Sorting clothes for charity

In October a charity campaign for collecting clothes was organized. After the campaign ended our work started. On 26^th we had to sort the clothes and as I’ve told you more than once, I like doing this a lot. It is time for having fun and doing something good. Just like the previous year when we were sorting clothes, we enjoyed it a lot. We were packing the clothes and goofing off at the same time. We put on some skirts and tops and made funny combinations. We even created a model for a new school uniform. Anyway, this made my day. 

The elections at our college

24^th October was the day for elections. The candidates were representatives from every class, who had shared their ideas and aims in front of the whole school the previous week. The elections took place at the auditorium of the college. Our IB group was responsible for the honest voting of every student. There were two ballot-boxes, so only two electors were allowed to vote at the same time. My role was to explain them how to vote and to watch over if someone wants to cheat.

The whole story sounds extremely boring but we actually had a great fun. We wanted completely to assume the role of guards, which don’t suit us at all but we were very good at it. Nobody tried to provoke us or to cheat.

At our lunch break we counted the votes and without any doubt the 12^th graders won. We were fully satisfied with this result but we also had to keep the secret until the next morning. Anyway, nothing bad happened on our elections, which is a tiny hope that the elections all over the world proceed exactly this way. 

http://www.ac-arcus.com/?mod=events&show=303  
Here is a link from our school site

Art club

On 20^th October we had our first Art class for this school year. Our task was to paint or actually smear with dye discs, which were first coated with glue. We had to put the glue which was disgusting. Anyway, I had a great fun.  In the end, we were all dirty and variegated. This kind of sophisticated art is new for us but we have to leave the discs to become dry and hence make them even more beautiful. This secret I intend to share in my next post about the Art club.  

Training #2 

 
GLOW association took its second training today (17^th October). It was concerned with presentations, especially with the most effective ways of presenting. It was too long to be active and interested all the time, but I enjoyed it. The thing that I like the most in this kind of meetings is that they are interactive. It’s not only the teachers who talk, but the members too. This kind of activities keeps everybody’s attention. To be honest, I like the first training way more than this, but I can’t say it was boring or something. I’m looking forward the next meeting and I hope it will be even better.

Оrganizational meeting

On 10^th October we had organizational meeting about the school Charity and Art club. We decided when our future meetings are going to be - nothing interesting as a whole.

We also planned one charity campaign about collecting clothes for children from Balvan (village around Veliko Tarnovo). These campaigns are from my Top 5. I really enjoy collecting and sorting clothes because we had a great fun and of course, because the campaign helps many children.

Back on the topic - I don’t like this kind of meetings because everybody shouts in order to suggest some future ideas; there are many people that don’t know what they are doing here. Anyway, I’m used to it.

 Training 

On 6^th October a new organization (GLOW association) was established. It is concerned with leadership and group work. There were people of different age from different schools, so we had a nodding acquaintance with each other.  This first meeting aimed to join us. In order to complete this uneasy task, the establishers had prepared some games. It sounds very stupid and childish, but I’ve never imaged having so much fun playing such games.

At the first part there was a short presentation introducing the organization aims and explaining the definition of leadership, types of personalities in societies (e.g. conformists) and how their behavior affects other people. It was quite interesting. I didn’t learn anything new, but I like the way it was presented.

After this presentation we were given some tasks. The first one was to invent a short play introducing different types of behavior. In order to do this, we were split in different teams. There were younger students in my team and they actually were waiting me to tell them what to do. It is the awkward thing about meeting new people – there is a barrier between you and somebody should cross it. The first thing to do was to break the ice, so I suggested many different ways of completing our task and let them choose one. In my opinion it worked out. We did quite good play, everybody had a role, even though our task was about a phone talk and we were four. After completing it we had a small chat and I thing one of the girls had very interesting personality. Anyway, I think I’m talking too much.

The second task was for the whole group. We were about 30 and we had to work together. There were two circles in the room. The first one was formed by a line contouring us hugged. At the second circle the were papers with numbers from one to 30 and every one of us had to touch only one number without talking outside the first circle. The first thing to do was to make a strategy. A friend on mine and I suggested walking in a line to the second circle and taking turns. So we did it. We had a lot of fun and we were stimulated to do it right, because every time somebody made a mistake we had to start again. It took us only seven minutes and we were proud with our score!

All in all, I loved this meeting. I expected it to be boring, but it was not. Our teachers put an effort and it works. So I’m looking forward the next meeting!

First CAS meeting for 2011-2012 school year

It is the beginning of my last school year and I feel terribly bad. I had my last first CAS meeting today (5^th October). It was an organizational meeting and we were planning our schedule for 2011-2012 school year. I was talking about something and I found myself thinking about a project that can be established next school year. It was when I realized that there is no next school year for me and I’m graduating. I feel so depressed right now. I’ve never imagined this time coming. There is only one thing I can do – I can do my best and actually live this year. I’ll try to be more organized, more active in our school life and I promise I’ll smile more often!  

Personal Planing Page - Term 3
Activities	Evidence	Hours	Total
Creativity	- Art club	14	27
	-Making posters for the Slavi’s Show	4
	-Visiting the Slavi’s Show	3
	-Visiting the local theater	2
	- Making frames for the Christmas Charity Ball	2
	- Making stickers for World Smile Day	2
Action	-   Trip to Sofia	17	20
	-   Billiards competition	3
Service	-Charity club	19	29
	-Trainings in “Catchers of dreams ”	8
	- International Volunteer Day	2

                                                                                                                Total:76

Local project: IB newspaper

International project: European Voluntary Corps