TENNIS!

My tennis lessons (private) have been going on rather sporadically over the last few weeks. The purpose of these lessons is to make sure that I don't lose practice at the game and ofcourse to improve.
This improvement has also happened, with me learning a new grip for my backhand, and quite surprisingly I found that after years of having a rather undependable backhand, it was now much stronger and controlled... something that made me especially happy.

Me (in blue) and my fellow leader (in pink)

With us finishing MUN and several seniors who lead activities wanting more time before their exams, me and a friend of mine became the leader's for the Alzeihmer's elective. It was initiated this year by a couple of seniors who wanted to help the Sri Lanka Alzeihmer foundation as well as make students more aware of the problems associated with alzeihmers disease.

To help us get accustomed to the what our task would be, the two seniors invited us to a field trip they were going on to visit a home for alzeihmer patients, sponsored by the SL Alzeihmer foundation. Unlike all other service activities at OSC, this one does not work with kids, but rather senior citizens. This required a changed mindset for me, especially since I have been quite involved with the kids at Cancer Hospital. Eventually, however, we simply had small chats with the elderly group (marvelling at their own almost childlike enthusiasm to meet us) culminating with some sing-alongs.

Watching how our two leaders got the group of 7-10 grader's together to make proper use of the time, I was quite impressed and I know what will be expected of me as leader.

MUN finished last week. The three days that I participated as admin were a relished expereince. As admin I got to have a full overview of how the conference worked and what made it work. Our main priorites was to make sure that all delegates were seated in their proper commitees and typing up resolutions. Yet as I was a home schl admin I had to help the other admins as well in directing them around and just making sure everything went well for evryone.

In addition, when things got a bit dry, I was able to visit the three different commitees and observe how they were different and note the positives and negatives to making a good commitee chair.
Overall the conference decidely gave me a better view as to how the U.N works and the various 'nitty gritty' parts to it. I also observed some things I feel could have done better and next year I hope to play a bigger a role in the rather large, but interesting challenge of organising such a large conference, possibly as head of admin.