Service: American Embassy Halloween Haunted House

For the past three years I have agreed to assist with the American Embassy's Haunted House project on Halloween. This has been a very fun activity as this is one of the few annual events which is done by the Embassy for its community. For every years, apart from this year, I have assisted in organizing and setting up each event (in 2009 I was actually in charge of making the house ready as well as participating in it, where as in 2010 and 2011 I had no direct leadership role and in 2011 I had not assisted in the make ready).

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I have really enjoyed assisting with this activity as this has allowed me to develop my collaborative and leadership skills which has allowed me to develop more commitment toward activities which I agree to participate in.

Creativity

I have looked into how I will be able to show evidence of my choices for Creativity. For the video commentaries the easiest and most common way is to upload the videos straight to YouTube as it is the source of many other commentaries, some of which have inspired me to take my own initiative. For creating my own music I have found a website called SoundCloud.com which is a website where users can submit audio tracks and share it with others both on and off that website and I have planned on using music programs to create and record my music; software such as MixCraft and GarageBand. I have tutorial type books and CD's for playing both the guitar and piano which allows me to start on this right away and I will be able to record what ever I do with these programs.

Link to my SoundCloud.com profile

http://soundcloud.com/da-v-i-p

Gecko Inc. part II

We ran another successful event, raising around Rs. 8 thousand, on the 5th but where we were posed with some new complications. We had a total of around 50 people show up, which is nearing the total capacity that we can accommodate and is making slightly harder to keep track of what is exactly going on.

We have thought about establishing regulations in order to reduce the amount of people that turn up to the event; one being to increase the entrance fee from Rs. 50 to 100, another being to have our Facebook group members tell us before hand to whether or not they are coming so that we can tell the security guards to only allow those who have informed us on their planned attendance. We will hopefully decide on what approach we will take hopefully over the next two weeks.

As to what we will be raising money for, we have decided that we will be putting the money toward providing sports equipment for a local school that is need of such supplies.