Key club

 KEY CLUB JOINS OSC !

 Key club is the oldest and the largest service program for high school students. they are all led by student leaders. Key Club tries to offer a range of services to its members: leadership development, study-abroad opportunities, vocational guidance, college scholarships, a subscription to the KEY CLUB magazine, service-learning, personal enrichment and many other programs. Key club mainly focuses on children and service more, it promoted all the global issue in the world and supported them. So, RCCI wan an important CAS they were interested in. For the first time in Sri Lanka, Key Club joined with OSC to help us with the CAS programs. Joining this CAS can be very challenging as it requires us to work collaboratively with other and show a lot of perseverance. It will help us in fund raising and all other programs to improve our CAS. We have different student leaders for this club in OSC. The Key Club members voted for the different leaders and were given our positions and responsibility in the induction ceremony.

President- Damien Martin

Key Club members of OSC

Vice President- Harini Liyanage

Treasurer - Terunaga Tamura
Chief Editor - Heesoo Kim

Secretary- Annie Gillstedt 
Directors:Aparna Iyer, Maheshi Dharmasiri, Sandushi Pathirage, Keisha Gani, Avindhya   Koralagamage.

Week Without Walls in Hambantota!! :D

WWW :)
Children at the school: Picture credits Camie Raguin

Grade 11 had their trip to Hambantota. This was our final WWW, so we wanted to make sure we have lots of fun during this trip. This time, our trip mainly focused on service unlike the last year WWW where we had camping. We stayed in the Peacock Beach Hotel. We divided our grade into two sections, the Sha group and the She group. I was in the sha group, we worked in the school which was one hour away from the hotel. We already planned our activities. This was planned in the WWW committee meetings before the trip. We were in different groups so that we can all work on what we are good at. We had a group for maintenance, mural , playing with children group and so on. I was in the mural group. This was when I could show my creativity by painting. This activity requires a lot perseverance and collaboration. I worked with Harini, Charity and Toni in one of those walls of the school. I later painted the plain sides of the wall. We even interacted with the children, talked to them, played with them and watched them dance and have fun. It was a really good experience. It is good to see how the school looked  prettier and neat after all the week of hard work we had put in. The children were also really happy with our visit. It was really nice to see their happiness when they saw the newly painted school. At the last day of our service, we performed for the children. We also learned a Sinhalese poem which they knew so that they can enjoy it. They also performed for us. I felt happy that I could help these people in some way. We saw the Hambantota port and we went on a safari to Yala National Park. It was great fun. The port was really good and the safari was also fun. We saw lots of birds and animals. We were divided in to our science groups. I went in with my Physics group. The trip went really well. This is probably my last school trip, so I made sure I enjoy a lot and have fun!! I will miss WWW trips !! :)

Spreading awareness about our CAS to OSC parents

Different CAS leaders were responsible of putting up a display board about their respective CAS. This was done to increase awareness about different CAS activities taking place in OSC. The leaders were in charge of explaining what their CAS is about. This activity made me work collaboratively with other member in RCCI, we all planned this activity and worked on how this board will be.

Explaining about RCCI during the activity

This activity was quite challenging as parents asked various questions about our CAS and we had to make sure that we had thorough knowledge on RCCI. We also had a power point presentation showing pictures of the kids from RCCI so that they can visualize what it means to be a part of this CAS. We were helped by Alice, former RCCI leader, who gave us prior knowledge about RCCI and helped us with the presentation. I think we did a good job with this presentation, this was my first minor achievement in this CAS activity. 

RCCI Leader :)

The supervisor of RCCI, Ms.Nyriz chose me and Uthpala as the next RCCI leaders. Last year it was Alice who was the leader of the CAS. This year she chose two leaders as we can help each other during all the RCCI sessions. Alice and the teacher explained us all the responsibilities we have as the leader. Later, we even elected the Treasurer (Nadeera) and the secretary (Kuval Dutta) of the RCCI. I feel that our CAS is more organised now, we all divided the works among ourselves. This time we wanted to concentrate more on fund raising compared to the last year. S we decided to raise money in all possible events. We also planned goals to achieve. We wanted to build a new center for RCCI. These were our initial plans for the RCCI.

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.