Thursday, August 26, 2010

My Goals for this year

This year i want to try something different than what I did the past year. though my action i think will be the same with the basketball and wakeboarding but i would like to help a foreign promblem.

my goal for this year is to imporve my basketball skills so that our SAISA team will be able to come first! I will joint the after school basketball activity and the Saturday practices. I am thinking of joining the SAISA basketball team but it will all depend on how my grades go. My goal for wakeboardin is to land a backflip! which will be very hard because the wake of the boat (which is what you use to jump) is very small so it is hard to elevate enough to get a full rotation.

my favorite thing to do is dance! and this year Bryce and I will start a small dance crew and anyone is free to join, this will not be dancing lessons like i did last year but it will be a dance crew and while we devise a dance routine i will teach the people who joined the moves so they improve and at the end we all perform!

Saba Rewald is starting a community service programme that include raising money for a well in a village in ethiopia. the money will be raised with the selling of shirts that we tie dye. i hope to achieve the goal of raising enough money to build the well!!

Summary of Grade 11

Last year i have accomplished and took part in lots of different activities. from a good time to a hard time it all seemed to pay up at the end. the year was filled with not only community work but it was pretty action filled as well.

for my action I was involved in different sports not only for SAISA but Saturdays after school and completely outside of school on Sundays. I joined SAISA basketball which was a brand new experience. The mixture of pure stress and adrenaline made it very hard to concentrate on the plays and pull my mind together for the game, the crowd cheering was what i remember the most. Talk about SAISA I also joined Track and Field which was the most action filled days of the whole of last year. this allowed me to achieve my goal of finally make the SAISA track and field team. in grade 10 I wanted to make it in the team but wasn't able to. this was the last year that i was able to join since in grade 12 the work load is too much to even think about SAISA track and field. I wasn't only involved in school activities when it came to sports. I joined basketball after every Saturday with Mr. Gresham as a coach to improve our skills for next year's SAISA!!!!

Why on my April break I got a permit to teach how to wakeboard. I came back to Sri Lanka and and took my friends out wakeboarding. I taught David Gresham how to wakebaord and now he is almost better than me! Wakeboarding is a very difficult sport and requires a lot of physical strength and coordination. I will continue teacheing people how to wakeboard and achieve my goal to land a backflip!

i have helped in other Community service programs like the DAWG sterilization programme and teaching kids how to play football even though I myself didn't even know how to kick a ball. My main community and service programme was the Palate and cleft lip project where we helped people with a palate disorder. we have though of a lot of fund raisers. the last one which is still not devised fully is the one in process right now which is the movie making. we will make a movie that will be a parody of other movies all mixed together and only the people that are part of the community and service programme will take part so we will keep switching roles.

I feel like i have achieved a Lot this year! undertaking tough projects like organization of the SAISA girls basketball and the sum o other simple things here and there.