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Hi there, my name is megan brown and this is My TY portfolio 2020-21.

Overall it’s been a strange year but enjoyable nonetheless. We didn’t get to do lots of the normal ty things but we still got to do as much things as possible And I got one had a great time!

A few of my favourites were the bonding trip with the surf school at the beginning of the year, getting to see the reptiles from reptile haven and working on our mural. out of all the activities, I loved the cliff jumping from the bonding trip the most and it was also great getting closer with different people in my year who I normally wouldn’t talk to that often . I love reptiles and it was very cool to get to see so many in person and to learn more about them, I find things like that very interesting. And finally I really liked working on a mural with some of my friends as I like creative things and I really enjoyed learning more about using paints and developing my creative skills.

At the start of ty I was very shy and found talking to people my age hard, I feel like ty had helped me come out of my shell a lot and I have much more confidence.

I really appreciated the opportunity to get to try out lots of subjects that i have not done before. i really loved robotics with mr warren and Chinese with ms Patton. I really love trying new things and trying out lots of new subjects felt like a dream come true to me.

I felt I had lots of time in the evenings to work on personal skills that I wouldn’t have during an exam year. I improved my knitting and crochet skills and I learned to sew using a machine. I also got to read lots again and bring my love for reading back to life.

Ty gave me so much more than I could ever have expected and I would definitely recommend it to anyone. It’s an amazing opportunity even during covid times. I’m only sad it’s almost over.

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Date: 25-5-21
Today we had a virtual talk with a lady from YIC Donegal to talk about consent and relationships with us.

I think this is a very important topic and it was great that we all got the opportunity to learn all about safe relationships in a non scary way.

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Date: 25-5-21
Today as one of our final activities for TY 2020-21 we all played dodge ball and bench ball. I actually thought this was great craic and everyone seemed to enjoy it

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Today we had a man in to do a drama workshop with us. We did lots of different activities in the pitch outside, which was lovely as it was a really nice day.

We got to do some work in social distanced pairs which was nice, some we did with friends others with people we don’t really talk to as much which was fun to switch things up.

The funniest part was when we had to visualise a squirrel climbing around inside our bodies and how various things would feel as many people were squirming a lot.

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During my Spanish class for this term we had to work on a Spanish culture project. We had to make a power point and then make a physical project. Linked below is the PowerPoint

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Date: 27-29th April
Over the past three days Suzanne was kind enough to put together a few of her friends and acquaintances to talk to us about their careers.

The first I attended was a man talking about his work as an actor and in the theatre industry in general. It was super Informative and it was cool to hear a brief bit about his life.

The second was a woman who works for coillte and I really enjoyed listening to her talk about her daily life in the job.

On the second day we talked to a man who works as a barrister and I enjoyed this as it was a career I had considered In The past.

Then next we talked to a Lady who was a speech and language therapist. I thought this was interesting and it was a career I didn’t know a lot about it before hand.

Then the last for that day we talked to a lady who worked at RTE. this was my favourite one to attend and it made me consider working in similar areas.

And then on the third day we chatted to a man who had many different jobs (including surf instructing in bundoran) who is now training to be a pilot.

Overall I found all these very beneficial because even if it wasn’t a career I was interested in it was cool to hear different peoples stories and opinions.

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Date: 26-4-21
In science this week we were studying biodiversity and we went around our school grounds to see what different plants and insects we could find.

We worked in pairs and me and my friend Caoimhe found 41 different species. For example primroses, brambles and nettles.

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Date 25-4-21
For our Irish Padlet we all had to customise a PowerPoint to see who would create the best

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Date: over a few weeks
My friends Caoimhe, Jona, Isabella and I worked on a mural in our school for the past few weeks.

We were working off the theme of mental health and personal growth and caoimhe drew the original design.

I really loved working on this and I am so proud of how it turned out.

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After midterm the first big thing we did was chatting to a driving instructor. he was very nice and chatty.

He came in and talked to us about learning to drive and showed us lots of handy things in car maintenance. I think this is a really important set of skills for people to have. I found it very useful.

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Date: 22-3-21
I did this project on Dame Jane Goodall for my science project on a famous scientist.

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Date: 8th, 15th and 22nd of March
We got the opportunity over a few weeks to talk to Celesta who is an immigrant from South Africa.

We got to learn about her culture and why she had to leave her home, we discussed what home meant to us in the first week and we had to bring an example of something that means home to us, I brought my favourite mug.

The second week we chatted about border and what that means and the pros and cons of having borders.

And the third and final week we discussed stories of welcome and talked about how we could welcome people to our country and about how we greet people who come to our house.

Overall I really really enjoyed this and felt I learned a lot about how scary it can be when you have to leave your country and how scary and hard it is getting into another one.

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Date: 1-3-21
For our science class we had to out together a nutritional snack and write up about the information

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Part 3- cooking the pancakes and presentation

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Part 2- stewing the apples

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Part one - making the batter.

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Date: 22-3-21
This is my research project for robotics

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Date:4-2-21
For this I asked my mother for an album that she listened to when she was younger.

Artist: "New Kids on the Block"
Album title: "Hangin' Tough"
Year released: 1988 (on September 6th)
Favourite song: "Cover Girl"
Why?: I find it catchy and closer to my personal music taste than some of the other songs on the album.
Least favourite song: "I need you"
Why?: I'm not sure, I just don't vibe with it. Reminds me of something they would put on at a wedding that would make everyone stop dancing and sit down (not a good thing). I'm sure it's a solid song just not really my thing.
Rating out of 10: 7 out of 10.
Why?: I gave it 7 out of ten as I think its a solid album overall. Not all to my taste but I can appreciate that it is grand. The songs are catchy and easy to listen to which aligns with the genre.

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date 4-2-21
Below is my family tree, I filled in as much information as I could.

For the etymology of my surname I decided to go with my mums surname. My fathers sides surname was changed very few generations ago as my great grandfather had to change it to an English surname when he moved to Belfast.

The surname "Wymbs" was originally found in Fife in Scotland, where they held a family seat from very ancient times as Lords of the castle of "Wemyss", named from the Gaelic word "Uamch" which means "Cave". It was derived from the lands and cliffs in which caves are found on the seashore. Some of the Wymbs family moved to Ireland Others migrated to the united states.

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Date: 2-2-21
In science class we each made our own food Food pyramid diagram with food from our kitchens.

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On my walk every day I meet these sheep. They are my friends. They aren’t exactly wildlife but they are the most interesting creatures I see on my walk.

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Date: 28-1-21
Here is my photos of birds from my garden

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Date: 28-1-21
For this task I chose to listen to “Let’s Talk About Myths Baby, a Greek and Roman mythology podcast”. I chose this one as I Really love Greek and Roman mythology and any other mythology’s really. I’ve wanted to Listen to this for a while so I thought I’d use this task to listen to it.

The episodes are generally between 20 and 30 minutes so I listened to two episodes.

The first episode I listened to was “Eatin’ Kids and Killin’ Dads, an Introduction to Greek Mythology”.

Did I enjoy it: Yes, I really enjoyed this episode. I thought it was very interesting and entertaining. I thought the host, Liv was very chill and easy to listen to. It was informative but not super heavy and hard to follow.

What did I learn: I had a decent bit of knowledge on this story before but it really filled in some of the gaps for me. I think for a first episode it’s good in that way that its partially well known but it kind of fills in the gaps for you.

Then the second episode I listened to was “Perseus and the Crazy Things That Happen When You Behead A Gorgon”

Did I enjoy it: Yea I think this one was my favourite of the two. I think this one was more story-like and the characters were pretty easy to remember their names and to keep track of.

What did I learn : I learned about the story of the Demi-god Perseus (yes the namesake of Percy Jackson from the book series ,and the movie series but we don’t talk about that), son of Zeus, how he came to be and the journey he went on and why he went on it to behead the infamous Medusa. I also learned that this is one of the very few Greek myths that has a happy ending.

Would I recommend this to a friend: I definitely would recommend this podcast to my friends, it’s educational in a way but really it’s just anschient fiction so I don’t think you would be bored. I would give it five stars for me personally as it ticks all the boxes of what I like in a podcast, interesting, witty, relaxed and easy to follow.

Another podcast I would recommend is “Stuff You Missed in History Class” by iheartradio

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Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold

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Date : 28-1-21
This week in Spanish we learned the numbers one to thirty. We also learned how to ask and answer “how old are you”

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Date 25-1-21
Thus is a project i did for my GCE class.
Introduction:

For my climate action project i interviewed a resident in Oznam house where my mother works. I asked him questions relating to weather, food and transport and how they have changed since he was young,  to see how the climate has been affected and to see what changes in food and transport there have been that are a huge contributing factor to climate change .

Weather:

I started by asking him how the weather in general has changed. He explained that it was a lot wetter but definitely not as cold as it was when he was young. I then asked how the seasons seem to have changed and he said “ Summers were an awful lot drier then, winters now are much warmer “.

Food:

I then got onto the topic of food and started by asking him if he feels he ate very differently in his youth. He said that they mainly ate seasonal and home grown foods or local produce. He then went on to say that his family grew lots of vegetables such as lettuce, carrots and for christmas they grew sprouts. Nowadays most food is bought from chain super markets but then, they bought from local shops.  Little to no imports, oranges were a christmas treat.

Transport:

Finally we spoke about transport. He explained that now almost everyone has a car or access to a car whenever they want and people use planes and trains way more often. He might have gotten to go on the train on very special occasions as a boy. Roads are much busier and that means a lot more harmful gasses put out into our atmosphere. He said that the train that used to be in bundoran is badly missed. The bus routes around bundoran aren't great as it's hard to get to certain places nearby. I think a train system again in bundoran would be much better for the environment as there would be less need for people to drive everywhere. Back when he was a child only business people had cars.

How can we improve things?

In my opinion we need much better public transport systems in place in bundoran and the surrounding areas. Less cars on the road means less emissions which would have a positive effect on the environment .

Another solution would be to buy locally more often and only buy what is seasonally available.

And finally i think growing more of our own food would be helpful.

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date: 18-1-21
Megan Brown

Theory - Finland doesn’t exist.

Explain the theory-

Some people believe Finland simply does not exist. The idea started circling around on reddit a few years back. Those who find truth in it  believe that people who claim to be from Finland are really from either western Russia, eastern Sweden or northern Estonia and are just led to believe they are in Finland. They believe there is just water where we are told Finland is.

The story goes that Russia and Japan made the country up in the year 1918. According to Vice “ the notion goes that the two nations created Finland so that Japan could fish the sea that exists there without environmental complaints or repercussions” and then the caught fish would be shipped via the Trans- Siberian railway from the eastern Russian coast to Japan under the disguise of Nokia products.

And of course you’re probably thinking, what about other countries and scientists? Would they not notice that it isn’t there, well The belief is that they decided it’s best to keep the secret and keep Finland as an example of a better world, as Finland is known for being a very successful and equal country.

What evidence is there?

The non-Finland-believers believe Finland is just too good to be true. The theory says “no real country could be so consistently placed first in education, healthcare, gender equality, literacy rates, national stability, the least corrupt government in the world, freedom of the press”. It just shows our lack of faith in our own species that it is hard to believe we can be decent to each other and organise ourselves well.

Finland is also not a very popular tourist destination so there is not all that many people who can say for a fact they have been there and it exists. And it doesn't have a terribly large population although many people claiming to be from finland took great offence at the notion that it wasn't real. But hey they could be paid actors for all I know.

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Date: Thursday 14-1-21.
This week we had to prepare a meal for our families, I made a roast veg dinner for my Mom and I.

I started by peeling and chopping the vegetables and steaming them for a few minutes. I put thr ivem on to heat at a medium heat. In the mean time I prepared the stuffing balls and chopped an onion. Once it was steamed enough I drained all the vegetables and oiled my tray. I put the vegetables on the tray and added herbs and seasonings. I put everything in the oven until it was all cooked to out taste which took around fourty minutes. I did a few dishes as it was cooking and the rest after it was done. I made gravy and served up the food.

My mother really enjoyed it and I will add an audio clip of her thoughts when she’s free to record it.

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Date: 14-1-21
This term I started Spanish class. I find languages and other cultures interesting so I’m excited to learn something new.

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Date: 12-1-21
In my maths class for this term I’ve been workout on a project about Hypatia who was an ancient mathematician. I made a PowerPoint about her life and work.

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Date: 13-1-21
Moi-meme

Je m'appelle Megan. J’ai seize ans. Mon anniversaire est le premier septembre. J’habite a bundoran en Irelande. J’adore lire et ma série de lovers préferee est “Heroes of Olympus” le Rick Riordan. Je n'aime pas le yaourt.

J’habite le ma mére Patricia, mon chiens Stella, Ollie, junior and Freddie et mon oiseau jakey.

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Date: 11-1-21
This term in enterprise I finished off my project from enterprise. I did it on the entrepreneurs behind the happy pear which is an Irish plant based company.

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This term in school we back in lockdown so we are doing online learning.