Semester 2 Reflection

The end of the year is approaching, and I feel like I have accomplished all the goals that I had set for myself at the beginning of the year. Firstly, I have not only made a game in C++, but I also taught myself how to code in Java. The game took a lot of…

Cricket

“Cricket is like oxygen for me” – Sachin Tendulkar  Cricket, the second most popular sport in the world, is believed to have started in south-east England in the 16th century. I am from India, a country where cricket is regarded as a religion.  Although hockey is the national sport of India, cricket in India is like football in…

Small Bites

Cooking is an essential life skill that we all should possess. It teaches us about planning and patience, gives us a greater degree of independence, and most importantly we know what is going into the food. Cooking is not easy, and there are so many things that can go wrong. Did you mistakenly put in the…

International Mother Language Day 2019

      ‘The International Mother Language Day (IMLD) is a worldwide annual observance which promotes cultural diversity and multilingualism. First observed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on February 21, 1999, this day reminds us how words empower us and help us communicate with one another. Languages create our basic…

SAISA Football 2019: Oman

South Asian Inter-School Association commonly known as SAISA is an event in which eleven different schools in South Asia region compete against each other in different events. For this year I competed in the SAISA 2019 tournament which was held in Oman. It took place from the 7th – 9th Feb at The American International…

WWW 2019: Highlands

Week Without Walls (WWW) is an educational trip outside of school which is not only aimed towards exploring the host country, but also providing the students opportunities for service learning and outdoor education. For our WWW we have four choices: Highlands: A hiking oriented trip designed towards exploring the ecology of the Sri Lankan Highlands….

OSC’s Room to Read – Semester Report (pictures coming soon)

OSC’s Room to Read is a service that promotes the love of reading by helping maintain and improve the libraries of schools in the local communities. We have almost finished our first semester, and we have made some progress since we started. Even though I was not here last year, our service completed the primary…

Home Run

The Home Run is an annual 5 km marathon which was on the 17th of November this year. The main goal of the run was to raise awareness about the stray animals in Sri Lanka. The event was set up by Housing and Habitat in collaboration with Care for Paws which is a nonprofit organization…

SAISA football

Football is one of my favourite sports, and I enjoy both playing and watching it. With the starting of the second season, I had a choice to pick badminton or football. I chose football because I have been playing it since I was young, and also because I wanted to play at a competitive level….

DP-1 Orientation: Borderlands

29th August 2018, I woke up at 5 am, sleepy and exhausted because of the traveling in the last few days. It was my second day at OSC, and I was already struggling to get out of bed. I remembered that it was Wednesday, which meant that I was going on a trip to Borderlands….