WWW Anuradhapura Trip

For WWW ( week without walls) our group is going to Anuradhapura. The G10/11 trip to Anuradhapura will focus on exploring the local area and the many sites within the area. We are going to use this as an inspiration for the production of visual art. We would have the opportunity to develop our visual art skills through drawing, painting and photography and personal exploration. The goal of this trip is for me to respond to the experience of being in this major cultural, artistic and historical area of Srilanka through the creation of a series of artworks. We are going to be in Anuradhapura itself most of the time while we take a day trip to Mihintale which is a sacred area. An exhibition of the work done during the trip will be up for presentation after the trip. Since this trip focuses more on the creaticity aspect my goal for this trip is to:- - Have 10 finished pieces by the end of the week - 4 Photographs - 1 soft pastel painting - 4 sketches - 1 painting I want to improve my visual art skills, This will be useful for both my IB visual art HL course and for my future as well because I'm quite certain that it will have something to do with art. Being in a historical and yet artistic place I will develop my observation skills as I am not just going there for sight seeing. I need to produce artwork from these observations. I will also gain more knowledge about the history of Anuradhapura and know more about my host nation.

SAISA girls football

SAISA stands for South Asian Inter-Schools Association (SAISA). WHich is sports conference us GECKO ( name of our sports team) attend every year. This semester I am doing SAISA girls udner 19 football. I love the sport and I am hoping to get in to the team this year. Even if I don't get in this year at least I'll be getting some fitness by going for all the practices as I said in one of my goals I need to keep my fitness and stamina up in order for me to be healthy and avoid heart disese/diabetes which is common in both sides of my family. I also increased my awareness of my own steanghth and areas of improvement . I need to improve my stamina and how hard I kick the ball. One of my streanghts in football are defence and endurance. By going to all the pracices I am showing how commited I am to this sports. This is true because I do take football seriously as it is one of the only sports besides Archery that I like and would continue to do later in life. Also because of football I learned to collaborate with others . These are girls from grades 9-12 so most of the people I interact with in football are people who I don't interact with on a daily basis so it's good to work with new people for a change.