Things are different now but maybe someday we will meet again

To my not so many readers,

I think of my blog as my little online diary, open for anybody to read.

I write here so on days that im bored, sad, happy or just simply in need of a memory to shake a bad vibe I can look back at the words I’ve written and remind all the fun times I’ve had. Nobody is stopping anybody reading this and if you want to read my blogs that I do because i need to save memories somewhere other then on paper, I’d also really appreciate it!

Well its summer and as always the Irish weather is taking a tole onto the teenager’s everyday life.

For me this summer is very different to previous years, for as long as i can remember I’ve spent my summers in Wexford in my family mobile home beside the sea side. Kilmuckridge was like my second home. I had friends there and it was always my way to escape for the summer. But times are different now. VERY different. Last summer was my last summer that I could just get up, walk about 20 steps and be on a beach. I wandered the beach in kilmuckridge hours on end. it was my way to kill time and my place to get a tan easily instead of sitting bored on the deck in the hot summer’s sun. Last summer my family came to the decision to sell the van and spend our summers back in celbridge. Right now i just want to go for a long walk on the beach or go for a swim in the rain in the freezing cold Irish Sea.(swimming in the rain is just so much better in my opinion)

School starts back in a month and it still doesn't even feel like summer. We have that horrible Irish weather keeping us stuck indoors. So far summer hasn't been terrible but i haven't done anything. I've gone to two concerts (both amazing) and I’ve gone out with my friends. Like many teenagers i lack what is needed most, and that is money and motivation. I spend majority of my time in bed, on Netflix, reading a book or just lying around my house in my pyjamas until four in the day doing nothing with my day. Im not hard pushed to make the most of my summer  because that really means go spend the money i don’t have and im not wasting my summer sitting indoors, id rather sit at home relaxing because come on we all know once school starts back we will never get a spare minute.

If I could do anything for the last month of my summer it would be escape to Wexford but unfortunately that won’t happen. The thing i miss most about the place is probably one of the weirdest things, you don’t even have to be in Wexford do this but it was by far one of my favourite things. I miss being woken at 9 on a Sunday and putting on respectable clothes (anything other than a tracksuit or jeans) and going to mass. Going to mass meant going into centra after to pick up the newspaper and of course some ice-cream and I can’t forget to mention the duck for Rita (extra nanny). From centra we went to visit our extra nanny and granddad, which also had a mobile home there but in a different site. It became a usual thing! Everyday sunday at 10.30 we would arrive. The adults would chit chat and my sisters and I would just sit around until it was time to get serious and play cards. The routine was always the same every weekend the only thing that changed was the winner of cards. If the game wasn’t finished wed go home for lunch and arrive back an hour later. There were several Sundays i spent the whole day playing cards and I wouldn’t have changed it for the world. I miss Wexford and I hope sometime soon I can return and eat ice cream in the rain, walk on the beach for hours, go for midnight swims with my friends at 8pm and play cards non-stop.

This blog was set up to record my TY memories. But now Ty is over and some part of me wants to keep this blog page alive. I'm one who finds comfort in writing. I want to continue posting here as much as I can. Ty gave me things to write about but i will find something every now and again. Yes i wont post as often as I did because my time will be a bit limited with homework and things but I’ll make time to sit down and type like there’s no tomorrow.

Until next time 

Im just a teenage girl who hates the 

thought of growing up but im doing it 

with a smile on my face And a positive 

atittued. Hope you enjoyed reading - 

Miss.Galligan x

Real Fans Save Bands

To kick off summer Aoibhin, Sophie and I set off into town for the day to look around and have something to eat before heading off to see 5 seconds of summer perform in the 3 arena. It was a lot better of a day than we expected.

To start the day off on a good foot me and sophie laughed about how overly protective both our mams were being and then went to call for aoibhin and then walked about 2 miles an hour to the bus. Once we got off the bus we wondered up and down town trying to find somewhere to eat. We settled with nandos just so sophie could snapchat "cheeky nandos with calum" (5sos fandom joke) We had a problem finding nandos though ... Aoibhin claimed she knew were she was going but  the looks on her face told a different story. We finally found it in the end and thank god because we were all starving. 

After nandos we just aimlessly walked around town wasting time so we didn't have to wait in line before the concert. While walking around Aoibhin fall down a step on a bridge, i walked into a pole and we lost Sophie several times but we survived. We decided to go to ginos to get something before heading for the luas and to our surprise in front of us in the line was dayl and josh from hometown so after our cheeky nandos with calum we then got to have creps with hometown. We then went for the luas to head to the 3 arena. 

Once we reached the venue we ran up stairs trying to find our sets. We stood around waiting a few minutes deciding weather or not we wanted drinks or to go to the bathroom while standing around we bumped into a few familiar faces. We talked to orla and aislingx2 for a few minutes and then went to our seats were we waited not so patiently in our seats in the back for 5 seconds of summer to come onto the stage. As soon as they came on everyone screamed and the atmosphere for the whole night was unreal. Its safe to say we loved every minute of the night and it was horrible having to leave because none of us wanted to call it a night.

Thursday the 28th of may was one of the best nights out and i look forward to returning to the 3 arena for Taylor Swift next month but lucky next time we wont be in the back we will be standing with our hands in the air in the front at the barrier after queuing for hours.


Im just a teenage girl who hates the thought of growing up but im doing it with a smile on my face and a positive attitude. I hope you liked reading about my day out with Aoibhin and Sophie - Miss.Galligan! x

All of a Sudden It was Time for those Goodbye

Monday 25^th of May marked the end of transition year for 86 young girls in St. Wolstans. All excited for our summer holidays we left the hall at about half 9 with so many memories thinking how could one year go so quickly. I wont lie and say the whole year was an amazing and full of opportunity and joy because I hated it at times and that's the cold hard truth. Most things were so pointless it drove me insane. But don't get me wrong i did love it at the same time. The trips were fun and the way we did things was so different. I think im trying to say sometimes i felt it wasn't for me. TY definitely had its ups and downs. I don't think i would of been ready for 5th year last and i still don't think i am ready yet but i feel a bit more confident now after a year away from solid work. All the work in 5th year is going to be hard but if ty thought me anything it was i don't like no routine. It showed me how quick a year can go, how i can’t cut in a straight line and how much i really despise doing work that i don’t benefit from and has no real purpose . 

Monday night was TY night. Ty night is held in the school hall and all tys show off what they did this year to our families. We started the night all squeezed onto the coral risers singing wave your flag and never forget and then we took our seats and let the night begin. People from each of the three class, Ariel,Bell and Aurora, stood up and talked about trips we've gone on, the charity work we've done and what we've done in classes. Once all the speeches were done everyone who did gaisce was presented with their certs and medals. All that work finally paid off! The wasnt over yet! All that was left was the awards. Mrs. Lenoard called out each name and presented everyone with our awards (this didn't take as long as you'd think) After the awards were handed out a few girls in the year said thanks to Mrs. Lenoard on behalf of the whole year group and gave her a gift. Her reaction was priceless and it made us all smile. It all ended with a slide show done my Ellen and Eve. I don't think any of us realized how good the year was until we heard about everything and saw all the pictures.

The learning part of the year was over (I say learning very loosely) but the trips weren't quiet finished . On tuesday all TYs returned at 9.05 just wishing for summer to hurry up and to tear down all the posters and art work that covered every section of the hall for the displays for ty night. We pulled them off the walls in seconds and some were taken home but most of them got thrown into the big recycling bin. Once we could finally see the boring yellow walls of the hall all of us sat up on the coral risers for one last group photo and smiled as year group for one last time. At ten we set off down the road for our last TY outing to base. We did bowling and I have no shame in saying i lost miserably ... it really isn't my strong point. At about half 11 we got chicken nuggets, sausages and chips and then a piece of the cake that was displayed on TY Night. At half 12 it was our summer holidays and then Ariel,bell and aurora were no more.

The first thing Mrs. Lenoard said to us was that she wanted this year to be like no other and in hope that this would happen she named our classes after the princess so we could all have magical experience and have a year like no other.

To all Future Tys ill leave you with what mrs.lenoard said to us about how one can react to the year. She told us TY was a jug of water and each person is either a rock, sponge or spoon of sugar. The rock will get nothing from the water it will just sink and get or give nothing , the sponge will take as much as it can but never gives anything back and the sugar will dissolve and take to the water as much as it can and givie a sweet perfect smell and taste to the water and all around.

Im just a teenage girl who hates the thought of growing up but im doing it with a smile on my face and a positive attitude. I hope you liked reading about what i thought about TY experience, TY night and our last trip - Miss.Galligan! x

TY 2014/2015 was a year for the princess to find themselves  

Just keep swimming

Today's society has held people back from the simplest things. How you see yourself is what matters not what others think of you! I say this but when i was standing around waiting to get into the pool on Wednesday I felt VERY uncomfortable as everyone's eyes scanned one another. I am no wear near confident in my body i can gladly say my unfit self-swam half a mile with a smile! Once I was in the pool swimming all thoughts about my body were gone because body could see it.

I used to swim so much when I was younger but I stopped because it was taking up all my weekends. In 2^nd year I went back swimming to do a lifesaving course and I hated it so stopped but when I when I started swimming the other day I realized how much I missed it! It was such a good day and I really enjoyed myself.

 I was in a team with aoibhin and Alison and we each had to do 23 lengths because we knew there wasn’t a hope we could do a mile alone so we split it up. When aoibhin and I got to 23 lengths we thought we might as well keep going to half so we did. As surprising as it is I actually swam 32 lengths. Before I got in I said I would have been able to do much more than 6 maybe even 4  but when I got to 6 I was like ok get to 10 an then I was like one more and one more and before I knew it I was doing it no bother. I felt like I accomplished something!

It was all for a great cause and everybody enjoyed themselves. To future people getting the opportunity to do swim a smile with a smile but don’t like their body and don’t want to put on a swimsuit I say just go for it. YESS you will feel uncomfortable and awkward for a few minutes but before you know it you will be in the pool and nobody will see your body that im sure is perfect anyway! And if you think you aren’t fit enough to do a lot of lengths you have loads of time, nobody rushes you and you can stop whenever you want!

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Im just a teenage girl who hates the thought of growing up but im doing it with a smile on my face and a positive attitude. I hope you liked reading about my time swimming in the nation aquatic centre for swim a mile with a smile - Miss.Galligan! x

Driving!

Today my class went to Maynooth to Leinster school of driving! We were told by the other two classes that it was really good so this morning we were all looking forward to it. When we got there we divided into two groups and then one group went and done theory and the group I was in went to the cars to start driving. There were 3 or 4 in each car with an instructor, in my car there was me, Alison and Sarah.

I really enjoyed driving even If I was really really scared … Alison went first and then when it got to my turn we had to lower the wheel, move the chair forward and up because I was too small! We each had two 20 minute driving sessions.

After break we went into the building to sit a mock theory test. For this we were in teams with the others in our cars and as a team we failed miserably we got 34 out of 40 and you need 35 to pass! After 2 more attempts we got up to 38. This was so much fun and after that our group went out to play a game with the beer goggles.

Im just a teenage girl who hates the thought of growing up but im doing it with a smile on my face and a positive attitude. I hope you liked reading about my experience driving! - Miss.Galligan! x

Regrets that will be worth it

If you read this blog post you would know I am taking part in Gaisce with a few of the people in my year. To get the award It is required we do a 25k hike! Im so glad to say it’s over and I don’t think I will ever set foot on a mountain again.

It all started a few months back when we started our community service, physical activity and a new skill but it all started to feel real when at 5pm on Thursday night myself and the girls who were staying in the same house with me set foot in Tesco to try to shop “responsibly” for our one night away! With about €60 in our pockets we got a trolley and went from aisle to aisle and picked up all the essentials like bread, milk, butter and food for dinner but we are teenage girls and all we really wanted was sweets so we spent as little as we could on the basics and got so much sweets. It was so much fun and we were all in fits of laughing as we fought over wanting expensive biscuits because they are better and cheap bread because they all taste the same. We all came to the conclusion that we will be such bad adults when it comes to weekly food shops.

Once Friday came around we were all shocked with how heavy our bags were from all the food we bought and the first of many regrets started rolling in. We dropped our food and bags to the sewing room and fridge until lunch and then packed onto the bus having no clue what we signed up for.

We arrived at about 3 and all went to our houses and at half 3 we set off. I thought 15k on day one would be harder than 10k but I was wrong day 2 was 10 times worse because of the weather. One Friday as we hiked I felt like it would never end we just kept walking and walking. We sang and danced trying to stay positive but some parts felt so impossible but we all made it through day one without wanting to kill anybody. Some of us even did maths with one of the instructors and Mrs. Leonard. We found a skull and named it Barry! We got back at about 9, exhausted but sore but the night was only starting.

At 9 we attempted to make pasta for dinner but the hob would work so I had toast and jam and the girls had lasagne. Once that was done we all had hot chocolate and mammy aoibhin tried to fix the hob so we could have decent food because we were all starving. Finally we (by we I mean everybody other than me and Sadhbh) got it working and it was so good. After dinner we went over to house 5 and all sat around talking and watched a movie (well it was on but I don’t think anybody watched it). At half 11 we went back to our house and all I know is the rest of the night was full of laughter until bed.

I woke up at 6 and couldn’t fall back asleep for I went on my phone until I was scared to death by Sadhbhs alarm at half 6! We both jumped up and started setting the place for breakfast and one by one the others started waking up and coming to the table. We had cercal and waffles with Nutella. Once breakfast was done we showered and packed up the house. At 9 until about 12 we were doing actives such as the leap of faith, abseiling, rock climbing and more.

The real challenge started now! Tired but with a positive attitude some of us set off at half 12. I think this day really took all everybody had out of them. Parts of the hike I was happy others sad, I was exhausted but wrecked, I was cold never warm, I was smiling and then I was grinning my teeth together with anger, I was enjoying myself but then minutes later I wanted it all to be over! It was snowing and by the time we hit half way there had been tears and screams and a good amount wanted to give up! We made it through though and I don’t think I’ve ever been so happy to sit on a bus and to be going home.

We never would of done it without the help of all the leaders who kept us walking even when all we wanted to do was sit down and give up so a big thanks to Simon, Robert, Cain, steward (Dave), Steven. 

Well done to everybody who took part in the 25k lets hope all our regrets are worth it in may when we get our medal and certificates. 

Im just a teenage girl who hates the thought of growing up but im doing it with a smile on my face and a positive attitude. To anybody doing gaisce I say go for it but be ready to regret everything! Hope you liked reading! - Miss.Galligan! x

More trips please!

Okay I think its time for a blog post once again but there isnt not much to say so ill keep this short and sweet!

Alright I haven’t sat down and done a blog post in a while I have to admit that but I have my reasons don’t worry …. And they aren’t that I don’t have time because im a ty and all I have is spare time! It’s mainly because I don’t know what to write. I usually write about trips we’ve gone on but how can I do that when we haven’t went on a trip in so long! Well It feels like long to me. 

We had two weeks off for Easter and now we are back all I want to do is get out of this school again because two weeks off didn’t bore me out enough to want to go back to school. There’s a trip been arranged but my class got the short end of the straw and have to wait until Monday the 27^th to go! AHHHHH (THAT’S SO LONG WAY!) It would be alright if everyone had to wait until then but Ariel and Bell have already gone and we have been back how long? 2 days! They went to Maynooth to the Leinster school of driving in Maynooth and they all loved it. I look forward to going but the thought of waiting is that long is just so sad. :(

I’ll try keep my blog up to date I promise but it’s going to be hard considering I have to wait until the 25^th for my gaisce trip and then once I come back on the 27^th we will go do the driving lessons (finally when we get trips they end up together and im forced to either put one up late or put them together in one post) but once it comes to may I’ll be able to blog ever week because we will have work shops and swim a mile with a smile.

Im just a teenage girl who hates the thought of growing up but im doing it with a smile on my face and a positive attitude. hope you enjoyed reading a very pointless blog and agree with me when I say tys should get a trip every week so our blogs don’t have to be as pointless as this! - Miss.Galligan! x