DAWG

Long ago when the DAWG sterilization program ran i volunteered to be part of it. Paul (the leader of the program) told me to go at a certain time. luckily for me it was right after the whole sterilization process was done so i didn't have to see any of it happening. i had to fan a dog for a while so it would have an easier time recovering from the drowsiness of the operation. one dog had a real problem getting up and it was bleeding a lot so they had to take it back to fix her up. i didn't stay long but i still felt like i contributed. i have to give it to the people that remained there for the rest whole day it was a terrible heat.

MOVIE MAKING!!!!

For the palate disorder CAS that I am in. after school today we got together to think of another very effective way to raise money. After a lot of thinking and brainstorming of ideas we all concluded and agreed to the idea that we should make a movie where every one in the CAS would be an actor. The thing is that this movie is not like any ordinary one. We are taking 6 different movies and making one long movie interlocking all six of the movies. This will be a parody of the movies as I would play rose when it comes to titanic. We hope that people will enjoy it and that we can raise money off this idea. I’m really looking forward to doing it and I think we will all have so much fun in the making

Palate party

The palate party night did not seem to go as planned. We were expecting a lot more people to come to it. Don’t get me wrong a lot of people did come but not as many as predicted. A bunch of tickets were sold and we got quite a bit of money, this money really is helpful to reaching the goal of the 150,000rp we need to operate all the children. The people that went to the party had a lot of fun. Everyone enjoyed themselves and had a great time and that was what we were aiming for.

SAISA TRACK AND FEILD

I was much exited to be travelling especially with all my friends. I never been to Dhaka and I didn’t know what to expect. I never did a track meet either so I didn’t know how good the other people were. The trip there and back were fun, we stopped in the Bangkok airport for a while were I ate burger king. In the track meet when we first arrived we had to wait before we got picked up. In the mean time there were people practicing on the field from another school. They looked very good. But they didn’t intimidate me because they were not in my event. The first night I couldn’t sleep I had trouble because I was too exited for what was to come. The first event was the 1500m and it was my event. This occurred before the opening ceremony. This is when I tore my abdominal muscle and so I couldn’t run anymore. That was it for my Track me I thought until the high jump. This was before I knew I tore my muscle and so I went for it anyway. I came 8th out of 16. I was hoping to do better but I am sort of satisfied with my result. The others were very good and there was so much competition. Then the 4x400m came along and I had to race in it. we came 5th overall and I was very proud but it was not the smartest thing to do as after the race I couldn’t even stand because of the pain. The second day I had to rest I didn’t do anything. I was getting ready for my discus throw on my 3rd day. This was the longest SAISA event because there were more schools. Even though one school only brought 5 athletes. I had to run the 3000m but I decided to avoid that and rest my muscle for the discus throw. It was a very good idea because the timing for the 3000m was too good for me to place but I managed to place in the discus throw. Everyone around me was very tall and big. I was surprised I made it to the top 6. It was sad leaving such a fun even but it was time to go home. I would love to do it again it was a wonderful experience.

April Break Activity:

This April break I went to Bali. Although it was my holiday I still took time for some activity. In Bali there is a place where I really like to surf in. this place is called the blue beach resort and a family friend owns it. This friend is a phenomenal teacher and so he holds classes for surfing, wakeboarding and every other water sport. I love water sports and so while I was surfing around one day he asked me, since there were not a lot of people working there but there were too many tourist, if I could be a teacher for a day to teach this woman how to wakeboard. Wakeboarding being my all time favorite sport I took the opportunity. This woman was in her 30s and never did it before. I went through the fundamentals on the beach with her and then we were off in the water. After 2 hours of very exhausting and hard work she managed to get up and move around. I was very happy by mine and her accomplishment that day.

SAISA PRACTICE:

I stay every Tuesday, and Friday after school and I come every Wednesday morning and Saturdays to school to practice for SAISA track and field. Joining SAISA track and field was a really risk taking move as I have never done it before and didn’t know what to expect. I also didn’t know if my abilities were good enough for making the team. The first practice was not so hard. We went around in a circle to changing each stations, each station had a different thing we had to work on like balancing or strength. As days went by the training got harder and a bunch of people quit. Some couldn’t resist the heat and the amount of work we had to go through. After I tried all the selection of activities available for me I found out which ones I was good at. I love the high jump it is my favorite out of all. Every practice I see that I am improving and hopefully ill improve enough to place on the track meet. As the days go by we start to specify in activities instead of only running and sometimes jumping. Time trials occurred twice this time during practice. The first one didn’t matter and that was totally lucky for me because I had crucible the same day. The second time trails was to see who would make the team so if I missed that then there was no chance for me. i managed to go and I got all my times down. Luckily after a long practice I managed to get good enough to make the team. Now that the team is chosen we divided into small groups so that we can specify and get better in our field for example since I am a distance runner I would not waste my time practicing on how to sprint. We are now pin pointing our mistakes so that we can make that tiny improvement before we go to April break and then to Dhaka.

Crucible:

Crucible is a play that I volunteered to do. It has nothing to do with the curriculum or any of my theatre arts classes but I did it because I love acting. I really like being in stage and so I wanted to get a role in this play. Unfortunately I could only get a small role because I had another play at the same time so in order to memorize my lines I had to take two small roles to make it easier for me. The whole process was really fun. Even if sometimes it crossed with the SAISA track practices I still had a blast during the production. It was a very fun cast to work with and we all worked really hard to get it done in a very small schedule. The play didn’t go so well because some didn’t remember their lines but we all laughed about it in the end.

Recycling:

As a geography class we are concentrating in recycling. So one day we took the minibus and headed towards a recycling station with a lot of cardboard. This was the first time I saw a reward for recycling. I think that people should realize what you can get from recycling things. We recycled 10kg of cardboard resulting to 70rp while copper would’ve been 450rp per kg! we then when to KFC to reward ourselves for the good job we did that day.

Joined a new CAS: Palate and cleft lip

In this CAS we have to raise money for the kids with cleft lip and palate disorder. This is a very bad disorder as it retains kids from eating, smiling and other very fun things that kids should not miss out on. It is a disorder and we are trying to get rid of it. I raised awareness in the school by giving a presentation in front of the school in assembly. I explained what it is and that we are trying to raise money. Also in the mean time we were organizing a party that would be the money maker for this CAS. We advertised that in assembly as well.

SAISA GIRLS BASKETBALL

This year we hosted the SAISA girls basketball tournament. 8 teams from 8 different laces came with 10 athletes each team and two coaches. I took part in this event as the Manager of the crew that helped organized this huge even. It was very hard to organize such a big event. In the opening ceremony I lit the lamp. This was very exiting as I never done that before. I was also the MC in introducing the whole tournament. Through out the tournament I made sure that everyone in the crew was doing their work. If one was slaking off then a section will be delayed for example if the person in charge of the scores didn’t do his/her work then the scores on the net will not be updated in time. Everything had to be up to date. The pictures were a big problem as people had to stay out there taking constant pictures and downloading them in between games while other were in charge of editing them. The picture people complained because they had to stay out there the whole day. We worked from 7am to 6:30pm. I ran around but at the end we got everything done and organized.