Jumble Sale

The Jumble Sale was a fund raiser held by the Year 12, it's aim was to raise as much money for charity as possible, me and my friend Vinit were put in charge of writing the letters, which were then to be sent home to the parents of every student, so we came up with two drafts, which were then put together into one and distributed to the school. You could say that we undertook a new challenge, since never before had we written to the parents of the BIS. Throughout this challenge we developed new skills in order to persuade parents and students to aid us in raising money for charity and this proved a success as we collected several thousands of roubles.

Christmas Disco

Christmas - probably one of the most important celebrations throughout the course of the year, practically for everyone, not excluding the BIS.The IB students were busy preparing for the disco, personally I helped with the Lolly Guess, Food stands, Santa hats and the performance to entertain the masses as well...

I was supposed to focus only on the Santa hats, my job was to complete a survey on how many people were to actually come to the disco, in order to count the number of snacks and hats to be provided, however I decided to go further and joined another group, which was in charge of the Lolly Guess. I helped the Lolly guess out by making posters and hanging them up around the school, as well as counting the number of sweets and buying some for the draw as well. This may not seem like a lot, but it definitely can count. During the disco me and some of my friends helped out with the food stands, selling the goods we purchased, as well as simply preparing the stands themselves. By working together in a team we have shown that we can work collaboratively with others, during the course of several weeks we planned and initiated our own activities, as well as undertaken new challenges along the way. The money we raised throughout the course of the week we gave to charity to help stray animals find a new home, so you could say that we considered the ethical implications of our actions.
During the disco itself we held a christmas karaoke, where we took the song of "V lesu rodilas elochka", a russian song, which was lead by the Russian students in our form, which does include me. This has increased our awareness of our weaknesses and strengths, for, personally, I cannot sing so I may want to improve.
This challenge proved to be fairly difficult, but it helped us to earn more than 20000 roubles and gain new experience.

Hockey - End of the First Round

Time sure does fly and I find myself playing the last game in the first round, so far we are not doing too badly, by positioning ourselves on 4th place, in the new year of 2012, we will be starting a new round with new nerve-wrecking battles, tension and goals.
So far I have been doing well, for a defence-man, 4 goals scored and 7 assists acquired, so I continue to increase my awareness of my own strengths and areas for growth (slowly reducing the amount of areas for growth though). However, I would not have achieved anything if it was not for the team, it is all that I have out there in the icy wastes, we fight together, we win together. This is my 11th year of Hockey and I have not yet lived a single day when I regretted my choice, some may say that this does not show perseverance, however this is my blog and I do the talking so I dare to say that, throughout 16.5 years of life, I have shown perseverance and commitment in this activity, which became my style of life and without which I do not imagine my life.
Everyday I attempt to learn something new, therefore attempting to develop new skills (where I am definitely progressing), personally, if I have not learned anything during the course of the day I count the day lost. Would I have fun during the process if I did not undertake new challenges? Most probably - NO. Life would be boring and listless without risk. Every player risks his life, undertakes pain and I completely understand why, when you go out on the ice, you feel every heartbeat, you feel every pulse and you feel ALIVE!!!