Fouls !!!

 Actually, I realised that I easilly get emotional and I ca't control myself when I play basketball. On this wednesday, I really did that. We played teachers+Ndina and Yarrubi VS students today. It was ok at the beginning of the game. Although I missed quite many shots, it was ok until I got too absorbed in the game. When Mr.Gray was running toward our side after stealing the ball, I pused and kicked him during chasing him. Frankly, I can't see anything when I just chase around the ball, so I don't remember what happen and what I have done. I also didn't remeber what I did and claimed that it wasn't foul. But logically, it was right that I kicked him and it was an obvious foul. This was not the end. The second time I had a conflict was when I tried to block him, I should have vertically jumped, but as I jumped towards him, I fell over him. I ruined not only his mood, but also the atmosphere of the general game. Looking back, it was rude and it was not the thing that a man playing sports do. I always made my team in trouble, but this time I just did it in a different way. However, thorugh this game, I got many morals:

> I should try not to make any physical contact as this can cause a problem

> I should vertically jump when blocking

> I shouldn't resist to any decisions that the refree makes

> I should keep pace, not lose control

Teachers vs Students

This time we did something different in school basketball club on Wednesday. Actually, we hadn't had particular teams, but this time Mr.Gray suggested that we would make the team of teachers and two student teams. In my team, we had Yarrubi, Johnny, Ji won, Han, Ndina and I.  At the first time, I was nervous as teachers team seem to be ready and Mr.Gray and Mr.Havard seemed really confident to beat us. However, when I watched the first game which was Teacher team vs Student team, my tension decreased as they played 5 point game for 20 minutes. I didn't think that my team would win by a big margin, but the first game we played well and as teachers ran for 20 minutes, they couldn't play as they could do. Generally, we didn't play many games, but this competition made all the players play harder with enthusiasm than usual. Mr.Gray said we would continue to play like this and I found few points we need to improve:

- Yarrubi and Ndina are good, but they don't take a shot. If they are not afraid of taking a shot, it would be great for the team regardless of whether they would miss. And we have to pass more to them.
- My pass is horrible. Sometimes, I just dash over and don't pass properly.
- If we use screen, then Johnny or Ji won who are good at lay up can score easily.
I am looking forward to next time.

Badminton with my sister!

I went to the park with my family . The weather was awesome with a bit of wind and pleasant sunshine. Actually, I generally don't like just walking around, I need something active to play. So I brought badminton rackets and a basketball just in case. There was no basketball court and no badminton court , but I just played badminton with my sister who hasn't played badminton much. I thought it wouldn't be really fun as she couldn't receive my serves, but she got better as we played and we could rally for few times.Also this was challenging for me to receive her ball, because she couldn't control hit the shuttlecock to random direction.. I thought it really helped to train my stamina not intentionally though. I tried to teach how to serve and how to hit the ball more accurately, but as I am not a good player and she actually didn't listen to my advices carefully, teaching went not really successfully.

articles/ posters, but

Since y6s and their parents are coming tomorrow, I thought of putting simple posters or articles about global issues to raise awarness of them. There are different kinds of global issues from different subjects (e.g. English-language disappearance/ ESS - pollution/biology-clonning, genetic production) and although, not many people would notice it, like a famous phrase, everything has its seeds. However, since I planned just the day before, it was hard to make several articles/posters of different issues alone, so I didn't do it actually. I needed to ask other friends, but I just thought that they might not be willing to do, so I didn't ask them.
However, I realised  co-operation and others'help are really required for this kind of project and also I should have started earlier and needed more precise plan to make it happen. Next time, if I get this chance, I won't miss it and will try to make it happen with a good preparation.

Art fair!!

 I participated  in art fair organised by Ms.Plat. . Frankly, I was not a volunteer for this, but since there was one person missing in a pair who was supposed to teach Decalcomanie, I needed to back up. On this day, year 12s went to Schooll 9 to teach different  fun art activities for young kids. The activity I and Michael did was Decalcomanie: draw what you want to draw on the half of the paper and fold it, then it will form a one full picture. The first difficulty we faced was we needed to be brought down to the young kids'levels, so we had to explain in easy and understandable ways. Also, it was quite hard to control them. We were not really good at how to treat kids, so  when they were not doing what they were told to do, we didn't know how to make them do it as some of them didn't do just by asking them to do. After two sessions which were about 3 hours, I was exhausted. I think I didn't do too much work, but just it was too hard for me, a novice teacher. However, teaching and playing with young kids was such a good experience for me as well as it was challenging.