Yearboooook. >> Creativity

     It was a shame that I could not participate the Activity in during the first two SAISA seasons of the yearbook. The training time and the yearbook time happened to be on the same day. But on the third season i was able to attend the shift and started to create yearbook pages. This is my first year and the reason why i joined yearbook was, i want to learn and Developed new skills (especially using photoshop). Coming up with new ideas about the page was Difficult. You want the page to be 'unique', but not too over crowded. In fact, i've never use photoshop to create any of my work before. This is going to be a big challenge to learn and use the new skill at the same time.
     I consider yearbook as a project which Engaged with issues of global importance since we're doing this for service, creating the yearbook for the whole school. We really Shown perseverance and commitment our time to the activity. We spent about 3 to 4 hours after school creating pages and pages of yearbook.
     In the final, I've created about 8-9 pages (can't remember which ones). It's nto much, but at the time limit, it was the best i could have done. Plus, at the end of the session, it really makes you feel like you've done something, creating something useful, not just for yourself but the whole community of OSC.

Progress.. ART CAS

     Every Thursday afterschool, the ART community group puts every drop of their sweats down to Planned and initiated in order to re- organize the whole Secondary Art store room. It is not easy as it looks. We all had to work collaboratively with others because dust dirt, junks and rotten stuff are everywhere and the only to work effictively, we need to coperate and Shown perseverance and commitment. Our work is to organize, clean and label them in proper place so that in the future, people who use the area would be able to access into all kinds of eqipments in that room and won't need to spend another hour trying to find a tool.

     So far, we only have 5-6 people coming in to lend a hand. We managed to clear up the cupboard which random stuff in it. On the other hand, the boxes are being re oragnise by other people. We hope that we will be able to finish up that room within this month and move on to orgnize something else. However, I set up the key words on my own, no matter how much time we have, quality always comes before quantity.

OSC vs. British

On the 4th of March 2011, the Overseas School of Colombo has been travelling over to the British School to form a small tournament. it is a tournament for Single Girl/ Boy, Double Girls/Boys and mix BADMINTON. Our school has sent about 9 people of grade 8 and above students to this tournament.
It was very exciting at first, because personally, i haven't attended any 'proper' matches in a long time. The first game started off with single boys. We were.. alright i guess, but not enough to defeat the opposite team. They had the national caoch to train them and thier team has been formed for many years.

The matches went on for 2 hours. We all worked hard and we have shown perseverance and commitment in the activities. When it comes to the final game, it was me against their best guy for single. I was frightened. Not the fact that I'd probably be defeated but the fact that I haven't had an intensive training. But well, the result turned out well, I won the match by 12-21 point. Planning and initiated the game was really useful, especially in the tactical part.

The whole tournament was great. We had a lot of fun and met a lot of new friends from the BISC school.

Here are some photos of the tournament taken by Sascha Shipley



The Team



Double with Georgia



Single