CAS- Semester 2

This semester I have chosen to do mostly different activities, and have already started with them.

Creativity
I still continue to be a leader at the fashion design elective. Now I am the only leader, as the other grade 12's have exams to worry about. I have begun to start helping kids a bit more. I have recently been helping a girl in grade 6 in giving her suggestions about what she could add to her designs and a bit on how to develop some of them. I have never really been confident in helping and guiding other people before, and infact I don't remember ever having really done that. It has been a nice start, although I could start helping more than one person. I guess my goal for this is to start to feel more comfortable when it comes to helping and guiding other people. It won't be that fast, but hopefully by the end of the year, or earlier, I should get more used to it.

Action
I have recently signed up for SAISA track and team and have already begun two practices. They have been very rigorous in terms of exercise and time. Yesterday we had to do about thriteen different stations and run one lap around the track each time we finished. I was definetley out of shape and I seemed to tire more easily than the other kids. Today I had to get up at 5 AM because practice started at 6- 7 am. The exercises seemed a lot easier compared to yesterday. Certain age groups each got together and did different exercies. My group 15 and over, did pylo. It was mostly jumping over bars. I generally seemed to do well, although I had difficulty with juming over the bar with one foot and jumping over the bar side ways toucing my feet, as I was worried about being injured. But all in all, as I am thinking about this now, it actually seemed kind of fun and interesitng to do this kind of thing in the morning before school starts. My goal for this is mainly to get into shape. I don't expect to make this team, but hopefully I will be able to get some healthy benefits from it.

Service
For Service I have joined Prison Babies, an activity which involves spending time with small children from ages 3-5 who have to spend most of their time in prison conditions because their parents have been guilty of crimes and sentenced. We give them some open, bright atmosphere to play in and we try to interact with them. I have started this last Thursday. Playing with the kids definetley wasn't easy. First of all, most of them started crying and many people didn't know what to do with them. I also didn't know what to say to them or what to do. I definetley didn't seem to be playful no matter how hard I tried. I realise that it was my first time with them and so I wasn't really used to it, and they weren't really used to us. I also don't really spend time with little kids in general so that also may have contributed to why I didn't know what to do. My goal for this project is to develop skills on how to interact with little kids.