International Day Plan

International? Global?
Last year was the first time I joined International day and it was enjoyable. However, I also realize whether it's enjoyable or not heavily depends on y12, because they make and lead the activities. Also international day is a really imporatant school event, because it is the day that studnets can experience divese culture, for example traditinal clotes, activities and food. School is 'International', but I find among my friends and other peer groups that we are not really  international. We have many students from different countries, but we do not know each other' culture well and do not take much care about it.  Now, I am y12 who should make everyone at school enjoy this day and show some cultural importance and what 'international' means on wednesday(9/26) we planed what we are going to do.

Plan

My group(Korean group) members are Johnny and Na Kyung.
Firstly, we listed activities that represent Korean and we can do
1. Teach how to dance Gang Nam Style( may be teaching what lyrics actually mean as well)
2. Teaching Korean and testing them( people who get good results will be rewarded with Korean snacks)
3. Traditional games (Yootnoli and Gong gi)
4. Making Kim Bob

We picked number 1 and 3. Because students must be fed up with making  Kim bob, which they do on every international day, and teaching Korean also can make them bored too.
However, teaching Gang Nam Style will be a great activity. There were much more foreign friends who know the music Gang Nam Style( they seem to love it) and when they see Koreans, they ask about what lyrics mean or say 'Oppan Gangnam Style!'. So we think they will be also interested in dancing which is an actual charming point of the music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0

However, physically and mentally, it must be difficult for us and them to dance Gang Nam Style for whole 40m. So we decide that first 20m will be time for playing traditional games. Gong ggi and yootnoli are what Koreans often play and my favorite traditional games. We divide students coming into two(half). One group will play Gong ggi while another group will be playing yoot noli. After 10m, they swarp the games, so both group can play both games in 2

Problems                                                           

There are some problems to do those.
Basically, we have to master GanNam Style dance; the problem is three of us are horrible dancers. We should keep practising, so become as good as explaining to others. Another problem with dancing is not for us, but students. Some of them(might be more than we think) are quite shy to dance and may be reluctant to do it, so they might be upset to be told to dance, ranther than enjoing it.

Playing Traditional Games have some problems too. It's quite difficult to explain the rules, especially Yootnoli which has a lot to explain. On the other hamd, Gong ggi has much more simple rules, but if you want to enjoy Gong ggi, 10m is not enough. It really needs skills to play it. So what I think is we can still divide groups, but both of them play Yootnoli for 20m. We don't have to explain the rules twice and I think yoot noli is much more interesting to enjoy in short time. but still I have to discuss with my group members.

It is our general plan and it might be possibly changed. We should find ways to deal with our problems, so that the day can be more memoraible and interesting. We didn't tallk about decorations a lot, so we also have to do it as well. I really expect this day is going to be awesommmme!

Basketball

 My favorite sports is basketball. Actually it's the only sports I really enjoy by my heart. I have a basketball court nearby my apartment and sometimes went out and played it alone, for example practicing shooting and dribbling. Sometimes I played with others, but every time I realized how horribly I played basketball. I really have love and passion for this sport and I really want to be a good, or at least  fine basketball player.

 Indeed at school, we have a basketball club running on every Wednesday. From this new year I decided to join it to improve my basketball skills and I see this is an opportunity to become a 'fine' basketball player. Now I am planning to regularly play it throughout my IB and to reflect how I get better as I play more. My big general aim was just to improve my basketball skills, but there were some specific aims that I want to achieve.
> To get used to play in a team. I do not have much experience playing with others in a formal team. (e.g passing, learning some team strategies, one two pass)
> Improve my shooting skills and dribbling.
> To

I am writing this post on the third week that I joined school basketball club.
Last two weeks we played randomly. We made random teams, but on this week, we decided to make a constant team that we will play. My team was red and there were some good and experienced players in my team. This time I got just few scores and I thought it was not that bad compared to the fact that it was the first match for my team. However I found some personal weaknesses that I need to improve.
> I should pass more, since I was not used to playing in a team, I tend to dribble a ball and drive to the goal without concerning where my team members were.
> My shooting accuracy was awful. I need to spend time practicing shooting.
> I should know the right timing when to shoot. I sometimes took a shot even when there were many opponents blocking me.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOniCTI0r1k&feature=g-upl

And I think taking a video is a great method to reflect how I played. I can be aware of my weaknesses and therefore make some plans or strategies to improve them. 

CAS PLAN

It seems to be that I am the only one who has posted nothing on the blog, so today I am writing things which I should have done :)

 So, basically, I should start off my CAS blog with my CAS plan. Many things haven't been specified yet, but I have a general plan what I am going to do.

Active

Basketball(Wednesday-4:00~5:30)/ (Saturday-2:00~4:00)
-I play basketball twice a week, on a quite regular basis, and I play basketball, because simply I love it and not only I can collaborate with others, but also take a challenge by myslef.

Badminton(Tuesday-4:00-5:00)
-I used to play badminton in Korea, but there is no suitable place to play it here. I want to play it at a school and I will certainly, if it's possible( since, I usually go to home from school with others in Y8, so I can't make a fully decision about it)

Creativity

Band(Friday lunch time at school)
- I play the second guitar in a school band and it's been a quite long time that I play the guitar, but I actually don't take it seriously. However, as I am a member of the band, I should keep practising for a band and nowadays, I really want to play the guitar well unlike the past, when I wansn't actually interested in it.

Service

Making an announcement in the church - I am responsible for making an announcement to inform things such as what today worship is about and what things are happening in a church. (but I just receive information from the minister and just inform it). So on every Sunday, I make an announcement and copy as number of people and give them. ( I will take a picture of it later on).

That's all I plan and these are what I can do on a regular basis, but I will certainly do other things apart from these too.

start

at 10:42 in 18th September 2012