Creative, Action, Service

★。＋。CAS OVERALL EVALUATION＋★＊。

2010-12-08T19:42:00.001-08:00

At first, I thought CAS wouldn't affect much in my life although it would affect my grades. However, throughout CAS I found joy, happiness and passion. I am really glad to do the CAS events, which has lead me to commitment in the activities. I would’ve never had the chance to try archery, being a crew in a drama production, dance, teaching and other activities that I did for my CAS. What I liked the best from CAS was that I found what I really like and enjoy. I learned about leadership during dance activity. I talked about it in previous blogs during my dance practices. It was pretty hard to bring everyone together and practice perfectly. However, I was able to keep it up in dance because I found out that I really enjoy dancing. Also in teaching, I thought I would never teach because I had no interest in being a teacher before but I did because these two students asked for my help. I found out that by teaching, I also learn something and it is both efficient and beneficial for both my students and I. I learned how to help others and also learned how hard it is to become a leader. I achieved my learning outcomes, especially having COMMITMENT and continue the activity for a long time without giving up.

November & December

2010-12-08T19:29:00.000-08:00

2 December 2010

I taught Jacklyn last Friday, this time in a restaurant instead of cafe. It was very helpful for studying. We went to a Japanese style pasta restaurant called “Pasta de Waraku”. The menu was both written in Japanese and English. So she was able to read them easily. I also taught her how to read numbers and values, for example 10s, 100s, 1000s, 10,000s and so on. Other than this, I also taught her how to read complicated numbers, for example 15,437. At first she struggled, but after I translated her how to read them, she told me that it was way much easier for her to understand. Later on, I taught her how to use the word eat, drink, do, can, go and come in Japanese. Since the words are too complicated, I made her a table for the translation and sent it to her. She said that it is easier to understand and will be a lot faster to learn. For the next lesson, she said that she would like to talk about the Japanese Language test since I did the test last December and passed the test for level 2 (level 4 is the easiest and level 1 is the hardest).

3 December

Last Saturday and the previous Saturday, I’ve been teaching Mr. Nakamichi about office and business vocabularies that may help his everyday life in his office. I taught him words such as office, company, data, information, paper, pen, meeting room and many more. He told me that it was very helpful, although he had to memorize so much new vocabularies.

Evaluation

When I looked back to what I did for my students, I really felt proud of them and also myself. I taught Mr. Nakamichi from the very beginning, where he didn’t even know how to ask for things he needs. I taught Jacklyn how to develop her Japanese and even start a conversation. Now they are starting to improve rapidly and I am very happy to see that. I feel that I am making a change although it is a very small change compared to the world. But I feel the happiness when my students are happy because they gain their language skills.

Dance

I have been starting to have the actual real practice for the last event this year, which is the Christmas celebration, which will occur on 15^th of December. This might be the last time me, as a senior to have a dance performance since I might be too busy next year facing the exams although I still want to do it. This is going be my third performance. For this performance, I am using a choreographer for the first time. The reason is because the crew and I (the 12^th graders) had semester test, so I thought it was better to ask someone to choreograph. Although we used a choreographer, we still made few movements by ourselves to keep our performance how we want it to be. So far the progress is pretty good but still need so much things to brush up. I’ve had three practices so far and this week and next week are going to be the last practice and we’re up next Wednesday for the performance.

Improvement in Japanese lesson

2010-11-19T07:33:00.000-08:00

Last week on Friday (12 November 2010), I taught Japanese lesson to Jacklyn. I changed location for her so that it would be more efficient to both of us (since we both come from opposite areas which is quite far from Jakarta). It worked so well that we were able to start the lesson early and with motivation. First, I started to teach Jacklyn more vocabularies in "foods" and how to say "I like" or "My favorite ..... is......". This topic really helped Jacklyn a lot in communicating in Japanese. So I tried speaking with her in Japanese for around 15-20 minutes. And she was able to understand most of my speaking and she was also able to reply in whatever I ask her. It was very amazing. Another thing that really impressed me was that she remembered all Japanese characters I thought last two weeks (there were around 30 characters). She got full mark when I tested her.

Dance Innovation

2010-11-03T23:55:00.000-07:00

I am experiencing new innovation in dance right now. In October, I have decided to start a dance crew again, fresh and new. I am changing the members of the crew too (not all though). I am changing the guy member (Ian and Jun Young) because they are struggling in other IB subjects so I don't want to force them. This time, I am searching for those who are willing to dance and are passionate so that it would be motivating for all of us. So far, I found three people who are willing to dance, Theo, Levina and Jin Ju. So far, I have tried dancing last friday with Theo (during PE class) and Levina (after school). They are all in different grades.

I am happy that they're motivated. Now I'm planning to find some dance competition and participate to see how much I improved my skill.

Indonesian lesson October

2010-11-03T23:43:00.000-07:00

Last month, I taught Jaclyn only twice. She's been busy last month.

However, I don't have to worry much about her because she is a fast learner and also, she can learn by herself too. Although she makes mistakes, but she is very hard working and seems passionate about learning Japanese.

I taught her in uniquely last month. I taught Japanese through an elementary kid comic book. It is a famous modern comic called "Kocchi muite Miiko!". It is a series of short stories and the main character is Miiko. Jacklyn said that she read the comic in Indonesian translation. I taught her how to read comics, each meaning, vocabularies, grammars and more. She said that she learned a lot. So far she only understands formal Japanese, which makes it awkward if one day she makes a Japanese friend. So I am also teac

hing her how to speak casual, informal Japanese to socialize easier with others.

This is the picture of the comic cover that we read:

Japanese Lesson October

2010-11-03T23:23:00.000-07:00

Last month on October, I was insanely busy with my school works, also my CAS which I ended up updating my CAS blog only once. So today I am updating whatever I have done last month.

Japanese Lesson:

Last month, I taught Mr. Nakamichi four times (1hour 30 min, once in a week) which I ended up doing 5.2 hours for this CAS activity last month. I saw lots of improvements in Mr. Nakamichi. He is understanding and learning even more vocabularies, grammars and words. I am really proud of him. By the end of the month, we finally finished the first text book!! (It took us around three months to finish the text book). He graduated first grade!

Dance improvement

2010-10-01T03:37:00.000-07:00

I have been improving my dance skills during PE time this month every Friday together with Joo Eun. We really enjoy dancing for exercising. We made more movements. Also, I still go to the gym to work out and also join the dance classes. Sometimes I input the movements that I learned and modify them together with Joo Eun. Today, we have successfully covered up to the middle part of the song.

Japanese and Indonesian lesson

2010-09-29T23:21:00.000-07:00

It's been a very busy month, although I had a holiday for a week (Lebaran Holiday). I've been focusing too much on other homeworks. Also, I had difficulties in transportation and going my student's place since it was a Islamic holiday. However I tried my best to approach to my students and teach them.

Indonesian lesson with Mr. Nakamichi:

Saturday September 4th

Mr. Nakamichi couldn't attend to the lesson due to his busy schedule (he had to go to Malaysia for his business) So I was not able to achieve my CAS this day.

Monday September 13th

Finally, I was able to meet Mr. Nakamichi after the Lebaran. The lesson went smooth, indeed, we had so much fun interacting. This day, I did the review for everything what I've been teaching him just to make sure that he understands. It was really fun to a review and see how much he understands. It was very impressive how Mr. Nakamichi is starting to understand and memorize words. He has been practicing a lot. He is also improving in grammar.

Japanese lesson:

Friday August 27th

I have started teaching the Japanese lesson with Jacklyn. It was our first meeting and I've been observing what she could do so far. She was already able to read and write the Japanese alphabet, Katakana and Hiragana. She says that she wants to start learning calligraphy or Kanji, grammar, speaking and listening in Japanese. I tried talking to her in Japanese and seems that she still struggles somehow but understands to concept. So my goal now is to help her with speaking and listening fluently in Japanese. For Kanji I will teach her later on step by step. It took two hours in this meeting.

Friday September 24

It was our second meeting, since Jacklyn had been busy during the holiday in the mid-September. I made a powerpoint slide show for her and learned from the very basic. I taught her greetings and manners in Japanese such as good morning, good afternoon and so on. I helped her in pronunciation. It was easy to fix her because it seems like she has been trying her best to learn Japanese. I have spent 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Evaluation

I learned a lot by teaching others. I'm really glad to choose these two activities for my service in this CAS program. It makes me feel very happy because I can finally help others by using my own skills. It is very challenging and hard to teach but it is actually me, myself that is learning more than my students.

Indonesian Lesson

2010-09-01T01:28:00.001-07:00

To be honest, I have been very busy lately that I forgot to update my CAS blog each week. This month, the Indonesian Lesson with Mr. Nakamichi (my student which is a president director of a Japanese company) has been continuing until the fifth lesson.

1st lesson:

The first lesson didn't go well because it was my first time to teach basic Indonesian. Both my student and I were panicking due to the complication and confusion. I wasn't well prepared enough and there were too many things that I taught him. Mr. Nakamichi said that my lesson was way too rapid and that he won't be able to catch up with the current speed.

2nd lesson:

Compared to the first lesson, the lesson went much smoother and clearer. I prepared a proper powerpoint presentation to teach Mr. Nakamichi. First thing I taught him was 5W1H (What, where, when, who, why and how) in Indonesian. I believe these are the main things that he should know because it will help a lot for him as a beginner. He can at least start asking questions to people if he doesn't understand. I also taught him how to say "want" in Indonesian. At the end of the lesson, he said that it is much easier and catch up today's lesson. I was really glad to hear that.

3rd lesson:

After knowing basic greetings, "want" and the 5W1H, I thought Mr.Nakamichi about meals and physical condition. This is very important to know for in case if Mr. Nakamichi needs to communicate about meal and physical conditions for him to stay healthy by communicating. He said that he was worried because he couldn't order his own meals when asking one of his Indonesian staffs. He said the lesson was helpful.

4th lesson:

Later on, I taught him about objects in room, color, family and friends. I taught him this so that he can make new conversations with others by telling what he likes or his family. Other than these topics, we also continued on the text book. I saw great development with Mr. Nakamichi's reading and understanding skills in the language. He was able to translate what I've been teaching him. I felt proud of him and also myself that I was starting to be successful in teaching.

5th lesson:

This last month, I taught him about people's characteristic and personality. This was quite challenging for him because some of the sentence structure is confusing. But Mr. Nakamichi did his best to understand the concept. I told him to practice a lot and get use to it. After that, we did review for the month to make sure he understands everything that we've learned. My next plan is to review everything until Mr. Nakamichi understands everything because it takes time to memorize and understand language.

SUMMER BREAK

2010-07-24T00:18:00.000-07:00

It's been a month that I haven't updated my CAS blog because I'm in my summer break. During this summer break, I stayed in Indonesia and met new people. The greatest news I have so far is that I got two new students, a Japanese man and an Indonesian student. The Japanese man just came from America to Indonesia for his business and he is stressing out because he can't communicate using Indonesian. He really needs to learn Indonesian for his job and to socialize with others. So he asked my help to teach him Indonesian once a week. The Indonesian girl, she is extremely interested in Japanese culture so she asked me to teach her Japanese, also once a week. I decided to help these two people to gain CAS points because I could gain experience and I will be learning on how to teach people too. I can also develop my own language skills and learn how to teach people fluently. So I am taking this as a chance to help them and also to teach myself. The lesson will start on August. Each of them will be taking two hours of lesson.

Fitness

2010-05-30T19:40:00.000-07:00

Last Friday, I had so much fun doing fitness because there was a special dance lesson on that day. So I joined and was able to follow all of the movements. I thought it was really energetic, fun and pretty challenging. Dancing is always motivating for me and I feel really glad joining the class. Also, I don't get tired that easily after going to the gym for five months. I feel more healthy and my stamina is pretty good.

These days, I go home using a public transportation called "Angkot" after fitness because I don't really like my driver waiting for me when it gets late. Angkot is like a mini bus and the door is opened the whole time. I think it is pretty dangerous because it moves fast too. However, the best part of angkot is that it is really cheap compared to taxi or cab (it only costs around Rp.2,000 to Rp.3,000). So me, as a student feel really great about it and don't have to worry. With angkot, I learn a lot about different perspectives. Usually I ride car but with angkot, I feel and experience as other people feel. In angkot, sometimes it is hard when it is really hot or raining. I also learn how people in Bogor socialize easily with others, they greet each other, they share some snacks if they have some and so on. I learned a lot about difficulties in riding public transportation but I really need these kinds of lesson because I will be graduating next year and in Japan, I would need to ride public transportation the whole time. I am already spoiled enough. I really want to be independent and not relying on others every time.

Dance performance! and Galaxy performance!

2010-05-23T19:38:00.000-07:00

Last Thursday, there was home concert and my dance group performed. We have successfully performed for the closing session. Most of the audiences liked it. From this performance, I learned a lot how being a leader is not easy and simple. Behind the scene, I had so much trouble controlling the dance group especially in time management and motivation. It was really hard to arrange things since I had seven people in total. Some couldn't join practice much, some were stressing out because of tests and homework, some were not motivated because they were tired, and some were distracted easily. Me myself also had troubles in managing the schedule because I had so much things to do last week (tests, projects and homework). However I am still happy because I have achieved my goal again, which is to dance together with my team, learn how to choreograph and to perform together as a team. I had so much trouble, I even thought of giving up so many times, but I couldn't because I wanted to do it so badly. So now I am satisfied with my result. (In the picture, I'm the one with the grey shirt with blue scarf)

Last Saturday (May 22nd), I performed with the galaxy big band jazz at Barcode in Kemang. I had so much fun in this last performance. I had to be there at 11am to practice and have last rehearsal with the group, had lunch and changed clothes. At 4.30, the door opened and at 5pm, we started the performance. There were so many audiences watching us (around 300 people). Even the Japanese Ambassador from the Japanese Embassy came to watch us, so we were all nervous. Later on we performed around 21 songs in total (yes, it was tiring). Another new experience for me was that my sister and I was the MC for the third part of the performance. I was nervous at first but looking at people laughing and enjoying with us made me less nervous and gained more confidence. Becoming an MC was my first time and I think I did pretty well because I was able to make the audiences laugh and pay attention with us. However, in the middle of the performance it rained really hard so I had hard times talking loudly. I spoke in both English and Japanese so that everyone would understand.

Later on, I joined the after party celebration. Everyone said that they really like how we did the MC and I was really grateful about that. Now I’ve gained more confidence in talking in front of many people. I also told them that I wouldn’t be able to join practice often anymore because I want to focus on Aikido. They said that they would be sad but they are supporting me. From here, I learned how working in team is very important and powerful. Without them, I wouldn’t be able to perform, and with their support, I’m able develop. Like what my old music teacher said that band is like a chicken soup. Without the vegetables or chickens or the soup, it won’t become a chicken soup, just like a team.

Also, the galaxy jazz band group was on the Jakarta Shimbun (Japanese Newspaper in Indonesia) on 24th of May, 2010. We were also uploaded on a website of Japanese community in Jakarta.

site: http://www.j-people.net/info&topic/010/0100522galaxy/index.html

After party picture (I'm the one in the middle)

Four Days Holiday

2010-05-16T20:03:00.000-07:00

I had four days holiday starting last Thursday to Friday (May 13th - 16th). I still did my CAS activities. I did dance and jazz band practice.

On Wednesday, I slept over at Joo Eun's house (one of my dance group members) and spent one hour to choreograph our new dance which will be performed for the upcoming home concert (a talent show at our school). We were successful in covering 40% of the whole dance.

On Friday, I invited the boys member and taught them the new movements, then we practiced. The boys weren't that successful because they struggled in memorizing the movements. I had to be patient while teaching them. We practiced for two hours. After that, I went to fitness and joined the friday jam hop class again and was able to follow most of the movements (I came 30 minutes late)

On Saturday, I slept over at Samantha's house (also from dance group member) and we were able to cover 80% of the dance performance. So today, I am going to meet my dance group and have rehearsal for the final (we only have four more days left!). I spent one hour this day.

On Sunday, I joined the band rehearsal for four hours. It was my last rehearsal because next week, there will be the concert at barcode cafe. After this concert, I am going to change my CAS activity to Aikido (Japanese martial art) officially.

April 30 - May 2

2010-05-02T19:41:00.000-07:00

April 30

On Friday, I went to the gym and worked out again. I did 150 sit ups and then I joined the dance class again. It was a bit different from the previous one (hip hop class) and this one was called jam hop. It is more into street style and I thought this was very very challenging. I struggled since the first step of the dance. It was really hard to follow the steps of the movements. Unlike the hip hop dance, this one was much faster and confusing. Overall, I couldn't follow the steps perfectly. However I had so much fun and didn't feel embarrassed because the dance coach was really nice. He was very patient although he teaches very fast. I thought that I wanted to be a caring person like him. At the end he said that it is only my first time and the first time is always hard and confusing. He told me to keep practicing so that I can do better next week.

May 1

On the next day, Saturday, I did Tai Chi for one hour in the morning and Aikido for two hours (4-6pm). The teacher was different from the last one. For the last lesson, I had to learn the basic moves such as omote (forward) and ura (back). I had to learn how to fall, how to roll and how to defend. This one was very challenging. I tried many times but I couldn't do it perfectly. So I kept on telling my self how to do the right way but I guess I wasn't brave enough to do it. Sometimes I still struggle and afraid to fall down or break my neck. It looks really easy and simple when the trainer did it. I need to learn how to be brave. In other hand, I thought Tai Chi was easier although it was pretty tiring. My neighbors invited me to do Tai Chi with them and since I like to move my body, I joined them. It was my first time and was a new experience to me. I really enjoyed doing Tai Chi in the morning with the sunlight.

May 2

Yesterday, after I had my piano lesson, I went to the gym again in Jakarta. My purpose was to join the class again and while I was waiting, I did 150 sit ups. I thought using the materials in that gym was very easy. I could feel the muscle ache now and I thought it was very effective. After that I joined the modern dance class. This one wasn't as challenging as the class I did on Friday. This one was very easy I thought. Although the movements were easy, it became my inspiration again for my dance performance. Now, my goal is to be fit by the end of the month because I am helping with my sister's fashion show. I am helping her by becoming her model and wearing the clothes that she designed. Hopefully I will look good and make my sister proud and make feel everyone to be proud of her.

One thing I am very happy about now is that I found out that I really like energetic activities, especially dance. In my own definition, dance could be called as the mixture or combinations of sports, music and art. Since I like all of these activities, I thought dance is the best thing to do so far. Sometimes it is hard to follow or even embarrassing because I am really bad at it. But I really enjoy it and I would like to continue dance as long as possible. I also enjoy Aikido because once I do it, it makes me sweat a lot and make me feel healthy. After the last galaxy concert on May 22nd, I might want to quit the band and focus more on these activities. Hopefully I could teach someone how to dance for my service next year. During the weekend, I also bought a proper sports pants for fitness/ dance. Overall, I thought being healthy is a very thankful gift. So I wouldn't want to waste it and do everything as active as possible while I'm still young and healthy.

Galaxy practice and Aikido

2010-04-25T20:43:00.000-07:00

Last weekend on 22nd of April, I went to Galaxy Jazz band rehersal at 1.30pm. I was having a good day so I wasn't stressing out when I went to practice. However, I couldn't stay until the end of rehearsal (I stayed up until 2.30pm). I only joined the saxophone part practice for one hour. I learned how to play the song "Four brothers" and "In the mood". "In the mood" was already familiar to me since I could play the song on the piano. It is a very moody, happy and a jazzy song, I really like it. "Four brothers" was much harder compared to "In the mood" because it is hard to follow the rhythm.

On the next day, April 23rd I started my new Action activity!!! Which is Aikido, Japanese martial art. The location is in Jakarta, Bulungan. joined from 4.30pm to 6pm (I was 30 minutes late). I joined together with my mom and younger sister. Long time ago when I was in elementary school I used to join Aikido, however I never improved and I never enjoyed the activity because there were no girls at all and I thought the activity itself was boring. But when I started again last Sunday, I found that Aikido is fun, interesting, energetic activity. Once I went there I was sweating so much. My supervisor, Mr. Herry is a very kind person and helped me with the movements. It was my first time but I felt like an expert already because once I go to the lesson, I learn so much movements and techniques. It is very amazing and I am hoping to become stronger and braver as I join this activity. The best thing I like about Aikido is that differently from Karate, Judo or Taekwondo, it is more friendly and easy to do. It doesn't hurt when the I attack the opponent; it's all about losing the opponent's balance and make them fall. Although sometimes it hurts but the pain doesn't last long (only few seconds or minutes). So doing martial arts is not a violent thing to do. It is cultural, challenging and fun.

For yesterday's lesson, I mostly learned how to lose people's balance by using wrist. It is very amazing to know that human can lose balance by twisting their wrists and how I can carry a man who's heavier than me.

Dance in fitness

2010-04-22T06:44:00.000-07:00

Yesteday, I had an awesome time during fitness. I saw the schedule and they had hip hop class yesterday from 6pm to 7pm. I thought this would be fun and it could give me inspiration for my next dance performance. So yesterday I had fun dancing in the class and got some inspiration and some new movements that might be able to fit in for the dance performance.

Also, I burned 150 calories yesterday with the running machine. I thought it was tiring but also very motivating at the same time. It is very hard to burn calories. I also learned that by breathing slowly while running could help me prevent cramp or stitches. I felt very energized and hyper yesterday and I learned that being healthy is amazing (because I was sick last week and wasn't able to do sports). I feel very thankful that I'm healthy and I can do what I want physically. So I am not going to waste it and would like to challenge more while I'm still young and healthy.

Galaxy Big Band practice and next plan

2010-04-18T20:05:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, I had the Galaxy Jazz band practice at Yamaha building. I started at 2.30pm in the afternoon until 8pm at night. Honestly, I thought yesterday's practice was very frustrating. At first, I thought that the practice was going to end at 6pm. However it was somehow extended to 7pm. Later on I found out that there is a saxophone mini band practice and that I was in it (because I play the saxophone in the band). I was stressing out because I was hungry and exhausted.

I may sound like a negative student but I actually have reasons to this. I was in this band when I was in 6th grade and I've been playing for one year. After that I took a break because I've been very busy the whole time. So I joined again now in 11th grade for my CAS. Everything changed so much. First, the leader of the band and the community was changed. I can't really get along well with the new people although I tried to socialize with them. The system has changed, we need to download scores and print them by ourselves which is hard for me to do because there are tons of scores to download and I get confused which one is which (there are too many parts such as trumpet, trombone, woodwind, etc.) Also, I think the practice time is too long (4-5 hours every practice). I tried my self to think positively and to motivate my self being in the band but I always fail. I am strongly thinking of changing this activity after one more concert at Barcode in Kemang (May 22).

I might want to learn Aikido (Japanese Taekwondo) for my action activity. And I would like to focus my service activity after the summer break. I will go to the small elementary school next to my school and teach kids about interesting things such as crafts, global warming, manners and behaviors, little bit of language, music, art and so on. I would do this for three months.

Quarter 4

2010-04-11T19:42:00.001-07:00

I have been sick last week (I had bad stomach ache). So to be honest, I couldn't do my CAS activity. But I was able to do go to the gym once last week to work out and get healthier. I did it for one hour.

Also, last Saturday, I was supposed to go and do the galaxy jazz band practice, but since I had my stomach ache, I decided not to go and instead stayed with my mother. She had a meeting with her team. Their plan is to make a Japanese event for this year's summer. My mom told me to join and sit next to hear while listening to their conversation and if possible, give some advices or suggestions as a teenager. So I sat there and listened for two hours. At last, I gave them some suggestions such as what teenagers like, their trends and so on.

Since I couldn't really do CAS last week, I've been planning what to do next for my new quarter 4 CAS activity. I am planning to do a dance performance again, hopefully for the home concert later on around May or june. I would also like to teach or give a lesson to a student either in language, music or art. Another plan, I would like to draw a painting, sell them and donate some money to orphans with my profit.

Dance Performance

2010-03-14T19:38:00.000-07:00

It's been a long time that I haven't updated my CAS blog because I was busy recently. First of all, I would like to talk about how successful the Dance Performance was.

We performed on Saturday, 6th of February at around 12-1pm in the basketball court outside the Gym. In the morning, the committee said that our performance was going to be occurred in the morning around 10am. However, most of the performers and judges came late, so it started later after 1oam. So we did our dance performance right after lunch. We practiced until the last minute. At that time, not so many people were in the court. So we did the opening for the second session of the dance performance. We explained the audience that this was for our CAS. The performance went really well, the audience liked it and also more audience came while we were having our performance. So then the second session was filled with so many audiences watching. (I will upload the video later on)

Right after the performance, I had basketball match in the gym. We lost the game but we had so much fun playing. I learned more about teamwork. How friends are important, and how to trust my own team.

On March 13th (Saturday), I performed a piano duet with my sister, Sakura at Goethe Haus in Jakarta for the choir fund raising concert. The choir teacher, Pak Daniel asked us to play the piano for the auction session to entertain the audiences. So we played two songs for the first auction and third auction. The performance went quite well and we were successful in entertaining the audiences.

Dance + Basketball + FItness

2010-02-02T05:38:00.000-08:00

Today, I did everything in one day because I had the opportunity to do them all. First of all, I sacrificed my PE time to do dance because sports festival is coming up soon (three more days to go!) and spent 1 hour 30 minutes.

Next, I joined the last basketball practice after school. I decided to make this practice last because starting next week (which is after the sports festival) the other coach will be coaching the rest of the school year for high school basket ball team. Also, it is because I want to explore and find something new to learn other than basketball. Today, I also learned how much it hurts when a ball hits my face (especially on the right eye).

After basketball, I went to the gym because I thought I didn't do enough exercise today. I found out yesterday when I went to the gym and met the personal trainer, he said that my blood pressure is lower than average. It means that my health condition is not so good. He told me to take more vitamins, eat more balanced foods, exercise more and to rest/ sleep more (at least 8 hours).

Fifth day and sixth day of fitness

2010-01-26T19:25:00.000-08:00

On Monday, I joined the fitness club and ran the running machine for 18 minutes. I burnt 140 calories.

Yesterday, I joined fitness again, but this time, I used a personal trainer. I learned how to use the materials/ objects that can be used in the gym. First, the guide explained how much calories should be burnt in a week by using the running machine (I burnt only around 50 calories yesterday). He said it is good if we can burn 1000 calories in one week. If we can burn 4000 calories, then it could also mean that we lose 1 kg of our weight. After that, we learned how to use the fitness materials for arms, abs and legs. At the end, we ended with stretching. However, we're not done yet with the explanations and so on. So I am going to meet the trainer again next Monday.

Galaxy practice, making demo tape for Java Jazz

2010-01-26T19:12:00.000-08:00

Last Sunday, after doing the fitness activity, I went to the Yamaha building and had the jazz band practice. For the beginning part of the practice, we were making a demo tape for a big jazz festival in Jakarta called Java Jazz. It is like a tape for the audition. So if the Java Jazz committee accept us or like our performance, then we could perform for the festival, which is going to occur on March 5, 6 & 7.

Fourth day of fitness

2010-01-26T19:10:00.000-08:00

Last Sunday, I joined one of the dance classes in the fitness club. I spent one hour in the class and finally got the idea of the movements for our dance performance for the upcoming sports festival.

Third day of fitness

2010-01-23T17:01:00.000-08:00

On January 22nd, I went to Jakarta to join one of the dance classes with my friends (also to help the dance performance for this up coming sports festival). However, we didn't have much fun with the class, so we decided to run using the running machine. I burned around 70 calories in 15 minutes. I learned that it is actually a hard work to burn fats, compared to eating/ getting fat.

Basketball with Middle School students part II

2010-01-21T04:46:00.000-08:00

Today after school, I joined the basketball practice to continue helping my coach. I didn't have to do much such as running and playing today. So it was more relaxing than usual. I spent 1 hour of CAS today.

Second day of fitness

2010-01-20T06:54:00.000-08:00

Today, I had to go to Jakarta. Since my fitness membership card is available to use for different places, I went to Pondok Indah Mall and joined two classes today. The first class was called "STEP". I used a black board to dance and step on it. It was really hard to follow the movements because I am a beginner. I thought this class wasn't suitable for me because I didn't enjoy it. However, I think if I join maybe two or three more times, I could get use to it and maybe I can have fun. Since I wasn't tired during the "STEP" class (1 hour), I joined the next class too, which was called "Body Balance" (1 hour). I really enjoyed the second one because it was very relaxing and nice. Mostly we did stretching. I thought this was really helpful for me since I want to do modern dance later on, it is better for me to have flexible body. Overall, I enjoyed exercising today.

Basketball with Middle School students

2010-01-19T05:04:00.000-08:00

Today after school, there was a try-outs for the middle school kids to join the sports festival next month (February 4, 5 & 6). My friends and I were helping our coach which student to choose. Around 15 kids signed up but only 12 can get in. The final result will be announced on Thursday. So basically, I helped my coach by joining the practice together with the students (because they had odd number of students) and giving them examples. Also, we had to observe each students' skills and techniques in basketball to help the coach choose the 12 members. I spent one and a half hour of CAS today. Overall, it was a tiring day.

First day of fitness

2010-01-19T04:45:00.000-08:00

Yesterday night, I went to do fitness and joined a class that starts at 6pm. The class was called "Body Combat". What we did was basically doing basic karate and capoeira movements and repeat it over and over for one hour. It was very challenging because we had to keep jumping and moving every parts of the body for one hour. It was my first time to join aerobic dance class and I really enjoyed it.

Galaxy practice

2010-01-17T07:19:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, I had the Galaxy jazz band practice at Yamaha building in Jakarta. I spent two hours practicing in the studio playing the saxophone. We played new songs called "MANTECA" and "Love for Sale". These were very hard songs to play because it is upbeat and fast. But we all practiced together as a band. I had to be really patient because I had to wait for each others' turn to practice. So the conductor would tell the trombone & trumpet players to play their parts first and later on, the saxophone and then percussion. The practice was actually very helpful because by the end of the rehearsal time, we were all able to play the song at least up to half.

Dance practice

2010-01-13T08:28:00.001-08:00

I didn't go to school today because it was a report card day. So I went to Joo Eun's house and danced for an hour. We created some movements. However, overall, today was a casual practice for us. We need to find some more ideas to create a creative movements.

Fitness

2010-01-12T05:21:00.000-08:00

Today, I signed up for celebrity fitness. This is going to be one of my new CAS activities for this semester. This is for my "action" activity (like basketball or archery) because I will be physically moving around while challenging myself. I might start the fitness on Thursday.

Also, I didn't have tennis yesterday and also archery today because it was raining again. This is one of the reasons why I chose to join fitness in the gym so that I still can exercise indoor and continue my CAS.

Winter Break

2010-01-10T18:48:00.000-08:00

During the break, I couldn't do my CAS because most of my CAS activities are usually done at school. So, I decided to do something that I can do at home or anywhere else. This vacation, I went to Japan. I found some great inspiration. First, I found great music. I got new songs that might be able to be used for our dance performance. I also found some ideas for our movements. I would like to put some traditional cultural dances in our performance. Other than that, I also got some ideas for our props and costumes.

Basketball Match

2009-12-10T02:55:00.000-08:00

Today after school, we had a match between our school and the Tunas Harapan. We won the game (but unfortunately I forgot the score). I had fun today playing the game because I had the chance to play a lot today. However, I still can't do well on defending and rebounding. I keep on backing off because one, I was afraid to hurt the opponent and two, I was afraid of the ball coming back. So for the next game, I will try to get better in defending and rebounding.

Archery

2009-12-08T21:23:00.001-08:00

Yesterday, I had archery. My result wasn't that bad but it is not improving either. This was my best result for yesterday. For the first shot, I had it inside the circle. But as I keep on shooting, the arrows got further and further... I really need to focus more...

Tennis

2009-12-07T23:40:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, I couldn't play tennis because I had a project due today... So I will either do archery, dance or galaxy band practice to fill in my time that I couldn't use yesterday.

Touch of Jazz December 2009

2009-12-06T20:13:00.000-08:00

I had a big performance on Saturday (5 December 2009) for the Galaxy big band jazz. The location was set on Jakarta's one of the most famous malls called Pondok Indah Mall (the new one). Since the Jak Jazz event was going to be postponed, the sponsors decided to make the mini performance in Pondok Indah Mall at 7pm. The name of the even was called Touch of Jazz. We played around 7-9 songs. I really liked the songs we played in the performance. It felt really good while performing because it really expresses my feelings and also we were successful in attracting the audiences to come and watch our performance and by the end of the show there were crowd in front of us applauding.

November 23-29

2009-12-01T06:05:00.000-08:00

23 November 2009

Today, luckily I was able to play tennis because it wa

sn't raining. However I couldn't do well because the court was somehow wet so I couldn't run as fast as I could. I played tennis for one hour today.

24 November 2009

I had archery today. My supervisor was away so we had a substitute. My result for today I wasn't that bad. At least I was able to aim the middle part of the board. I did archery for around one hour today. These were the results:

29 November 2009

I went to Yamaha Studio at Gatot Subroto today for the Galaxy practice. Today's practice was fine, although I didn't really like the new songs we practiced today... One of the worst news is that the schedule of Jak Jazz concert was cancelled. So I'm still waiting for the next performance to be announced.

Bad week....

2009-11-22T09:10:00.000-08:00

This week, I couldn't do CAS properly because of some reasons:

Monday - I couldn't join tennis club because of the transportation issue.

Tuesday - I had to meet my father at Jakarta so I missed archery lesson.

Thursday - On Thursday I finally joined basketball again because the drama production is over. I practiced for one hour. We did lots and lots of lay ups and free throws. Although we didn't run much, it was very tiring for our arms because we've been using arms more than legs.

Friday - Since I haven't done much for CAS, I played badminton for around 30 minutes to keep my stamina good. I did pretty ok in badminton (I won doing doubles with my friend!)

Saturday - I joined the Big Band Jazz Galaxy practice again this week. The next performance will be for Jak Jazz (One of the famous music events in Jakarta) on December 5th. I am really excited and willing to join this performance. I practiced for one hour and thirty minutes this day. We got new songs to play. I really like it because it's very cool and jazzy.

DRAMA PRODUCTION ROBIN HOOD 2009

2009-11-15T04:04:00.000-08:00

On Friday, we have finally finished the drama production! I feel proud of myself because I have achieved my goal and finished my task. My very first task was to create the ROBIN HOOD poster for promoting the drama production. Next was to design the t-shirt and also giving ideas for the ticket. On Thursday night (12 November) I was making snacks (brownies and cookies) for the VIP with my friends (Sam, Sakura, Joo Eun and Devi) until 3 in the morning! And finally, last Friday (13 November) I was in charge with the entrance gate for the drama show. Sam and I were checking each audiences whether they have their hands stamped or not (to prove that they have tickets). Also to help their way to go to their seats. These are the pictures my friends and I took during the ROBIN HOOD night:

Picture of our final T-shirts design

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Preparing the snacks to be served for the VIPs

Archery and fitness last week

2009-11-11T04:21:00.000-08:00

Last week on Thursday (5 November) I did fitness for around 30 minutes. I ran and walk around the pool. After that, I did archery for around 15 minutes because there were not much participants at that time. So I was able to do around three trials. The results were really bad because I haven't been doing archery for few weeks. Tomorrow I will try to get my skills back (since I didn't do archery on Tuesday, I changed my schedule)

On Tuesday, I was doing dance instead of archery. This week, mostly all of the members were able to come to discuss about the competition for the Sports festival. We spent 1 hour for our dance activity.

Wet court...

2009-11-09T07:36:00.000-08:00

Today, I was supposed to have tennis lesson for my after school CAS. However it was raining again so the court was wet. I didn't have a proper shoes so I decided not to join the tennis lesson today since the floor was terribly wet.

Last Saturday (7 Nov) I started to join the Galaxy band again (it's a big band jazz that I used to join when I was 12 years old). Galaxy is a band where we volunteer to participate practice and perform. The great part about this band is that we don't have to pay or anything to join. But it is like a lesson because whenever we have performance coming up we would have to play as a team. So we can also improve so much in our skills. I practiced from 2pm to 6pm (4 hours). This could be my CAS activities too for creativity (increasing skills) and service (volunteer).

Dance meeting

2009-11-09T07:30:00.000-08:00

Last Thursday, there were another meeting for the dance. I met my other two dance members, Rully and Z to talk about the competitions, music, movements and costumes. We decided to have our first performance for the upcoming sport festival in our school later on February. We can have around three months to prepare, so that we can perform well, to motivate the school and to be school representatives. We had our meeting for 1 hour.

Dancing with Joo Eun

2009-11-05T00:20:00.001-08:00

Yesterday after school, I danced with Joo Eun for 30 minutes. We covered one of our dance songs, WILD (we made around 16 beats of movements). Today, since I still don't have basketball hopefully my friends could join me doing dance again so that we can finish the movements early. We are also thinking of making the costume soon. Now, I am busy editing songs to use for our first performance (we will try either for the Christmas celebration or the December competition). I will try to ask the student council whether we could have the opportunity to perform or not for the Christmas celebration (*v*)

Dance dance dance

2009-11-03T07:02:00.000-08:00

Today, instead of doing archery, I had dance practice. The reason why I chose to do dance today was because three of the members could join and dance together today. So I practiced with Joo Eun, Sakura and Sam today after school and did ok with it (we covered around 30% of the song!) We had fun today. Also, the other competition is coming up soon on December I heard, but we're still not sure whether we can participate on that one or not. We are planning to perform at least once this year so that we could achieve our goal in dancing which is to motivate the school internally and externally.

Tennis

2009-11-02T07:05:00.000-08:00

This week, I couldn't have tennis lesson again. Today I was prepared and was ready to play but my teacher, Pak Cahya was absent. So we couldn't play tennis. Irene and I decided to walk around the school campus and did squats for 100 times. We were trying our best to keep our stamina good. Since I couldn't have my tennis lesson again, I would have to add another hour this week by either doing dance or archery more than one hour. This week there will be no basketball practice because the gym will be occupied for the drama production. So there will be no practice until 13th of November.

Today, the bad news I heard from my friend, was that the registering is not available anymore for this month (dance) So we will find another competition/ dance event . Besides we're not ready yet, we need more practice for the final. This week I'm planning to dance with my friends to cover up my remained CAS hour.

This week's CAS

2009-10-31T11:23:00.000-07:00

This Monday, I had the last basketball competition. We won against the SPH B team from Karawaci! I had fun playing because at least I had the chance to play. It was pretty tiring and I also felt dizzy after the game because I've been sprinting the whole time without warming up much.

This Tuesday, there were no basketball practice, and I also couldn't join the archery club because I had an art project due the next day. I had to rush because I haven't started anything yet because I was away for almost a week! (CB camp and basketball tournament) So I had to focus on my art project.

On Thursday, I was supposed to have basketball practice, however, the gym was occupied because there was a match for the MYP girls basketball team. So I did my own fitness program. I jogged around the swimming pool with the boys basketball team outside so that my stamina wouldn't go down. I also did archery for around 15 minutes. The result wasn't good because I haven't been practicing for few weeks (because I was joining the basketball practice for the SPH cup).

During lunch on Friday, Sam and I brought Joo Eun and Sakura to teach them our dance movements (the one that we made before the CB camp) Later on after school,I ran around the swimming pool for two laps and did sit ups, back ups, push ups and so much more to train myself and to keep my stamina while waiting my sisters playing soccer. I also met my friend Sherwood, so I invited him to come and we did so much crazy activities (for exercising) such as pretending doing yoga, playing slow motion kung-fu, practicing cartwheel, the robotic dance, mission impossible and so on. After doing these activities I felt very tired, all sweaty but I felt healthy.

Back from CB camp ----> Basket ball SPH cup

2009-10-24T20:16:00.000-07:00

Finally,,, I'm back from three days of CB camp... This is what I did since after CB camp:

Friday - Left Via Renata early at around 1pm. Arrive at SPH Karawaci. Hang out for few hours. Played at 6 o'clock against IPEKA Tomang Girls' basketball team, ended at 7 o'clock.

Saturday - Gather in SPH Sentul at 7am and left to UPH Karawaci. Hang out for four hours and started the game against the East Girls' basketball team and ended after an hour.

I've been disappointed with the games because we lost both games. For the first game, I played for 2 minutes on the court. For the second game, I didn't play at all. It was very hurtful that I couldn't play much. I feel bad about myself as if I'm not good enough to play for the team...

However, I learned that playing was not everything. Being in

the team was more important than anything. I thought it was useless for me to go yesterday because I didn't play at all and that I could've done my art project instead. I learned how game could be unfair. I wasn't happy because our team lost two games, but I learned that how teamwork is very important. Just being there and supporting my friends were important. Also, I know better about my coach Ms.Terri. She is not pressuring and she is very supportive. She doesn't care whether we win or not, as long as we have fun. And I really like that because even after the game we were not sad or emotional because Ms.Terri told us that she's very proud of us.

Tomorrow, there will be one more game in SPH Karawaci. We will be leaving school at 11am. Hopefully we will win the game tomorrow.

This picture above is the picture of me and my friends Melissa and Frida after the game and while waiting for the bus to come ^^

Robin Hood poster design

2009-10-19T21:24:00.000-07:00

Today during PE class (period 3&4) the drama publication group when to Ms.Mandy's class to discuss about pricing and also the poster. Ms. Mandy said that she wasn't satisfied where I drew Mariam because it seemed like Robin is pointing his arrow to her. So I have to crop the picture and delete the Mariam part and write the information of the play instead. I will have to finish it tonight.

Robin Hood poster and Tennis

2009-10-19T07:16:00.000-07:00

Yesterday night, I finally finished the robin hood poster. I will post the picture soon after I take the picture of it. I spent around two hours working on it. I showed it to my friends today and they seemed pretty satisfied about it. I just need to edit it (probably using photoshop) to make it look better for small details and the information of the play.

Today, finally the rain stopped and it was sunny. It was hot since the morning... until now (It's 9:25pm right now). So I played tennis for 1 hour and 30 minutes at school. Now I could hit the ball better but when it gets to game, I get nervous and I become bad at serving the ball... So I really need to focus more during the game.

Poster design for Drama Production

2009-10-17T02:22:00.000-07:00

This year, the drama production is going to perform "Robbin Hood". Now Joo Eun, Deviana and I are in charge of poster designing. For the poster design, Sam and I had the same idea which was to create a silhouette of Robin and Mariam. The story is romantic, but in this drama, I heard that there may be some funny lines in it. So I am trying to create a poster that is romantic and classical but also somehow funny. I have to finish it by Monday next week (19 October)!

Dance!

2009-10-17T02:09:00.001-07:00

Yesterday, I had lots of fun doing dance with one of the members, Sam. We went to the student lounge after school and started to create some dance movements. We used the song "CAN'T SLEEP, CAN'T EAT, I'M SICK" by Amuro Namie. We chose this song because it's really catchy, good and not too fast, not too slow. We covered around 30 beats of the song with the movement we created/ modified. We wanted to record it but we both didn't have a camera to record. So probably on Monday, we would try to record it and post it on this blog.

Also, one of my friends, Rully said that there might be a dance competition somewhere in November. So we might want to participate on this competition to represent our school name.

Basketball practice

2009-10-15T23:07:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, I had basketball practice for around one and a half hour. We also did "sweet sixteen" run again and it was awful. However, it wasn't as bad as before. On the previous lesson, I couldn't run properly because I kept on forcing my self all the time to run fast. But yesterday, I changed a bit by running with my pace. I learned that it is much better to run in my pace because I wouldn't need to stop and I wouldn't feel really tired. So it was interesting that I learned my OWN technique and skills of exercising and for basketball yesterday. I also found out that I'm not doing good in shooting the ball into the ring. I really need more practice. The worst part was defending and rebounding. I really dislike these two methods in playing the basketball. Maybe I could ask someone else to exchange positions with me (I'm on the bottom right part).

report card day...

2009-10-14T08:46:00.000-07:00

Today, I couldn't have dance practice again... I just realized that it was the report card day today so most of the rooms were occupied. We were planning to first, do it in the drama room, and if its not available, then we would go to the music room. But we couldn't use any of the rooms. Also, my mom suddenly changed the schedule for my piano lesson from Saturday to today. So I had no chance at all to practice... Tomorrow, I'm having basketball practice (the competition is coming up soon!!!) Hopefully, I would improve my stamina and my skills better tomorrow!

Drama Design

2009-10-13T08:58:00.001-07:00

I totally forgot that I'm actually in the Drama production for this year. Although I believe that my job could be called minority (as in not really deep) but still I think it is an important job. I've never planned about joining the drama production this year because I decided to do something new because I joined drama last year for the whole entire year.

Last time before the break starts (the Lebaran holiday) on Wednesday, I was waiting for my friends Sam and Joo Eun in Pak Benny's class (they were having meeting for the drama production because they were in charge of the publication and art stuffs). When I was just sitting there and listening to people, Mrs.Mandy, the drama teacher just put me in her list and told me to do create the design for the Drama production (this year we're having Robin Hood). So I thought why not? I believe this would help the drama club and also could be a good experience for me since I am also interested in designing products and also illustrating.

Today I checked my facebook mail and the drama publication and arts team created a thread so that we could chat in that one thread about the plans. It is very helpful because I can understand and keep track of the condition. All I need to do is making an action. Starting thinking and designing the designs that could be used for the ticket, t-shirt, posters and so on.

Basketball

2009-10-13T05:57:00.001-07:00

Today, like what I said in the older post, I joined basketball activity instead of archery. I thought I was lucky today because it rained anyways so there were no archery (we had basketball practice in the gym). The practice was almost suicidal today. We did so much running. First, we had to run back and forth the gym floor. Later on, we practiced lay-ups (both left and right). After that, I learned new technique for the zone defense. It is very unique and interesting for me because it was my first time to learn such great way how to defend. It is called "chicken". When the person on the center of the court says "chicken" then we would run into different assigned positions to get the ball and to shoot the ring (as a team). At the end, we had to do the last running called "sweet sixteen" and yeah, it is very sarcastic. We had to run back and forth 16 times for three sets! But it was a good exercise and hopefully my stamina is better now.

another rainy day...

2009-10-12T21:12:00.000-07:00

Yesterday afternoon, I couldn't do tennis because it rained again. At first the rain wasn't that hard, later on, it stopped...but it starts raining again...even harder... So I couldn't join the tennis activity. This week, I would have to prepare another extra one hour to cover my tennis time. Maybe by either doing baskeball, dance or archery.

Karawaci Basketball Cup is coming up soon this October. Today, I might sacrifice my archery time to practice basketball. There will be practice this Tuesday, Thursday, next Tuesday and during the free time in CB camp.

Basketball!

2009-10-08T06:31:00.000-07:00

Today, I was able to join the basketball practice for 1 hour and 15 minutes with Ms.Terri. I realized that I need so much practice because I haven't joined basketball practice for one year (I was in the team when I was in 9th grade). So I would have to take my stamina back. However, today, I had a bad time practicing basketball because I didn't do any warming ups. So I felt dizzy during the whole practice. Next time, I should do warming ups properly first before starting practice.

dance...

2009-10-07T07:08:00.000-07:00

Today, I couldn't have dance practice because not all of the members were able to come. Besides, the drama room was occupied. So we decided to do our dance activity during this weekend maybe on Sunday at someone's house.

arhcery

2009-10-06T04:17:00.000-07:00

Today, I was able to do archery because it wasn't raining. However, I couldn't do well today because I wasn't focused enough. I made 59 points out of three sets (three arrows/set) which is not really good.

Rain

2009-10-05T21:28:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, I couldn't do tennis because it was raining hard outside. The court was wet and slippery, so our supervisor cancelled the schedule. So this week, I would have to add extra one hour to cover the CAS hour I was supposed to do yesterday.

Holiday

2009-10-05T21:08:00.000-07:00

Starting from 17 to 29th of September, we had a Lebaran holiday. Meaning, I had 12 days off school so I couldn't do my CAS (tennis, archery, basketball). However, I did dancing activity because I could do it at home and it was easy. I didn't create movements but I found some ideas to create the movements later on with my friends. The bad part of doing CAS during the holiday was getting the signature from supervisors. Since there is no supervisors during the holiday, it is hard to get a proof or evidence.

School started on the 30th, which was Wednesday. I couldn't do tennis and archery (Monday and Tuesday) so I spent so much time in dancing on Thursday night. I asked one of my dancing members, Joo Eun to sleep over at my house. We danced for two hours. I was very busy this day because I had art project due the next day, English presentation and a math test. The reason why I didn't go to basketball club this day was because I didn't have a ride home so we had to take the public transportation. My sister needed to go back to Bogor as soon as possible because she needed to print her artwork paper and shop closes at 5pm.

On Friday, I created some movements with Joo Eun for an hour after school. During the weekend, I danced a lot (around three hours in total) because I had to cover all of my CAS hours for this week. What I did was warming up and focusing on techniques. I collected all of the music videos that consists of dancing (usually hip-hop) and imitated the dancers in the TV so that we could move around our body and get started. I also created some movements with my sister Sakura, which is also one of the members.

Tennis

2009-09-14T21:31:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, I had fun doing tennis. A new member, Jon joined the tennis club. He is a very challenging friend. So I believe I gained at least better skills in using power during tennis. I also learned better how to do slice!!

The Beginning

2009-09-12T19:58:00.000-07:00

This week (Sept 7-11) I started my CAS program.

Monday-I had tennis for an hour after school. I can see that I'm starting to develop my skills as I join tennis club every week.

Tuesday-I joined archery this day. I had so much fun during this lesson because I improved some areas. I learned that by stopping my breath while pulling back the rope on the bow could actually help from moving or vibrating (my hand). My score was 42 (second highest).

Thursday-On Thursday, I joined the basketball practice. Although my coach wasn't there because she was sick, I asked the boy basketball coach to let the girls practice with the boys so we could have a combined practice. I was proud of myself because I made a unique shot!

Friday-I had meeting with the dance group. We were supposed to meet on Wednesday but the drama room was occupied and the members couldn't make it. So we talked about the members, schedule, songs and so on. And we're planning to actually start on next Wednesday.

CAS

2009-08-03T21:24:00.000-07:00

Hello, this is Chikara's CAS blog web page.