Volleyball and soccer

I went to Baku with my school to participate in the volleyball and soccer tournament. Initially, I didn’t plan on playing soccer but then I found out that my team needed me so I decided to play with them and support my school. It was my first time participating in the event of this type. And also my first time going to Baku. Event was hosted by TISA and I got a chance to see another IB school and communicate with other DP students. My host was a DP1 girl and we got to share our experience in the Diploma Programme and compare how our schools are same and different. I got a lot of new skills there. I didn’t know how to play soccer and volleyball before that but after the tournament our whole team could see a difference and development of our skills. When I went to Baku I couldn’t serve well in volleyball, I couldn’t get a ball over the net but after couple of games my serves became the best in my team and we could earn some points in a row from my servings. All the other teams were really good and we were proud that we could win one game. In soccer, we also won one game and it was the first time in New School’s history that girl’s team would win a soccer team. We didn’t have any subs what made games even more challenging. Especially, when we had three of them in the row. Before I went to Baku, I’ve never played an actual soccer game so it was my debut there. First, I was very confused but my teammates and couch were giving me advices so I did my best. I was in defence and defended some kicks. And if I missed something, my teammate was always there to help me out. We had a great team spirit and won a sportsmanship award.  

Paint-balling

Last Saturday, we went to paint-ball with our whole class. It was my first time doing paint-ball, and I think I got new skills and learned shooting a little bit. It was very interesting to  do something new. We were there for  2 hours together with Mr. Martin.
Here are some photos from there:

Cross country

There was cross country race in our school on 8th of October. First, I wanted to participate in it so I attended some practices. On 12th, 17th, 19th, 24th of September and 1st of October. But unfortunately, I became really sick on the couple of practices so i decided that running cross country would be too dangerous for my health. However, I didn't want to give up and I still came to the cross country to cheer for our school. I also helped them by being a marshal. I was standing on the shortcut road and controlled kids that they didn't cheat. In addition, I was cheering for them trying to make their race easier. I think that everything turned out pretty good.
While being a marshal, I was taking photos of the race that can be used for the yearbook, school website and different posters.
Here are some photos that i took:

First blog post

This is going to be my CAS Journal where I will be writing my reflections on CAS activities. For today, I've already wrote a plan of my future activities, and even started some of them: cross country, Taekwondo, journalism and student council.