*Action

• SAISA Track and Field

Since I like sports, I've been continually participating in many sports in and out of campus; basketball, football, baseball, swimming, badminton, table tennis and so on. As I turned up to grade 11, I've got less time than ever before. But still I want to participate in some sorts of sports to keep a good health all the time. I do really want to participate in as many SAISA competitions as I can, but since I'm too afraid to miss either IB HL Math, Physics, and Chemistry that I can't take the risk. :P
Since I made the SAISA Track and Field team last year and it's less stressful that I won't miss so many classes because it's happening at the end of the year when we are about to finish the course. I'm planning to participate in SAISA Track and Field again this year.
My personal goal is to make the team first, obviously. Last year, I came in fourth in the 100M dash and in the third place in the shotput, discus and long jump. Once I make the team, my goal would be to improve on my sprinting and throwing.

• Sunday Church Basketball

Since the last summer break, my Korean friends from Korean church church and I have been playing basketball every Sunday. Our goal is to improve our own personal skills and learn more about how to play basketball better. We are actually organizing the match with Chinese and Local Sri Lankan teams and play with them. We learn tactics and skills from the elder Koreans; one used to play in the Korean amateur basketball team in Korea and the other is the OSC graduate who was in the SAISA basketball team before.
Basketball is one of my favorite sports ever and for the reason that I mentioned earlier, I'm planning to try out for SAISA basketball team this year. I believe that I can continually play basketball and develop my personal skills by doing so and it is my personal goal to develop my skills as a guard.



I'll take this week as a first official day of the basketball play for Action part. I'll continually write about how I'm improving after every week and try to upload as many pictures of me playing basketball as possible.

I played basketball with them this week as well from 3:30 - 7:00 at Senayake College in Colombo 7. For the last few months, we basically learn the concept of how to play basketball by playing the actual matches. From this week, however, since this basketball activity became bigger week by week (now it's almost 35 people playing), we decided to learn the tactics or skills which can be used usefully while playing the match.

It went pretty fast that playing basketball for three and half an hour. It was a bit tiring, but still fun.

• Badminton & Table Tennis

Since this year, our new school gym has opened and now it's easier for us to play badminton in the gym. From time to time, I'll play badminton with my classmates at lunch and after school just for fun. It's not to develop my badminton skills to become a professional player, but just to keep my health and entertain myself.
Table tennis as well, we've got a table tennis table in my father's office. I was a completely beginner player and so is my brother. But then, my brother challenged me saying he's better than me. As I am full of competitive spirit, I accepted his challenge :P. We are practicing very hard by this competition in good faith.
They will help me keep me fit all the time so that it would be much easier for me to do Track and Field later.