Week Without Walls

Reflection 1

Today as a grade we all visited both schools that’s going to be renovated. Our first reaction was how are we going to put our plan together and doing what first we are going to begin our work.  Taking a good check around the schools gave us idea about a productive plan. Since I’m one the leader’s doing games I had to plan out what kinds of games I’m going to come up with to my partner and how its going to work in these schools.

Goals to achieve during the game

·         Bring the children together

·         Engage the kids with our grade by interacting and having loads of fun

·         To make sure kids learn some new games to play after we leave the schools

Goals for the second day

·         Become friendly with the kids

·         Organize the games

·         Make the kids understand out ideas

·         Have fun with everyone (in the grade)

·         Educate the children in a way it will be useful for them.

Day 2

When we went to the schools the children were ready holding flowers on their hands to give us and welcome us to their schools. I thought it was very thoughtful, sweet and kind of them to do so. When I saw the kids I realized how small they are and how are they going to relate our ideas in order to do games.  To make my life easy as a leader, I explained the game to the teacher so she helps me make the kids understand the game. The first game started off pretty well. Some kids were able to grasp the concept of the game easily, which made it easier for rest of the kids to follow and play the game. My goal of bringing the kids together worked partially. There were few kids that were extremely frightened and crying. Probably that’s because we were total strangers for them. After some time the same kids joined the group of other kids that were playing and was able to enjoy themselves, despite they were still reluctant to have loads of fun.  Our class helped the kids to understand the game and also have some interaction to get to know the kids much better.

After games we all started to paint. We were taught a method to paint so the desks look nice. It was easy for me to paint knowing what I’m doing because from last year’s week without wall we were taught how to paint desks and tables. We painted roughly for 3 hours and then I played the role of a translator. Teachers from our school wanted to know what the kind of equipment’s and other important things the school wants to have. To have these thoughts approach the local teachers I helped by translating English into school so we know exactly what both teachers are talking about and what exact things they need for the school. Being a translator really gave me an opportunity to help resolve problems and clarify information In order for our school to work productively. One of the greatest challenges was to take the paint out of the brushes and also paint the walls nicely. I had to be extremely careful painting the walls because sometimes the brushes were too thick that the paint was everywhere. Having the paint off the brushes was kind of difficult because sometimes we put the yellow brush into the green paint which turned out to be a different color while painting. Basically we had to be careful with everything we did and also we had to be aware about my surroundings.

Goals for next day

·         Workout the treasure hunt

·         Helping In communication

·         Exactly know what the school need from us in order to help them.

Reflection 3

Today we started our work off very much organized. As soon as we entered the children were ready to do some work.  So I as the leader took all the drawing book and crayon distributed to everyone to start drawing. The kids looked like they were having fun and enjoying themselves doing some creativity work. The teachers and our school students were amazed to see some amazing drawings that were done by the kids there. Afterward we took them to the playground and started playing with them. Each student was doing some activity with students from our OSC. Most of the time I job was to translate the teacher’s expectations and make sure I convey the messages of help and other information from the local teachers to have school teachers.  Other than panting desk and tables I started painting windows and cleaning up everything. Later in the afternoon we had the talent show which was done all students. The students we visited gave us a thank you speech and showed some of their beautiful talents, such as singing. It was quite special to see them up on stage because they were doing it for us. We too performed some of our talents to the school. We sang some kindergarten songs  with some nice dance performance.

Overall we ended our community and service, the way we wanted in the bases of getting our goals done. We wished we had some more time to do any other extra changes that were quite possible. I think in week without walls I have worked and had fun with few students that I didn’t used to be with. I think WWW really made our 11^th grade as a team strong and very friendly.

For Lanvin fashion house I finished on my first research question. My first research question was what are different price lines and how are they distributed to the Market. researching this question really gave me an idea about the range of price sellings. I got to know how expensive and cheap their clothes are selling in the market. When i showed to Mr, Dinesh he said that the powerpoint on the research question is very catchy except i have to be extremly careful about the prices. In between i have also being praticing to drawing some good figures in order to get my hand good in drawing clothes. This task is extremly hard because it takes a long time to get use to the method of drawing  and alot of pratice to get the shape of the figure right.

For Model United Nations, we already had 2 pratice debates and throughout the conference i was helpful with everything. Since this is my second year as a admin for MUN the administrater gave me couple of more responsibilites to take care of. I was the senior admin hence I had to play a major role helping other admins to do what they are offered. So far the pratice conference has been great because I was able to contribute quite often comparing to last year!  the pratice debates lasted for 10 hours each day for 2 days. most probably i will be performing a dance for the opening ceremony of MUN 2012. If the auditions go well i think it will be a good chance for me to show my talent out of the school community.