Friday 28 September 2012

The irish society of Autism

The irish soceity of Autism is the leading group that helps with Autism in Ireland. The lecture we had on the 25th of September. Mr Sexton came in and spoke very well on the topic that was Autism he is involved in autism because his son John Sexton has Autism . Johns son had Autism since the day he was born. John hasnt spoken in twenty years aloud. Mr Sexton decided to take decisive action in his sons life when he retired from teaching in an all girls secondary school there are different types of Autism the kids who dont speak , the kids that never shut up than therwe are children with ADHD. One in every 100 has Autism in 2012 while in 1980s it was one to every 500 had it this shows an increase over time..The society is working well with children who suffer from autism but like every charitey out there it struggles with the ratio of children to helpers which is why parents with autistic children have to play a big role in there son/daughters life

Friday 21 September 2012

Children of Chernoybl

This past week We had two guest speakers speaking on behalf children for chernoybl. They spoke about the many different roles they had to take in fundraisng so they could go to chernoybl. The two speakers were both doing the charitey becasue they were related in with the rose of tralee. The female speaker was the 2011 rose of dublin. The male was an escort for the pageant when he spoke his facwe went very red as if he was embarerrased. They spoke about the possitives they did as they brought a lot of equipment with them suc as vaseline for the children who couldnt get out of bed the vaseline would help them move around a bit and un-stiffen there bones etc. Chernoybl itself is located in Belarus on the Belarus-Ukraine border. They spoke about he problems that chernoybl has caused to the Belarussian people and how many deny the problems that occue in the area even though therte is clear evidence that it did happen. The organisation was founded by Adi Roche back originally when the incident occured. ADI tirelessly for the children and gettig them seen to by the government and gaining support so the children receive more medical help than they are getting at the moment. The rose is more famous for her shuffle that she did which was known as the worst performance ever on the rose of tralee.

Friday 7 September 2012

we wont on a fourth year trip to donegal the place was dun lewey it was thoroughly enjoyable. The trip was an irish culture trip that foutrths years in our school go on every year for approximatly three nights. We had to rise very early to get to the bus early in the morning which left the school at 7.45 am .fortunatly nobody missed the bus and we set off for dun lewey. The bus was long and boring but it didnt seem that way as everyone was so happy at the fact that we didnt have to attend school for three full days and off on holidays basically with all our mates. The bus was hot and stuffy and everybody was so glad when we got our break at a petrol station in the middle of nowhere. The vast majoritey of people bought food in the shop , food that would later make me feel very sick i think i bought a little bit too much food. We arrived at our youth hostel which had to be said was along with the petrol station was in the back arse of nowhere. The village of dun lewey didnt have very much to offer other than the fact that there was a petrol station that sold sunny D. The youth hostel was also nice as it was very modern.W made our marks in our room and relaxed for a while before heading down to dun lewey adventyure centre which was a grand ol' memory for me as i had previously been there in 5th class when my class went on a school trip to anagaire. In the adventure centre we were given a talk about the history of Dun Lewey and how it got its name and the people who owned the land on the adventure centre previous to it being an adventure centre There was rodeo bull and similar rides. The dinner there was good we had chicken burgers this was probably the highlight of the trip. the following two days we did activities in gartan which included bog-running and swimming an the final day we went to an old castle and learnt about the history of it

Zoltan Collis-Jewish Holocaust surviour