This morning was the morning of the Standard Chartered Nairobi Marathon where I ran 10km. 

The run started at 8 in the morning. The weather was PERFECT for running, not sunny, but not rainy, just a nice temperature. There was a really good atmosphere at the run. Everyone were happy and excited and it was a great experience to be able to run through Nairobi town with thousands of others who were just as enthusiastic as me! i was also vey happy to be running with my friend Viktoria. i found that during the run, we were able to encourage each other and this is what helped us finish under one our.

i found the run to be very challenging, especially mentally.Of course the weather for this run was ideal, while in  but my running shape has definitely improved so much since Shompole. There was not a time during the run where I felt like I had to stop and walk, which was really significant for me. I was also able to increase my tempo for the last part of the run. I think I maybe paced myself a bit too slow because at the end I still had energy to sprint, which was a big surprise to me. Next time I will increase my pace for sure, and make sure I give it my all through out the entire run. I think this time I was a bit surprised at my actual abilities. 

WNS games

WNS - WON

this game  showed us as a team how much more we would need to focus in practice and how much more practice we needed if we were to come close to defeating them the next time we see them

Tournament at Rosslyn.

Tournament at Rosslyn.

In this tournament, we got to play all the teams we were seeing later and I think that put all teams on an equal playing field because we all got to see what the other teams can do, but this also put us at a disadvantage because the other teams got to see what we could do. In first half of the tournament went well and we won all the game in our pool.

by our third games, we stared playing badly and i think that this affected the team mentality, because in the next few games we played really bad.

After lunch we played Rosslyn outside and the team had a malfunction and we started playing badly and at one point the game was tied. I felt as if I was playing a little sluggishly and it was annoying me. We all knew that we could play like this in the finals, otherwise the only other undefeated team would kill us. They almost killed us and we were doing mnay things wrong, in offence and in defense. In the end we won against the RVA (A) team .

Athletic Council - ISK Track and Field Gala

yesterday was the track and field gala, to raise money for the new track. Athletic Council has spent a lot of time and energy preparing this and making it fun and different from the regular gala. So at this gala we decided to have "Sporty" Games and have people be in teams and have those teams compete for an end prize. So me and Evelyn spent the whole day making our "HOOPS" poster, and we made it pretty creatively. we cut out our poster in the shape of a basketball and then decorated it like a basketball because the objective of our game was to score as many "HOOPS" as one could make. we then headed to the UN Rec center to step up, where the Athletic Council spend an hour decorating the place, more creativity. we were there from 5:30pm to 9:30pm. I was in the Games room, supervising the ball toss and helping by the basketball station. it was a fun night :)

Athletic Council - Friday Meeting

ISK OLYMPICS

So today, we had no school, but the Athletic council decided to have a very important meeting, one, discussing the ISK OLYMPICS that was going to take place, we were in school form 13:00 to 15:00 deciding many important things. Since I am co-secretary of the club with Rhea, we had to be present. We decided many important things and got through a lot. We decided what our fist event was going to be, it was going to be a DODGEBALL  competition and our second event was going to be a quiz night on, you guessed it, the OLYMPICS!!!!

We also decided the rules, for example the teams can include anybody, from faculty to parents and that participation in events in optional. We also decided the point system and what other events we should include.

Some of the other events we want to do include:

·      Basketball competition

·      Track and field day

·      Poker night

·      Card night

·      More quiz nights

·      Volleyball completion and many more

We decided that if it was going to happen, it was going to happen in teams of 5.

And now the most important decision, what should the winning team receive. We decided that it should be BIG and it is . . . . . . . . . .

It is a TRIP TO COAST FOR 5

ISK vs Rosslyn Academy

this is our FIRST OFFICIAL GAME. i am really excited because it has been almost 5 months since i played basketball, and also because we have new people on our team. This will be a little bit challenging because they do not know all the plays that the rest of the team knows, but it has been nice reviewing the plays over the last few weeks. i am very confident in our team this year and i think we can handle anything :) .

THE GAME

i think that we played well and that considering that this is our first game as a team in the new year, we played well. i think that this was a good game to show us where we need to improve, because although we won, we made many mistakes

Athletic Council - PTO picnic

So today was the PTO picnic and like every year I decided to help out with a stall, I decided to help with the athletic council stall, because the mercy children’s center desperately needed money. At our stall, we were going to have a ball toss, were competitors stand a certain distance away and try to get the ball into a marked  hole. SOUNDS easy right J !!. But is harder than it looks. I arrived at 12 to help set up and we spend ten minutes moving tables around till we got the perfect shooting place. Then we let the kids come and how we attracted so many, ask yourself what do little children like the most?

 The most obvious answer is CANDY, so we had a lot of candy at our stall. 

The objective is simple, if you get no balls in, you win a piece of candy, 1 ball in, you win 2 pieces of candy, 2 balls in, there was a better prize and 3 balls in, you get to choose from the BEST prize table. We had many children visit our stall throughout the day and many of them tried and kept coming back. There was this one girl that I especially admired, because she NEVR GAVE UP. Even though she missed the first couple of times, I think she returned to our stall at least 30 times. This is the kind of spirit that I admire, she was very determined to get 1 ball in.

At the end of the day, we were able to raise 25000 shillings which was all donated to the Mercy Children Center, who really need all the money they can get.