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.

Addressing the 'C' in the acronym 'CAS'

I have been struggling to find what it is I could do to show creativity but I have to some possible conclusions. I have thought that I could try and...

-create some of my own music on some of music software that I have had sitting around on my desktop

-maybe try and produce some video commentaries (I have a software that will allow me to do this)

-attempt to learn the guitar and relearn how to play the piano (I own both a guitar and piano)

-write my own poetry

Each of these ideas are things that I have tried to do over the past few years but had stopped for various reasons. I feel, however, that these will allow me to develop skills in areas that I have had little actual experience in and will also help me reduce the amount of stress I have been having recently, as a result of college applications and poor time management.

Gecko Inc. part I

The community service program which I have joined is known as Gecko Inc. This is the first year that this service has been held and we had come to the decision that our main objective for this service will be to organize and execute community basketball every Saturday from 2 till 4 pm and with an entry fee of 50 rupees, this is an event open to the OSC community, other schools and anyone who wants to play basketball. We have already run a successful trail run a few weeks ago, only open to the school community, in which we were able to understand how this event would run and to highlight any possible problems that we may encounter. My role in this group is to maintain as well as update our Gecko Inc. Facebook group to ensure that those who are interested and willing to come to play are kept up to date with everything. I am also my groups source for providing Gatorade refreshment, which are only available through the American Embassy. We are, however, still looking to determine how we will use the profit we make from the events, minus the cost of refreshments, food, and the price for the referees.

The following is the link to the Gecko Inc. Community Basketball Facebook group....

http://www.facebook.com/groups/119500754820321/

Goals for the new school year!!!!!!!!

For this new school year I have created a new set of goals to try and achieve the criteria of CAS...

-I have joined the Gecko Inc. Service group, though we do not have the clearest goal set out for the year, we have decided that we will try and organise weekend sports activities for primary students. What this service will help me achieve is an understanding of the planning and organizing events, ethical implications of our service as well as initiating activities.

-I am still really looking for ways of showing Creativity which has proved to be quite difficult.

Reflection

I believe that I have been accomplishing most of my initial goals that I had step up at the beginning of the year. I had participated fully in the Dog Awareness Welfare Group service activity with good results but when it came to participating in the Library service activity there was a slight misunderstanding as to whether or not I was actually in the service which subsequently made me miss three sessions. I have been keeping up with my Action goals, though I have not updated it, I have found an archery range in Colombo which I plan to visit more next school year and scuba diving has possed quite a problem because I had planned on actually scuba diving in the second half of Grade 11 but my time management skills had deminished causing me to spend most of my weekends working on school work. Starting Grade 12 I have to focus heavily on Creativity because I had not done anything for it thhis year as I could not find anything to do. One also highly significant thing that I must do is to continously update my CAS blog because at the rate this year has been going I have been updating my blog once a month.