Designing the Senior Hoodies

Ever since I came into high school, one thing I always loved and looked forward to were some of senior privileges. Over a weekend I suddenly remembered that seniors for the past couple of years have gotten customized hoodies. This is a tradition I have looked forward to for too long and now the time…

OTG’s First Peak: Mulawella

We had started to plan this trip while we were on our introductory walk as it can be read about in the previous OTG post. Adrian and I had both gone to Sinharaja earlier in May for the Geography IA trip where we stayed at the same place and hiked up to the same peak….

Final Year of Service: Hope for Kids

This year, as mentioned earlier, I have decided to join a new service group: Hope for Kids. Hope for Kids is a service that works with children that have been diagnosed with cancer at the Maharagama Cancer Hospital. We spent our first session planning for activities we can do with the children and also a fundraiser….

Off the Grid: A new Beginning

Today, we officially started off this new activity. At 7 am, six of us and Mr Lockwood decided to meet up at school to do a trial walk around the Talangama Area. Our walk consisted of many different terrains: main roads, streets, trails and even the mushy wetlands. The walk was around 2 hours long…

DP 2 Goals: Senior Year already?!?

I cannot believe that we are seniors already and that this will be my last year of school. We’ve all come a long way and it’s hard to process just how quickly it all went by. In around a year, most of us will be going off to university and starting the next big part…

Final DP 1 Reflection

As this year comes to an end, I can say that this year has been a very important one in terms of my involvement in the CAS program. I have been heavily involved in all three components; Creativity: SGA’s Spirit Coordinator Senior Production Event Crew Activity: Girls Volleyball Girls Football Fun Volleyball Service: Deaf Hearing…

DHE: Cinderella- a twist

Deaf Hearing Exchange took on a project in collaboration with Community Film. This project roughly took us around 4 months to complete. We started off by a brainstorm for raising awareness and what we could do. We needed a project. After a quick discussion with the group, we all seemed keen on making a video-…

DHE: Selling Bracelets and T-shirts during SAISA Track and Field

The Deaf School had to close down for a month and a half because the school got chicken pox. This was devastating news and meant we wouldn’t be seeing them until late May. During this time, we needed something to do so we started brainstorming fundraising ideas so we could make some money and buy…

SAISA Event Crew: Track and Field 2017

Once again, it was time for the Gecko Crew to get together and be in charge of another tournament- only this time it was bigger and required a lot more work. This SAISA was to host over 250 student athletes, 24 coaches, and around 30 officials. It was a big tournament and we were hosting…

SGA Dance for Sinhala/Tamil New Year

One of the main things we gathered from last year’s Endicott survey was that students don’t feel the local culture is incorporated into their school lives. As the SGA, we were offered to work with local choreographers (one Sinhalese and one Tamil) to perform at the New Year’s Celebration Assembly. We were divided up into…