Sports Day

This thursday, the 15th of September ,was the summer(or actually autumn,because its already getting cold) Sports Day.

Fortunately,the weather wasn't as i have expected it to be. It was sunny and warmer than the previous days. Well,it was a bit windy ,but thanks to all the body heating games,i didn't

feel so cold.

On the previous day we were grouped in 4 houses. I was in Chekhov. 

When i was  writing my name in most of the lists with the teams ,i did not expect that i would have to play in each of them. I thought i was going to be a reserve or something like that. But on the next day,when all of the boys told me that in each team there has to be participating at least one girl (and in our team we were only two playing) i realized that i do not have a choice,but to play in all of them.

Usually I am not a sports person. In the past,i used to play some sports and i was more active ,but i also  had more time.But nowadays, I am a bit lazy ,i try to study more, instead of doing sports,and during the past two weeks i had medical problems, so ,honestly ,i wasn't exactly  yearning for the sports day to come.

On thursday when  they  told us the program ,beginning with dodge-ball ,my first thought was -oh my ,now i'll hit somebody accidentally ,or i'll break my arm or something else. But in fact,i was surpirsed ,because the game was totally new to me,and i was actually enjoying not only it ,but all of the other games too.

Maybe the  hardest one was the running,because in the end,i  didn't have any  power  left and i felt that i was so slow. The game which i liked the most (and usually i like ) was basketball. I may not play correctly and i'm not that tall,but i really like it .

Most of the games required patience,correct strategy and work in a team. And those are the things i learned this day. I developed new skills,i worked collaboratively with others,i undertook new challenges and i've increased  awareness of my own strenghts and areas for growth.

And although on the next day i woke up with the worse stiffness i've ever had ,i was happy and pleased,because i've remembered how great it is to do sports and to use up my energy by moving ,not just sitting infront of the computer,and now i'm going to start again with practicing sports. So thanks to the sports day i remembered a feeling i was starting to forget.:)

First day in BIS Moscow

     My new year at the BIS of Moscow has started on a very sunny day , the 1^st of September,that was. The first subject we were introduced to was CAS, which is part of the IB diploma program.  We started  with some team building exercises, the point of which was  getting us,the students, to know each other  and  to improve our  team  productivity. At the beginning  the five games seemed a bit easy,but then we realized that it’s really hard even to roll a carpet if you don’t do it exactly as you’re instructed to. According to the first task we had to read a word and describe it to the rest of the team. That one was easy ,but we had to be fast .The second one  required from us to keep balloones  in the air for more than 40 seconds. It was fun, because our team didn’t  even reach 35 seconds. The next task was to build a tower ,higher than the ones of the previous teams. Our tower was higher, because it was made only from straws, but it didn’t last more than 10 seconds and fell on the floor.In this task more creativity was needed . The last but one was to wrap an egg with the use of paper,straws and tape. Our egg survived !!!  And the last  but not least task was to make a circle from the rope, which was given to us, but we had to make it with our eyes closed,so it was pretty tough.
After the lunch we had another interesting task -to transform  nothing (2 plastic trash bags and 2 wood sticks ) into something-kites ,which could  be given someday to an orphanage in aim to make the kids happy. J
In each task we developed new skills,showed perseverance and commintment to our activities ,worked in collaboration with the  others and had to be creative.For me it was a good strart in the new school , because I got to know most of the people ,understood what it’s  like to work in a team and learned new things.