Gaisce

When I was in 5th year I signed myself up to do Gaisce. Basically it's the Presidents Award and all you have to is five simple tasks:
1) Do 13 weeks of community work.
2) Do 13 personal work
3) Do 13 weeks of physical work
4) Do an extra 13 weeks in one of these areas.

And the last and final task all 50 of the students who signed up had to go on a hike.... Up a mountain !!
That was the part I was dreading. We had to hike up the Wicklow Mountains.

The challenges were great. I did dancing as my physical, Sign Language for my personal and helping out at a club on a Tuesday night for children with Special Needs as my community work.
I had a great time working in all of these areas and I did my extra 13 weeks with the special needs kids.
This Gaisce experience thought me alot about myself and others around me. People who know me say that they saw a big change in me when I was in 5th year ... Maybe that's because I wasn't out on the town the whole time. But I was told that I don't seem as cheeky as I used to be. Doing all of these challenges thought myself and everyone involved to think of others and to help out the elderly or disabled more often.

The mountain hike was the best time of my life! Now I can officially say that I was on top of a mountain looking down on everything... Well not really I didn't get time the winds were too strong and we all just wanted to get on our bus home. We hiked for 2 days and we stayed in a youth hostel so we weren't walking during the night. I would encourage everyone to do the Gaisce award because it's very fulfilling and it teaches you alot about yourself and you might even get a volunteering job out of it like I did!

My First Semester at DKIT

I remember my first day very very well .... before I even got on my bus to go to Dundalk there was drama.
My best mate found out the night before that her fella was cheating on her... But that's another story.
Anyway when we eventually got to the college I was like a lost child, I didn't know where I was going, I ended up in the science block... Not to say I felt well out of place!
I was grand going into all the classes not a bother on me and then when the work started the next day I wanted to scream... I didn't know if this course was for me and I didn't think I could handle the work.
Thankfully though we all got talking and I feel more comfortable in the class now with everyone and the work isn't that bad either.
I even see my friends from school and we go "creeping" in the canteen on the lunch breaks because we never skip class !
Overall, I think my first semester here was great and I'm 100% sure I'm coming back in January so I hope the rest of the year is great because I don't want to be on the doll queue in Drogheda, it's way too long!

Is there a God ?

Nobody knows for sure if there is God out there or up there ... But what alot of people have is faith. I know from my own life my Granny had a lot of faith in God and heaven and all that jazz, she used to say that she cant see him or touch him but she knows that her faith in God is there whenever she needs him and my cousin shouted out "OH LIKE SANTA CLAUSE !!" That's all that was said on that subject.

I think that nearly every person out there believes in something or some kind of religion. I believe in God but I do question allot of things about religion. I only ever learned about faith and God in primary school and even then I was like ... ehhh this is a bit over the top like! I'm at a stage in my life where I don't really care about that stuff but ya I believe it but for many people out there they want "God" to give them a break because they may have suffered alot in their lives and gave up on the whole heaven and hell idea.

Even though there has been alot of drama around the world I still believe in God as do many other people out there. However I still do question some things.