Respect week workshop

We had respect week from 19th January to 23rd January. And few of us year 12 students had a workshop to teach about friendship and respecting differences to the years 6, 7, 8 and 9. I had classes with two year 7 classes and one year 9 class. We talked about friendship for year 7 and respecting difference for year 9. The year 7 class was difficult because we had the wrong information so we had to plan the lesson in about 3 minutes. But we somehow could organized the class by telling jokes and not making the lesson silent. For year 9, the lesson went pretty good. Everyone was responding well and they did the tasks that we gave properly.
This was my first time to give lessons in English language so i was quite nervous but I am really glad that it went well without any problems. I think I gained some confidence in this.

Chamber Orchestra 6 (13/1/09)

It was the first orchestra practice in term 2. We started off with 2 new songs, "Kaiser Waltz" and "When the going gets tough". This time I am completely a drummer, I will be playing the drums for both pieces. This will be good for me because I can improve my drums skill and the drums part for "When the going gets tough" is actually quite difficult.

Shoe boxing (15/12/08)

We had been working for this "Shoe boxing" project since the first of December. We collected used stuffs such as clothes, toys and books as a Christmas present for the orphans in the orphanage at Butterworth. We were collecting them every morning, break and lunch. All the presents that we collected were packed in shoe boxes and wrapped with a Christmas designed wrapping paper. We went to the orphanage on the 15th of December and had a little Christmas party with the orphans and gave the presents to them.
I hope that they realise that many people from outside actually care about them and therefore they have lots of donations. I was really happy to see the orphans smiling and being happy about the presents. This project should be continued every year by the Uplands community.