International Day =)

Being part of this year's international day proved to be both challenging and interesting as we had to organise the events that would take place in the 30-40 minute sessions.  Since we were divided into countries, Yarubbi and I represented Namibia and decided to give a brief presentation of the country as we noticed how little people knew about our country and its culture.  To make the presentation informative as well interesting , we designed a quiz in the style of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" to test the children's knowledge and gave prizes to the winners.  We also provided them with a taste of what Namibia had to offer when it came to cuisine (Vet Koeks) and most of them seemed to enjoy it.

After our presentation, we asked the children to give us feedback so we could analyse the strengths and weaknesses of our presentation. The problem was that almost all of the feedback was positive which didn't really help us in finding out what we did wrong...but overall the day was enjoyed by most people...myself included =)

Shakin' things up in Dance Club

For the past two-three weeks, we have taught the same dance routine to make sure our members know the dance like the back of their hands. The fact that we were able to do this shows our commitment to teaching them the dance even when some of the moves seemed impossible to teach.  Last week we came up with a new routine, which might be more difficult to teach as it has more technical moves than the previous dance. We plan to involve the members when it comes to adding new moves to the routines.

Hopefully, with perseverance we will be able to successfully teach the moves to the members and if we don't, it will give us a chance to see where we went wrong and improve on our mistakes.

Silent Movie (ssshhh...)

Our CAS task last week, was to produce a silent film with a theme of our choice.  We, as a group (Me, Yarubbi and Pablo), decided to make our movie about drugs, undercover agents and betrayal of friends.  Filming the scenes was not as easy as we anticipated it would be.  In total, we had 37 takes before we got useful footage that could be used in the movie, mainly because we found it difficult to concentrate and so it took longer to get the scenes right.

Not only did the filming prove to be a problem, but the editing took longer than we thought it would as we decided to play different songs for different scenes and editing the music to the video took time and patience.  Producing this film allowed us to overcome certain learning objectives, such as:

• collaborating well with others;
• undertaking new challenges; and
• developing new skills

Below, you can see how the movie turned out. Enjoy =)

Basketball-again!

This week's game of basketball proved to be enjoyable as we were able to work as a team, which made the game for productive as well as competitive.  Mr. Gray has come up with a system of recording the performance of players to show us our strengths and weaknesses, which acts as a guide to helping us improve on our areas of weaknesses.

Plan for International Day

On international day, we plan to do the following:

1) decorate the classroom with banners and flags related to Namibia as well as play music from our country.

2) have a powerpoint presentation giving basic facts about Namibia (tribes, cuisine, traditional attire etc.)

3) teach them the basics of our languages ( how to say "hello", "how are you", "good-bye" etc.)

4) play a game of "Who Want to be a Millionaire" to test how well they have been listening and give the winners a small prize (they will be divided into groups)

5) provide the group with a snack from Namibian cuisine to give them a taste of our culture and what the country has to offer.

What we plan to do on international day will take a lot of organisation as well as preparation, but if it all works out which we plan it will, it will be great fun for everyone.