaxen Chestnut
Info: Foal of above pony (Hope), complete trouble maker, a little insane.

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Even though we didn't get to do much, TY gave me time to work on the stuff I love (Writing, music, etc...) and also gave me time to think about what I want to do in the future and to gather ideas.
I've never had as much time to do online courses to help develop my skills and my interests. I was able to practice the instruments I play, as well as learn new ones. I also got a chance to get back to readings, which I had really missed.

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I think the effort that went in to making a video of the show so that we all can have a memento of the year definitely deserves special recognition.

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I have always loved letters and have often written back and forth to cousin in Mayo. A few years ago I got a few Harry Potter themed wax seals. This year I decided to extend my collection of said wax seals and purchased a tray of different coloured wax and a sealing stamp which has the tree of life on it. I'm definitely going to buy more of them and I am starting to run out of wax again.

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I enjoyed the online videos and found it interesting all the different jobs at Apple. I especially liked Apple Music, which was a part of Apple I had never even thought of.

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My exercise over lockdown was mainly horse-riding. I'm lucky enough to have my own horse so was able to go horse riding when I wanted.

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When I had gone to London (back when that was possible) I always used to get bubble tea. I decided over lockdown to try and make it.
The photos don't look too bad, but it didn't taste the best. Over Easter I found a place in Cork City that sells it and had to get some to try. The difference is quiet visible, even from the pictures.

Photo 1 is my attempt, photo 2 is the purchased drinks.

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The things I will most likely remember from 2020/2021 would be the amount of time I spent at the stables. So I thought a few photos from there would be a nice thing to have a look back at.

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I have so many photos from this year that it's hard to pick out my favourites, but I shall try.

The last photo is the clearest photo I've gotten of the moon so far.