CREATIVITY/ACTIVITY/SERVICE|| Prom Committee

Like every Junior it is our turn to plan Prom this year. I wanted to participate at it is an important part of our high-school life, but was not ready to take full charge on it.  For this reason I am part of the Finance committee. I will work to get all the prizes and be sure that the budget we have allows us to achieve what we want.

We already had two meetings and chose the theme and are pretty sure on the location. We will have a Great Gatsby 1920’s prom and most probably in Westhouse, which is a house perfect for the theme as it is classic and charming. As the school has felt bad towards the amount of money we spend everywhere on prom. We decided to make this prom smaller and only invite Seniors and Juniors. This is the first year that ISK does this, and we will see how it goes.

Concerning the budget we have not yet had a lot to work on, but as soon as it moves forward our work will come in place.

ACTION|| Tennis Team Introduction

For the first time I tried out for Tennis. I was selected for Varsity Gold, which is the second Varsity team of school. We participate in the same league as the other Varsity team but are just not as good. I like our team, we all have similar tennis levels and are therefore able to work together and have challenging matches.

I never really took tennis lessons with other people. I was always coached by my dad or my grand-father. Playing with or against people of your level is quite different, I feel like I have already built up some confidence and a little bit of game tactic. However the constancy of my shots are not there yet. When I hit a ball I cannot tell whether or not it will go over the net, as I do not fully control each of my shots.

For this season I will work on my serve to get it more powerful and therefore harder to play, but also on my constancy, to be able to play a regular game and control my shots. It is a lot to work on and I do not expect to master any of them, but it is what I will be focusing on. 

ACTIVITY|| Track and Field Introduction

I tried out again for Track and Field this year. This sport is really important for me. I give it all I have and try my hardest. I think it is a complete sport which works on your body as a whole and the injuries are limited.  I am doing the same events as last year and I hope to see some improvement by the end of the season.

My main focuses are in long jump and my 400m. This race is one of the hardest and requires a lot of work. It is not a distance race, but it is almost impossible to sprint throughout. Last year I was not able to go under 1:06, and my coaches told me that it was because of my endurance. For this reason for the first 2 or 3 months I am doing distance work as part of my whole workout.  Hopefully by the end I will see a result, because distance is really hard, and I feel like my body is not getting endurance between each practice.

For my other events, (shot-put, 200m and both 4x100m and 4x400m relays), I think I have build up a pretty strong base last year. I still need to work on hand off in the 4x10m especially as all of my partners left at the end of last year. For shot-put I need to work on the passing through of my energy. I get the movement well enough but when I release the shot-put not all my energy is being transferred, and I therefore loose quite a lot of distance.

CREATIVITY/ACTIVITY/SERVICE|| Operation Smile Introduction

 I am now for the third year being part of the Operation Smile group. This year however I am secretary which means that I will have more responsibility. My job is to keep track of what happens every meeting, attendance, and be sure that everything is being done on time when we have an event coming up. For example this weekend is the PTO picnic. I have to be sure that all of the time shifts are taken and that people do attend.

For this year our main goal is for everyone to raise independently enough money for one surgery. We thought it was not too much to ask then to say that in one year, we should all raise $250, our own way. We will see how this goes through the year and see if it is something attainable.

For this years picnic we wanted to start having one game or event that is associated with Operation Smile, and not find different activities every time. After some brainstorming we came up with a balloon raffle game. For this game we found people to sponsor us, like Tribe, Doormans, Planet Yogurt. We will have balloons and people will pay for a balloon like a raffle ticket. Each balloon has a prize inside, whether it is a desert to Tribe or a simple bag of candies.  The picnic will be our trial, and after that we will change what needs to be changed for this activity to become really successful.