WWW Planning Committee

For the grade 11 Week Without Walls, which is happening during the second week of January, we are going to Hambantota. So Mr.Lockwood, has arranged a planning committee who will be helping him arranging the trip and making sure everything is fine when we go. So, during this weekend, four people can go with Mr.Lockwood to Hambantota and visit the school we are going to work on. The four people are not decided yet as we are 8 people in the committee, but we have to make sure there is a Sinhalese speaker for easy communication.

This year our trip will be a complete focus on community and service and a safari. We will work on two schools. This committee will help the class know more about the school. So, now we will know what the school needs and we can help them accordingly. We also made a list of things we already think they will need. The trip with Mr.Lockwood will leave on Saturday evening and then return by Monday evening.

My First Class In Learning To Make A Kurta

After learning the basics of stiching, my teacher decided to start my first class by learning to make a salwar. It will take three weeks to finish making the salwar as my classes are for once a week. So it will take a long time to finish it and hence required a lot of perseverance. So,  decided to learn more about before the class starts so that  I can have a better idea when learning to make it. This was very challenging and hard to make. So, I decided to write about the dress on my blog so that the readers can know what I want to make.

Salwar is a loosely fit pajama like pant. The legs are often wide at the top, and narrow at the ankle, although there are several styles of shalwar pants in modern times, some trendy and jean-like. In the old days the kurta looked different from now. More cloth were used in making them so the pants looked heavy. Right now I'm going my goal is the make a salwar that is the most commonly used type in India.



This was the kind of kurta girls wore in the old days.




This is the kind of kurta I'm going to learn to make



RCCI Food Stall in the Primary Production

During the primary production, Dr.Seussical, our CAS had set up a food stall for fund raising. Most of the CAS members managed to get some eatables for the stall. We were supposed to get 30 pieces of any food item. This is when I helped my mother with cooking an Indian sweet. I wanted to learn to make this sweet, so it was really fun doing so. I showed perseverance while cooking and realised that cooking is a challenging job and required a lot of skills. We couldn't make much money for the kids of RCCI. Alice, our CAS gourp leader later mangaed to sell some of them to the 12 graders. Now we are trying make proper use of the money we got so that it will be useful for the  RCCI kids.