FOOTBALL 2015 For ASA Block 3 I chose football U-19 as my major extracurricular activity. I intended to make the team and go on SAISA Girls' Soccer Championship in Dhaka. We had trainings 4 times a week including Wednesday morning fitness sessions. Overall I would say it was a challenging experience for me as I had never actually played football before and, moreover, I had never been coached. All my background in football was the random games with guys in the schoolyard back in my home country. Therefore, during the first trainings I was sort of lost and did not play well. However, after a month of constant trainings I noticed how much I have improved. I learned different techniques and strategies such as offensive and defensive positions on the field, jockey, spreading out and many other specific things. I never knew that much about football. In addition, football had a huge influence on the fitness of my body. I did a lot of running during these 2.5 months of soccer an
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FOOD & FUN FAIR Food and Fun Fair took place on the 28th of March. A week before that was a week of transformation and decoration of the school. Staff members, decorators and operators were setting the necessary equipment for the event to be held. Food and Fun Fair is a charity event which is held at Overseas School of Colombo annually. It implies that children, parents, their friends and people who are not related to school come, have a good time and donate, buying the tickets necessary to do something there. Basically, the whole football field was turned into the entertaining park, cushion fights, water slide, face prints, Deaf Hearing service games and many other activities. Besides the active part of the event, people could also chill in the shadows of the tents and listen to the live concert done by students and teachers from OSC. The other important part was, of course, food. Canteen and the rest of the field were filled with numerous quantity of different dishes from
Little Red Riding Hood "Once she gave her a little riding hood of red velvet, which suited her so well that she would never wear anything else; so she was always called 'Little Red Riding Hood." Elizabeth and Tulika are acting out the scene of the Red Cap talking to a fake Grandmother. Photo Credit: Elizabeth Schwabe On the 19th of March, our service session was special. Before going to the swimming pool and computer lab as we, our service team and children from SOS Village, usually do, we had watched the performance done by other service group 'Random Acts of Kindness'. That time we became an object of kindness. The participants of that service, Tulika, Elizabeth, Joaquin and Greta, prepared a modernized drama sketch of a famous fairytale Little Red Ridding Hood (aka Red Cap ) by Brothers Grimm. The sketch was funny. However, not all the children understood the happenings as they don't speak English that good. I saw wonder