goals for dp year 2

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   ·      Increasing my awareness of my own strengths and areas for my growth 

   C: As a student leader for Habitat for Humanity I am consistently trying to organize and plan meetings and I reflect on my attributes, as a leader in order to be able to improve on my current strengths to be able to gain a better understanding of what I am capable of.

   A: push my self to engage in as many extra curricular activities that involve physical movement such a SAISA swimming, and after school basketball, along with Saturday football.

   S: testing my level of commitment to the issues that are dealt with when we are going for builds or raising funds.

   
   

     GOAL - this year i want engage in new activities that test my strengths and weaknesses, as a leader I want to be able to improve on my leaderships skills to maintain an organize service group so that it benefits myself and the members that a joined the group. In terms of action I have reflected on the many areas that I need to improve and I hope to develop my self in those areas.

   
   

   ·      Undertake new challenges

   C: as a student leader for Habitat I try to find new ways to get the other members to take part and volunteer for builds and I try to keep them interested in the goal we are trying to achieve as a whole.

   A: in the different sports that I am engaged in I try to push my self to do better and develop new skills and techniques in order to improve my performance level for next time.

   S: I remain enthusiastic in the different construction works we are and even f it is new to me I do my best to learn and engage in the activity to my maximum potential.

   
   

   
   

    GOAL- this year I hope  plan more fund raises and really contribute to the Habitat community and not just prove extra work force but perhaps provide furniture and really make a difference.  In terms of the builds that we go I hope to make them more enjoyable by organizing an overnight build and make them more interesting.

   
   

   ·      Plan and initiate activities 

   C: being a service leader I plan meetings, take pictures, organize events to raise funds. I am involved collaborative leader ship of the service project with my co leader with whom I organize planned events. We also plan new ways to engage with the local and school community

   A: participating SAISA swimming I am able to engage in swim meets, organized by the school, as well as the swim meet in Chennai that the geckos swim team travels to.

   S: being leader for the service project Habitat I plan builds and CAS related activities.  We work through the main habitat organization in Sri Lanka with who we remain in constant contact with regards to upcoming builds. In a recent build I believe we worked and international volunteer group consisting of member from New Zealand, Japan, United states as well as the United Kingdom. We essentially work through funds that schools around the globe have funded in terms of the houses that we are building. So really we work collaboratively with international schools to make a difference within our local community.
   
   
1. GOAL- this year I want to work more in collaboration with my peers in both the engaging work that I help initiate as a leader for Habitat. I hope to engage in more team related sports as well as contribute my part in the swim team at our school. I want to be able to really make a deeper difference with the local communities that I help along with my peers in my service project Habitat for Humanity.
   
   
   
   
   ·      Work collaboratively with others
   C: I hope to find the time to learn an instrument through a friend as an out side of school extracurricular activity. As a service leader I hope to engage in a more communicative and contributing way to the service project with my co leader.
   A: In terms of my action I hope again engage in more team related sports such as basketball and football as well as extracurricular training with my friends out side of school to better improve my skills in various sports
   S:I want to be able to raise funds through other international schools that help us build homes for the local community. I also would like our habitat group to play the roles of the international students raising funds for other communities outside of Sri Lanka; I would like to communicate through the main habitat foundation based in Sri Lanka to make this a reality.
   
   
   GOAL- Find new ways to communicate with other international communities so that we can raise funds and really take our small habitat group to the next level. I would also like to start a small after school activity involving skating. In which anyone that wants to meet up on the weekend and skate in school would be free to join. Stay in more close contact with the main Habitat for Humanity in    Sri Lanka. 

www- week without walls 2012- class of 2013

this years week without walls was situated around the community and service aspect instead of any outdoor activities this was i still would have enjoyed the outdoor activities.

day 1-
although this year it gave me a chance to do alot more service which helped me gain better understanding for the cultural environment out side comlombo and our school. we spilt up our grade into two different schools we had probabaly the most work to do given the state of the playgroud. our goal on the first day was to get into our individual groups of which we had specific tasks like maintenence, painting and games.

day 2 -
 we began work almost instantly on thsi day ,mainly because we didnt have alot of time and teh work we need to do was back breaking but worth teh time and effort. we began landscaping by clearing then rocks and weeding teh long grass. we took apart any rotten wood from the old playground structure.

day 3-
on this day we had finished the landscaping created  a tire playground which was designed to stimulate movement in children and gain better awwarness of their motor functions and surroundings. we completeley restored a broken tree house with freshly cut stirdy wood. the other groups taht were in charge of the murals and painting of teh walls also completed there work so overall we achieved what we came there to do. in the end of our time at teh school we put on a collaborative performance for teh parents teachers and students who also took part offereing there own prepared performance.

day 4-
 this was our day of if you will we spent a lot of our time reflecting the past events interms of the school we helped restore. but we also got to go on a safari in the tyala national park. it was an adventure but on that lacked exciting wildlife. teh higlght of the trip was reach a beach that had been struck by the tsunami in 2004 there was a japonese memorial paying tribute to their fellow citizens. it was beautifull beach one that i probably would have never seen if it wasnt for the trip.

day 5-
we had breakfast and headead back to school from hambantota to colombo whcih was a good 5 hours or so. which gave us some much needed  sleep and reflective time.