The Band

Mr. Smith, Mr Reim and I have formed a band. they needed a drummer therefore i joined, the reason i got picked was because of the choice of music i am interested in that correlated with the music they listen to and were interested in playing. the challenges of this band is that they are very good at their instruments and have a lot of experience since they have been playing for a long time so its hard to keep up to their standards, but hopefully this will allow me to develop my skill on the drums. to improve and in order to have the songs nailed down by the time we perform, we will have to show high levels of commitment and practice everyday.

My goal is to learn all the songs that we are aiming to learn for our two upcoming performances. we are going to play for entertainment at the food and fun fair. My goal is to gain full familiarity with the music, the difficulty is that this was the first time i ever herd the songs im learning how to play for them.

the solution to this is listening to the songs continuously and imagine the motion so that im more familiar when it comes to actually getting on the drums.

hopefully our goal is achieved and we make a great performance

SGA

For the first time in my life i started taking part in the Student Government Association. this was because of some misfortunate events which led to our class representative to drop out and I decided to volunteer to become the SGA class representative.

I felt like I took a lot of responsibility undertaking this role so i set some goals to actually get some of the ideas on the shelf and speak for my class for any improvement. I already started getting busy by giving out the valentines cards and attending one meeting, this is the first time i have worked collaboratively with people towards change in this school. i also shared some ideas for valentines which i picked up from my old schools which i thought would be fun for valentines day.

I aim to make myself useful and be helpful to the SGA by also attending and helping in the school events.

Alzheimer's walk

On the 5th February I participated in the Alzheimer's walk to raise awareness. this walk was symbolic not only as a fund raiser for the Alzheimer's foundation but also to raise awareness in areas of colombo where people were not aware of this dementia.

my goal for the walk was to make as many people as possible aware of the dementia by handing out brochures that surprisingly people read. whole i was handing out the information papers i saw that some were already reading them, the people that weren't were so interested that came up to me and asked for a couple to bring to their families. people even stopped their cars to get informed of what was going on.

The walk was done in the poorest part of colombo were awareness of this dementia was very low (almost none). This was a symbolic walk as well as a fund raising walk. the fund raising was 1000Rp per entry. there were people walking and some running. we were very visible as a group since we were all wearing red & white and had balloons and flyers that attracted attention.

SAISA Basketball

Finally the tournament we were all looking forward to arrived. We were all very excited and couldn't wait to start playing our first game. our goal was to show who we were and frighten our opponent. this was probably the hardest goal to achieve since we were playing AES first (who ended up coming first) and we knew they were going to be a tough team to beat but we were ready for it.

when we arrived we went to this mall where we would eat lunch and mess around until it was time to meet our hosts since we arrived at 8am and our hosts would come pick us up at 3:30pm. at the mall we played in this arcade where every time we would beat a record it would give us a lot of tickets that we could use to win a prise. the mall was filled with less fortunate kids and so we decided to give all the tickets to this group of kids who would enjoy the stuffed toy a lot more than us. we also saw a small group of poor children trying to buy an ice cream but barely had enough money for one so we just gave them the money to buy each one an ice cream.

on the second day there was the opening ceremony where they introduced all the teams. we then had our first game. we were the opening game and we had to play AES the toughest team. we needed to work collaboratively as a team as much as possible. moving the ball around and working together and collaboratively like we practiced through out basketball season.

the tournament did not go as planned. we lost the first game with AES and our goal after that was to go to the finals. though we won 4 games and lost 2 we lost the crucial games that put us down to 5th place. we were not sad at all with that position because we were announced second in the win - loss ratio after AES who won all 6 games.

as a team we developed a lot of skill together in these few days. we were always there for each other and we were ready for anything even though not being familiar with our surroundings. we all bonded with each other and with other teams. this a great experience and our loss did not affect us much.

Playing Amal

For the second time we played the same time Amal. this school beat us in the past 30-74 which was very embarrassing but we didn't have a lot of practice as a team and David and I were missing. our goal for this second time around with our improved skill was to increase our score against them, played better as a unified team and hopefully beat them. the match was intense and it really made us push to the peak of our ability. though we missed a lot of shots we still managed to reach our goal to score 46 points and closing the gap from 44 points to 30 which is great seeing how they also had the time to practice. These games have allowed us to improve our team skills and also our individual skill. pushing us harder to achieve greater. hopefully all this practice will allow us to exceed in SAISA and hopefully WIN!

Alzheimer's sale

for my CAS i had to sell pens for 100rp and cards for 400rp outside of the auditorium on the day of the seussical. this was to raise money for my CAS so that any plans for the future would be made possible. we made quite a bit of money from the parents that came to watch their kids at the seussical. it was a very smart decision to sell there as there was a art exhibition happening before the show so parents came in early giving them plenty of time to pas by our desk and help the Alzheimer's foundation. Saba helped out with the selling and we made very good salesmen, people got attracted by our amazing advertising skills and we made a very successful sale that night.

British School Tournament

Nothing improves a team better than playing other teams that are completely unknown. The Geckos joined the british school basketball tournament where we had to play three games and win 2 out of the three in order to succeed to the next round (quarter finals) We first played Lyceum Nugegoda which we knew were the best team we would ever play. we didn't think much about how good they are but decided that we would give it our best. being our first game obviously our goal was to win but we were not prepare as a team so we lost. it was a terrible loss and we deserved it as we didn't play as a team but just became a fast break game. we talked it over and went to win our second game after a bit of practice. we started playing as a team and won by 20. the third game went very well, we played as a team and set our goals straight, we were all determined to win. unfortunately we lost by 4 points. we gave up half way through because we got tired and so they caught up. we played well though so there is nothing to complain. as a team we are all improving and making more shots and playing better as a unit. my goal as captain of the team is to lead the Geckos to a victory in SAISA