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Throughout the year, due to my position as service leader of Housing and Habitat, I have been a part of the faculty-student-run Eco-Schools Committee. Within the meetings, we have discussed a variety of different campaigns and ideas that the school can follow, and recently there has been a huge shift in focus regarding our current plan. The various different agendas we’ve had throughout eco-school meetings and my service group Housing and Habitat can do are:

The school has decided to follow through with a plan to install solar panels on the gym roof. Our head of school, Dr. Michelle Kleiss, has told the student body, especially the ones in the eco schools committee, to take initiative regarding this grand task. My Language and Literature. teacher, Mr. Poulus, actually met with me and told me that my service group should spearhead the project, as our group is slowly becoming the student led maintenance crew of OSC 😂😂😂.

The school would like us to build a fence around where the garden beds that we made. More specifically they would like to continue the theme of using eco-friendly materials like we have used in the past with our compost bins. This means that we are going to build such a fence with bamboo and timber, hoping it won’t decay. Although I would prefer to build such a fence with a more sturdy and longevous material, I understand the importance of using eco-friendly materials within a green school community.

We have also been asked to build a ceiling over the garden beds, which I have advised to be made from shade cloth. When previously working a job in scaffolding, I grew to the awareness that the shade cloth material is perfect for the cover. Seeking out this material, our service went on a trip to the nearby gardening tools shop and bought a heap of it to measure and place over our previously constructed garden beds. Now that it is purchased my group is ready to start measuring and getting it up next service block.

Throughout eco-schools meetings and through service I hope to finish these tasks and bring in a good foundation for the next generation of Housing and Habitat members, and eco-school members. Honestly, it is a lot of work and it’s quite tedious sometimes but it does feel good to be apart of something that plays a part in what the school looks like and will live on after I graduate.

After long rehearsals for months, constant high pitched singing, whole Saturdays being taken up to work on blocking choreography..

The production was over.

We had performed three nights in a row, and we were finally at the end of the many month journey. The performances were fantastic. Sofia did exceptionally well as the plant, and I was extremely proud of her. It had taken quite a while to get to the performance point but I was so glad because the ensemble as a whole had done such an amazing job when it came to performing on the big stage in front of everybody. We were awarded with continuous praise and clapping after every night and I was really glad that our final performance was well received. Even the crew did an amazing job managing all the props and the set, and without them we would not have been able to achieve the level of greatness we landed on. Once we had finishing performing, and our praise had been sung over and over again, I realized people were crying and it had occurred to me that this ensemble didn’t want this experience to end. We had DP2’s graduating soon and we realized that this bunch of humans would never work on any theatre piece together again, and that saddened many people.

The cast, crew, directors and prop team all together for one last picture.

I loved the experience of being in my first musical, as I didn’t do Oliver a few years back. Although I believe that I wouldn’t be able to do another musical due to the fact that I hate singing, I will say I gained a lot from this production and will use the knowledge gained from it in further productions that I direct / am apart of. I am really proud of every single person who was apart of this creative process and they should feel proud for working hard and being apart of something bigger than themselves.

My goals in ..

Service: To be a great leader, someone who takes action in the community and tries and takes on a lot as many projects as I can as a service leader. I want to set the foundation for the service in the next few years as I’d argue it’s in need of a rebuild.

Musical: My goal in the musical is to work on my collaborative skills as well as getting over my fear of public singing. Even though I love theatre and the arts, singing is a little out of my comfort zone so I hope the musical will help me work on my skills. Also as someone in the role of chorus, I believe this will help my collaborative skills improve by working with others.

Activity: My physical activity is SAISA Basketball. My goal is to not only improve my skills in shooting and ball control but also try and get into the team. If I get into the team I will be extremely proud but it’s a very low chance.  I hope to make it though!