We have just been notified of what day the International Day is going to be and how to set up a booth for this. I have along with the rest of the fundraising committee to do a game in order to raise even more money.
Originally I was thinking of doing a egg toss, the basic idea of this game is that you will have many people playing in a competition, two per group and with each toss the players will take one step back making it even harder to throw and to catch the egg. The last person with the egg that is not broken would win a prize. But if we were to use eggs that would not only be a lot of money but that would be wasting eggs that could have been used for cooking etc. So we have decided to change it to a balloon toss with the same concepts just with a different object that would be thrown.
Everyone one in the group is going to have to bring a couple of packets of balloons and some candy packets so that we can give prizes for the winners and even the losers too!! Hopefully this will be a good opportunity to raise money again.
October 20, 2011
Yoga
Since I have started doing yoga over the summer, I have become more calm and at peace with myself, I am able to handle stress much more easily. One of the biggest benefits of doing yoga is that I am able to focus for much longer in class.
Not only have I started to see changes in myself mentally, but physically I have started to loose more weight, I have become more flexible as well.
I hope to continue doing yoga when I leave Nairobi to go to University next year.
Not only have I started to see changes in myself mentally, but physically I have started to loose more weight, I have become more flexible as well.
I hope to continue doing yoga when I leave Nairobi to go to University next year.
October 13, 2011
Students for the Environment
We just had our first bake sale! Although it was not as successful as we hoped for it to be, everyone did bring what they needed to bring with the occasional straggler but all in all a good group effort! We made a little over 5000 Ksh, sadly we do know that there was some cash that was stolen from Ms. Sawant's room. Next time we are going to have to keep a good eye on where the money is at all time, so this does not happen again.
And as we hoped it did show us who was going to a good contribution to the group and who should not be trusted with selling items to others. Sadly this does mean that we have some sort of a 'black list', but hopefully they will redeem themselves in the near future.
This was also a very good test run for the student leaders to see who is responsible and who can be relied on when the student leaders are not able to come to events etc. We are also going to be having a very big bake sale when Macbeth starts on the 17th of November and the SFE group is going to be having a bake sale on the following night which is the 18th of November. Hopefully this will be a success. We are going to have to set up a list of foods and drinks that should be sold at this event so that it goes amazingly, hopefully the presentation of food will also be up to a higher par as well this time.
And as we hoped it did show us who was going to a good contribution to the group and who should not be trusted with selling items to others. Sadly this does mean that we have some sort of a 'black list', but hopefully they will redeem themselves in the near future.
This was also a very good test run for the student leaders to see who is responsible and who can be relied on when the student leaders are not able to come to events etc. We are also going to be having a very big bake sale when Macbeth starts on the 17th of November and the SFE group is going to be having a bake sale on the following night which is the 18th of November. Hopefully this will be a success. We are going to have to set up a list of foods and drinks that should be sold at this event so that it goes amazingly, hopefully the presentation of food will also be up to a higher par as well this time.
Photography Club
Its been a while since I have blogged about photography club. Since the beginning of the year I have continued to be in charge of the weekly critique powerpoint. I have been able to get a sense of what I am going to do for my main project, possibly something to raise environmental awareness.
Not all of my pictures have been on this topic so far but all of my photos do seem to express a strong sense of who I am as a person and what I am interested in. Hopefully by the end of November I will be able to have had at least two or three photos sent from everyone that has been displayed on the Facebook page or that has been sent to me personally.
We as a group have also started to discuss possibly doing a calender where all of our money will go to the club, for the trip and possibly for a group which is also interested in photography. Possibly buying a camera for a sister school or something of the sorts.
I can't wait to see if this goes through. It would be great to be able to participate in that.
Not all of my pictures have been on this topic so far but all of my photos do seem to express a strong sense of who I am as a person and what I am interested in. Hopefully by the end of November I will be able to have had at least two or three photos sent from everyone that has been displayed on the Facebook page or that has been sent to me personally.
We as a group have also started to discuss possibly doing a calender where all of our money will go to the club, for the trip and possibly for a group which is also interested in photography. Possibly buying a camera for a sister school or something of the sorts.
I can't wait to see if this goes through. It would be great to be able to participate in that.
October 01, 2011
Global Issues Network
The Hunger Banquet is soon approaching we are making the programmes for the event in the next couple of days. Hopefully it will look good. We have found a caterer who will be serving Somalian food which correlates with our 'theme'.
The reason as I briefly said before that we are doing this is so that we can not only raise awareness about what is going on for the last year in the Horn of Africa about this terrible drought which has caused one of the biggest famines in history but to raise money for famine relief.
The main idea of our event is so that we can show all the people who are attending that there are many different classes in today's society. Sadly the biggest class in the world right now ranking at 60% is the low class and the poverty class. 60% of our entire population, that is a substantial number.
The agenda of the night is to once people arrive is to give them their class whether it be low, middle or high and once they have received that we will show them into the MPR where the event will be taking place. The way that everyone will be divided is to have as previously said the low, middle or high class the low class which will be 60% of our audience will be sitting on kengas on the floors and get very minimal food for dinner, whilst they are there we will have the middle class in very basic tables and chair along with a very basic meal while the high class will be sitting in a proper dinning area and given proper Somalian food.
Right outside of the MPR is going to be a silent auction with various materials such as artwork, candy etc that would be auctioned off. After a certain amount of time we will close of all auctions and present the various winners with their prizes. Whilst this is all happening there will be entertainment and speakers such as Mr. Orth-Moore and the Somalian Ambassador who will be addressing this matter. The entertainment will include several students performing on ISK's behalf and also a group of Somalian dancers who will be doing a traditional Somalian dance.
Everything seems to be getting put into place slowly but surely. Hopefully the night will also go as well as we have planned it to go. So far we have sold around 150 tickets so far hopefully we can sell all of them and have a full house!!
The reason as I briefly said before that we are doing this is so that we can not only raise awareness about what is going on for the last year in the Horn of Africa about this terrible drought which has caused one of the biggest famines in history but to raise money for famine relief.
The main idea of our event is so that we can show all the people who are attending that there are many different classes in today's society. Sadly the biggest class in the world right now ranking at 60% is the low class and the poverty class. 60% of our entire population, that is a substantial number.
The agenda of the night is to once people arrive is to give them their class whether it be low, middle or high and once they have received that we will show them into the MPR where the event will be taking place. The way that everyone will be divided is to have as previously said the low, middle or high class the low class which will be 60% of our audience will be sitting on kengas on the floors and get very minimal food for dinner, whilst they are there we will have the middle class in very basic tables and chair along with a very basic meal while the high class will be sitting in a proper dinning area and given proper Somalian food.
Right outside of the MPR is going to be a silent auction with various materials such as artwork, candy etc that would be auctioned off. After a certain amount of time we will close of all auctions and present the various winners with their prizes. Whilst this is all happening there will be entertainment and speakers such as Mr. Orth-Moore and the Somalian Ambassador who will be addressing this matter. The entertainment will include several students performing on ISK's behalf and also a group of Somalian dancers who will be doing a traditional Somalian dance.
Everything seems to be getting put into place slowly but surely. Hopefully the night will also go as well as we have planned it to go. So far we have sold around 150 tickets so far hopefully we can sell all of them and have a full house!!
Students for the Environment
It has been a while since I have posted on my Community Service Blog. In the last couple of weeks SFE has started to get a strong sense of what we are going to do and what we are going to accomplish by the end of the year.
We even had the chance to tell the entire high school during assembly what are goals are this year where all the heads of committees had to say a few things about their groups and what they hope to accomplish. I announced to the whole high for publicity that we were going to have our first bake sale on October 11th where we would be selling lots of yummy foods for very good prices.
I have made a list of all the members in SFE and have had them all sign up, sadly it did take some pulling and punching for them to finally sign up but we did get them all to sign up. Laura, Mara and I are hoping that this will be a good test run, to see who we can rely on and who we cannot. So far there are definitely people who are standing out in the group who have not shown as much initiative as others have, they are usually also known as dead weight to some. Hopefully they will get their act together so we have a very successful last year and can leave this club in good hands for next year.
We even had the chance to tell the entire high school during assembly what are goals are this year where all the heads of committees had to say a few things about their groups and what they hope to accomplish. I announced to the whole high for publicity that we were going to have our first bake sale on October 11th where we would be selling lots of yummy foods for very good prices.
I have made a list of all the members in SFE and have had them all sign up, sadly it did take some pulling and punching for them to finally sign up but we did get them all to sign up. Laura, Mara and I are hoping that this will be a good test run, to see who we can rely on and who we cannot. So far there are definitely people who are standing out in the group who have not shown as much initiative as others have, they are usually also known as dead weight to some. Hopefully they will get their act together so we have a very successful last year and can leave this club in good hands for next year.
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