Thursday, November 19, 2009
Basketball-First meeting
On Wednsday I attended the first SAISA Girl's Basketball meeting. There were about 20 or more girls there. Mr Tingley, the main coach and school counselour, explained to us most of the process. First practice will begin next week on Tuesday at 3 pm after school. Two weeks after that we will get the results on who made the team. The teams are actually split into two groups, the seniors (the official SAISA team) and the juniors (a team for the people who didn't make it into the SAISA team, but who want to continue playing). Unfourtunatley, there can only be 10 girls on the team, if not 8. He also suggested that we exercise as much as we can, because you can be a really good player but still be out of shape. Well, as you know, I hardly ever play basketball and I am definetley not an exercise type of person. The problem for me now is to find a way to keep in shape. I also need to be aware of the fact of how much I have to concentrate, as one of my weaknesses in general is staying focussed on practically anything.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
I am aware of the fact that I have ignored my CAS blog for (a bit ashamed to say this!LOL!) a month!I am so sorry for this, but now I am back.
For service my involvement with the kids has been gradually improving and I am starting to interact with them a bit more. After we visited the RCCI centre for the first time, we went back there and played some more music. I noticed that they were not wearing their usual uniforms, but I never got to know if they were having some sort of special day or not. This time I got to dance with two of them. Now we are mostly having our sessions in our new gym, due to the fact that there is more space and their centre does not have enough play equipment, particularly balls. So I have mostly been playing ball games with them. At first I had a bit of trouble with throwing the ball to them. At first I kept throwing the ball a bit too hard. Now I am getting better in terms of throwing as I try to keep myself aware that many of them do not have very good co-ordination skills. Now my problem more or less is being a bit more lively. I am usually not a very lively person, and am still a bit shy when it comes to playing with them. I am starting to get worried that they might think I am too boring for them. I also notice that most of the other kids in my group are not very good at interacting with them and do not know what to do most of the time. I do not want to be like them because I am generally interested in communication disorders and want to get to know these kids better. Now we have a prize raffle coming up so we can raise enough money to buy more play equipment for the RCCI centre, so know I have to figure out how and where the people that have signed up to win a prize will pay the money.
For the creative part, we have now been focussing on creating new ideas for our designs for our Back to School theme. I have been working with Gaby on examples of great designs and have presented a poster to help in explaining good examples of what they would want their designs to look like. Whilst Gaby worked mostly on the pictures, I mostly worked on writing the types of clothing. I didn't really want to put any details to my ideas as I wanted it to be more simple and the point was for them to come up with something. So for the past days recently as we had our elective me Gaby, and Ana have been going online looking for some ideas to our designs. There are a lot of great fashion sites online and some of them are very interactive. During my last time there I was the only leader there so I decided to research some of my own ideas online. I found some really pretty designs on uniforms, particularly these Asian schoolgirl uniforms that look a bit like sailor outfits. And I have also taken a bit of inspiration from TV shows, like this Mexican novela Rebelde. Even though their style is a bit suggestive, I think some of the aspects of it could are pretty stylish and contribute to what many girls (and guys) find to be attractive.
I think that could be a great idea to one of my designs
For service my involvement with the kids has been gradually improving and I am starting to interact with them a bit more. After we visited the RCCI centre for the first time, we went back there and played some more music. I noticed that they were not wearing their usual uniforms, but I never got to know if they were having some sort of special day or not. This time I got to dance with two of them. Now we are mostly having our sessions in our new gym, due to the fact that there is more space and their centre does not have enough play equipment, particularly balls. So I have mostly been playing ball games with them. At first I had a bit of trouble with throwing the ball to them. At first I kept throwing the ball a bit too hard. Now I am getting better in terms of throwing as I try to keep myself aware that many of them do not have very good co-ordination skills. Now my problem more or less is being a bit more lively. I am usually not a very lively person, and am still a bit shy when it comes to playing with them. I am starting to get worried that they might think I am too boring for them. I also notice that most of the other kids in my group are not very good at interacting with them and do not know what to do most of the time. I do not want to be like them because I am generally interested in communication disorders and want to get to know these kids better. Now we have a prize raffle coming up so we can raise enough money to buy more play equipment for the RCCI centre, so know I have to figure out how and where the people that have signed up to win a prize will pay the money.
For the creative part, we have now been focussing on creating new ideas for our designs for our Back to School theme. I have been working with Gaby on examples of great designs and have presented a poster to help in explaining good examples of what they would want their designs to look like. Whilst Gaby worked mostly on the pictures, I mostly worked on writing the types of clothing. I didn't really want to put any details to my ideas as I wanted it to be more simple and the point was for them to come up with something. So for the past days recently as we had our elective me Gaby, and Ana have been going online looking for some ideas to our designs. There are a lot of great fashion sites online and some of them are very interactive. During my last time there I was the only leader there so I decided to research some of my own ideas online. I found some really pretty designs on uniforms, particularly these Asian schoolgirl uniforms that look a bit like sailor outfits. And I have also taken a bit of inspiration from TV shows, like this Mexican novela Rebelde. Even though their style is a bit suggestive, I think some of the aspects of it could are pretty stylish and contribute to what many girls (and guys) find to be attractive.
I think that could be a great idea to one of my designs
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