Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Gecko Inc. New Project
Our main project this semester is going to be... S.W.R.D. BANDARANAYAKA VIDYALAYA
This school has 235 children (111 girls and 124 boys) and they do have a little playground at the back of their school. However, they do not have the proper sports gear to enjoy sport.
What we are planning to buy with your money:
Cricket bats
Cricket Wickets
Tennis balls
Netballs
Netball Hoops (hopefully)
Footballs
Badminton rackets and shuttles
Hopefully we will make enough money to buy these items :)
TO earn this money to facilitate the school, Gecko inc is going to hold a basketball tournament! This was our communication line where "Angelo Jayasuriya" helped me spread the word :)
This school has 235 children (111 girls and 124 boys) and they do have a little playground at the back of their school. However, they do not have the proper sports gear to enjoy sport.
What we are planning to buy with your money:
Cricket bats
Cricket Wickets
Tennis balls
Netballs
Netball Hoops (hopefully)
Footballs
Badminton rackets and shuttles
Hopefully we will make enough money to buy these items :)
TO earn this money to facilitate the school, Gecko inc is going to hold a basketball tournament! This was our communication line where "Angelo Jayasuriya" helped me spread the word :)
Session 3
Next weekend we are planning to keep the entry fee as 100rs and make no changes from how we have been running the games so far. On out thursday CAS meeting we will talk and decide on what we are going to do with the profit we have made. One idea so far has been to buy sports equipment for local schools in need.
Gecko Inc.
The Community Service is undoubtedly a success, on our first session around 29 people came for the session with around 20 people from outside. Although it is a service group for the less fortunate, Gecko Inc. gets people from the community to contribute. So we involve our community rather than earning all the money ourselves.
On our second session, our popularity grew, almost 40 people showed up. It was unbelievable and people began to donate to help our cause.
I really feel that this CAS had developed my leadership skills and well as allowed me to utilize my publicity skills online and organize.
On our second session, our popularity grew, almost 40 people showed up. It was unbelievable and people began to donate to help our cause.
I really feel that this CAS had developed my leadership skills and well as allowed me to utilize my publicity skills online and organize.
Gecko INc.
Gecko Inc. is a new CAS program at OSC had started this year, which focuses on athletic enrichment in our community. The students of this service and our athletic coordinator, Mr. Shipley, planned and initiated it from scratch. An issue to had come across was that Colombo does not have many athletic facilities and many schools do not have sufficient amount of athletic gear or supplies for their students. We realized that athletes who are motivated to practice their sport find themselves lost, not knowing where to go. Initially the idea of the service was to provide facilities for the community to come to our school and play their sport, gradually our group realized that the some school children required more than a place to play their sport, but do not have basic athletic gear like a basketball balls or cricket gloves. Therefore, the aim of the Gecko Inc. is to further improve and enrich the athletic community of our own school as well as others in Colombo. The students of Overseas School of Colombo meet every Saturday to organize a basketball event at our own facility, which is catered to anyone and everyone who is interested in playing sport; furthermore, all profits from the entrance fee, selling of refreshments and donations will be channeled into facilitating less fortunate schools that do not have sufficient athletic supplies.
On Saturday 1st of October OSC held our first community basketball. Around 10 people attended with around 4 people from outside the school community. All players paid rs50 and many people bought drinks and snacks that were available.
As a leader of this CAS I was organizing the publicity of the event along with what actually happens on both courts. I must just credit to Sara for ordering the drinks through the business office and handling necessary paper work.
The trial session was held was a success as we made profit and had good basketball games played. The next time Community Basketball will be held is on saturday the 29th of October. Unfortunately it is this late as SAISA is held next saturday, and the two saturdays after that are during the October break and most of our Gecko Inc. members are not present.
In the next Community Basketball we are hoping to have more people attending, especially from outside of our school. We will work on advertising this event and getting good basketball games played!
As a leader of this CAS I was organizing the publicity of the event along with what actually happens on both courts. I must just credit to Sara for ordering the drinks through the business office and handling necessary paper work.
The trial session was held was a success as we made profit and had good basketball games played. The next time Community Basketball will be held is on saturday the 29th of October. Unfortunately it is this late as SAISA is held next saturday, and the two saturdays after that are during the October break and most of our Gecko Inc. members are not present.
In the next Community Basketball we are hoping to have more people attending, especially from outside of our school. We will work on advertising this event and getting good basketball games played!
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
MUN responsibility for UN day
ACTIVITIES WE HAVE PLANNED
1) Skit
2) Tree
3) Debate
4) Solution
8 groups
around 70 people
1) Skit
2) Tree
3) Debate
4) Solution
8 groups
around 70 people
Executive Committee of Co-MUN
What i have to do...
1) Gain sponsors
2) Write up the sponsorship letter
3) help in creating the logo
4) Change the MUN Delegate Handbook
1) Gain sponsors
2) Write up the sponsorship letter
3) help in creating the logo
4) Change the MUN Delegate Handbook
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Digitalizing the world (Creativity)
Recently I have been thinking about life's fallacy and how I can create art pieces from it. Unlike the manga that i have been drawing earlier, I decided to focus on something more digital based. What i thought of was digitalizing people's faces because even though people may say they are being themselves, their appearance may oly be a mere facade of their life and life's problems. So I though abotu digitalizing their faces and make them seem like masks that hide their emotions and life's problems. 
Sports Day (Action)
Well, recently I took part in the OSC's Geck Sports Day playing volleyball, football and basketball. i challeneged myself into participating in sports that I have almost never played before, in positions i have never played in. Even though this resulted in many embarrassing moments, I felt it was worth it, for the expirienced I had gained and furthermore, the courage to go out and try new things in life. I had to collaborate with many other players the teams. As the team we had was a combination of 10,11 and 12th graders, I had to collaborate with people that I am not used to being with.
On the whole, i felt that the Sport's Day was enjoyable and interesting and is a memorable event for my last year at OSC.
On the whole, i felt that the Sport's Day was enjoyable and interesting and is a memorable event for my last year at OSC.
Monday, September 12, 2011
More Creativity... ANIME!
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| Lee (Naruto) |
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| Ichigo (Bleach) |
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| Gaara (Naruto) |
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| Sakuragi (Slam Dunk) |
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| Ulquirra (Bleach) |
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| Bleach |
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| Gin (bleach) |
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| Neliel (Bleach) |
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Creativity - Drawing Anime
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| Ichigo (Bleach) |
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| Madame Tsunade (Naruto) |
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| Mio (own character) |
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| Sasuske (Naruto) |
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| Grimjaw (Bleach) |
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| Rukawa (Slam Dunk) |
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| Naruto Characters |
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| Miyagi (Slam Dunk) |
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| Kakashi (Naruto) |
Drawing anime is a passion of mine, even though it is not school related, I enjoy spending time in drawing fan art of the anime I like or sometimes even create my own characters.
Structuring the Idea - Gecko inc.
Now that we have a basic idea of what we have to do for our CAS, we are going to attempt in structuring it.
What do we need:
1) referee
2) scoring personnel
3)Players
4) Funds
A referee would probably cost Rs. 1000 per game and since we have two courts that would be around Rs. 2000 per hour, so around Rs. 4000 per session.
Question: where do we get the money from?
Option A: make players pay a small Rs.50 fee
Option B: Dig into OSC funds
Option C: Drinks for the players
Option B would be irrelevant, so we are down to two options. The player fee and the drinks. We have not discussed the Drink stall yet, so I'll save that for later. If there is a Rs. 50 player fee, at least 80 players would have to come play. Thats around 8 teams. 40 people per court. Which is definitely too much for our gym to accommodate. So it we raise it to a Rs. 100 we would need 40 players, and with the drink stall bringing an amount, it would be sufficient.
Then comes to the next issue...
Where are we going to get the players from?
To accomplish this we are going to need someone to publicize for us. Facebook. Posters in schools. etc... This would contribute to my CREATIVITY section.
For the scoring panel, there would be at least two people from our CAS to score every saturday.
What do we need:
1) referee
2) scoring personnel
3)Players
4) Funds
A referee would probably cost Rs. 1000 per game and since we have two courts that would be around Rs. 2000 per hour, so around Rs. 4000 per session.
Question: where do we get the money from?
Option A: make players pay a small Rs.50 fee
Option B: Dig into OSC funds
Option C: Drinks for the players
Option B would be irrelevant, so we are down to two options. The player fee and the drinks. We have not discussed the Drink stall yet, so I'll save that for later. If there is a Rs. 50 player fee, at least 80 players would have to come play. Thats around 8 teams. 40 people per court. Which is definitely too much for our gym to accommodate. So it we raise it to a Rs. 100 we would need 40 players, and with the drink stall bringing an amount, it would be sufficient.
Then comes to the next issue...
Where are we going to get the players from?
To accomplish this we are going to need someone to publicize for us. Facebook. Posters in schools. etc... This would contribute to my CREATIVITY section.
For the scoring panel, there would be at least two people from our CAS to score every saturday.
Gecko Inc.
For the past two sessions of Service, I have participated in Gecko Inc. This is a new service that had been brought up by our PE director Mr Shipley and is still in the course of taking form.
As we are initiating a NEW type of service, I have to work collaboratively with the other team members for this process to be successful, furthermore, i have to help in initiating the Service activity.
So far we have come up with a few ideas for what this service is meant to do, however our MAIN initiative is to enhance Athleticism in our school.
1) Publicity for SAISA sports
2)Hospitality for outside schools
3) Products for our Gecko Athletes
4) Something to help the Community
5) Teaching the Primary Kids how to play certain sports and introduce them to some
Originally, I did support the 5th option of helping the Primary children, however, we have to weigh out our options it would be extremely difficult to control little toddlers running around in circles with limited parent supervision. Also, we have to host it on a separate date since most of our athletic facilities is already in use most of the time.
During our second session, this my preference had changed. I thought we should try to enhance OSC and other communities connections through our CAS. That was when i remembered about Community basketball last year. I did use it for Action, however, there was a problem as there was no one to initiate the games and organize anything. So, I thought, there are already people who are willing to come on Saturdays to play basketball... There is very little opportunity to find a good basketball court in Colombo for the Community to use, so why not revive the programme there was before?
As a basketball FANATIC, I thought we should help the basketball community in colombo to play the sport they love in a safe, controlled environment. Seems like a good service to me.
As we are initiating a NEW type of service, I have to work collaboratively with the other team members for this process to be successful, furthermore, i have to help in initiating the Service activity.
So far we have come up with a few ideas for what this service is meant to do, however our MAIN initiative is to enhance Athleticism in our school.
1) Publicity for SAISA sports
2)Hospitality for outside schools
3) Products for our Gecko Athletes
4) Something to help the Community
5) Teaching the Primary Kids how to play certain sports and introduce them to some
Originally, I did support the 5th option of helping the Primary children, however, we have to weigh out our options it would be extremely difficult to control little toddlers running around in circles with limited parent supervision. Also, we have to host it on a separate date since most of our athletic facilities is already in use most of the time.
During our second session, this my preference had changed. I thought we should try to enhance OSC and other communities connections through our CAS. That was when i remembered about Community basketball last year. I did use it for Action, however, there was a problem as there was no one to initiate the games and organize anything. So, I thought, there are already people who are willing to come on Saturdays to play basketball... There is very little opportunity to find a good basketball court in Colombo for the Community to use, so why not revive the programme there was before?
As a basketball FANATIC, I thought we should help the basketball community in colombo to play the sport they love in a safe, controlled environment. Seems like a good service to me.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
GOALS for Grade 12
Creativity
SGA
Student Government Association. Grade 12 representative
Another year of SGA which is, as always, a challenge that i have to undertake this year. I have to work collaboratively with the other members of the SGA. Being a member of the SGA, we have to plan many social events year round, to make the school more lively. To do this we must plan and initiate activities and persevere and be commited to our duties, even though Grade 12 is a year that I am supposed to be completely committed to my studies. I have to be balanced with the many other activities i have to do with CAS as well as my studying for Grade 12. To do this i must develop and maintain organizational skills which are essential for the upcoming year.
MUN
MUN contributes into my knowledge of global issues, organizational skills, commitment and initiation of Activities.
This year I am aiming to become a member of the Executive Committee of COMUN 2012, I will have to work more diligently as a member of OSC's MUN team.
Action
This year I am aiming to become a member of the Executive Committee of COMUN 2012, I will have to work more diligently as a member of OSC's MUN team.
Action
SAISA basketball (To be discussed when season arrives)
Service
Gecko Athletics Inc. (To be discussed in next post)
Music Makers
Before the summer, I took part in the Music Makers concert, to raise awareness of the musical talent at OSC. Furthermore the funds will be contributed to buying instruments for the school. Thus, it acts both as a Service and a Creativity.
Songs I sang:
Think of Me from the Phantom of the Opera
Lady Gaga Medley
Songs I sang:
Think of Me from the Phantom of the Opera
Lady Gaga Medley
Monday, August 15, 2011
Being an Unpaid journalist
During the summer, I did an internship for a State-ownded paper called, "The Daily News". For the month, I worked there, I had gained many useful skills for beign a reporter as well as being an IB learner. While workign for the Daily news, I did many investigations on social aspects of Sri Lankan life, and had written articles for "The Gender Forum", "Teenage Trauma", "Political", "artscope" and "Opinions" pages for the newspaper.
Objectives i have achieved:
Undertaking New challenges
being a journalist is my life's goal however, i have never worked for a state-owned paper before. There were many new challenges such as, being intorduced into a working environment and organizing my time to the amount of assignments i have.
Global Awareness
During my voluntary work, i had to understand and be aware of Global issues to write an objective paper. i had to write articles on different news stories nation wide.
Examples of the online print will be posted below:
http://www.dailynews.lk/2011/07/07/fea17.asp
http://www.dailynews.lk/2011/06/21/fea27.asp
http://www.dailynews.lk/2011/07/01/fea20.asp
http://www.dailynews.lk/2011/07/01/fea34.asp
Objectives i have achieved:
Undertaking New challenges
being a journalist is my life's goal however, i have never worked for a state-owned paper before. There were many new challenges such as, being intorduced into a working environment and organizing my time to the amount of assignments i have.
Global Awareness
During my voluntary work, i had to understand and be aware of Global issues to write an objective paper. i had to write articles on different news stories nation wide.
Examples of the online print will be posted below:
http://www.dailynews.lk/2011/07/07/fea17.asp
http://www.dailynews.lk/2011/06/21/fea27.asp
http://www.dailynews.lk/2011/07/01/fea20.asp
http://www.dailynews.lk/2011/07/01/fea34.asp
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Co- MUN
CO-MUN was one of the best expiriences I have had, even though soem parts of it was excrutiatingly boring. This counts as Creativity . Co-MUN is the fourth largest Model United Nation in the world. I was in the 3rd Committee which deals with Humanitarian Issues. I represented India and our main topic was "Natural Disasters". I had to represent India as a governemtn official, thus, to do this, I had to do a lto fo research on a lot of things. Our first topic was the developments of Epidemics and the second on IDPs.
Increased awarness
adress global issue
initiate activities
Sunflower Village
The current Service i am participating in is called, "Sunflower Village". Thus Service requires me to swim and teach students from a school nearby how to swim. We have to initiate activities so we can be as productive as we can be during the one hour.
Football Updates
Football Updates
OSC vs CIS
6-0
OSC bs BSC
1-0
OSC vs LIS
10 - 0
Finals
OSC vs BSC
1 - 3
Football is back.
ok... so remember the sport that I never intended to be fun but in the end happened to be exteremely interested in... Football? yup. It's back.
In the end the team was actaually more together than I thought we were and our commitment to the sport was more that average. There was another tournament, not SAISA, but an actual Interinternational School Tournament in Sri Lanka. The perserverance and commitment to the sport is evident in each and every soccer player that came back to play another tournament of Football.
However, there were many challenges that we had to face.
First of all, most of our 12th grade players were already too busy with Ib work and decided not to play for this tournament. Others were on SAISA track. And the rest.... they didnt want to come. In the end, we only ended up with 11 players, some of which were not in the SAISA team.
Instead of simply giving up because of our scarsity of players, we undertook the challenge, and persisted throughout the tournament. With our lack of players, we recruited players who were recreational football players, and even though it was difficult since teamwork between them was not so strong, we had to work collaboratively with them to make sure that they feel like they are part of the team so that we could work together. We did not have any official practices, since our coach was more concentrated on the current SAISA tournasment, Track, so we did not have a coach to guide us throughout this tournament, the players, including me, had to initiate our own practices and train on our weaknesses by ourselves. Each player heping the other to push us to be as good as we can be for the tournament.
My goal was to regain the confidence on the feild that I once had while I was playign during SAISA. I had played well during that torunament and my goal is to get back up to that goal . I knew my strengths were reacting to the football and punting, however, I needed to train on speed and endurance.
Thus, during practuce, I ran around the feild so that my endurance could be up for th match, as well as, practicing diving and penalty shots, so my skill level could increase. I had develoed a new skill during these short training sessions. Since I was honestly quite hopeless with my feet, I asked the captain, Saba, to help me out with it. She taught me many new excersises by which I could increase my skill with foot work.
I had used most of these skills that i had learnt in the preliminary matches. What was different with this tournament, compared to SAISA, was that, the team used me more of a defensive player. Whenever the defence had the ball they would pass it back to me and I would change the direction of the ball. I feel that the training on footwork really payed off, I was much more confident with the ball.
In the end the team was actaually more together than I thought we were and our commitment to the sport was more that average. There was another tournament, not SAISA, but an actual Interinternational School Tournament in Sri Lanka. The perserverance and commitment to the sport is evident in each and every soccer player that came back to play another tournament of Football.
However, there were many challenges that we had to face.
First of all, most of our 12th grade players were already too busy with Ib work and decided not to play for this tournament. Others were on SAISA track. And the rest.... they didnt want to come. In the end, we only ended up with 11 players, some of which were not in the SAISA team.
Instead of simply giving up because of our scarsity of players, we undertook the challenge, and persisted throughout the tournament. With our lack of players, we recruited players who were recreational football players, and even though it was difficult since teamwork between them was not so strong, we had to work collaboratively with them to make sure that they feel like they are part of the team so that we could work together. We did not have any official practices, since our coach was more concentrated on the current SAISA tournasment, Track, so we did not have a coach to guide us throughout this tournament, the players, including me, had to initiate our own practices and train on our weaknesses by ourselves. Each player heping the other to push us to be as good as we can be for the tournament.
My goal was to regain the confidence on the feild that I once had while I was playign during SAISA. I had played well during that torunament and my goal is to get back up to that goal . I knew my strengths were reacting to the football and punting, however, I needed to train on speed and endurance.
Thus, during practuce, I ran around the feild so that my endurance could be up for th match, as well as, practicing diving and penalty shots, so my skill level could increase. I had develoed a new skill during these short training sessions. Since I was honestly quite hopeless with my feet, I asked the captain, Saba, to help me out with it. She taught me many new excersises by which I could increase my skill with foot work.
I had used most of these skills that i had learnt in the preliminary matches. What was different with this tournament, compared to SAISA, was that, the team used me more of a defensive player. Whenever the defence had the ball they would pass it back to me and I would change the direction of the ball. I feel that the training on footwork really payed off, I was much more confident with the ball.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
End of Basketball Season
Basketball season was full of ups and downs. Defeinetely with a lot of downs. The air in kathmandu was not very clean and as an Asthmatic patient, breathing was not very easy. Not forgetting to meantion the inumerable amount of injuries I had attained throughtout the season. In addition, the cold was killing me.
Thruoghout Basketball
This year’s basketball tournament was less of a success according to organization however, according to teamwork and friendship… this season was amazing.
Ofcourse there were certain disputes between players… personal disputes.
Well lets start it off from the beggining shall we.
For the past 6 weeks i have been participating int he training sessions for the SAISA basketball team! I have played basketball for the past 3 years and even come to a point where I played professionally and for my country. So honestly… I can’t say basketball is new to me, because clearly it isn’t. However, I must say, after playing football, I feel more comfortable playing basketball… its MY THING. There are many differences between the two. For example, in a basketball match, every player must be active at all times seeing as there are only 5 players active at one go and the court being much smaller than a football field. The game solely depends on speed and skill… however, football is strategy. Skill is not really a necessity for a team to be successful. The games are much slower and the whole team does not have to be active at once. As i was the goalkeeper, most of the time i was just watching the match, but now tat i am a point guard in the basketball team, I have to take control of everything. I enjoy basketball more because I prefer being the leader on court rather than having to be the last defense as a goalie.
The problem with basketball, is that trust and team work is a must. As soon as you leave your man to defend another the whole defense changes so that the man you leave is taken care of. In addition, all of this must happen in a split second. Or your opponent gets a point. What I realized is that, in basketball all the players must be in sync, its like an intellectual string between each player… if one player moves everyone has to move with them.
W had played many games against Gateway and even one with the national basketball team of Sri Lanka before the actual SAISA tournament. ANd i have learnt that the Gecko team has an extremely good defense, however, our offense is definetely not up to par
Ofcourse there were certain disputes between players… personal disputes.
Well lets start it off from the beggining shall we.
For the past 6 weeks i have been participating int he training sessions for the SAISA basketball team! I have played basketball for the past 3 years and even come to a point where I played professionally and for my country. So honestly… I can’t say basketball is new to me, because clearly it isn’t. However, I must say, after playing football, I feel more comfortable playing basketball… its MY THING. There are many differences between the two. For example, in a basketball match, every player must be active at all times seeing as there are only 5 players active at one go and the court being much smaller than a football field. The game solely depends on speed and skill… however, football is strategy. Skill is not really a necessity for a team to be successful. The games are much slower and the whole team does not have to be active at once. As i was the goalkeeper, most of the time i was just watching the match, but now tat i am a point guard in the basketball team, I have to take control of everything. I enjoy basketball more because I prefer being the leader on court rather than having to be the last defense as a goalie.
The problem with basketball, is that trust and team work is a must. As soon as you leave your man to defend another the whole defense changes so that the man you leave is taken care of. In addition, all of this must happen in a split second. Or your opponent gets a point. What I realized is that, in basketball all the players must be in sync, its like an intellectual string between each player… if one player moves everyone has to move with them.
W had played many games against Gateway and even one with the national basketball team of Sri Lanka before the actual SAISA tournament. ANd i have learnt that the Gecko team has an extremely good defense, however, our offense is definetely not up to par
Week Without Walls
Day One ReflectionToday we arrived at Hambantota. Another WWW… no wait, its actually my last WWW.
6 ours in a wan isnt the most productive use of my time, so NO CAS hours just yet… but I am really fulfilling my third Goal: bonding with my friends.
Tomorrow’s PLAN
1. Play with kids
- duck duck Goose
- Musical Chairs
- Ask teachers what they would like to play
2. Paint
The first day was solely based on getting things organized, thus we have created a plan. Through this i have improved a lot on my organization skills and time management as well as co-operating well with my classmates to plan the following day. 
Day Two ReflectionI have been assigned to the paint group.
Members of Paint group:Kasturi
Maheshi
Yuko
I was sectioned for the outside paint group.
Today was somewhat extremely successful. Firstly we had painted all the outer walls. Painting was something I was completely new to, thus, mixing it was quite foreign to me. However with the help of Kasturi we did the job quite perfectly. Thus, it is evident of how we are working well as a team, and of how i was trying something new .
Day ThreeReflection
Today was re last day for referbishing the school. We were still in the same grops however our assignments were replaced.
Goal for today: paint doors with enamel and perform concert.
What i had learned today was… well ENAMEL IS SO MUCH HARDER TO PAINT WITH THAN WATER-BASED PAINT.
We: me, kasturi, maheshi and yuko. What we thought to ourselves, four people… two colors… division of labor. This was an instance where I think is a perfect is a perfect example of working collaboratively . For maheshi and Yuko was going to paint the yellow and Kasturi and I were on white.
For trying something new. I worked with enamel paint on wood. It was extremely challenging.
Improvements for Week Without Walls
Impovements
1. more time
2. appliances
- paint thinner
- more brushes
3. ask them to be more self sufficient
- learnt after cleaning door
Goals for Week Without Walls
1. Work with my group collaboratively
- A. playing with Kids
- B. Painting
- A. Painting walls (which paint should i use for each material, how do i mix paint?)
Visiting Cancer Hospital
For Christmas, The cancel Hospital had organized present giving to the Cancer patients in the Cancer Hospital. I had already made about 100-150 cards, time management was a key and organization was necessary because we had to make abround 120 cards in about 3 hours with only 3 people... So... this is what i did to organize everything.
1) Labor division
I would cut the paper as I am very efficient using the paper cutter. Plus, I was the only one with access to the art room facilities
The primary school girl would draw the patterns on the cards (it was somehting she liked doing)
Savinda (who was the only Sinhalese literate person, woudl write the greeting)
2) Location
Art room as it had the most amount of facilities
3) Working collaboratively was very important for this task.
In the end we actually made all of them. Then we had to blow up balloons, and even though it was a really easy task, doing larger amounts of work, no mattter how easy, takes organization.
It all paid off when we gave them out though. The children's faces just lit up, and I really felt that it was all worth it.
1) Labor division
I would cut the paper as I am very efficient using the paper cutter. Plus, I was the only one with access to the art room facilities
The primary school girl would draw the patterns on the cards (it was somehting she liked doing)
Savinda (who was the only Sinhalese literate person, woudl write the greeting)
2) Location
Art room as it had the most amount of facilities
3) Working collaboratively was very important for this task.
In the end we actually made all of them. Then we had to blow up balloons, and even though it was a really easy task, doing larger amounts of work, no mattter how easy, takes organization.
It all paid off when we gave them out though. The children's faces just lit up, and I really felt that it was all worth it.
Planning for OSCARS
SGA is planning to organize the Oscars, as a member of the Executive council, my job is to note down all the
Planning for OSCARS
SGA is planning to organize the Oscars, as a member of the Executive council, my job is to note down all the
Cards for Chrristmas
ne of my goals was to be more interactivewith societies in Sri Lanka. Community Service helps me accomplish that.
hope for Kids is an organization which helps the children who have cancer. and unfortunately, these kids, each christmas, receive no presents or cards to celebrate what I, being more fotunate, would usually take for granted.
Therefore this Christmas, Hope for Kids are going to buy these kids some gifts so they can celebrate Christmas just like all of us at OSC.
hope for Kids is an organization which helps the children who have cancer. and unfortunately, these kids, each christmas, receive no presents or cards to celebrate what I, being more fotunate, would usually take for granted.
Therefore this Christmas, Hope for Kids are going to buy these kids some gifts so they can celebrate Christmas just like all of us at OSC.
New SAISA season... Basketball
Basketball season has just started.
Another SAISA.
Nope… this is not JUST another SAISA.
ITS BASKETBALL!!!
I’ve been waiting for this day since… since… well… a very long time.
Hope for Kids. Nothing Going on.
Hope for Kids so far had been inactive even though we are trying to plan the fashion show for next semester.
End of SAISA football... KICK IT LADY GECKOS!
Another glorious ending to a SAISA season.
Football was something I had never thought i would play in a million years. I absolutely disgusted the sport. Its not fast, not interesting. When, again… i stand corrected. Undertaking a new challenge had taught me that my opininos chan change about anything if I just try it. IT WAS AMAZING.
I was the goalie for the SAISA girls football team and it was one of the most memorable moments of my life. The time I saved a goal and the time i let one in; oh the pressure, the exhilaration, the adrenaline.
We had played many local matches before the SAISA tournament, and this had enabled me to get closer to my team. One of the guiding questions the IB had set for CAS was “is it a real task that i am going to undertake?”
Honestly, my answer used to be: NO! I was doing it because no one else would do it. But then, I grew with my team. We shared experienced and struggles, we bore each others burdens and set them out on the field and one thing you had to bear while you are goalie… is that you are the last and final support of the team. This was probably the hardest part of the whole thing. Sure i can catch a football kicked so hard that my hand would probably get sprained, sure i can dive at people’s feet when they come charging at me with the ball and risk being kicked… I can deal with the pain… i really can. It just the excruciating pressure than one is put on when you just wait there on the other side of the field watching everything that is going on… not knowing when the ball is going to come at you, not forgetting to mention, your team depending on the last person to stop the ball. Yep. That was me. That was the job i had signed up for.Trying to develop a new skill so that I could work collaboratively with others.
Oh… and we got the SILVER medal. But that not that important anyways… by trying out something new… I have learned so much more. Now… THATS what’s important.
Football Goalie (ACTION)
I had been practicing for the past few weeks on becoming a goalie. Yes, it was almost excruciating. Learninghow to jump and fall flat on the floor was the most painless thing I could have leanred how to do, but I must admit it is one of the most exciting things… I know, exciting? Falling on the hard muddy ground? Exciting?
It was almost as bad and excruciating as purgatory, however, perserverance is a virtue, from what I have heard at least.
A couple of days ago, i had learnt how to dive… without completely killing or injuring myself.
The girls SAISA soccer team of OSC has been working hard on practises since we ahve to attend 4 practises per week.
So far I had attended ALL the practices.
Now that I have increased my awareness of my own strengths and areas of growth, My new-found goal is to become a true athlete, it was something that was non-existant while i was participating in the SAISA swimming season. I hope to be able to attend all of my practices and bond with the team as well as be able to be proud of myself and say, “I have done my best in trying something new, and it had helped my team win the SAISA Girls Football tournament.”
- Tuesday 2:50- 5:00 pm
- Wednesday 6:00- 7:00 am
- Friday 2:50- 5:00 pm
- Saturday 10:00-12:00 am
Football Match against CIS... 5-0
On the 30th October, the morning before the Halloween Dance, there was a football match.
Well lets just say according to the title, the match went extremely well… winning by 5v goals in a football match is extremely good for our side obviously, maybe except for the fact that the ball didnt even come 10… or even 20 ft to my goal side so for the whole 1h30 minutes i didnt even get to lay a finger on the ball…
halloween Dance
The SGA was planning to have a Halloween Dance this year and since Thaim and David (the president and the vice president) were not able to help us plan it, Damien and I had to plan it all out.
It ended up being a success.
We earned 24,000rs for our SGA funds without including the money earned from the Prom commitee with the food sales.
It was very challenging though. Teamwork and co-operation was the hardest part of the organization. Since the president and the Vice president was not there… Planning and putting up the decorations as the American Embassy didn’t have much decorations to offer us, which was a huge problem because we were only able to obtain the decorations on the actual day of the Halloween Dance when suddenly we realized it was not enough. Never the less, it was a success and the SGA’s goal for increase school spirit is coming into play as there are more people dressing up and becoming involved with the socials.
So we spent the whole of Saturday trying to fix up the decor for the dance which was strait after my football match… which i will further describe in my next post.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Mental Hospital
I wouldn’t say that I know this would come under the idea of CAS, as there is no authorisation for this service that I am engaged in. but, I feel that it is worth mentioning in this blog.
During the mid-term break, I, along with four otherstudents from OSC, visited Mama and Papa’s Centre for Mentally disabled Children. I must say, it was one of the most inspirational and touching moments of my life. It took and an hour’s drive to finally arrive at the place when we finally entered a completely different atmosphere. Well, it was a mental hospital, I really woulnt be used to it.
The kids there were disillusioned, some of them would bite themselves until they would cry, others would stare into space, others wouldn’t even talk. But they would express themselves in different ways, drawing, painting, coloring, building blocks. This was what we were there for. We played with them and colored with them and taught them where to color and what the coloring lines were for, we took them on walks and pushed them on swings… and they smiled and laughed and it was utterly inspirational.
However, the conditions tey live in are horrific. Sleeping in metal cots without matresses or cushioning because they cannot control urinating on the place they bed. Their faeces dropped all over the floor where the cleaners have to clean without any proper cleaning equiptment. Old worn out clothes. No coloring book, pens pencils or even paper. Do they deserve more? Of course they do.
I had made a video that is being sent out on facebook and youtube, for whomever who is in Sri Lanka to know that this place… is in need of help. This coming Wednesday, the other students and I are going to show it to the whole school so that we could raise funds to buy the things listed above and to support them…
SAISA football
I had started SAISA football strait after the swimming tournament, and I must admit it is a bit of a pain. Footwork isnt really the “best” attribute I have. Basketball rely mostly on handwork…
Trying something new was one of my goals this year and I was determined to get it right; I also want to get into another team sport other than basketball.
“Goalie.” I thought…
(benevolent trumpets)
Allelujah!
The footwork is still a huge problem for it but after a few practices it is getting better.
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