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last month, my team members and i followed our Principal, Mr Tan to Chiangmai, Thailand for an overseas community involvement programme. Our aim is to understand Thai culture, appreciate what we have in Singapore, and to set up a hydroponics farm in the orphanage there. We love the children there! they are genuinely happy and sincere and they are our little angels who transformed our lives :') they gave us a form of strong encouragement! :)

the sceneries in Chiangmai is very…

=> In 1982 the computer was named "Man of the Year" by Time magazine. 

=>A Chinese Scientist discovered that the Earth is round during the Han Dynasty by measuring the sun and moon's path in the sky. He recorded this fact down in the imperial records but went unnoticed until it was unearthed recently.

=>The largest diamond that was ever found was 3106 carats.

=>A rocket-like device can be traced back to Ancient Greece when a flying steam-powered pigeon was…

Croatia

If you are visiting Croatia you can`t go past Dubrovnik. Dubrovnik is the most magnificent and well preserved fortified city in the world,its history dates back to the 6th century. The old city is fully encapsulated by its fortified walls stretching 1940 meters.

The walls are at their highest 25 meters and up to 6 meters thick, these impregnable walls have help maintain this cities history, culture and beauty. 

National Park…

Debating starts in TY and continues throughout the senior cycle in St. Micheals.

The main debating competition we would do in Transition Year is the Concern debates. Concern is an organisation organisation devoted to adressing the problems affecting people in the developing world. The debating team consists of four people with pre-written speeches that have a factual structure of the particular motion we are given to argue for…

Our school, St. Mark's Sr. Sec. Public School, celebrtaed the Earth Week from 18th April - 20th April which was named as the ECO VISION 2011 by our school.

It moved on with the tagline- "Eco Vision 2011-towards a greener Earth."

It consisted of many events such as the:                                                

• Fancy Dress Competition for Grade 1& 2.
• Drawing & painting Competition-Grade 3.
• Know a…

ECO VISION 2011-towards a greener earth

18 April 2011 to 21 April 2011 

To commemorate Earth Day,St.Mark’s Sr.Sec.Public School,Meera Bagh,New Delhi,organized Eco Vision 2011-towards a greener earth. A plethora of activities were held for students for grades 1 to 12.

The inaugural day,18 April 2011,saw activities for students of grades 1-5.

For classes one and two,a fancy dress competition…

The students of St.Mark’s Sr. Sec.Public School, Meera Bagh, celebrated the birth of the ‘Bard of Avon’ by dedicating two days of activities to his life and works.  It began on 20 April, with the ‘Shakespeare Comes Alive’ competition which was all about remembering the immortal creations of Shakespeare through dramatization.  Amongst the six presentations, which included ‘The Merchant of Venice’, ‘Romeo and Juliet’, ‘The Tempest’, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’, ‘Julius…

This is the time of the year in Ireland when blue tits begin to hatch.  The national radio station RTE has a programme which has web cams in two nesting boxes which can be followed on

http://www.rte.ie/radio/mooneygoeswild/

The first link…

In St. Michael’s, Transition Year is a year which is optional to choose. It is a year for growing, maturing and becoming more confident. Transition Year isn’t a regular school year; you get the chance to experience subjects you’ve never done before such as..

• Enterprise…

D.I.Y T.Y stands for Do It Yourself Transition Year. This is an art project in which many groups of 4 students select a model, design and create a dress made from any recyclable material (i.e. Sweet wrappers, newspapers etc.. ) and put on a show.

     The group get together and design a dress they would like to make. Once this has been drawn out, they make the top half of the…

As part of Transition year Emma and I joined our school’s debating team. We joined it because we wanted to improve our public speaking skills and gain confidence. We participated in our first debating competition with two people per team in UCD (University College Dublin). In this type of debate you have just 15 minutes beforehand to prepare a four and half minute speech on a motion that the UCD students decided on.

 The motions that we were given were mostly topics that concern our…

The St. Patricks’ day tradition.

One of our traditional icons of the day is the shamrock. We celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by going to the parades, wearing green and putting fake tattoos on our faces. Every year at the parade we have different ideas on different things. On this day we celebrate how Saint Patrick brought Christianity to Ireland and got rid of the snakes. Saint Patrick’s Day is a really fun day that is celebrated all over Ireland. Leprechauns are also a…

On the 15th of March 2011 we celebrated the birthday of Margaret Aylward, the founder of the Holy Faith order in Ireland. She set up the Holy Faith schools and we attend one of these schools ourselves.

We celebrated her birthday by putting on a…

Korea has many beutiful sites.

One of the well-known sites in Korea is Ha Hue Maul.

Even Queen Elizabeth once visited here. 

I hope you guys enjoy my ppt and I really want you to visit here someday.

Enjoy~

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This will be a little sidetrack from FEP, which i've yet to blog more about. i'm really sorry for not posting about it as school really keeps me busy and tiring.. :( i went to Chingay yesterday with my family. Chingay parade this year, is about Arts and it is held at F1runway. You may be curious about it and i can tell you a little bit more! :)

Chingay is a Chinese New Year celebration event, introducing Chinese culture to our fellow friends of other races in Singapore. Till…