Margaret Alyward Drama Evening.

Dear Readers,
On Tuesday we headed off to Glasnevin, Dublin, to the Holy Faith Convent and Secondary School for a Drama Festival. The evening was organised to help celebrate Margaret Alyward's Bicentenary. The theme for all the productions was "what would Margaret Alyward do?". Margaret Alyward was the founder of the Holy Faith Sisters, who set up several secondary schools for girls in Ireland, St.Wolstan's (my school) was one of these. We had already celebrated a mass for her in February in Whitehall. But this Drama Evening was to bring some of the Holy Faith schools together and so what we know and think about Margaret Alyward, and show what she did and would of done for people.

We were there early because we needed to put all our plays together, shorten them down and make them more appropriate for the audience. The plays we were doing are the same as the ones for the Briery Gap Competition but just modified to the theme. Once we had the plays all sorted into one big play I was ask to sing at the end when all the cast members come on stage. I agreed and I sang an old song called "Lark in the Clear Air". It's a nice song and I didn't mess up my words or anything, thank God!

The other plays we saw dealt with issues such as discrimination against refugees, people  from certain areas, disabled people, homeless people, people addicted to drugs and alcohol. It was interesting to watch them and see notice how aware we are to the problems facing people in the world today, but the truth of the matter is that we choose to ignore the facts because they scare us in a way. It's hard to explain but you know what I'm talking about. I'll be honest, I too sometimes ignore the facts but after seeing the plays I've realised I can't choose to ignore them forever! And one country and group of people that need our help now are the Japanese, especially the children orphaned by the disaster. Us TY's want to do something about, and we don't have alot of time left in TY so we need to do something now. We were thinking of different events we could hold and do, but please, if you have any suggestions in how we can raise the money, let me know!

Please help Japan, at least let them know your thinking of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9tJW9MDs2M

Happy St.Patrick's Day,
Roisin.P.