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.

Artsco - meeting

today in artsco, we decided what we wanted to do for the talent show and which committees we wanted to in in for the new school year. i decided i wanted to in the ushering committee and the advertising committee. this means that i will have to help in ushering the plays and the talent show and also to advertise the club and the talent show to various schools around Nairobi.