Habitat for Humanity May 21, 2011

The Habitat for Humanity we went to Moratuwa for a build. The day started off as we went around and met all of the owners of teh property and they told us about the issues they are all facing involving the ways that they live. In Sri Lanka customs are very important so before we started to build anything we had to light the customary oil lamp. After this we began to get to work starting off making concrete; the people in these areas can't afford the store bought concrete so they make their own out of sand, concrete, rocks and water. Once all of the mixing was done we started to spread it evenly across the floor and walls as a foundation of a kitchen. In doing this i worked collaboratively with the other students and homeowners and persevered to help the people of the Tsunami affected areas. But despsite all of the work we started off doing and had originally intended to do we were forced to leave early because there was no more work to be done.

Music Makers

The "Music Makers" concert was an OSC sponsored event in which a variety of students and teachers showcased their musical talents to the rest of the school and allumni in hopes to gain interest and funding from the OSC community in hopes of starting up a music program next year. In the performances I played the saxaphone in the band, "Las Paginas" with Fililppo (drums), Mr. Smith (Lead Guitar) and Mr. Reihm (bass). We played the songs Play That Funky Music, Moby Dick, Take a Look Around and Fairys Wear Boots.

SAISA Track'n'Field 2011

I have just recently returned from the 2010-2011 SAISA Track'n'Field event taken place in New Dehli, India. I personally found this years SAISA Track to have been much more rewarding than those of previous years. Mainly because I exceeded my own personal expectations along with other also showing tremendous heart and effort in all of their events. As a team we placed 6th place among the other 6 schools; Chennai, Dehli, Kathmandu, Bombay, Karachi and Lahore. I placed 5th in the 200m with a time of 25.57seconds which I too was also very happy with for this was my first time placing in Track EVER!!! ACHEIVED PERSONAL GOAL
We also placed in both of relays at 5th place for the 4x1 and 4x4 which in respect of the other schools was not the best that we could have done, due to faulty handoffs and an un-even track. We were also presented with the most coveted award of the entire tournament...SPORTSMANSHIP... :P in which the team and the school should be very proud of for it shows a tremendous amount of commitment and effort.

SAISA Track

Simply Scenes... :D 2-23-2011

As a part and requirement of our IB DP coarse I must take place in a play production in part with my drama class. I am in 2 different plays; Burried the Child and A Street Car Named Desire in which I play male characters whom are both confident and a bit of a pushover at times. Today we have our performance at 6:00pm in the auditorium. I am also taking part in a play with Tara Nelson in grade twelve where i play an elusive criminal whom cannot be brought to justice. In previous rehearsals it has been quite good and run smoothly without any mishaps in which I hope will carry over into my performance.

NEW SEMESTER!!! CAS

As for CAS fulfillments for this semester I will be taking part in Habitat for Humanity following my first semester of DAWG.

Goals:
1) Have fun
2)Go on as many builds as possible
3)Give as much input as I possibly can towards having a successful CAS

SAISA

I have just recently returned from SAISA(South Asia International Sports Association) Boys Football where we went to Dhaka, Bangladesh for the tournament. There were 10 teams from all over south asia and it was very competitive. Due to a variety of reasons, a few players on our team were cut so we were then forced to travel with the minimum, 12 players. We all avoided injury as much as we could but fatigue got the best of almost all of us and the games went on. We all played very well and i think that i also played exceptionally well taking into account that I am not primarily a football player. I found this to be a great experience and defiantly something I will look back on in the future as a positive as my time here at OSC.
FULFILLED GOAL #1