Change in Action Note

For my last semester of DP2 I have changed my action from Personal Fitness with a trainer to yoga on Friday afternoons at school. While I will still continue to engage in personal fitness it will no longer be my main action in CAS due to the absence of a trainer. I hope to throughly enjoy yoga and be able to challenge myself and gain new skills from this experience. Yoga will begin on Friday the 13th.

Spreading Awareness

 As a part of my service, The Pursuit of Happiness, one of our main aims is to create awareness about people and situations that have not been able to tell their stories. We also focus on the generating a meaning of conveying our messages. My part in the service is focusing on the service group that works with the Alzheimer's Centre in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Post of interview with Alzheimer's Centre member 

Post of interview with Alzheimer's Group leader

As a part of generating awareness booklets were also made up for each group or people that our service interviewed. One of the special parts of our service is our collaboration with other services/groups that allows fro us to create a wider scale awareness for the better of all involoved.

Alzheimer's Centre Booklet

Alzheimer's Centre Booklet

Personal Fitness

My goals for personal fitness is to gain a healthier lifestyle and lose weight. These personal fitness sessions are held at the gym in my building with a personal trainer Romesh who is trainer who is studying to become a physiotherapist.  This is my fourth session which run for one hour once a week, in between sessions I must do two hours of personal work outs on my own.




 During these sessions we focus on building cardio and muscle. Half of session would be spent on the cross trainer or treadmill. Then we will work on doing short burst of a

Alzheimer's Center Visit

On the 15th of October I visited the Alzheimer’s Centre in Colombo with the service group from school. It was a group of five and we spent most of the time at the centre doing activates with the patients. We do jigsaw puzzles and played pass the parcel. But most of the patients really enjoyed when we played music and danced with them. I really enjoyed going to the centre it really opened my eyes about the disease and how people who are affect are looked after. I saw how hard to was for some of them to interact with people and was able to view how important it was to care for these people. It is said that the worst thing to do about Alzheimer's is to neglect  the patient and issue. I was glad that I was personally able to engage with issues of global importance. 

This is an issue of global importance because Alzheimer’s is an issue worldwide with no permanent cure found yet. One of the main problems is the lack of support that main countries have for people and their families who are affected. The service leader of the group, Anjleen Hannak,  addressed this problem; “I want people to understand the seriousness of the problem and want to them to be aware of how to this can effect peoples lives because Alzheimer’s can happen to anyone.”

Photo Credits: Ysobella Grieve-Darcy

Work Out

Today I had my first workout session at school. I did a 45 minute session focusing on my lower body more today and did a little upper body work.


Warm up:

• Head Rotations
• Forearm Rotations
• Arm Rotations
• Shoulder Rotations
• Wrist Rotations
• Torso Swings
•  Torso Bends
• Knee Rotations
• Feet Rotations

         Exercise:

• Step-ups with weights
• Leg raises (like sit-ups)
• Lunges
• Push ups
• 
  

Cool Down:

• Stretches for upper body and lower body
• 
  

Unfortunately I do not have any photo evidence because my workout partner unexpectedly couldn't attend our session due to personal matters and I found it difficult to take photos while trying to balance while doing lunges.

The Pursuit of Happiness Project

My service this semester is The Pursuit of Happiness. This service is inspired by the Humans of New York which is famous worldwide for sharing the stories of every day people. The services was founded by a fellow peer Hasith this year.

Our Mission: Our aspiration is to spread awareness about people and places in need, through the medium of visual biography. We hope to connect ‘you’ with seemingly far away realities thereby providing opportunities to make a difference.

This service allows it's participants to engaged with issues of global importance because we are addressing issues and groups that are in need or committed to helping the community. Some of the groups we interview are connected with helping people with disability or educating children. We are able to develop new skills because we work on developing photography skills. Looking at different lenses and how lighting affects the quality of the photographs. Another area that service has allowed me to improve on is working collaboratively with others, I have been allowed to working with people in my service and other services and this has made the service more enjoyable and worthwhile.

Link to our Facebook page were we share our work: https://www.facebook.com/tphserviceproject

Year 12 CAS Goals

This is my final year in IB and Sri Lanka and I want to make the best of this year with all its possibilities.

Creativity: For creativity this year I am participating in Drawing Club/Graphic Novel. My goal for this is to expand my art skills. I want to focus on learning and improving skills like, water colour painting, sketching and etching. These are skills that I have learnt previously and hope to improve this year to be more Knowledgeable . I will also be touching on creativity in my service group as we use photojournalism.

Action: For action this year I am on a Tuesday afternoon working out with a classmate in the gym area in the school. My goal for action is to become more healthy and fit so that I may lead a better healthy lifestyle. This action will go for 45 minutes every session and during the session I will have made a ready plan of what I will be doing that day.I want to live a more Balanced lifestyle.

Service: For service this year I have changed from my service group last year, The Forgotten Children, due to conflicting interests and an inability to complete any real service to the community. There was also a language barrier that prevent me and others in my group from creating meaningful connection that were very needed. The delicate nature of the subject that I was trying to create awareness about was also hindering the service group. 


This year my service is The Pursuit of Happiness Project, this project is inspired by the famous Humans of New York. In the project our aim is to spread awareness about the less fortunate (financially or health wise) through the medium of photojournalism . My goal for this service is to at the best of my ability spread awareness and people and places stories that might help give aid to these people. I want to be Open-minded about all issues and be a Caring person.