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Since I am not going to be a part of the last sport season at OSC which includes Girls football, Boys basketball and Track and Field, I have decided to add the Gym back into my daily routine. This is the same Gym that I was visiting last year and I have set some fitness and weight loss goals for myself already. Next session I have there I will take some pictures for evidence to upload.

Fun With Languages

Next week will be the first official session of Fun with languages with the following group of primary students:

Soham	3 S
Gabriella	4 N
Kyli	4 J
Zoe	5 H
Diya	5 H
Murad	3 R
Auggie	3 R
Viola	3R
Gitanjali	3S
Ben	3R
Linna	3R
Dayeon	3R

The activity was only open to grades 3-5 in primary school since we wanted to complete more complex educational activities and as a group felt like younger students would not be able to do that. 

Currently the group is made up of DP2 students as there had been some trouble last semester with the MYP students and their contribution to the group. the languages we currently offer in this group are German, Russian, Sinhalese, Spanish, Dutch, and Japanese. One of the languages the primary students asked for was Italian however there are not many Italian students in our secondary school and those who are there, are already involved in a different service group. 

We hope to be able to strengthen components of these languages and their cultures in these primary students and widen their interest in these other languages hopefully allowing them to memorise certain phrases and or alphabets/numbers 

SGA Gecko Factor

The OSC talent show Gecko Factor will be held in the OSC auditorium at 5:00pm on Saturday the 21st of February. The participants and judges have been chosen and there will be a rehearsal held today after school (Monday the 16th of Feb). During this rehearsal we will go through sound checks, lighting checks, stage set ups and finally the line up. I am helping with the line up back stage making sure the schedule runs by the predicted time and making sure all the participants are back stage and ready to perform when needed.

Poster by Sasha (SGA Spirit Coordinator)

SGA Bakesale

SAISA GIRLS BASKETBALL BAKESALE:

The SGA held a bake sale during the last day of the Basketball Tournament in order to raise money to have our OSCars at an outside venue. This bake sale was one of the most successful bake sales that the SGA has ever held and raised over 40,000 rupees. Another surprising factor of this was that every single person in the SGA contributed and brought in snacks, as well as some people who are not even part of the SGA, we had an excess amount of food compared to counter space that not everything fit. We sold the following:

• Milo
• Sprite
• Iced Tea
• Coffee
• Ice Popsicles 
• Chocolate Cupcakes
• Caramel Cupcakes
• Orange Cupcakes 
• Red Velvet Cupcakes
• Blueberry Muffins
• Popcorn
• Churros
• Lemon Cake
• Butter Cake 
• Donuts
• Cookie Dough Brownies
• Regular Brownies
• Chocolate Chip Blondies
• Chocolate Cake 
• Mini Cookies 
• Ginger Cookies
• Samosas

Amongst selling most of our food there were three SAISA schools who donated 1000rs each to contribute to our OSCars fundraising. Overall this was a very successful fundraiser and very beneficial to the SGA for our OSCars planning. 

SAISA BASKETBALL ADVERTISEMENT POSTERS

SAISA BASKETBALL EVENT CREW

On February 5th, 6th, and 7th, SAISA girls basketball took place here in colombo. There were 7 teams that participated which included ASB (American School of Bombay), AISD (American international school of Dhaka, AISC (American international school of Chennai), KAS (Karachi american school), TAISM (The american international school of muscat), OSC (Overseas school of Colombo), and GC (Gateway College). Even though I did not participate, I joined the event crew which is a group of students who help organise the event and ensure it runs smoothly. My role in this was mainly communication between the event crew and the coaches of each team, updating them with announcements, with results, important notices/reminders, and ensuring there were no complaints/problems unattended to. This was challenging to me since I am usually a very shy person, however, I was able to step out of my comfort zone and be able to show more leadership qualities as well as being a risk taker taking on this responsibility to be able to contribute to the success that was this tournament.

The event crew is a very busy stressful but amazing experience. Unlike student leaders in any other SAISA school, all coaches are always incredibly impressed with our event crews. In the event crew students do not only help but organise the entire event themselves. It gives them a chance to be a leader and learn to deal with responsibilities crucial to making an event work. We learn about the importance of teamwork and efficiency, of contribution and dedication and learn about the consequences of our laziness or actions by problems coming about throughout the tournament. We learn how to attack problems head on and problem solve ourselves without the help of other teachers or adults. In the end the sheer joy of completing the tournament and all the compliments are incredibly rewarding. I think it is important for all students to be a part of the event crew at OSC at one point in their lives just because they will be able to learn so much about responsibility and problem solving. Throughout the stress of all the responsibility, the event crew for those three days of the tournament are like a family. We are able to have a great amount of fun doing all the tasks which takes some of the stress away as well as with our Athletics Director, Mark Shipley who ensures that we all stay motivated and determined to do our jobs.

Below is a picture of myself, Tulika, and Elizabeth watching the opening ceremony as well as the SAISA GIRLS BASKETBALL 2015 official logo:

Photo taken by Amruta (SAISA event crew photographer)