DAWG Pawn Visit

After the long weeks of organizing the food drive, I thought it would be a great idea for the DAWG group to get out of the school and feel the outside world and rewarding them for the perseverance and commitment in the activities. I really thought they would learn a lot from this trip, especially the truth that is out there. It took me awhile to organize the whole trip. It was not easy; from booking the time at the pawn, booking the bus, writing punch of permission letters to parents, teachers and head master to carrying all the 100 kg of dog food from the third floor to the bus. I felt like I truly did Developed new skills in planning and initiating the activities a lot more than I should have been considering that I was not the only one who was in charge of the DAWG campaign.

The pawn was heart shaking. The condition was poor and the place was filled with 150 dogs and 50 cats. As soon as we arrived at the gate, there were dogs barking and fighting all over. It was quite frightening for the kids. Stephanie, Sorrel and I decided that we would be the only one entering the pawn due to the security issue.

I knew at that moment that the kids did learn something. They finally saw it with their own two innocent eyes. It would be grateful if they can learn to realize that this is just the beginning. There are a lot more for them to learn and to truly get engage with issues of global importance.

SportsDay (Action)

I have participated in many sports during the sportsday at OSC. It is one of my favourite day at school. No thinking required, just do it!
I'm in the green house, each house competed each other in differnt types of sport:
Voleyball, Football, Kickball, basketball and swiming (optional). I was in a lot of games throughout the day. During games, Work collaboratively was one of the major ibjective we need to focus on. Sports is all about team work. It is a team sport, there is no such thing as one man show in a good games. Sports day also allow me to  Developed new skills by practicing during real games (well.. it was sportsday).
At the end of the day, the winning house with the most point was annouced to be the Red House. Dissapointment at first, but i realized, we can't always win. Ah well..at least we really did show perseverance and commitment in the activities.

               Camie and I

 Getting in ACTION!

Senior CommonRoom Murals (creative and Service)

It is a senior privilege to get the use the common room at school. However, it was decorated in such a horrible way and nothing was working in that room really. So, Sascha, Camille, Sandushi, Yuko and I decided to engage with issues of global importance by planning and initiate activities by coming up with the service of maintenance for our common room, aim to create better atmosphere for people who use the common room. We started off with informing the principal to fix all the electrical objects like the microwave, refrigerator, fans, air conditioner, and lights (that’s pretty much everything in the room). In order to achieve the goal, we worked collaboratively with others. We collected all the money required to buy the paints and started working. During the mural session, all participants showed perseverance and commitment in the activities. It is considered to be, not just service, but also creativity. It required my art skill in mural painting. In fact, I also have developed new skills in painting on walls since I was only used to painting on paper, but now, large area of a wall needed my art skill on them!

Senior Year CAS Objecives

This is the last DP year of my High School, hence this will be the last year that I would have to be involve in CAS. Of course, although I would no longer be at school, all those things will happen as a part of my future life (just not written down on a blog like this). So, i would like to use this opportunity to set new Goals and some aspects I would like to achieve for the entire semester (due to future changes that will occur in the middle of the year). 

Action: 
To continue my sport activities such as SAISA -> ASA
First SAISA season (Volleyball), second Basketball and third volleyball:
Attend all the training
Keep fitness upward
Developed new skills and learn new skills about volleyball such as different attack and defence strategies
May be also consider to take the leadership roles which I then have to make sure that I Work collaboratively with others.

Creativity: 
Paint the murals on the common room wall.(also community and service) This will show perseverance and commitment in their activities upon the class of 2012.
Continue the guitar practice to developed new skills such as learning guitar tabs and more advancing knowledge about guitar.

Service: 
Become the leader of Dog Awareness Welfare Group and work collaboratively with Stephanie Van De Burgh.
Planned and initiated activities:

Fund raise list that we have created. 

-Food Drive for dog pawn in Colombo

-Try to sell DAWG logo souvenir during the Volleyball SAISA
-Bake Sale
-Movie Night
Organize the sterilization at the beginning of December 2011.  This event is aimed to be the Engagement with issues of global importance and in the local community in order to reduce number of dogs and cats with rabies and other transmittable diseases. 

Musical Show.. Creativity!

Camille Raguin and I were engaging with issues of global importance, we were asked to perform on the Farewell assembly for the Grade 12 which will be graduating soon at OSC. We performed 'Un peu d'espoir' by Joyce Jonathan. It is French, meaning that Camille would be singing the song together with her piano play and myself playing a guitar. After months and months of learning how to play chords and tabs, I managed to put the song together and worked collaboratively with Camille to form a beautiful song.

Here are some photos taken by Ms. Shamilla

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.