Writing and Composing Music

I've finished writing the Bridge for the song that Adrian composed last time. In fact, I finished it a while ago, but I've been busy with my Extended Essay and other assessments, so couldn't update it on my blog.

So the lyrics for the Bridge goes:

Bridge

Let's give them love and a hug
Don't let them live in the muddy slum
It's time to throw the bloody guns
Don't blow it away like a chewy chewing gum

Because there's still brighness in their eyes
Look at the stars, and no more scars



We will soon record the whole song PROPERLY and decide whether to perform it or not, or when to do so. At the moment, we are also practicing for the band performance for the assembly, so we are not sure if we are going to perform it SOON :P

Prison Babies

Thursday, 30th od Sep. we visited the prison for the first time of the year !
This was planned to be done last week, however, it was canceled in the last minute due to the rain. It also rained today, but fortunately, it stopped at lunch ! so we could visit them.

This was the first time for many of the students from OSC who joined this project only this year, so I think this was meaningful !

We painted with the children there, they seemed to feel much comfortalbe in the prison with their moms ! No one cried !

It was really a good opportunity for us to get familiar with the children and also to attract and move mothers' mind, who are yet not sending their children, to send them to us every Thursday !

for more information: http://pbatosc.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-visit-to-prison.html

Saturday Basketball

I actually thought I'd rather not play for last week(Saturday, 25th of Sep. 2010) because I was too tired from playing football on Friday. BUT then, my sneaky Korean friends somehow convinced me and brought me to the court. and I played several matches at OSC.

There were not so many people compared to the week before; there were more Koreans came this time, but not so many from the American Embassy and none from the local school teams.

It was still fun and a lot of exercises.

Friday Afterschool Football

Because of the weather, 'officially' the afterschool activity was canceled last Friday(24th of Sep, 2010), however, Adrien, Sasha and I were eager to play a match even in the rain; we actually thought it'd be more fun to play in the rain :P and also, the next day OSC boys football team was to play Lanka Lions(one of the best local football teams), so we thought it'd be a good practice if we play.

Anyway, we were enthusiastic about playing a match and gathered players afterschool and we played. We first decided to play a half-match(for around 30 mins) but then everyone really got excited about playing and winning the game that we played till 3:50.

It was fun, a little tiring though.

Saturday Basketball(Canceled)

Like I have mentioned earlier, I started coming to play basketball on Saturday rather than Sunday Church Basketball since I moved my house; the place where I used to paly basketball on Sunday is a little far from where I live now, so I decided to play for Saturday only.

But then, I was too tired from the school sports day on Thursday and Afterschool football on Friday, and I decided not to go play for this Saturday. I needed some rest, I thought.

Friday Afterschool Football

After the sports day, I realised that I have signed up for the friday afterschool football :S My whole body was soar in fact from the day before, and also I caught the cold my condition was evn worse.

But I still played. Couldn't resist, more likely. I always have to exercise more if I get sick, then I feel better. So I thought it'd be good if I play and get sweat. So I played football afterschool.

Like before, it ended around 3:45 PM, lasted around one hour. It didn't feel so long, which means it was fun :) BESIDES, this time the team I'm belonging to won ;) so it was like a payback from the sports day.

School Sports Day

On Thursday(17th of September, 2010), like I wrote earlier, we had an Inter-house sports day at school.

Again like I said earlier, I participated in playing football and basktball: in three football matches and four basketball matches. In fact, my 'secret' goal, even though it was jut a little part, was to win the matches of course and so to contribute something to the Yellow house in placing at the end. HOWEVER, it didn't really work out so well. We didn't win so many games in fact, we have more lost actually :(

NOT because we were 'bad' but we were just a little unlucky :P It's not an excuse, but then the football field was too slippery in the morning due to the dew, I believe. Especially, the field that we were scoring at was in the shade, it was even worse. In basketbal, other houses were lacking of the players that they 'illegally' scouted some good players from other grades. So the Yellow house who played fairly without any violations :P couldn't win as many games as we should. :P:P
The same thing happened in the swimming events, so FINALLY Yellow house came third, out of four houses :P

WELL winning was just a little part of my secret goal, and it didn't really matter if we won or not. It'd have been bettter of course, but it's still ok because I still have achieved my main goal which was to have fun and interact with other people.

It was a challenge for me to play basketball actually, since we had enough football players, but not so many basketball players. In fact, I was the only one who actually plays basketball for leisure or during lunch or my free. So I felt A LOT OF pressure around me to play ball and to cheer up all my memeber players at the same time. They were a little intimidated, I must say, because most of them never played basketball or so. I believe, we still did a great job; no fouls, no violations and no injuries.

It was a fun day, indeed, though a little tiring as well. As the matter of the fact that this would be my LAST sports day in high school ever, it'll be unforgettable.

during the football match, calling out 'foul'(Ayla, Tara, Me and Paul from the left)