To start off with the swimming season begins next week. I have been participating in SAISA swimming since 7th grade. This year will be my final year competing and the tournament will be held in Chennai, India. Previously, there had been medals for places 1 through 6, however they have changed it so only places 1-3 get medals. Which is why this year I hope to improve my 50m freestyle time in order to move from 6th place to 3rd. As well as that my 50m butterfly.
I have been having a recurring problem with the breaststroke, as i get disqualified every IM race i compete in (Mixed strokes). I would like to try and permanently solve that issue this year and be able to compete and place for those two races without being disqualified.
Last year was the first year I took part in the 200m backstroke race and would like to try the same this year hopefully being able to improve my personal best.
If i am able to receive the captain position this year, then I feel like I'll be able to contribute more to the team through a leadership position and after my commitment to the team I feel like I'd be proud to represent the team during SAISA.
Later in the year I might also try to participate in the SAISA basketball and football teams, however have not made a decision about this yet.
Other than SAISA's, throughout the year, I will still regularly twice a week be visiting the gym, Lifetime Fitness, in order to maintain fitness and work out.
Creativity Goals
Since Last year OSC's swim coach Ms. Ramberg has started a new activity amongst 11th and 12th graders to design and create specific workouts and lead one of the groups during practices. This helps both to observe swimming techniques, leadership positions, as well as adding onto creativity for CAS.
I am also currently Co-treasurer for the student government association. With this role I hope to help the sga with all their events and activities to help them make profit and be able to organize events which the school community will all enjoy
I am also currently Co-treasurer for the student government association. With this role I hope to help the sga with all their events and activities to help them make profit and be able to organize events which the school community will all enjoy
Other than that, I hope to be able to join another after school activity which is creativity based, if not trying to experiment with projects at home. I haven't been extremely strong with creativity in the past and hope to be more involved this year.
Service Goals
Even though I am no longer a part of the Gecko Inc. service group, I do hope to join a new group in order to contribute to the local community. I have taken up a leadership position in a new starting up service group called Mother-tongue Literacy. This service group is made up of students whose mother-tongue is not english. We hope to be able to promote these languages around our school community and even base activities around them in collaboration with the primary school's mother-tongues. The leader of this activity, Mr. Mueller, sees the group being able to be involved in the school's magazine, website, week without walls preparations, individual studies, and language B activities. Since it is a start up group it will both be easier but also challenging this year as we have no foundation to start off from but also we can try to make the group how we want it. I would like to, with the other student leader try and make this group more popular and be able to make a noticeable difference in our school with the mother-tongues present increasing our cultural awareness and international student body
