After practising on Thursday lunchtimes for nearly a semester, the big performance came up. We were singing two songs, one was “Feels Like Home” by Brighter Days ft. Sean Paul. The second song was “Get Down On It” by Kool & The Gang. The performance I perceived to be a success, even though I was really…
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…
A Midsummers Nights Dream – Senior Production 2018
In this senior High School production of A Midsummers Nights Dream, written by William Shakespeare I play Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow. A Midsummers Nights Dream, in a nutshell, is a comedy that induces a mix of emotions and connection towards characters and the overall, over the top synopsis and storyline. I believe Puck is one…
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…
Service Christmas Gift Giving
As of December, we were able to raise enough money by selling bandanas and hosting bake sales through events held at OSC in order to buy Christmas presents for the children of the CCC house from Arpico Supercentre as well as purchasing presents for their parents from the same store. Overall the gift giving was…
Hope for Kids Service 2018/19 – Starting up
Initially choosing my service at the beginning of the year was the hardest choice I had to make. I was stuck between SOS village and the Hope for Kids Service group. In my previous year of school, Grade 10, I was in the Care for Paws service group, which was a really fun experience, but…
SAISA Volleyball 2018 and Achieving New Heights
I believed I could fly, even if it was for a little while. unbound by the chains of gravity. Manipulating all the laws of physics for the benefit of my school. “Higher, a little higher”, is the only thought that flows through my mind when I step into that court. The adrenaline rush, now so addictive, that…
UN Day Performance
(Gecko Network) The presentation of the original theatre piece for the Collaborative Theatre Project was a piece that had the initial stimulus of ‘Green Technology’. My group consisting of Disara Samayawardhana, Nehemiah Senaratne who was unfit for the final performance, Virath De Alwis, and I, Seth Mahima Suranjiv Keerthiratne, performed at the Overseas School of Colombo’s…
ISTA Taps 2018, Hong Kong.
I was placed into ensemble group 2 were I wasn’t expecting much from it as I was really nervous and not expecting to make any new friends. However, we as an ensemble participated in workshops over the course of the 3-day program and did group exercises and socialized, making us a group that any person…
An Orientation for Life
We started off our DP journey by literally throwing ourselves out of our comfort zones in the classroom, and into the wilderness where we braved bold jumps, waking down a face of a cliff and battling the rapids as if they were our arch nemesis. Even when all of that was happening, us, the DP1 students…