TRANSITION YEAR. As much your school liked to spin it as a year of personal, social, and educational development, everybody knew the truth – TY was an irresistible opportunity to do very little for a whole year. Ah. The memories.
1. Your teachers giving you the ‘why Transition Year is important’ speech
As the whole class silently wills them to skip to the part where they can start doing whatever they want.
2. Spending ages dreaming up a cool mini company product, but ending up with something like this
Nevertheless, you bullied your family into buying six.
3. Certain members of the class taking the mini company hierarchy completely to heart
“Excuse me I am in charge of marketing so MY decision for the poster in the hall is FINAL!!”
4. The regional trade fairs being the equivalent of the Olympics
(Even if the main draw of being there was to mingle with the opposite sex.)
5. Spending most of your work experience weeks in front of one of these
6. And being dead jealous of anyone with connections in high places
Jammy old Sandra swanning off to RTÉ for one of her weeks. Just who does she think she is?
7. Coveting this bit of swag
Aww yiss.
8. Treating your regular classes with respect and absolutely NOT spending them walking around on mysterious ‘errands’
9. The general feeling of disgust when a teacher dared give the class something to do
10. Having to dress like this for the school musical
The luck of being a tall-ish gal in an all-girls school, eh? (Boys’ schools were inexplicably spared this fate.)
11. Being marched over to the local nursing home once a week to get you ‘involved in the community’
12. Having a ‘TY Graduation’ for reasons you weren’t quite aware of
But… we’re coming back to school next year?
13. And needing to completely reset your brain upon entering Fifth Year
Does anybody have a pen? Anyone? Also, what is Maths?
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