English B presentation on the bookweek

Grade 12 English B class which I also belong to was assigned to do a presentation on promoting the bookweek which we are currently having in our school. So basically shcool's encouraging students to read more books.

Ms.Fernando, IB English A SL teacher, wrote a play script which is at the same time meant to be a poem. Then our class, Adrien, Devansh, Keiko and I decided to turn it into a rap and record it rather than acting out on the stage on Wednesday.

So Adrien composed the background instrumental and I changed the script into a rap.

We have been practicing this song for last week during every English class and free periods; we even came to school on Saturday to work on this.

and finally we finished recording and filming to make a music video-like short clip. I have finally edited the video and had it ready for presenting it to the assembly on Wednesday.

I will soon upload the video on YouTube and have the link on my post :D

Basketball

I tried to organise a basketball match between the Korean team and OSC boys basketball team, but Mr.Shipley, the PE teacher, had already made an appointment with the Amal International school's boys basketball team, we couldn't avoid cancelling the match.

Boys are soon leaving, so it seems to be not quite possible to have a match before they go on to the SAISA trip. Though hopefully we can have a match even after the boys basketball season.

Saturday Basketball

I came to play basketball with enthusiasm and excitement that there would be a lot of players after a long time; I expected ALL the Koreans would come. Maybe, my expectation was too high.

Only four including me showed up. Unfortunately, many of the students who go to Moir Elizabeth school couldn't come because they have exams coming up right next week.

We still played several 2:2 matches mixing teams again and again. It was still fun.

I was going to ask them to come for Tuesday since I was going to organise a game between the Koreans and the OSC Boys basketball team since Mr.Snyder, the coach asked me to earlier. But not many showed up today, I will have to ask them at church on Sunday.

Any students from Moir Elizabeth school will not be able to show up, we still have enough people to have a match. I'm looking forward to playing them :D:D

Unfortunately again, today there was no football session since they had the same problm with the basketball-ers. Around 5 people showed up. This was because they were supposed to have a match against the OSC girls football team, but then, due to rain, the condition of the field was so bad that they could barely play a match. Then in the afternoon, sun shone on brightly and the condition got better. BUT everyone seemed to have thought that the field would sill be as bad as in the morning, that they decided not to show up.

So I couldn't play football today at all, but hopefully, I can play BOTH basketball and football PROPERLY :D

Prison Babies

We visited them last Thursday(25th Nov, 2010)
I believe this would be the second last session we would have this year and next week we are planning to visit them again which will be the last session of this semeseter.
We are planning to have a small Christmas party with them since we won't be able to meet up at Christmas since school's going onto the December break. We will bring food and eat them all together :D:D

Though I said this would be the last session of this semester, it's mostly likely the last session forever since all the children's moms are waiting to go to the court to be finalized and sentenced, and after that, will be moved to the Kalutara prison, which would be too far for us to visit or bring children from. This is sad in fact, since I have involved in this project for last three years, almost four by now, and finally all of our Prison Babies members got familiar with the children there.

But seems like it's inevitable. I wish the children will have better care in the Kalutara prison.

Since this 'Prison Babies' will no longer be happening then, I've asked Ms.Shameela, Community & Service coordinator, if we can continue the project but help other children, for example, the orphans at the local orphanage. This has not been quite finalized, but also very possible to happen. I have known one myself where I have been to before(last christmas, see the post entitled 'Christmas Santa') and apparently there are many orphanages around our campus too. I will try my best to continue the project next yaer and onward though it will no longer be calld Prison Babies.

Prison Babies

After two weeks, we finally met together again !

We had the children came to our campus and we played with them at the primary playground. This was the first time with the new children in fact. Almost all the old children who have been coming were moved to the Kalutara prison, only the new children left.

I thought they might not feel very comfortable with new faces and environment, and so start crying. But then, no one cried this time ! In fact we got along pretty well. They all seemed to enjoy playing with us, which is a good sign !

I could manage to take some photos of them and us too :D

Church Musical, GodSpell

Like I have posted earlier, I was involved in the church musical, GodSpell, organised by the Korean church Teenager For Christ group. It was performed on the last Saturday(13th of November, 2010).

I was initially involved in the Stagecraft and stage managing, but since there was a plenty of people who were doing the stagecraft, I shifted to the dancing as the dancing crew asked me to help them teach the worship dance(see the earlier post). So I have helped all the actors and the backdancers learn the dance. (Since this was a musical, dancing and singing took the crucial part ;) )

After they have learned all the dance, in fact, I had nothing left to do but pray for them wishing they will do well on the performing day except I still needed to help some of the youngr students who couldn't manage to learn the dance completely.

I wanted to and I was going to go help the stagecraft and the final rehearsal, but unfortunately, I had this dinner planned with my parents' friends, that I couldn't even go watch the play :(

BUT I heard the musical went really well. Everyone did an amazing job and a lot of people came too ! This is really sad that this would be my last year since I'm going to graduate from school and TFC group this year, and it is regretful that I couldn't come watch the play. I hope this will remain as a tradition since this would be a good chance for everyone, so that TFC does something similiar next year onwards, and so learn themselves and spread the words of God in Sri Lanka.

Here are some pictures from the musical, ( Pictures taken by Eunice Haejin Lee, from her Facebook)

Saturday Basketball

Fortunately, rain has stopped on Thursday afternoon and never started again till Saturday unlike the weather forecast announced, I could come for Basketball on Saturday.

BUT rain was not the problem this time. Only five including me showed up this time and they were all Koreans. Since our school basketball team is currently participating in the Inter-International school basketball tournament within Sri Lanka, none of them showed up. Koreans were always the majority of whom came for the basketball, but since the musical performance was on the same day, Saturday(13th of November, 2010) not many of them didn't come. Actually, since most of the Koreans including me were involved in this church musical, they haven't been coming for last several weeks, but me. So many of those Sri Lankan students from other schools stopped coming too, probably losing interests since the match were not so dynamic as before.

So anyway in conclusion, only five of us showed up, but we still played though we could only play till 4:30 since 4 of them had to go for the Chrch musical since it was meant to start at 5:30. Unfortunately, I had to go for a dinner with my parent's friends, I couldn't go watch the musical.

Since this musical will be done after Saturday, form next week, it's for sure that all Koreans will show up for the Saturday basketball. and I'm looking forward to playing with them again :D



After that, as usual, I went out to the field and got myself ready to play football. I could find some of the 11th graders, Karl and Bharat, came to play too. We splitted ourselves into two groups and played a match. IT was fun :D

Prison Babies(Canceled)

It has rained cats and dogs in Sri Lanka on Thursday; all the lakes and rivers were overflown, and due to heavy rain itself, many of the houses and roads were sunk into the water.
Since many roads were flooded and underwater, not even half of the students came on Thursday in fact. It was even hard to have classes that day since we were missing some of our teachers too.
Because of the heaviest rain after 80 years in Sri Lanka, all the community service projects including Prison Babies were cancelled. We were informed even earlier that the children wouldn't be coming on Thursday anyway, so we planned on working on our CAS blogs and planning for next session. But we couldn't meet up and do so.

We will probably meet up sooner day and organise something for the children.

Football Match Against Colombo Lions

As I have posted earlier, OSC had a football match against Colombo Lions. Colombo Lions, from the official record :P, has been a strong team for past few years. OSC SAISA boys football team always had several matches with them for practice before they went on the actualy SAISA tournament, and OSC found hard times playing them.

Colombo Lions is a regular team who meets up every week and practice for real matches. So they knew what is going on on the field, who would be in front of the goal by certain time, or how to handle the game by their pace.

WELL, it's not an excuse. I admit we lost at the end. 6:0 final score. Though I don't think it was bad since we haven't played together properly. This was meant to be a tryout. From this match, we now know which position we can perform best at or other tactics we can use for the upcoming SAISA boys football season.

We enjoyed the game. Actually this was a good proper football exercise for me after a long time. Though I play with the midyear players every Saturday, it's not really me playing; it's rather I help them play by passing the ball to them or making some chances for the little kids to score. So it has never been a proper exercise for me. But I seriously think I have improved from playing with the little players, I feel a little shame :P but it's still a good thing. Since little players tend to come rush to me when I have the ball, I need to be really in control with the ball and need to have an wide sight so that I can pass the ball to some other player from my own team. By doing so, I improved in my controlling the ball and passing.

Mr.Campbell, Primary principal of our school and the football team coach at the same time, told us that he can tell Mr.Shipley, PE teacher, to organise more games with Colombo Lions later on, so that we can play better. Looking forward to playing with them again !

Saturday Basketball

I came to play basketball on Saturday(6th November, 2010), and all I could find was two of my Korean friends, Chrishni from 11th grade practicing herself and Mark who also always comes for the games every week. No one else showed up. This seemed to be because, there was a match between our school basketball team and Lyceum International school team in the morning on the same day. So everyone who played must have been really tired from the match they had, so didn't come for the match in the afternoon :(

We still played, 2 vs. 2, since Chrishni soon left after practicing some shots and layups. First, it was me and Mark verses the other two Koreans. We won :D Then, we switched the team for another game, it was me and one the Koreans, Ju Yong, vs. Mark and B.C. Shin. Well, this time, they won :P

We only played for about an hour, but it was still a fun game. Since we had to leave the gym by 4, we dismissed ourselves.


Right after, as usual, I equiped myself with the footbal gears to kick some balls :P They are having a football tournament tomorrow(Sunday, from 8 AM to 2:30 PM) so they were having the last practice matches. Unfortunately, I cannot come for the tournament since I have to go to church in the morning. The adults who were coaching the team were telling me to join later in the afternoon, but I can't come for the afternoon either since I have another football match promised from 3:30 PM onward between OSC SAISA boys football team and Colombo Lions. Of course, I will play for OSC, though I wasn't in the team.

Prison Babies

This time, we could visit them after a long long time though we failed to go visit the prison last week due to the heavy traffic jam.

But, we had some bad news at the prison :( Many of the children were moved to other prison in Kalutara which was suppossed to happen in the beginning of this year, but postponed till now. We thought they would not be moved, but in fact, it was only delayed for a while. So we had only few children left, and also the fact that many of them don't come to our school since their moms don't allow them to go. So many of them were just completely new faces to all of our group. Though we could get along with each other pretty well soon.

In fact we had another bad news. Since they are moved to another prison and recently there have been a lot of helps and aids from other service projects like Hope for kids, we may stop coming to prison and stop this project.
IT's not for sure yet !
But, it seems like it's happening for 60%-like sure, which is sad since I have been involoved in this project since 9th grade.

I thought we should continue the project though maybe in different form/name. I suggested the teachers to go to the orphanage that I have been to. As I have posted earlier, my friends have been visiting this orphanage to help and play with the children there, I have once been there too(see the post entitled 'Christmas Santa').
The orphans there do need a lot of helps and cares. When I visited them, they were literally living in the dusty room which is not a good environment for the little children to be raised at. They needed the proper bed for the children, at least the mattresses since what they currently have are too old that they were all worn out.

So I thought it'd be good if we can go help this orphanage keeping this service project alive. I have to talk to the coordinator of the Community & Service, Ms.Shameela, and see what we can do.

saba is awesome, but this is about Church Musical

As I have posted earlier, I am involoved in the Church musical. I was SUPPOSED to do the stage design and props, but there was a group of people who are in charge of singing and dancing needed my help immediately :D with dance :P

In 2007, I went on the Church mission trip like the one I did last summer, and like I had to do a worship dance as a performance, I had done a different one two years ago. Since this group decided to do the same dance for the musical, I have helped everyone learn the dance.

It's the same dance that was on the movie, Sister Act 2, to a song, Joyful Joyful.

Last Sunday, after the youth service, I worked on this for around 2-3 hours. Everyone could learn it pretty quickly. The day is coming up soon, I wish this is going to go really well :D



This is the dance we are going to be doing :D



original from Sister Act 2