Students for the Environment

We had out third meeting yesterday where we split up into different committees, I am in the fundraising committee. After we got into our committees Ms. Sawant asked all of the committees to elect committee heads, luckily I was elected for the committee head.

After our meeting, Mr. Paul asked all of the committee heads to stay after so we could make a plan for what our main goals were for the year. For fundraising as I discussed with my group we have decided to have several bake sales this year and in the second semester we are going to host a event where all the money will go to various proceeds such as our solar panel fund and also various Kenyan organizations. Another fundraising idea that we were going to use was the possibility of doing Holiday grams before the December Break, where we would order candy from the States and would sell it and all the proceeds would also go to the solar panel fund.

As you can possibly see one of our biggest goals for this year is to raise enough money to help buy solar panels for the new common building that is going to be built in the next couple of years. We hope as a group to leave our green footprint instead of a carbon one.

Yoga

During the summer I started to do yoga with my mother and sister. We have been going one to three times a week.

What I love most about yoga is how at the beginning of every session our instructor who lives done the road from me has us meditate before and after every yoga session. Something interesting about my instructor is how she teaches us not just about our bodies and how to learn to control them but she teaches us interesting facts about our bodies.

Some things we bring into yoga is biology and how our blood flow works etc. This has helped me to remember some important things such as before yoga do not eat cause your blood flow would be different then it would have been on a empty stomach, how you should not shower before yoga, how you need your own mat to work on, how you need water and also how you need to know how to breath correctly.

Students for the Environment

This year I have joined Students for the Environment again, although last year was not long lived it was a very great experience SFE along with GIN has given me new ways in thinking along with new ideas in what I would like to pursue career wise.

We had our first couple of meetings in the last two weeks, in the last meeting we had we decided to volunteer for head positions etc in the club. I have been chosen to be one of the student leaders in the club, which is going to provide me with great responsibility and leadership positions. I hope to be apart of this club so that I can make a difference in tomorrow's future and try to create new sustainable solutions for future generations.

Global Issues Network

We have had a couple of meetings since my last post, the planning committee is starting to discuss what our 'theme' should be. One of the best 'themes' I have heard of so far is having it orientated around the Somali's, since it has been hit the worst by the famine in the horn of Africa.

Not only have we started to talk about the 'themes' but we have started to discuss what type of venue's we should consider, and whether the school's MPR would be big enough for our event. I think our best bet for this event to go off without a hitch would be to have it booked in the MPR, where we have a rough idea on how we want to set up and how many people could attend. Not only would we have the rough idea but if we wanted to experiment before the date it would more possible to do so, considering it is on school grounds.

Steffi and I have offered to help in finding a caterer for the event, both of our mothers are very well connected due to their volunteer work and or jobs.