Swimming, Latin Dancing

Unfortunately, I was unable to go on the SAISA Swimming Sports Exchange. I made the team, but my extended essay draft was due immediately after the trip and so I decided, with my parents, that I would be unable to manage both of those commitments. However, I persevered with the trainings, because I actually enjoy them. I find swimming training more rewarding than competition, and MUCH less stressful. My goal for the year now that the season is finished is to continue to try and swim at least once a week. This may not be possible at all times due to other SAISA's and academic commitments, so I will have to be flexible about this goal. However, whenver possible, I will stick to it.

An unexpected development!
My friends Anishka and Priyanka are participating in the after school activity Latin Dancing, and they asked me to come along. Dancing is not really something I have much experience, so this was really stepping outside of my comfort zone, but I decided to give it a try. I was not very good at it, but it was surprisingly good excercise and quite good fun. It's on Friday afternoons, so this may end up clashing with SAISA football (I'm planning to try out for the team), but I will keep going as long as there are no other clashes. My only goal is to reduce my self-consciousness about dancing, and try to improve my co-ordination!

Goals

GOALS

1. Service: I'm going to keep leading the RCCI Service Group. I would like to organise a fund-raising event maybe at the end of this year to give the kids presents for either Christmas or Sinhalese New Year.


2. Action: I hope to continue with my swimming and basketball through SAISA competitions and/or training. I really enjoy both of these sports, and may even try going to Football trainings, just to see whether I like it. I am also planning on taking up Yoga, as there are classes held at IWMI, where my mum works, which is just down the road from school. My goal is to maintain and improve my fitness, as well as, through Yoga, to develop my strength and flexibility.


3. Creativity: For Christmas, I am going to try and create all of the presents I will give to people. I am going to spend Christmas with my parents, grand-parents and brother, so I am aiming for 6 presents. These may be consumables like a meal, or clothes that I will sew, etc. I want to do this because I think that Christmas gets really out of hand in terms of giving people hundreds of meaningless presents that they don't need. So instead I want to make a few presents, but put effort in to them.

This year I hope to try a couple of activities that force me to step outside of my comfort zone, as well as a few self-directed activities that will help me to self-motivate (such as the Christmas presents or self-directed excercise). It is also important to me to maintain a basic fitness level, and continue to participate in the RCCI program.