Movie Night for Habitat for Humanity (Community and Service)

For habitat for humanity we organised a fund raiser. for this fund raiser we did a movie night for the Primary kids. we decided to do the movie night for the primary kids becasue, we decided more peiople would show up if it is for primary kids, and other CAS groups has donemovie nights for the secondary and it was not that succesful. My job in the fund raiser was to buy the movie that we are going to play and move cushions over into the auditorium. On the day i had other commitments so i had to come into the movie night at the end of the movie, and i had to wait their till all the children left.

Build for Habitat for Humanity (Community and Service)

For habitat for humanity we went on a build on Welisara. The place we went to was xxxx and the guy who was representing the habitat for humanity organization name was seksisth, he was very helpful when we had to communicate with the local people. we were Lucky as we had two Sinhalese speaking people when we went there. There was a lot to do when we went there. There was a structure build for which would be used as a toilet which had to be filled in with sand and there was another place just next to the house which needed a structure to be build for another toilet. We had two main goals to accomplish by the end of our 5 hour session in Welisara. The first goal was to make a foundation which would later be used as a bathroom. They provided us with a huge mountain of sand that we had to shovel the sand from there into a square shaped place. And the second goal was to actually build the square structure, but because we were only there for 5 hours and because we didn't have enough people with us, there was no way we could build a structure, so we decided to do as much we can, so the first thing we had to do was clear out the area as there was alot of rocks and stuff there, and dig out a square shaped area which would be a bathroom. lucky for us in the other house the structure of it was done so all we had to do was just shovel the sand in, but there was a lot to fill.
Including Mr riehm five people people came with us on the build. So we divided into one group of three and another group of two. I was with yanik and we had to shovel all the sand into the square shaped structure of the toilet. This seems like the easier task but it wasn't, because it rained the night before the sand was wet and because it dried out the sand was very hard, and it was really hard to shovel the sand in to the shovel. To soften the sand we used this long metal bar thing to stab into the sand so the sand becomes more soft and later you just shovel the sand in. All of these things were totally new things for me that i have never done before, so this was a very good learning experience for me. The guy who was representing habitat for humanity seksith, also helped us complete our goals. The local people who were there really helped us to complete our goals as well.When we were done, i was really tired and i felt like i actually did something good for them.

IB CAS

For my CAS i am going to do habitat for humanity. By doing habitat for humanity i am doing action as well as service, because the program allows you to go to places which got effected by the tsunami and rebuild the houses which were destroyed. i am also thinking of trying out for SAISA football, which also includes football. The reason why i am doing habitat for humanity is because i have never built a house before or even helped anyone build a house, so i think that this would be a very interesting thing to learn. i would also learn how to work collaborativley with the local community and also how to communicate with them. For the creativity

My Goals for IB and CAS

My goals for this IB year 2011 to 2013

My goals for the IB are getting good grades while being enrolled in a decent amount of after school activities such as the SAISA football, and after school band. I also want to give my best for anything that i am trying out for such as the SAISA football and also any service that i enroll with. For the first year of the program i took Habitat for Humanity, and i plan to do my best in all the builds that i manage to go to.

Sports Day

Action: For the sports day I contributed a lot for my house. I played Volleyball, Football, kickball and a bit of basketball. From all the sports that we played i really enjoyed playing football. Our house won only one match, which was the last match and we won by a lot of goals, playing football here really motivated me to go for more football practices afterschool. When we played basketball I didnt play that much because it was the last activity of the sports day and by that time i was really tired, so i didnt play that much of basketball.