Japan Relief Concert

To contribute to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami fund, the college decided to hold a concert and in my theatre group we decided to perform a short improvised piece.

After weeks of preparation we finally managed to have a performable piece which we named '14:46' as that was when the tsunami hit Japanese shores.

Our main aim was to raise awareness to the devastation that the occurance of these natural disaters had caused without making it too 'heavy'. 

Firstly we used the colour of red to sybolise the red circle on the Japanese flag, which we recreated using long strips of red cloth to form our performance space. We then used a projection to represent a clock flashing into the time that the tsunami hit, which aided the audience to think back to what they were doing at the time and also to help us to set the scene. We represented different situations and ages in life, such as in one scene, Natasha played a house wife who hears about the disaster from a friend on the phone, in another scene Natasha, Mel and Rachel played students in a school whilst I was the teacher. This scene helped to lighten the mood as we added in a bit of comedy with the line 'Who's Sue Narmi'. We also played the roles of daily commuters reading their newspapers to show the different reactions people had when they heard about the disaster. 

At the end of our piece we played a slideshow showing pictures of the devastation and destruction that had been caused. This really hit home what had happened.

Overall I thought the piece was a success and it has helped my performance skills and also my team wrok and organisational skills.

For the concert I also sang a piece called 'Only Exception' by Paramore. It was going well until I missed a cue and the song completely went out the window. Luckily I was able to scrape it back without embarrassing myself too much.

At the end a presenter announced that we had raised over £200 for the fund :) This was a big achievment and I was glad I took part.

Til the next time :)

Pond Digging! :D

The IB coordinators have decided that for our group 4 project in IB fortnight, we are to build a pond from scratch. We had a budget of £150 and we had to work together as a form to make it happen in a day and a half.

The physics people (me, Erika and Dave) designed the pond to be a hexagon, because it was near circular with straight sides so it would be easier to dig. Also it was a big coincidence that the IB subject breakdown is represented in a hexagon. 

Digging was really hard work but in the end it all worked out really well. We even managed to have fun and it has definately brought everyone a bit closer. we all even decided to put a small grave stone saying 'R.I.P IB 09-12' as a comical memoir and so anyone who visited the pond will know who made it :D

 

In the future I hope that wildlife would come to our pond and make it their home :) it would be awesome to know that we've got our own population or colony :P

Til the next time :)

Geology Lesson Assistant

After a long wait and much chasing up, I may finally have the chance to help out at my old high school in geology lessons and fulfill the service part of CAS. :)


Why geology? Well, ever since I was at the end of year 9 and deciding on what GCSEs I wanted to take, I had a fascination with geology as it wasn't a common subject in high schools and also the fact that it would have been something pretty new to me. I had done geography before but this seemed different.
At the moment in college, I am doing geology at AS level alongside the IB and it has been difficult; both academically and lesson-wise. At GCSE I came out with a very high grade A with one mark off an A*, and in college I hope to finish AS with at least a B. Looking back in hindsight, it has been a good choice as its taking me a step further towards taking geology in uni :D and as the saying goes 'no pain, no gain'.


Til the next time :)

Ice Skating Competition Update

Well, today is the day of competition and I have to admit that I was really nervous about it. I have never done anything like this before.

I was so shakey in the 2 minute warm up that I nearly fell :/ but in the actual thing I guess it was the adrenaline rush that got me through.

Here is a video of my entry. Enjoy :)

Ignore the commentry as it was just my friend and brother talking :')

At the end of the competition I didn't win any medals as I had 9 points and came joint 4th. I had just missed out by one point to tie in 3rd place. :(

I am competitor number 5

Oh wells, I will get it in the next comps ;) 

Til the next time :)

Options Xtra Update

Well, today it was the last lesson of the course and we had to take a test to pass level 1 component 1. All we had to do was to sign a simple dualogue and we would be marked out of 18. In my test I got full marks :D

Next year I hopefully want to go to night classes to take on the full sign language course and not just the basics :)

Til the next time :)