Service - Battle of the bands

The highly anticipated competition for almost 4 months finally took place on Saturday the 24th of November. The concert was a tremendous success and the feedback we received was very positive. The funds will be directed towards the Cleft-lip and palette foundation at the Lady Ridgeway hospital in Colombo. We will submit the check to the hospital once the accounts have been finalised and the money is ready to be given. 

The process of organising the concert was demanding and required time and effective planning. The stage was at our own school and the audience comprised of members of the school (students + staff) as well as members outside of our school. 

Action bodybar sessions

For my action this semester I have continued training at the bodybar gym in colombo. My sessions have been following a slightly variated routine as of recent times:
Monday - Biceps and Back
Tuesday - Triceps and Chest
Thursday - Shoulders and abdominals
Friday - Cardio and abdominals
In addition to my new routine, I have commenced a new running routine during the weekends in preparation for a run I will be doing for charity on the 9th of December 2012. This run will be a charity event where the proceeds from admission tickets will be directed towards a charity group associated with helping children in a village in Ampara, a district on the East coast of Sri Lanka. The combination of action and service will help me become more involved in CAS related activities during this stressful period for the grade 12 students in the climax of our IB diplomas.

Cleft-palette interact meetings

In order to spread publicity in an effective manner for my service group, we visitted five different schools last week on Wednesday (7th November) in order to meet with their school's respective interact groups. Interact is a concept unfamiliar in our school but very comon amongst other schools in Colombo, both international and local. The schools we met with were, the British school in Colombo, College of world education, Willesden college, Asian International school and Elizabeth Moir Senior school. In each of these schools we met with at least 3 members of their respective interact groups and presented our cause with a powerpoint presentation. Two schools confirmed that they would be interested and willing to help us publicize the cause in their school assemblies. The other three did say they were interested but are yet to confirm in what ways they will be able to help us.

This experience helped me enhance my speaking skills and self-confidence when presenting in work environment. The experience also enhanced my leadership skills as I was able to speak for my group and explain our situation and why it is important that we gain publicity for this cause.

I feel that this was a crucial day for each of us in terms of our service-oriented life at osc. It meant we would dedicate one entire school day to service in order to spread awareness about cleft-lip and palette.

Below our some pictures of our group interacting with the fellow interact members of the Colombo school comity: