One of the hardest nights for me as a student-athlete was coming to terms with my Senior season. The night we play our final varsity game at home. It’s the one game we all dread. Because we have practised and been a part of the team for four years we’re seeing the basketball season hit…
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SAISA Basketball Training – Anticipation
I anticipate the thrill of the season. A swish. The sound of the net contorting itself to the rough, used skin of the ball, making my hair stand on end. Sweat beads form in a splattered pattern like a lotus root across my forehead. In a swift manoeuvre, they make their way to my eyes…
Home Run 2020
A week ago, my dad and I joined a 5km fun run hosted by the service group Housing and Habitat called “Home Run”. As much as Dad and I wanted to believe that we would run the entire thing because we claimed ourselves to be the sporty type, I guess we’re wired to be more…
SAISA Volleyball November 2019
There are many sports that people like to indulge in either for fun or as a profession. It is widely known that practising a sport is a great benefit to the person physically and psychologically. Nowadays, people need at least some form of exercise in order to keep in shape, to pass time or even…
SAISA Boys Basketball 2019 – American School of Bombay
Another season’s over and what a fun one it’s been! When I stood here three months ago, I would never have thought that we’d do so well as a team. We’ve had, a phenomenal season and also our fair share of successes and failures. We have also had a few anxious moments too – notably…
SAISA Music 2019 – Kathmandu, Nepal
True… music is an art, however, to me now it is a way of life. I didn’t know what singing was or how to sing until I came here. I was even awarded a solo part that I auditioned for the song “Homeward Bound”. Which of course came as a surprise. I started off by…
Champions! SAISA Badminton – AISC, Chennai – 2018/2019
“WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, MY FRIEND!!” – QUEEN This year I am proud to say as the Varsity team second seed, that we won the entire tournament and came back home the defending champions two years running. It was really close, I mean really close. The runners-up, Dhaka Tigers gave us a run for our…
Kambala School Visit from Australia – TOK
On the 7th December 2018, a group of 13 female students from the Kambala all girls School joined us for a day of TOK sports and. Kambala School is a girls’ school in Sydney, Australia that had come to Sri Lanka on a school trip. We started off by playing a few games in order to…
Duke of Edinburgh – Preliminary Adventurous Journey – Sinharaja Forest
“Through the forest have I gone” – Puck, A Midsummers Nights Dream – William Shakespeare That’s exactly what happened when we went on the Duke of Edinburgh preliminary adventurous journey to the Sinharaja Forest for two days and 1 night. Before we even went there we learnt how to read and understand maps and what key…
Housing and Habitat – Home Run 2018
I prepared. I truly prepared. This was a run, that I am ashamed to say I failed in 2017, due to lack of training and preparation. But this year… this year it was different. I have a tool, a new tool, a powerful tool, that will certainly affect the outcome. Its name… rather his name…