Thursday, February 16, 2012
Updates
Creativity (MUN) - MUN has been crazy recently as the conference is two weeks away. I've had A LOT of work to do such as sorting out the invitations, organizing all things relating to Cinnamon Grand, sorting out ID cards, sorting out banners and sponsorships, etc. It's been a little stressful however I've got all my tasks completed whilst balancing them out with my acedemics. I've shown both collaborative skills as well as leadership skills within the past weeks as I've also had to delegate. The conference should be interesting :)
Thursday, February 9, 2012
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Goals -
1) Give the children a pleasent learning environment.
2) make sure he murals painted are attractive and colourful.
3) Make a child's day.
4) Make something the kids will be proud of.
5) Help develop the school. The tsunami which took place on the 26th of December 2004 destroyed many houses/schools, etc. along the costal area.. thus everyone school/house being created or imprpoved is a symbol of development.
Tuesday 24th January 2012 - On tuesday we first played with the children for the first half an hour but at a point, some people went off to start working on their induvidual projects such as maintanence work, murals, etc. The wall we had to create a mural on had a couple of elephants drawn on it and we were instructed on keeping those elephants. Hence my group mates and I (Zara and Margarret) decided to turn it into an underwater world. We used blue's to paint the water and there after painted fish, star fish, turtles, etc. we ensured that it was very colourful.We were orginally going to paint trees in the background however due to time constrains we decided to paint the background light blue. We planned on completing and adding finishing touches to the mural the following day. I was quite impressed at my groups cooperation today as having to work with an existing image was tricky yet we came through. In addition, even though I was group leader, I didn't feel as if I needed to tell people what to do as everyone did an outstanding job, all collaborating really well.
Wednesday 25th January 2012 - On Wednesday we added final touches to the mural and Onkar and Bryce helped paint the top bits of the mural as we couldn't reach. Thereafter Ashwini and I had to write sinhalese on the inside of the school which was definetely tricky as I havn't written sinhalese in a long time but it came through in the end. There after I drew flowers on the wall and tried to make it more attractive. There after I helped with minor jobs here and there such as sanding, painting, etc. The day however was a short day as we had to do a performance. We sand "Stand by me" and a sinhala song "rambari". The sinhala song was a little bit of a fail as I didn't know the words but everyone had fun with it. We got to see the children performing too and they were absolutely adorable.
Thursday 26th January 2012 - The following day we went site seeing and saw two temples. One temple was on the top of a rock so it was tiring getting up there in the really hot sun. Later on we went on a safari which was quite fun.
During this week I believe I really undertook new challenges as I had never painted a mural prior to this and taking into consideration the preasure to make it look appealing, I think I did a good job. We also had to make use of our collaborative skills as we had to collaborate with other people in our class. Even though it was tricky at times, it was a group effort which eventually made everything a success. Lastly, peservereance was shown as the murals did get tedious to do due to the heat, etc. however everyone struck through it in order to make it succesful.
1) Give the children a pleasent learning environment.
2) make sure he murals painted are attractive and colourful.
3) Make a child's day.
4) Make something the kids will be proud of.
5) Help develop the school. The tsunami which took place on the 26th of December 2004 destroyed many houses/schools, etc. along the costal area.. thus everyone school/house being created or imprpoved is a symbol of development.
Tuesday 24th January 2012 - On tuesday we first played with the children for the first half an hour but at a point, some people went off to start working on their induvidual projects such as maintanence work, murals, etc. The wall we had to create a mural on had a couple of elephants drawn on it and we were instructed on keeping those elephants. Hence my group mates and I (Zara and Margarret) decided to turn it into an underwater world. We used blue's to paint the water and there after painted fish, star fish, turtles, etc. we ensured that it was very colourful.We were orginally going to paint trees in the background however due to time constrains we decided to paint the background light blue. We planned on completing and adding finishing touches to the mural the following day. I was quite impressed at my groups cooperation today as having to work with an existing image was tricky yet we came through. In addition, even though I was group leader, I didn't feel as if I needed to tell people what to do as everyone did an outstanding job, all collaborating really well.
Wednesday 25th January 2012 - On Wednesday we added final touches to the mural and Onkar and Bryce helped paint the top bits of the mural as we couldn't reach. Thereafter Ashwini and I had to write sinhalese on the inside of the school which was definetely tricky as I havn't written sinhalese in a long time but it came through in the end. There after I drew flowers on the wall and tried to make it more attractive. There after I helped with minor jobs here and there such as sanding, painting, etc. The day however was a short day as we had to do a performance. We sand "Stand by me" and a sinhala song "rambari". The sinhala song was a little bit of a fail as I didn't know the words but everyone had fun with it. We got to see the children performing too and they were absolutely adorable.
Thursday 26th January 2012 - The following day we went site seeing and saw two temples. One temple was on the top of a rock so it was tiring getting up there in the really hot sun. Later on we went on a safari which was quite fun.
During this week I believe I really undertook new challenges as I had never painted a mural prior to this and taking into consideration the preasure to make it look appealing, I think I did a good job. We also had to make use of our collaborative skills as we had to collaborate with other people in our class. Even though it was tricky at times, it was a group effort which eventually made everything a success. Lastly, peservereance was shown as the murals did get tedious to do due to the heat, etc. however everyone struck through it in order to make it succesful.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Goals for 2012
Last year was quite a successful year regarding my CAS activities. I felt like I did a lot when it came to MUN (creative) and Cleft Palette (Service). For MUN last year we really focused on raising funds for the conference as well as general organization. I raised Rs. 400,000 in addition to organizing the venue for the 3rd day of conference (Cinnamon Grand) and sorting out the admistrative staff which is my job as Head of Admin. For service, the Cleft Lip and Palette group organized an extremely successful charity concert in which we made a large profit.
This year for CAS my goals will be as follows:
MUN - I will continue to do what I have done except myself and the entire group may have to work a little harder as we are getting closer to the conference and everything is going to become more hectic. My goal is still the same in which I want to become Sec Gen for next years conference thus I am just going to continue doing what I've done.
Service - For service this semester we decided to do smaller yet more frequent fund raisers (such as a movie night) rather than one big event. Hence the group and I will have bake sales, movie nights, etc. and my goal for the service activity is to become a leader next year as I have done 2 years of Cleft Lip and Palette.
Action - the action aspect of CAS would probably be my least active area. I did a little bit of Zumba however during christmas break I started doing Zumba and Pilates which were really fun. So my goal is to keep doing Zumba and Pilates twice a week in order to keep fit.
This year for CAS my goals will be as follows:
MUN - I will continue to do what I have done except myself and the entire group may have to work a little harder as we are getting closer to the conference and everything is going to become more hectic. My goal is still the same in which I want to become Sec Gen for next years conference thus I am just going to continue doing what I've done.
Service - For service this semester we decided to do smaller yet more frequent fund raisers (such as a movie night) rather than one big event. Hence the group and I will have bake sales, movie nights, etc. and my goal for the service activity is to become a leader next year as I have done 2 years of Cleft Lip and Palette.
Action - the action aspect of CAS would probably be my least active area. I did a little bit of Zumba however during christmas break I started doing Zumba and Pilates which were really fun. So my goal is to keep doing Zumba and Pilates twice a week in order to keep fit.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Battle of The Bands!
Battle of the Bands took place this saturday and it was a HUGE success! The turnout was really good and everyone worked very hard that night as well as during the day. Kirsty, Imran, Karl and I were in charge of collecting tickets and body checking where as Nadeera, Rasmus, etc. were in charge of sound. The raffle tickets too sold quite well and in total, along with sponsorships, etc. I think we made a total of around 350,000 - 400,000 which is pretty amazing!
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Battle of the Bands
The Battle of the Bands will be taking place this coming saturday (26th), thus everything has been pretty chaotic. I'm mainly in charge of selling the tickets so Kirsty and I have been trying to sell them at every opportunity. We have also been selling raffle tickets to get more money. I'm really hoping the concert will be a hit!
MUN too has been pretty hectic as getting sponsors this year has been rather difficult due to the increase in the cost of living. That along with the fact that we're trying to get Cinnamon Grand for the final day of conference has put an extra burden on our shoulders however I am very passionate about MUN thus I'm going to see this true.
MUN too has been pretty hectic as getting sponsors this year has been rather difficult due to the increase in the cost of living. That along with the fact that we're trying to get Cinnamon Grand for the final day of conference has put an extra burden on our shoulders however I am very passionate about MUN thus I'm going to see this true.
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