Book Review: A Work In progress by Connor Franta

In this book Connor Franta tells us about life beyond the camera, Connor Franta shares the lessons he has learned on his journey from small-town boy to Internet sensation so far.

Connor offers a look at his Midwestern upbringing as one of four children in the home and one of five in the classroom, he shares his struggles with identity, body image, and sexuality in his teen years; and his decision to finally pursue his creative and artistic passions in his early twenties, setting up his thrilling career as a YouTube personality and entrepreneur.

Exploring his past with insight and humor, his present with humility, and his future with hope, Connor reveals his private struggles while providing heartfelt words of wisdom for young adults. His words will relate with anyone coming of age in the digital era, but he has one core message for people of all ages: don't be afraid to be yourself and to go after what you truly want.

This full-color collection includes photography and childhood clippings provided by Connor and is a must-have for anyone inspired by his journey. I would highly recommend this book to any age as its an easy to read book and keeps you interested throughout. 

BT Young Scientist

We went to the BT Young Scientist on Thursday the 7th of January in the RDS, The BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition, commonly called the Young Scientist Exhibition, is an Irish annual school students' science competition that has been held in Dublin, every January since 1965. Students from all around the country can enter the competition to be in with a chance of winning.

We left the school at 9:15am and arrived at the RDS at 10am, we each got a yellow wristband and went inside. When we first went in we could see many projects lined up in rows and loads of people around!. We looked at some of the projects and went to go find our friends who were taking part in the competition, their project was about which gender lies more. After that we looked at some of the stalls such as the Intel one, and the veterinary one and lots more. We went to the food area and got in the que 

for pizza for agesss but it was worth it! After that Tara and I went to look at some of the primary school entries, one of the schools was doing a project on social media we got to do a survey on whether we were addicted to social media or not... turns out we are hahahaha. We then went back to the stalls and entered a competition, after that we went to the RSA stand outside and we learned about road safety. We then went to expedition hall and saw a robot show and Tara and I kept laughing because we didn't know if we were allowed be in the expedition hall... turns out we were allowed. but we kept laughing about it all through the show. then one of the robots kept going around the crowed and making fun of people and spraying them with water so when the robot came over to me and Tara, Tara kept hiding behind my shoulder and we couldn't talk we were laughing so much with fear of being sprayed by the robot.. he didn't actually spray us at all but we were terrified he was going to. We then went to the ice cream van and got ice cream and i kept laughing at Tara because her ice cream cone broke so she had to eat it really weirdly hahaha. After that we went outside the RDS and got the bus home, overall it was a really good day.

Mary Poppins

On the 16th of December we went to Mary Poppins in the Bord Gais Energy Theatre, we got a bus from our school to the theatre at 11am, we arrived there at 12 and we had an hour to walk around the area.


We went to spar and bought a load of food and ate it by the docks, suddenly we noticed all these seagulls and pigeon's around us and flying over us and we started feeding them bread and naming them all. Some of the seagulls were huge! and kept taking the bread off the pigeon's,We then started taking selfies and group photos.

Then we got our tickets and went inside and climbed an endless stairs! to get to our seats. When we finally organised who was sitting where, we waited for the show to start. Mary Poppins is a musical its based on the similarly titled series of children's books by P.L Travers and the 1964 Disney Film, and is a fusion of various elements from the two. Some elements from the books that had been omitted from the film were restored, such as the walking statue and the ladders rising to the stars. Others were removed, such as the scene in which Uncle Albert gets caught on the ceiling, laughing. The show was amazing from start to finish with many laughs throughout the show and I would highly recommend the show for any age!!