No Pain, No Gain

As mentioned in my plan, I will go to Fitness Club every Wednesday, and it’s been going great, eventhough sometimes, after that, my whole body just went sore. Sometimes, it would be very hard for me to get up from bed because of the soreness. Eventhough my whole body gets sore sometimes, I still love doing it, because I want to achieve my goal of getting fit and after that, stay fit.

In the Fitness Club right now, we have been doing punching and kicking with the guide of a video of course. And probably the next session, we want to try something harder, because we have been doing the same for several weeks. And we definitely want to challenge ourselves with a new one.

What I have achieved by trying to get fit is I’ve shown perseverance and commitment, as I have been going there every week, but sometimes, I can’t go because of my stomach which the only problem that is in the way right now.

Ready? Action!

 Since October, I have been going to Sports Club after school every Monday. This is because I just really want to do any kind of sports that I think I can do. And since, I started, we have always been playing hockey, and the number of students that come sometimes vary. Eventhough I haven’t played hockey for a long time, on the first day of me playing hockey again, I scored 4 times. I felt proud, but at the same time, it was only because of luck, because really, I was the only girl there and I was the worst one ever at the time. Also, at the same time, the other group probably thought that I don’t have the skills, so they were not really defending me and probably they didn’t think of me as an opponent at the time. Well, they thought wrong!

However, lately, I haven’t been going there anymore because I have the problem again with my stomach, the doctor said that something was wrong with my stomach. And they advised me not to do tough sports such as football and other sports with opponents and lots of running and pushing. But now, I’m feeling better and I really want to go there because it’s really fun playing with the students and teachers. However, I also have skills that need to be improved and the to do thing and to not do thing while playing hockey that I need to learn. I definitely need to improve my passing skills, and my skill at scoring a goal with a better skill. A to do thing during hockey that I need to learn is being able to not lose the ball while trying to pass the opponents, trying not to lose it to the opponent that is trying to attack and take the ball. Obviously, the not-to-do thing that I need to learn, is NOT TO KICK THE BALL!

By going to Sports Club, I definitely have worked collaboratively with others, passing the ball and played as a team, and when we had more people, everybody agreed on substitutions. I have also increased my awareness of my own strengths and areas for growth, where I definitely need to learn more on passing and not to kick the ball with my foot and also need to learn how to control the ball, eventhough I sometimes score, but that doesn't me I'm good at it. 

Cross-Stitch-ing

In my plan, I wrote that I would do cross-stitching as part of my creativity. Trust me, it has been a great pleasure doing it. I can do it anytime, anywhere except for certain places. Whenever I’m not doing anything at home, or when I follow my dad to the embassy, I would take all the cross-stitching stuff with me because it’s part of my life right now and I just love doing it.

Cross-stitching is something that I wouldn’t have thought of doing for my creativity. But thanks to my sister, she told me start during summer and continue doing it whenever I have free time, and basically during summer, whenever I’m at home, I would just sit in the living room with everybody watching television, and I would just stay quiet and do my cross-stitch. My siblings would just call me a loner, because I don’t talk to them. But here are the results that I got for being quiet. At least, I had a productive summer! 

To make these, as a beginner, we can buy a packet which can cost 90 to 120 roubles. And then, in the packet, they give you the thread, needle, and the instruction on how to it. Now I know what half-cross stitch is when I had no idea what does it mean before. And then, after doing it for some time, I saw my sister doing it just by looking at, for example, a butterfly picture on the internet, and then zoom in the picture and you can see that it shows the small boxes where you can also so cross-stitch. This is to make it cheaper. Which obviously I tried.

By doing this, I have developed new skills, I thought if I just look at the picture, it would be hard, but actually it's the same, and it's cheaper, I just need to buy the thread. 

And below, is my favourite one out of all my collections. 

CAS Plan

CAS Plan

Creativity

• I will be doing cross-stitching of pictures that I take from the Internet. This is to improve in my sewing skills and also my art skills and I have started this at the end of summer, when my sister encouraged me to start doing it. She encouraged me because she knows how bad I am at sewing. 
• I will perform on International Day on the 19th of October and I will be also taking videos of the activities that will be doing by the students during the day and edit them afterwards. This is the opportunity for me to learn a new song on the guitar and then also perform our version of Breakeven by The Script. 
• I will also bring a Malaysian dish made by me on International Day. This is when I have the opportunity to improve my cooking in every way that I can.

Action

• I will participate in the after school club on Monday where students and teachers play any sport that we can. Although I have some good basic skills of any sport that I sometimes play, I can for example, improve my skill in passing the ball to other teammates while playing hockey.
• I will participate in the Badminton Club on Tuesdays, where I can work on how to do a very good smash to the opponent. I will be so proud of myself when I've learned it and can do it perfectly. 
• I will also participate in the Fitness Club on Wednesdays. This is definitely for me to get fitter and fitter so that I can achieve my goal that I've been working since last year.

Service

• Teaching Maths to small kids that need improving in their Maths skill. This will then help me in improving my teaching skills which will then can help me in the future because I might be a teacher or a lecturer. The money that I will get then I will donate to a charity called "IWO Charities Group" where they simply help the elderly, the homeless, orphans, the handicapped, foster families, and more.
• Participate in Weather Club, where we take measurements everyday at break. This will help other people to be more aware of the climate change and the effects that it will have in the future. I will also then gain more knowledge in climate change since I am learning Geography and ESS for the IB course.

School 4 Fair!

On Friday, 15th of June, School 4 had a fair and our year had to come up with an activity for the kids. However, me, Matanat and Yein decided to do face painting for the kids. Eventhough I'm not so good at art, can't even draw properly on paper, I practiced a lot of time drawing designs on paper. And they were not good at all! At least, that's what I think. I asked a lot of help from Yein, and of course she helped me a lot in preparing. She sent me some basic designs that I could probably use for practice and it actually helped. The night before the fair, I was drawing on my hands and on my brother's hands and on everywhere that I could possibly draw. It was a lot of fun torturing my brother! 

During the fair, I struggled a bit because the designs that the school provided us were pretty hard, but I still could draw something good on the kids' faces. Some of the kids asked me to draw a flag, fireworks, butterfly and flowers. Some even asked me to draw a dragon and spiderman, which is totally impossible! I really didn't want to ruin the kids' faces. I was really scared, so I told Yein that she could do the hard ones, and I would do the basic ones. And of course Yein did it perfectly. 

I was just hoping that the kids liked my work of art on their face, because I'm not the best artist! At all!

The CAS learning outcomes that I achieved with face painting are:

• Developed new skills, as this is the first ever time I ever ever face painted on people
• Increased my awareness of my own strengths and areas for growth, as I have practiced a lot of time and I know what I have to improve and I actually might do this more often so, I can do this activity again 

Istra!

On the 4th of June, Year 12 went to Istra for a week! Everybody was really excited! 

When we get there, the first task that we needed to do is look for 10 flags around the forest, and my group found only 7 flags. It was hard, however, we had a good teamwork and I think that the objective of the task was that, we can know the path of the forest. After that, another task was given which was to draw the map of the Istra reservation. I thought that I wouldn't be good at it, but I was impressed with my Istra map. After dinner, we had something fun to do, which I have no idea what's it called, but it has something to do with blindfolding. It was fun and I think we laughed a lot of time.

The next day, we had an investigation to do, which is about the trans-section line. We had to do the investigation in a group, and my group members were Thibaut, Yein and SangHoon. We distributed the tasks for each person. The hardest thing is that our site was a really steep slope and all of us at least fell once, and we would laughed at each other. After collecting the data, we would go back to the conference room, where we do all the write-ups. Later on the day, we had a competition where we had to design a boat, and my pair was Thibaut. We used a pringles box, 6 cups and a thin stick. At first, we thought that our boat was the worst, but no, we actually won the competition! And I still can't believe it until now! Next, we had to do a trap for the bugs. But, the next day when we came to see who trapped the most bugs, all of the traps have been destroyed but some Russians. 

The third day, we had to do another investigation using quadrats. I was in the same group as before. And we had the same tasks as before, 3 of us would count the number of each species and one of us would do the writing. This investigation took us a really long time, because we really wanted a good result. After having all kinds of tiredness, we had a game, like we always do after dinner. This time, it's a music quiz, where we had to listen to the song, guess the title, the artist, the name of the album and the decade when it was released. My group was Matanat, SangHoon and Yein. We guessed a lot of them, however the answers were really random. We just took some words from the lyrics. 

The next day, the investigation that we did is the individual investigation, where we had to come up with a our own plan for the investigation. Since I was really blank, Mr O'Connor helped me with an idea of investigating the relationship between the height and width of pine trees. I really liked doing the experiment. And Matanat also had the same investigation with me, because if I was to do it alone, it will be hard. And I got two cuts at the same time! Eventhough we didn't even started anything yet. It hurts so bad! Can't even imagine! During the night, we had a barbecue because it was the last night we're gonna be there. I ate a lot of chicken since that's the only food I could it! After that, we played a game called Spotlight, I think. And, the exact time that we started playing, it also started to rain. But we still played it like 5 times, because it was a lot of fun. I was holding the torch with Natalia, and we were really good at identifying people, and we're proud of it!
On the last day we're there, we woke up for breakfast, then we packed our stuff, and we came back to Moscow.
Honestly, I want to have the trip again! One is because of the fresh air and another one is that we didn't have to wake up so early like I always do when it's weekdays. However, the thing that I hated the most was were mosquitoes, I even had a huge one and the bites were so obvious, they were really red. But we still had a lot of fun together at Istra!

The CAS learning outcomes that I achieved during the trip to Istra are:

• Undertaken new challenges, as I had to draw the map of the Istra reservation, we had to design a boat, and design a trap for the bugs. Dong all the investigations as well, especially the elevation one, where we had to do it on a steep slope. 
• Worked collaboratively with others, as when we were doing the investigations, we distributed the tasks with each other, and sometimes we would take turn counting the species, which is a tiring task, but we still managed to do it. 
• Planned and initiated activities, as for our individual investigation, we needed to come up with our own plan.
• Developed new skills, as I actually had never used some of the equipment before and now I know the names, the uses and obviously now I know how to use them. 
• Considered the ethical implications of my actions, after the barbecue, we cleaned up the mess that we did when we were eating and having fun.

Babysitting!

Baysitting was another service that I have done this term. I didn't plan it, but my dad decided to go to Berlin with a student, and the student had a baby already, so he left his baby at my house for a week, and me and my mom would take turn to babysit her. Her name is Nasha Aleena Nadwah, and let me tell you, babysitting her is not easy at all. 

She is so hyperactive, the hardest challenge is to put her to sleep. It's almost impossible, we actually had to make her really tired, by playing with her and all the things we can do to make her tired. Even at one point, my mom was the one who went to sleep instead of her. Sometimes, we would just lay on the floor next to her and closed our eyes, but then, she would go crying. It's was really hard. 

She's really cute, and thank goodness, she doesn't really cry. Even when she cried, it only lasted for about 10 seconds, then she would stop. I love babysitting her eventhough it was hard. But really, I think babysitting anybody is never easy. 

The day that she went home, I felt pretty sad. Because we bonded a lot with each other. Everyday after school my mom would open the door with her. I miss that a lot. Eventhough I get tired after school, she would make me laugh like a crazy person. She's a lot of fun eventhough she's only 1 year old. She's making a lot of progress with her baby steps and her talking. I'm a bit surprised that she could actually said some words. But sometimes, when I was teaching her some words, she would just scream really loud. That made me laugh. 

The CAS learning outcomes that I achieved by babysitting are:

• Undertaken new challenges, I took the challenge to put her to sleep, my mom said that I have to practice so that I would get used to it when I have my own child. What a great advice!