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

Mid-summer day – our school holiday

On 24^th June our school celebrated its holiday. This year was the eighth celebration and we were the organizators.

24^th is also a Slavic holiday, called Eniovden. Some folklore beliefs claim that everybody who sees the sun twinkling early in the morning will be healthy during the whole year.

Our program started at 9 am with presentations made by every class. Their topic was “Our class trip”. This took a lot of time but was extremely fun. The only exception was the presentation of the 8^th graders who bored the whole auditorium. They had a very good idea but it took them near half an hour to present it. There were two girls presenting it and they did their best to be fun but it was a failure. Actually it was not that bad but there was a big award (free trip) for the class who did the best presentation so their performance did not deserve it. The award won 11^th graders with their brilliant work.

The second part was the Oscarious one. Rados and me were announcing the categories and then inviting the winner on the stage. This was the funniest part. Everybody laughed and enjoyed the awards. We also bestow a prize on a teacher for being everybody’s number one.

            Here we sing one famous Bulgarian song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXfzYb59J08

24^th morning was a long one, filled with great emotions. It was an essence of our school – our favourite school in the world!

Creativity class 

On 21^st June we had a very important task to complete. We had to make the awards for our school holiday. We named them Oscarious, using the idea about the Oscars. We also had to think about categories. We came up with the idea to name every award after films. We had this category “Stick up with you” for our love couples, “Dude, where is my car?” for our 12^th grade drivers and many other categories. My group and I also distributed the roles for the performance for the big day. Rados and I were chosen to be the announcers as usual. We had to write our screenplay and decorate the auditorium.

Everybody loves this holiday because it is accompanied by the school end so we really had to make it entertaining and hilarious. You will see what how it went in my next post.

Yoga class

On 8^th June I took my final yoga class for this school year. I had a lot of work to do as the end was coming soon and I really needed to relax. As it was our final meeting we decided to do some pleasant things and to pay attention to my needs – I relaxed in the very best way. My teacher made me close my eyes and slack off my body. She was telling me to release all the pressure and negative energy accumulated in me. I imagined closing them in a balloon and letting it high in the clouds. We did some exercise as well but I told you more than once about them. So this is how my last yoga class went. Once again – I love yoga!

Trip to Balchik

After whole day of traveling and emotions we were exhausted and it was time to go to our hotel in Balchik. We checked in and spent some ours in resting. Then we had a dinner and went on a walk near the beach. There was beautiful view; I just can’t find words to describe it. The sea, the night and the city lights were fascinating. In the morning we took or breakfast and it was time for visiting one of the most beautiful tourist objects on the seaside – the cultural centre “Dvoreca” and the botanical garden of Balchik.

You can check everything for them here:

http://www.dvoreca.com/index.php?lang=EN
 

http://www.balchik.info/en/botanic/botanic.htm

 

Trip to Kavarna

On the first day of our trip (25^th May) we decided to go to Kavarna (a seaside town) and to visit the monument of the great musician Ronnie James Dio. I’ve actually have never heard of him but it was an opportunity to check online when I come home. It turned out that he was American heavy-metal vocalist and songwriter. I listened to some of his songs and I liked some. Here is a link with some of his best works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLUGydyOcqY

And a link from his official site:
http://www.ronniejamesdio.com/

 

Trip to Varna 

Every class in our school had the task to select a place for a trip and to visit it. The catch was that there should be a presentation that describes what everybody was doing on this trip. My classmates and I and of course our CAS teacher choose Varna, Balchik and Kavarna, which are located on the seaside. On 25^th May we set off very excited and happy. Two my classmates and I were of course late for the bus but fortunately we arrived on time. On the bus we sang and laugh a lot and here comes Varna. We had two free hours and you can guess what decided to do seven girls. If you can’t I will tell you - we went on shopping. We had no time but we have became experts in fast shopping because of the experience from the previous trips. Not only we bought many stuff but also had a lunch at one of our favourite restaurants – “Happy”. Then we had to continue with the trip but I will tell later about it because now I want to talk about the second day which was again in Varna. The previous night we were at Balchik but because of some disagreements in the opinion with the manger of the hotel we decided to leave. So we check in the Aqua Hotel and right after leaving our stuff in the rooms we went on the beach. I was the first one who threw her dress and dived into the water then I attract a friend of mine to come. The sea wasn’t as cold as we expected and we had a great time. We also took many pictures and then we returned to the hotel to prepare for dinner. On the next day we visited one of the malls and again spent two hours in shopping. Unfortunately we had to go back home.
If you want to see why we were in Kavarna and o learn for the botanical garden in Balchik, you can read my next post.

Theater "The party"

On 9^th May my classmates and I visited a theater called “The party”. The plot was about a girl that is jealous because another one stole her boyfriend. That’s why she kills the second girl. This performance could be successful because it concerns universal questions about jealousy in our society, about the use of alcohol, about committing crimes but in my opinion it didn’t reach the audience. The play was quite good but the decors, the way that the events were presented were poor. It was probably one of the worst theaters I’ve ever visited. 

Saying good-bye to the seniors.

On 2^nd May our school took last good-bye with the seniors. My classmates and I were busy with the decoration of the stairs and the auditorium. We stuck little steps on the way that the seniors were about to walk. We also put many balloons everywhere and then filled with emotion began waiting for the ceremony. The general mood was positive but many of us were upset because we will miss our friends from the 12^th grade. We had memorable and irreplaceable moments together so it was very hard. On the other side the ceremony was entertaining. There were two sketches which make the audience laugh truly. Some students perform few songs accompanied with guitar. Then the presentation came – a sad, sensual moment of remembering the previous years and appreciating them. I hope everybody enjoyed even though it was time for being sad.