The Transition year classes are part of a programme called Schools across Borders, run by Darren Irvine. It gives students a chance to connect with other people our age, both nationally and internationally.The programme aims to empower young people to act together for change.
Last Thursday all the schools part of the programme went to City West hotel in Tallaght. The schools that took part were Caritas College, Mount Temple comprehensive, St.Dominics secondary school, St.Kevins community college and ourselves. Ms.L, Ms.G and Ms.B came with us. Hannah, Laura and I had prepared a powerpoint on Gender Inequality in class, and we presented this first and the other schools gave presentations too. I was really nervous about this, but it went fine. After this we watched a play about conflict in Burma, and it taught us everybody matters, no matter how far away the conflict is. We got lunch after this, and it was chicken goujons and chips, which was so nice!
We went back into the leisure centre part of the hotel and up into the suites above, and we drew on the 'graffiti wall'. Ms.L had also set up computers so she could teach people how to blog. We did this for about an hour and then we went back inot the main room, where various NGO's had set up tables, and they gave short presentations about their charity. They were really interesting and informative.
We had to leave a bit early, so we could get back to school on time, so we missed a bit of Darrens presentation.
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