Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs

As a fundraiser we decided to have a movie night for secondary students, choosing a movie was hard because there were a lot of things we had to think about, one of the hardest were that there would be people with an age range from 11 to 19. We chose to show Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which at first seemed a bit weird to show secondary students an animated movie but it ended up being very entertaining! We decided on a price of 200rps per ticket and started selling them to secondary students.

I had to be in the auditorium a bit early to help set up everything and I brought in cinnamon rolls to sell. We sold drinks and various foods from muffins to sushi. In total we raised 12,450 rupees (!) which surprised us because we only need 20,000 rps to pay for the whole sterilization campaign which will be held on the 27^th of November, which is the goal for this service. There ended up being about 30 people, including everyone in the service, but it was a successful night and we raised a lot of money!

Dog food anyone?

Over the last month we had a food drive, collecting in medicine and dog food varying from rice to Pedigree and then donating it to the dog pound in Pelawatte. For primary, we put a box in each classroom were the students, teachers and faculty could put what they brought in, and for secondary we put two boxes for every class. On those boxes we put a list with the different items they could bring in with the points you would earn, obviously, the more expensive items earned more points. A few of us collected the food from the boxes every week and brought it to Ms. Huijnen’s room who counted up the points. 

Primary is always a lot more enthusiastic about these things so we decided to have two different prizes for secondary and primary. Primary’s prize was a pizza party, paid for completely by D.A.W.G and secondary would get free tickets to the movie night we were organizing. In primary there was a very close competition between 5S and 4D, but 5S won by 12 points so we ordered pizza and drinks for them. In secondary 6.1 won so we gave them free tickets to the movie night. In total we collected in 176kg of rice, 125kg of dog food and some medicine which the manager of the dog pound came to collect, and in return is giving us collars for the sterilization which is coming up soon!

Alzheimers Walk 2010

Hello,

Last Saturday the Lanka Alzheimers Foundation organized a 4km walk over Galle Road of raise awareness about the disease. The Alzheimers service was asked to sell raffle tickets that would be drawn on the day, there were many different prices ranging from an airplane ticket to New York to Odel vouchers, every price was donated by many different companies.

The founders of the Lanka Alzheimers Foundation were present together with about 30 other people attending the walk. It started off at Cinnamon Grand and we walked about 4km over Galle Road and back carrying posters, balloons and handing out leaflets to passers by. The walk took about 1 and a half hours and when we came back there was the raffle draw which we sold tickets for.

With Ms. Lorraine who together
 with her husband started the Lanak Alzheimers Foundation.

Overall this was a pretty succesfull event and I think we raised awareness especially because we handed out leaflets, the only thing we need to do better next year is the publication of the walk. Many people especially in school didn't know about it simply because we didn't mention it or hung up posters, but this will be done better next year. :)

Goals For This School Year

Hey everyone,

Being part of the IB diploma does not only requires commitment accedemically but also requires a lot of involvement outside of the 6 or 7 academic subjects. For this school year I have set myself some goals regarding the Creativity, Action and Service part if the IB.

Creativity -
This, I found as one of the harder ones to fulfill because I wanted it to be something I really enjoyed and wouldn't just do it because the IB says I have to. So I decided that I would start learning guitar, I have no previous experience with playing guitars so I'm starting from scratch. Together with the lessons I'm taking outside of school, I'm also joining the beginners guitar afterschool activity to enhance my learning. My goal is to be able to play a difficult song which I havn't chosen yet, by the end of the semester (December).

Action -
There are many opportunities for this both on-campus and outside of school, so I've decided that I'll do both this year to enhance my fitness.
In school I'll be trying out for SAISA Girls Football and SAISA Girls Basketball because I enjoy those sports and it's a good way of working together with people whom I normally wouldn't work with.
Outside of school I will be taking tennis lessons once a week and I will be running on our treadmill 30 minutes a day.

Service -
This year I'm a leader of DAWG and I'm also in the Alzheimer's service. I decided to combine these two because they both don't meet every week which makes it better to put equal effort into both of these services. The goal for DAWG is to raise enough money to organize a sterilization campaign towards the end of the school year for both cats and dogs, this in the previous years has been quite a succes so I hope we can live up to it again this year! For Alzheimers my goal is to raise awareness about this disease and help in anyway possible to support the Lanka Alzheimers Foundation.

Posts will follow updating on how everything is progressing  :)
Stephanie