Gecko Inc. Finished

The first semester has ended and Gecko Inc. concluded its first semester of service with a very intense four hour long basketball tournement in which all 10 teams showed up and participted. With this, I must now think about what I would want to do for the next semester as I still have another 4 or so month (minus exams) to continue with a community service activity. I plan on applying to participate in either Gecko Inc., as this will allow me to continue developing my skills with photography, or Recycling, as this was a service activity that I had participated in previously at OSC. In terms of a more indepth reason as to why I want to join either of these two programs is because both have a impact on our community, though Recycling has a much more global impact than Gecko Inc. but it is however no more important than the other.

MY GOALS FOR THE FINAL SEMESTER
- Continue with Service acivity (either Gecko Inc. or Recycling)
- Continue developing my skill in photography, this directly connects to Service activity

Gecko Inc. -Update-

We had another successful community basketball session last Saturday and we are preparing for a tournament match to take place this week-end, Saturday the 10th. For the match, we have had our members on our Facebook page form teams of those they want to play with, this sorted itself out fairly quickly and we now have  six teams participating in the tournament. From what I understand, the tournament will be organized as a round-robin type of tournament as this is a simple well known way of organizing this type of sporting event.

For the past few week-ends I have used this event as an opportunity to enhance my photography skill. I don't normally have the time on the week-end to go out and take photo in Colombo so this type of event proved to be a great way for me to both pursue a personal interest of mine and assist in our CAS's community engagement. This has also helped me understand the many functions of my Nikon D-3100, whether it be by using a faster shutter speed or by taking continuous photographs. Another factor for why I have taken up a photographer role in this CAS as well is because, with the Facebook group, as the creator of the page, I can and have given any member of the the page admin powers so that they can update information and allow acces to new members when I have not already done so.

Exemplar photo...