SAISA Housing

This weekend is the SAISA tournament for track and field. It will be hosted at our school The Overseas School of Colombo. As I was on the Basket-ball team last year, Mr. Shipley trusts me and knows I will be suitable to host kids in my house because I’m a senior. I will be hosting three kids. Two of them are from American origins and the last is Swedish. I have hosted before (last year) but I only had two kids which wasn’t much trouble for we played together and had the same schedule. This year it will be quite different. I no longer am a part of the SAISA and driving them early in the morning will be a challenge. Although I am excited to see what they are like and how they act when overseas. It is something I am looking forward to and I am glad to help Mr. Shipley with housing issues. I am also happy that he trusts me. He gives me opportunities to talk in front of the whole school in assembly and be part of his "show". This is great experience for me and I hope more events will come up in the near future.

 

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Senior Habitat Build

For our last semester in OSC, our Habitat group decided to do a build with seniors only as we are leaving soon. The build will be on the 16th of march. It will be my third build and I am very exited for it may be our last. My goal when I go back to canada is to join this organisation if possible. Building and helping is two things I truly enjoy doing. I am looking forward to this experience and hopefully gain something from it.

Oscar Night

This year I am the host for the school's Oscar Night. It happened last weekend and was a success to what people have told me and the feedback I got from the teachers. Oscar Night is an event where the secondary school comes together and awards are given to students and teachers. (Example: Most bubbly and most likely to become a billionaire).

 For the event I worked with my co-host Imran to write a script and perform skits as well as an opening monologue which included me singing and running around the dance floor. It was my intension to make an impact and show my acting skills as this was an opportunity to broadcast my talent. Making jokes and persuading people to laugh and be willing to move and interact with me is something I truly enjoy.

 It last about 3 hours and was one of the best I've had in school. This event wasn’t only fun for me but also made me see that writing a script is something I am capable of doing. I found out that I can be quite creative. People said I was funny and that they really enjoyed the show. This is something I wouldn’t mind doing another time, even if I did write the script the morning of, I am sure it could have been phenomenal if I had more time.

This was a learning experience that I enjoy much more than sitting in class and taking notes. Being able to move and express myself gives me the freedom I've wanted my whole life. I now truly feel that I am part of this school and that my reputation is something great that I have gained through hard work and dedication.

Secondary Production 2013

This year we are doing a production with the new teacher Mr. Mather. He came to this school in January and is not knowledgeable of the IB and criteria. Although we are helping him learn he is also helping us with projects needed to be done. He is a great actor and a great personality. While struggling to teach ourselves, Mr. Mather is of great help.

For the Secondary production we are doing a play called “The Night of January 16th". It is a play about a murder and the whole play is done in the setting of a courtroom. My character is called Guts’ Regan. I am a thug gangster who is in love with the victim’s wife. It is an interesting role for I always wanted to act tough on stage. Also my character needs to be confident like the character "Fonzie" from the 70's hit show "Happy Days". This play is approximately 1 hour long.

In the next month or so, we will be having rehearsals every Monday as well as Saturday. At this moment I am working on memorizing my lines because I have a lot of monologues. This is a character I want to perfect because he has the same personality as me and I can easily relate to him.

The performance will be in March and I can’t wait to see how it all comes together.

Assembly Performance

This week I had to finally talk in front of the whole school about habitat. I didn't have much prepared so I thought of everything the night before. Fortunately after embarrassing myself and putting on a good skit for the people of my school, everyone loved it. I had compliment after compliment. It was a good experience and I hope to do it again. Habitat for Humanity is my community activity and allowed me to be out of my comfort zone. I am much appreciative of this experience.

New Department

As you know I am part of the Habitat for Humanity community group and going on build is a requirement needed to fulfill the criteria. Last year I had drama production every single weekend which interfered with these trips. This year the same has happened. Fortunately me and Mr. Rhiem had a conversation and came up with the idea that posters and advertisement or info posters would be a good idea to paste all over campus. People in the lower grades are not sure what they want to do once they start the DP program. My job is to design posters or pamphlets with computer designing to teach these Locals and tell everyone what this group is all about. Talking about the build and how we aid the community by visiting rural areas to help locals with their homes. This semester I will only be going on one build which will be December 1st. So I accepted to take on this project and help my group as much as I can since I’ve been absent for long periods of time.

"The House is on Fire!"

At the beginning of September our Drama DP class had a performance to perform in the month of November. In august our teacher which was here for the last year had gone back to the U.S.A and we then had a replacement teacher for that time. Unfortunately we did not due much but read about a play called "ART" which was supposed to be our piece for the 12th grade performance. I and the other classmates did not really like this play and asked for another one which is more interesting and fun to play. Miss. Grant fortunately found one of her old plays in which she performed when she was an actress. This play only contains 3 characters: Ted, Shirley and Gloria. Now this play is both dramatic and funny. The character of Gloria in which I am playing is a transvestite. We have been rehearsing for this play very hard. This week is drill week, every day after school we go to the auditorium and fine tune the play for we are performing this Thursday & Friday. I hope this show goes well and I don't break from my character by laughing.

 

I am also part of another play called “The Night of January 16th". This piece is about a murder or so the court and jury are trying to figure out. My character is called Guts o' Regan. I am a thug gangster who is in love with the defendant but unfortunately she loves another man (the one suspected of killing the victim). With all the work being done in school I am grateful that this play will be in March and that my part is only 10 minutes. Not that I don’t want to be in the play, there is a lot of dialog for me in that ten minutes. Altogether, I am rehearsing very hard to be up to the expectations of Miss. Grant and hope that these plays will shock and entertaining for the audience.