Friday 28 September 2012

Autism Ireland

This past week a memeber of AutismIreland, Denis Sexton gave us a speech about the different types of autism and the different severities. He shared with us his personal struggles with autism, his son jonathan has been affected. Autism has grown severly in the last 25 years. The cause for this is unknown. In the 1980s statics revealed one in 500 people have autism, nowadays one in 100 have some form of the disease. More boys have autism than girls, 1 girl as autism for ecvery 4 boys.

Friday 21 September 2012

Cherynoble Lecture

This weeks lecture was given to us by a ropse of tralee and her escort named siobhan and daragh respectively. They spoke to us about their recent trip to an area affected by the disaster which took place in 1986. They visited a suburb in belarus which houses many orphans who hacve been effected directly or inderectly effected by the disaster. The Belarussian governement ignore these children who have been so badly effected and as a result they are shunned from society. They spoke of how the orphanage was split up into units with each unit being home to different severity of the illnesses the children posses. It really opened our eyes to how seriously peoples lives have been effected.

Friday 14 September 2012

Diary Entry: Holocaust Lecture

On Tuesday the 11th September a holocaust survivor named Zoltan Collis came into our school to talk to us about his experiences. This lecture was exlusively for tyhe fourth years of our school. In personally thouroughly enjoyed the lecture he gave us. He described un-thinkable events in great detail such as the death of his baby sister and that of his mother. His descriptive lecture gave us all a clear and vivid image of what horrors many people not only jewish people suffered during this period in time. Zoltan was one of many who was sent to the labour camp named Bergen-Belsen. Aswell as been given a lecture by Zoltan, we were also shown a video of the events that took place at this labour camp in north-west Germany.

Friday 7 September 2012

4th Year Trip

On the 3rd of September the students of St.Andrews College including myself departed for a culture trip to three seperate locations. Those who went to the Aran Islands left at approximately 6.45am and those who went to the donegal left at approximately 7.45am. I was on the bus going to donegal, two different groups were staying in two different areas in Donegal. One group went to Dun Lewey, the other went to Gartan Outdoor Adventure Centre. I was part of the group that went to Dun Lewey.