40 Relatable Posts!

Hello there! Today's post, as you can probably tell from the title is... 40 relatable posts! These posts are a mixture of things, like for example most students can relate to the first one but number eight is probably one that everyone has experienced at least once in their life... the dreaded fear! I decided to break up my oneweek@Google series so that I wasn't just posting about the same thing for a while, but when you hear from me next, it will be me telling you all about Google! Enough waffling from me, hope you enjoy x


1. When the teacher asks
   "Why do I hear people talking?"
    Maybe because you have ears?I could be wrong though, you are the teacher after all!

2. Saying you'll wake up early in the morning to get something done, then when the morning comes, convincing yourself it really wasn't all that important.

3. I've got 99 problems and about 92 of them are all made up scenarios in my head that will probably actually never happen.

4. That dirty look you give the pavement when you turn around after tripping over it.

5. Dear Internet, thanks to you I now have 2 incomplete homework assignments, 4 hours of sleep and severe bags under my eyes. Cheers!

6. How many times do I have to be ignored when saying 'excuse me' before 'get the hell out of my way' becomes acceptable?

7. When your nanny says 'all the boys must be after you!' if you can find me one, be sure to let me know!

8. Running around in shear fear looking for your phone before realising its in your hand.

9. I'm not saying I hate you.. I'm just saying if you got hit by a bus, I would probably be driving that bus.

10. 'You're so annoying, I don't like you.'
       'Cool story bro.'

11. The awkward moment when you're not sure if you actually have free time or if you're just forgetting everything that you have to do.

12. 'Who the hell took my.. Oh.. Here it is'

13. That one song is the reason you're afraid to put your phone/iPod on shuffle.

14. That moment of rejection when you reach down to rub your pet and they get up and walk away.           'Hey! Where do you think you're going? Remember I'm the one that feeds you!

15. 'What letter comes after Q?'
      'abcdefghijklmnopqr.. It's r'

16. Being able to communicate with your best friend by simply using facial expressions.

17. Staring at dead bodies in films to see if you can catch them moving.

18. True self control is waiting until the film starts before you eat the popcorn.

19. Trying to complete something before the microwave hits 0 like your life depends on it.

20. When you're telling the truth but you accidentally smile so the person thinks you're lying.

21. Is there a reason for fake pockets?!

22. When you're checking yourself out in the reflection of a car window and realise someones sitting inside.

23. Not knowing your friends address but knowing exactly where their house is.

24. That annoying moment when you start the same story three times, but someone is STILL interrupting you. Could you not do that please?

25. Awkwardly standing there while your friend talks to someone you don't know.

26. Calculating how many hours of sleep you would get if you fall asleep right now.

27. That mini heart attack when you miss a step on the stairs.

28. Teaching your dog new tricks and going to show people but your dog decides its had enough and just looks at you.

29. Walking down the street listening to music and feeling like you're in a music video. Sing it Brittney!

30. When your mams friend is complaining about her daughter and your mother says "I have the same problem with mine" Ohh do you now.

31. The awkward moment when you realise you're making weird facial expressions to go along with the conversation you're having in your head.

32. When the boy you're crushing on asks to talks to you.....so he can see if your friend is single. He wasn't all that great anyways.

33. Being polite at a buffet and only taking a few things, but then realising everyone else has stocked up like foods going out of fashion! I'll be back buffet, me and you aren't over.

34. Coming up with a great idea for something and not telling anyone because you don't want them to steal it and they tell you their idea, which is the exact same as yours! You stole my thoughts god dammit! Not fair!

35. Spending all your money on food and clothes but yet you're still hungry, sitting in your room, trying to decide between the same five tops that you own. Is this life forever?!?!

36. Looking at your parents and thinking how grateful they should be that you're not a crazy drug addict, lunatic! *sigh*

37. Deciding between a treat for yourself and still having money left in your account at the end of the month...hmmm....what's the number for pizza hut again???

38. Listening to your favourite song, on repeat, 2655 times and then wondering why you're suddenly sick of it.

39. Watching a funny video and then showing your friends, trying to convince them that its hilarious. "Wait, it gets funnier" Maybe it wasn't as funny as we first thought.

40. Having amazing plans for Summer... but the realise you live in Ireland. It's O.K. I like getting lashed on at the beach.

So there you have it! I hope you could relate to a few of those, I know I could!haha. See you soon with another update!

Thanks for reading,
Michelle x

My OneWeek@Google Day One!

Good Evening everyone! I'm back again with a new blog post all about my OneWeek@Google! I had originally planned to do this all in the one post but when I began writing I realised just how much explanation was needed, so instead of doing one, I'm going to be doing a four-part series of my OneWeek@Google! And yes, it really was as amazing as you'd think!haha.

Day 1

My week began on Tuesday the 7th of April and it started out with myself and a girl named Robyn- who was a mutual friend at the time, but then we became really good friends!- meeting at the bus stop and making our way into Google! When we departed the bus, we began a roughly ten minute walk towards the Google offices. The closer we got the more swallowed up we became in a sea full of highly intellectual, happy and bubbly Googlers, all chatting about how their Easter and bank holidays went. This was the first inkling that the Googlers were extremely happy to be working at Google because I've never seen people so excited to be returning to work after a bank holiday! Fast forward a couple of hours later and I could understand why!

Walking in the front door was overwhelming to say the least. Considering I'd never been in an environment like this before, I wasn't entirely sure just what to expect. There were bright colours everywhere, security in blue polo shirts, people walking along, chatting blissfully, clutching their Apple and Google gadgets and a fridge stacked with free refreshments! I had officially died and gone to heaven! (insert love heart eyes here)

We made our way upstairs and found 40 other Transition Year students all standing around exchanging names. Half nine came around and our Google buddies introduced themselves. We were all given passes with our names on them that would allow us to enter past the turnstiles and a card that displayed we were oneweek@googlers! This was were our exploration really began! Lifts at Google were far from normal, just like everything else there! Pressing floor eleven on the keypad and entering our designated lifts we were on our way.

Stepping out of the lift, my eyes lay on glass, beautiful, clean, sparkling glass. Looking down, I realised we were up high (if being on floor 11 wasn't enough of a clue, I don't know what exactly I was waiting for!) It was a magnificent view, to say the least. There were buildings stretching back as far as my eyes could see and a canoe race happening on the river. Total and utter bliss. To my right was a pool table and a fridge full of more refreshments such as ice tea, water, sparkling drinks and minerals. Around the corner from that, was a fooseball table. Working in Google must be so boring! Taking a left and walking straight, there were a couple of tables with chairs scattered around them. Again, surrounding this room was glass and if I thought I had seen a magnificent view, I had thought wrong!

People rushing to get to work looked like little blobs, the Aviva Stadium was within touching distance, or so it seemed, cars, buses and bikes filled the streets and houses and buildings looked like little mazes. 'I could get used to this' I thought. I later found out that every floor in Google had a theme and this floors theme just so happened to be 'Oceans Eleven'. I can see what they did there;)

A couple of introductions, agenda explaining and 40 students in utter disbelief and awe later, it was lunch time. Ever heard the expression 'happy as a fat kid in a candy shop'? Well if that same fat kid had of been at Google that day, he would have been bloody ecstatic! Five different restaurants, ranging from burgers and all different kinds of meats and salads to pizza and pastas. Not to mention the deserts. Freezing cold ice cream parallel with luxurious, warm chocolate brownies. Are you still with me?!?!? Take a look at this picture, which does the brownies absolutely no justice what so ever!

(p.s. I forgot to take a picture of the ice-cream, so this is only half of heaven!haha)

After we had put on the Google Stone- something all employees are supposed to put on within the first month of working there because of all the free food!haha- we returned to our base (floor eleven) and walked out onto the balcony (where I took the picture from above) to chat for a while. The weather was gorgeous and the view was so relaxing!

In the afternoon we were given a tour of the second office, which was just as mind boggling as the first! There were swings, music rooms and mini kitchens. Every floor had a different theme, for example, there was a Craggy Island themed floor (Father Ted) and an Alice in Wonderland themed floor too, where all of the items on that floor were upside down! Anything really was possible at Google. To finish the tour we all picked out an ice-cream from one of the freezers in the mini kitchens and headed back to our base.  

Back on floor eleven, 40 Google bags filled with SWAG (something Googlers called little merchandise i.e. key rings and things like that) were handed out to each of us and that marked the end of our extremely memorable first day at Google! I was already looking forward to what day two had in store for us!

So that's my first instalment of the four-part series 'MyOneWeek@Google'. Hope you enjoyed and I'll post part two within the next few days!

Thanks for reading,
Michelle x






 

I'm Back! (if you'll have me!)

I've kind of made a mess of this whole blogging thing haven't I. Originally when I started I couldn't stop! But as the days went by one by one they all just blurred and here we are! Last update January the 16th and we're now in August. Its true what they say, time really does fly!

Any ways, I'm back:) and August is my month (I hope! haha). I'm hoping to really get stuck in to improving my blog and writing really good content for people who stumble across by blog to read! While we're on the topic of improving my blog, I'm really sorry for the lack of pictures, as you can probably tell, I'm new to this whole thing and haven't quite figured out the whole copyright pictures so I just thought the safest bet was to not use any pictures at all. I know a lot of people, including myself, love to read more visual blogs with lots of nice pictures in them so I'm really going to either try and figure out the copyright policy (I know there's some pictures that you can use that have a certain name but I can't remember the name for the life of me!) or else take pictures on my iPhone and upload them to my computer to use.

I've really wanted to write a post about Summer styles and trends but I thought it wouldn't be much good without pictures because I'd basically be just trying to explain the styles to you which wouldn't be much fun to read!haha. Seen as how Summer is almost over (not that we got much of it here in Ireland anyway!) maybe I could do a post about Autumn styles and it would also be a lot more up-to-date and relate able!

I return to school in September but am hoping to maybe update my blog twice a week, I'll probably write the posts whenever I have time and just upload them on certain days like maybe a Tuesday and Saturday? I haven't fully decided yet but I'm sure once I start writing and uploading I'll just fall into a pattern!

My sisters Debs is coming up in the next few weeks (4th of September to be exact!) and I'm really looking forward to it. I'm not sure if there are many people who would be interested in Debs related blog posts, but if you are let me know and I can write a post about tips and stuff or about the journey we had of trying to find her the perfect dress(a journey that is still in progress!).

I don't want this post to be too long because its just about me saying I'm back but mainly because I don't want to bore people!haha:) So I'll leave it here, but once again, thanks for reading! I really do appreciate it! and I look forward to writing a lot more blog posts for you!

Speak to you soon,
Michelle x

Our Imagination

Amongst the rebels and the noisy ones, is where you'll find us 

Fighting to be heard or even just acknowledged 

"Its a tough world out there" we hear, but how many of us actually believe it?

Contradiction after contradiction, we face

We're told its black and white, but what we should really pay heed to, is the grey

Two wrongs don't make a right, but what happens when two rights contradict each other?

The right for a woman to live, the right for her baby to live, who's right is more important?

Unanswered questions posed as rhetorical questions

Could this be because we don't know the answer?

Does this make us uneducated or stupid?

When faced with a dilemma which involves our loved ones, do our morals go out the window?

"The end justifies the means" chants around and around in our heads

What lengths would we reach to protect our loved ones?

In a world full of crime, racism, and hatred, who are the real criminals?

Are they the 'gangsters' roaming the streets, with a gun shoved down their trousers or

Are they the men in suits in charge of running our country?

Tax after tax, unemployment after unemployment 

Families struggling to make ends meat 

Has this forced us to turn on one another?

Suicide, rape and mass murders happen every day of our lives

Do we turn a blind eye or have we become accustomed to it?

Society tells us to be different, being the same as everyone else is boring, right?

But when it really comes down to it, being accepted is what we all crave 

Who wants to be the outsider, the weird one?

They're called "social media websites" but what's social about sitting behind a screen?

Popularity is measured by the number of friends we have on Facebook or

The number of followers we have on Twitter and Instagram

Likes, comments, and re-tweets have become a massive wave and engulfed us along the way.

Money has made us greedy,

Which in turn, has made us selfish.

Lies have become an everyday occurrence 

Which in turn, has changed who we are.

Power has consumed us 

Taking over how we think and how we act

Why be a follower when you can be a leader?

We live in a world where every day is a struggle or an uphill battle for at least one person,

Beauty pageant contestants are taught to say they wish for "world peace" but

is that such a bad thing?

Could you imagine a world where you don't wake up and have to read the news about people being murdered because of religion or because of different beliefs?

A world where you can leave your front door open without the fear of being robbed?

A world where you can let your kids play outside without them being kidnapped?

A world without illegal drugs, instead of escaping our problems, we tackle them head on, together.

A world without rape and domestic abuse, so that women and men don't have to be afraid to walk down the street in the dark or be afraid to commit to a relationship?

A world where all races and religions are accepted and respected?

A world where there are equal rights for both men and women?

A world where prostitution and child trafficking is unheard of. 

A world where child slavery didn't exist?

A world where freedom of speech didn't result in mass murdering?

A world where everyone has access to food, water and education?

A world where position of power is not abused?

A world where war and destruction is just a memory of the past and not something to be feared of in the future?

A world where a teenage girl seeking an education doesn't get shot in the head?

Can you imagine a world where everyone is happy and healthy and we all work together to develop our world and perserve it for our generations to come?

Can you imagine what our world would be like if we all wished for world peace?

But its just our imagination, right?