Electric Funeral Concert (Action and Creativity)

Electric Funeral

Electric funeral is a concert organized by a guy called Lasith Fernando, he is a very well known guy in the music industry in Sri lanka. This concert was held in New auditorium Theater, the tickets were 400 rs and on the day of the concert a lot of people showed up. Every band got 45 minutes to play, which meant that as a band we had to play any amount of songs that would fit into 45 minutes, this also included the set up time on stage. I played guitar for a band called "Blood Brothers". we played 4 songs of which i played in three of them and i played lead guitar for the three songs. In order to be perfect we had to practice a lot, but unfortunately due to people having other plans we only got practice as a whole band 3 times, but the practices we did were very good and long practices which lasted about 6 hours to 4 hours.

 We were told to go to sound check at 12 o clock in the afternoon. We went there on time for the sound check as from experience our whole band knew that sound check is very important to sound good. Unfortunately the sound guy arrived at 3 o clock and the concert was meant to start at 5 o clock which meant that only two bands got the sound check, and the bands that got to do the sound check were the headlining two bands, a band called "Rage" and "Angel Down". From the sound check we knew that the two headlining bands were very good and i personally got very intimidated to play. There was nothing to do but suck it up and do my best and contribute to the band.

 The goals i set before i played the concert were

- To show perseverance and commitment, because eventhough we got to practice as a band only 3 times, I did practice alone for a long time and also with the other guitarist, as we both had to get our timings right.

- One other goal was also to work collaboratively with the rest of the band. Which meant helping them out in learning the guitar parts and also accepting help from the other band members.

- My goal was also to develop my guitar skills, as the band i was playing for was very good it was a very good chance for me to learn from them.

- I also had to be aware of my strengths and weaknesses in this area, and to keep my strengths going and to do my best to improve my weaknesses. One of the weaknesses i notice was my stage presence, this has always being a problem for ever since my first band. The only way to improve on my stage presence was to watch other people play like Metallica as there stage presence has bee always very good. And that's what I did, i watched a lot of concerts from you tube and  i tried to improve my stage presence.

 

The song list for us was Living on a prayer by Bon Jovi, Enter sandman by Metallica and the evil that men do by Iron Maiden. Below is a video of us playing Enter sandman by Metallica. 

 

Founders Day Performance

Founders Day Performance (Creativity)

On founders day we asked Ms niederman if me and daisy could perform a song in the founders day assembly. We decided to do our own version of Call me maybe by Carley jepson, it is originally kind if a pop song and we decided to make an acoustic version of it and that took a lot of time as i had to figure out what kind of a strum pattern would go with the melody of daisy voice and I worked Collaboratively with Daisy to figure out what to do. And in the end we were not informed about a rehearsal and we couldnt get a time for a sound check and we had little problem with the sound but it was fixed instantly so it was not a big problem. We did a mini sound check in the morning but the mics were not on so we didnt do a proper sound check.

Saturday Football

Saturday Community Football (Action)    29th september 2012

Every saturday Pascal and Duncan organises football matches where anyone can join and a lot of people show up to play football. Every week this is what i look forward to as a lot of very taleneted football players show up and it is a very good opportunity to Develop new skills. I showed up an hour early because i wanted to improve my skills in shooting the ball, my stamina and also ball control. I played by myself for an hour, i took shots at the goal i tried to improve my aim towards the goal as well as how hard it goes. also i did some ball control drills. I also Worked collaboratively with others as i worked as a team to achieve a similar goal which was to win. 

 

Band Practice

Band Practice (Creativity)

I have a band that I had from last year and the band consists of Mr Riehm, Bryce, daisy and me, where i play the guitar, mr riehm plays the bass, daisy sings and bryce plays the drums. We had band practice on the Wednesday the 26th of september. In band practice we mainly practiced Hysteria by muse and we noticed that we had to do a lot practice sessions as we just needed more practice on the songs. On that day we also decieded to play a instrumental song which is either going to be Your betrayal by Fasy live or Canon rock. In band Practice i worked collaboratively with my other band members and it also really improved my skills and developed my skills in playing guitar, as we jammed and played some original stuff when we jammed.

Sports Day

Sports Day (Action)

In sports day i tried to be as engaged in the acitivities as possible, there were a variety of different sports happening such as football, basketball, sprinting and tug of war. I participated in sprinting, football and tug of war. Out of this tug of war was new challenge for me as i have never really done this acitvity before in my life i have always seen other people playing this sport but i have never really participated this and it was a very good experience for me as i found out about how painful it actually gets in your hand as you get friction burns. I didnt participate in basketball because while i was playing football my knee started hurting and it was impossible for me to run and i knew i wouldnt be an asset to the team.

For football i gave in everything i could, i played in every match and i think i was a very good asset for the team. By playing football i noticed my own strengths and areas for growth. I noticed that i needed to work on my stamina and i knew i needed to work on sprinting as i noticed i was getting slower. What i plan to do is go do more cardio in the gym and as well as on saturdays when i have saturday footbal just come ine maybe an hour early and work on sprinting and changing direction quickly as running fast and chaging direction with the ball is very important in being a good football player. By playing football i also worked collaboratively with others, as i tried to play more as a team.

Joining back to Habitat for Humanity

Joining back to Habitat for Humanity (Service)

Mr Lockwood suggested in doing both the CAS's, the football CAS James is organizing and also Habitat for Humanity. Mr lockwood suggested this because the school james tried to bring to the school didn't respond so Mr lockwood thought it would not happen so he said to be safe to be in habit for humanity and also because Habitat for humanity is something that is recognized all around the world and it is better for the universities if i have this as well.
After joining Habitat for humanity i have had a meeting and in the meeting we talked about having another fund raiser and we thought of doing another more well planned movie night for the primary because that time we actually made a lot of money and we thought it would be a good idea. This time we would know better to be prepared for the movie night by learning from last years experience. We also did a little bit of reflection.

Try out run for the Service project

Try out    (Action/Service)

Before we actually begin the service project Mr lockwood wanted to see how we are going to progress with the project and he suggested us to carry out a practice run through of how exactly we are going to run the whole service project so on Thursday the 30th, we asked couple of people in 9th grade to come after school for us to coach them, although not many people showed up we started off the project with a 5 minute warm up where we ran for about 2 minuets and then  we stretched for the next 3 minutes, and then we went warmed up by passing and then shooting at the goal. By doing this it improves there skill in shooting as well as in accurate passing, it almost becomes a stimulation for that in the real game and it really helps because you get a sense of the environment and how it is going to be like in a real game situation. After this we divided into two teams and we went into a more real life situation where we played 4 a side. We played for about one hour, and this counts as action as well as service.