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18/9/2024, It's my 2nd week in school, but it was supposed to be my third. We haven't started yet, but I have given my CV to cex, M&S & Charlie Byrnes & that's where I'm doing the work experience.

16/10/2024

so, update. CEX by accident gave my spot to someone else so now I'm doing it for my primary school KNS.

2nd-6th/12/2024.

These 4 days I did work experience in marks n Spencer’s, well, I enjoyed it a lot. We started at 9am but I didn’t start till after break, I had to do an assessment due to protocols in case anything went wrong and you had to do a trial run, because me and my friend who I did work experience with didn’t bother getting a full time job in M&S we weren’t allowed to use the jackets & over 18s are only allowed to be in the freezer to get the baked goods,I worked on the clothes section first, it was highly boring but at least I’d something to do, Martina. (My grandmothers favourite employer.) she said hello to me and asked her to help her on the food section, I was so grateful instead of finding odd pairs of shoes. We had breakfast up in the canteen and me and my friend had toast and Nutella, (I made coffees for both of us.)

My manager Ada on the 2nd day gave me and my friend shortbread biscuits as a well done for the day before. I got confused at one point and went through the wrong door and I set off the fire alarm, I felt really embarrassed and I cried in the bathroom, my boss Ada gave me a hug and said

“You got the whole town gossiping about us you’re not in trouble, you got us more customers!” So she was really happy.

What I learnt was that, there’s a lot that comes to stocking shelves, and using honeywells are so much fun and you can pretend to scan your friends as a joke.

25-29th.(2 days sick.)

KNS or St John the apostle Knocknacarra national school Galway.

My first day back in KNS was nostalgic, looking back in the halls we used to run around was the nicest thing, most teachers that I had are still there, it was weird not seeing M.Noreen around because she retired, we found out that our favourite teacher (or the favourite girl teacher of the school.) got the vice principal job, the students also on work experience were Roman, from my primary class (I haven’t seen him since we graduated.) he changed a lot, Charlie still is the same and Sophie & Stephanie go to school with me so I’m used to seeing them around. Firstly we started off in room 3, senior infants M.Diane’s class. They introduced us to the kids and my neighbour Max was in that class, we did junk art (it’s up cycling materials and turning them into art pieces.) and we watched Bluey during break because it was raining, after break we went to first class and 2nd class, it was weird seeing some of the teachers as it was nearly 5 years since we saw them. (Because of lockdown in 5th & 6th class.) we did sight words with 2nd class next and I did the Irish sight words & phonics, my best friends little sister gave me a hug when she saw me, I asked the teacher is it ok if I hug her back & she just giggled & said “You know her outside of school & longer than me, so. I don’t mind!”

3rd class I taught the class French & Italian, my best friends sister was in that class so I was just keeping an eye on her as a joke because we live in the same estate, my primary classmates friends sister Anna was in that class also, she was happy when she saw me.

The one thing that shook me is that the school does more instruments as

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24/9/2024 yesterday we talked to Mr.Fergus who's one of my Dads friends, we listened to his story about his skeletle dysplasia after getting into the accident he had & how he had the confidence to keep on going which to be honest inspired me, we also talked to Alex from UNESCO who was really kind & educated us on the enviroment and how we should proctect it, the interactions were my favourite part, last friday 20/9/2024, we had a self defence workshop which was a lot of fun.

30/9/2024

I got selected to go to a breast feeding talk in the GUH, of course, I didn’t get lost cuz I’m so used to my appointments in there. It was interesting because there was a few kids that I knew and my old science partner was there I didn’t realise she moved to colaiste na coiribe so she was happy to see me, I made 2 friends from that school and it was interesting & the cupcakes were delicious even though we were all afraid of the cupcakes in case they were mixed with Breast milk, (they were normal cupcakes.) I’d an appointment that morning and it was weird seeing eve but I also got excited (she was the nurse that helped me after getting my appendix out during the summer.) because she was a midwife, I did learn a lot about breastfeeding but I don’t really remember that much bar my question was. “What positions do you recommend?l everyone laughed so, it was funny but I was embarrassed.

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Dominican College, Taylor's Hill Road, Rosary Lane, Galway

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Dominican College, Taylor's Hill Road, Rosary Lane, Galway (trips And posts.)

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Dominican College, Taylor's Hill Road, Rosary Lane, Galway (trips And posts.)

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I got up at 5:45am and got the 402 from tescos in knocknacarra then made it into the school. then we all got on the bus I got on the Reaney's big bus, myself & one of my friends had a dance battle & we were all having fun, after we got off the bus, we got divided into 4 groups, I nearly fell asleep on the bus but we all blared music on the bus so it was an amazing experience. our group had to do climbing first, it was scary but i got to the 3rd level, then i got lost & joined the wrong group so i did archery then, we had lunch & we all continued to dance to music, i got changed into my swimming suit while wearing my hoodie & trousers, after lunch it was my groups turn to go kayaking, after that we went canooing & after that we went on the paddle board, someone nearly drowned so I had to jump into the water to stop her from being drowned since I have a lifeguard licence, after that myself & 2 others jumped off the pier & swam.

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Act of retirement started a few weeks ago, I was sick so I missed the first week our class started it but I got a week with 4/3 and it was fun. My “1st week.” And my retiree’s name is Mary, she lives close to me and she loves her grandchildren, we showed them how to download the parking app, I got asked any game recommendations so I said Roblox and call of duty so she downloaded them and we had a game of dress to impress, the setting up was annoying as we were not in rosary hall, but room 5 & 6 is fun.

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Back on the 20th of December m we did a quiz for the first years, unfortunately I was at a barista course so I didn’t get help with it.

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I’ve been doing French since the start of 1st year, audios are annoying but I don’t mind the speaking part. We haven’t started Chinese yet but hopefully our next slot is that.

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We took a bus out to elimental and it was a lot of fun, we were all laughing, we all got into our gear and we went out and about, I tripped a few times and when one of the rounds was over I got knee stuck in mud and it was really scary, I also tripped over a rock so I thought I broke my collarbone.

Yoga was tiring, I was covered in sweat, thankfully our school let me use the shower to get the mud off.

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The Christmas enterprise fair, was very busy. I had a fake tanning kit as a prize so I sold a lot as tickets as girls & teachers attract to fake tan like bees attracted to pollen.

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The mock interview was interesting, Mr.Joe Long provided the meeting, he gave us tips and advice with a very long introduction but at least it was time out of class to listen, I think I did well.

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A mediator came into our year to discuss what it’s like, and how we should all get on together, it was interesting hearing both sides & doing the silly things she asked us to do.

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Shoe boxes galway racecourse, 14/10/2024

The shoe boxes was a nice thing to do, seeing all these kids being happy was our main priority as we had to not put liquids in. Wash, wow, wear, write, and it was very fun, I was the only one that wore a Christmas jumper because ms o Boyle told us too, I got scared that I was going to be given out but she just found it funny.