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Kick-boxing: Max Carpio and Billy Leahy
offices, meetings and even in court but I opportunity to express our sincere
also got valuable first-hand knowledge gratitude to Fr Dunne for his endless
about running an office. This learning was efforts and patience. I would also like to
combined with some mundane menial thank, on behalf of the group, the parents,
tasks and getting to wear a suit. friends, business contacts and all the other
Not everyone was as fortunate as I. good Samaritans who took on the burden
Some people, poor unfortunate wretches, of a Transition Year student.
were forced into doing back-breaking
labour all day, every day. I appreciate the Patrick Morris (Senior 4C)
need for doing some ‘real w ork’ to
broaden the mind, regarding what others
have to do, what we don’t want to do and A ero b ic s w ith th e G h ee l In stitu te
thus why qualifications are so important. The project with our autistic friends from
However, these lessons are quickly the Gheel Institute, Milltown, continued
learned and hence there’s no need to through the year. Aerobics: such an
spend the entire week doing menial tasks. innocuous word, so much pain! Those
At the other end of the scale, less who trained for the Junior Cup will tell
fortunate students were lectured for a you that rugby training was nothing
week. While they may have appreciated compared to this aerobics lark. The
this, they too did not derive the full programme for aerobics included a series
benefit from the experience. of stretches, exercises, jogs and sprints.
I believe our week in November was, For those who were under the
overall, a resounding success as most impression that this was a ‘doss’ class,
people benefited from it and enjoyed harsh reality soon sunk in; numbers
doing it. I must therefore take this dropped dramatically as people suddenly
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offices, meetings and even in court but I opportunity to express our sincere
also got valuable first-hand knowledge gratitude to Fr Dunne for his endless
about running an office. This learning was efforts and patience. I would also like to
combined with some mundane menial thank, on behalf of the group, the parents,
tasks and getting to wear a suit. friends, business contacts and all the other
Not everyone was as fortunate as I. good Samaritans who took on the burden
Some people, poor unfortunate wretches, of a Transition Year student.
were forced into doing back-breaking
labour all day, every day. I appreciate the Patrick Morris (Senior 4C)
need for doing some ‘real w ork’ to
broaden the mind, regarding what others
have to do, what we don’t want to do and A ero b ic s w ith th e G h ee l In stitu te
thus why qualifications are so important. The project with our autistic friends from
However, these lessons are quickly the Gheel Institute, Milltown, continued
learned and hence there’s no need to through the year. Aerobics: such an
spend the entire week doing menial tasks. innocuous word, so much pain! Those
At the other end of the scale, less who trained for the Junior Cup will tell
fortunate students were lectured for a you that rugby training was nothing
week. While they may have appreciated compared to this aerobics lark. The
this, they too did not derive the full programme for aerobics included a series
benefit from the experience. of stretches, exercises, jogs and sprints.
I believe our week in November was, For those who were under the
overall, a resounding success as most impression that this was a ‘doss’ class,
people benefited from it and enjoyed harsh reality soon sunk in; numbers
doing it. I must therefore take this dropped dramatically as people suddenly
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