English B project

As I have posted earlier, our English B class changed the poem that Ms.Fernando wrote for us to act out at the Wednesday assembly into a rap to record.

The music video we made was meant to be presented at the assembly last week, but we had a small technical problem that we had to delay.

We are going to present it this week though and I have uploaded it to YouTube as well :D

Saturday Basketball

I had to give in the SAT 2 in the morning while from Friday, SAISA girls' football tournament is happening. So I was planning either to play basketball or cheer for the girls in the afternoon. However, due to the Monsoon heavy rain in the afternoon, all the matches were cancelled which narrowed down the options for me.

All the girls had to stay in th gym and watch the rain hoping it would stop soon and so it was all crowded in the gym which made a little hard for us to play basketball. Because of that rain, in fact, not many Koreans have come to play :S

So officially both were cancelled which left me no choices but to go back home.

Still OSC girls have won the three matches so far, no lost ! and made to the Semi-final. That made my day :D

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