Dancing with the kids and interesting fashion designs

Last week the RCCI group went to the RCCI center. It was pretty small and they had a lot of stuff stored everywhere. When we got there the kids started to sing a Sinhalese song for us!!:)Then we were all split into groups and I went with the group that wanted to dance, since I brought 3 CDs. We played one of my Kylie CDs, Boombox, her album full of remixes of her past songs!!It was a lot of fun, and it wasn't necessarily because I am such a huge fan of Kylie!Most of the kids were really enjoying themselves. There were two of them that loved to dance and one of them seemed to be pretty good at it and tried to incorporate some funky moves.But although a lot of the kids got tired at the end.

Today at fashion design me and Gaby helped the girls with some ideas for a theme both of us came up with.Which was the theme Back to School. We looked up a few ideas from the internet for how we could make school uniforms look fashionable and we created this poster that was meant to guide the kids into creating ideas. I wrote some basic things that school uniforms usually consist of whilst Gaby printed 3 pictures from the internet of examples of fashion trends based on school uniform. I wanted to jot down simple things about school uniform because we had to make sure that they were the ones that were coming up with creative ideas on how they could combine all the elements of school uniform and make a unique outfit with them.

First day of with the kids

Today was the first day of interacting with the RCCI kids!As I have heard and seen most of them looked older. At first I didn't know what to do and I couldn't decide which kid I should play with first. So I decided to play a game of catch with a couple of people mixed from our group and the RCCI group. Some of the kids were pretty funny and they seemed very nice!Although during other occasions I tried to communicate with some of the kids but I didn't know what to do so it was a bit hard and I don't think I was very successful!I also had a bit to do with it as I am normally very shy when it comes to meeting new kids no matter who it is!Next time I should try to be more prepared and more relaxed. I shall hopefully be more relaxed as time goes by!But there were also little things that I tried to help out with, like finding cotton wool when one of the kids got hurt!Next week we are going over to the centre and all the grade 11's are supposed to bring music for everyone to dance to!Hope they like Kylie!Hehehe!

Introduction

Hello. I am Maria Santiago.For the moment this is what I have planned to do for my CAS:

Creativity
I am currently one of the leaders in the fashion design elective. One of my goals is to improve and develop my leadership skills and have the confidence to share ideas. I am also planning to make a comic story on the first week of October. I can't say for sure if I am officially doing it as a CAS as it's a story mostly to do with a personal interest that wouldn't really spread a big important message such as a global issue!

Action
I am thinking of joining SAISA girl's basketball later this year!I don't have too many high hopes for this but I think it will be an interesting challenge for me as I am definetley not an athletic type of person and sports usually bore me.My goal would be to try to put myself in a new and interesting situation and make the best of it!

Service
For my service I am doing Rehabilitation Centre for the Communication Impaired (RCCI).Recently I have started to develop an interest in kids with disabilities and my goal would be to understand kids with communication problems better and learn more about them!