Pusat Bahagia Swimming

Today was our first day on teaching the Pusat bahagian Students how to swim. These students are all disabled with the majority of them who are mute. This lesson was quite chilled because we just started to get to know the students and we also had to find out what they were capable of doing. The first thing we did was let them play around in the water making sure that they were use to being in the water. Then we made then play some games like, hitting the ball around and balancing the ball on the spoon and also picking up the rings from the bottom of the pool. We also did some technical swimming stuff with them like kicking continuously from one end to another. This was a good indicator for us to see each of the students levels. i am sure that the students had a lot of fun today. At the end of the lesson we chose a buddy so that we could have one to one training with the students. I chose Hannan. he is probably the youngest boy there and he is also quite shy but very cute. Next week we would have to come up with a better plan of the lessons and also have some more ideas on different activities. We also have to learn the different sign languages since they cannot speak. Through the lesson today i learnt to become a good communicator because i had to use a lot of body jesters to make sure that they could understand what they were suppose to do. it also made me feel open-minded which was very good because i was able to listen to others and also learn from one another.

Action: 1 hour

Picking up the fobissea students

Two days before the Fobissea Event some of us volunteered to pick up the students arriving from the airport as a warm welcome and taking them to the Orchid Garden Hotel where they would be staying during the competition. This was really fun and made me more confident as i had to communicate with many of the people. They would ask me questions about Brunei and lucky i knew all the answers to it. One of the coach recognized me from the previous Fobissea which was kind of cool in a way. We had to hold banners with their schools name and when they walked out the door we had to say welcome to Brunei. This was meant to make them feel more welcomed but some of them kind of got a little scared. After they come out we take them to their bus and straight to the hotel where we then distributed the goody bags to them which has a hat, bottle, name tag, shirt. This really made me miss Fobissea as i always use to get goody bags from the previous Fobissea's.

Service: 2 hours

JIS football Funday

On the of November JIS (Jerudong International School) hosted a yearly event called the Football Funday. This is where teams sign up and compete against each other. There is a boys and girls category and three different age groups, Under 13, Under 15 and Under 19. I was put into the under 19 group for ISB team B. There were 9 people in our team ranging from students aged 15 to 18 years old. We placed 6th place out of the 8 teams in the whole tournament. I was quite happy with this result because many of the other teams were a lot more experience and older. Most of the teams play in other tournaments internationally and in Brunei and a lot of them are 19 years old. Before the tournament i was not expecting to win but more of having fun and I had a lot of fun on that day. Watching the other people play made me learn a few newer skills that I didn't know before and it also made me think a lot while I was playing the games. I had to think about where to pass and how to make sure that the opposition could not pass me as I was playing defender. At the end of the day it was all about having fun and learning and hopefully the next time i play in football funday we can do better as a team.

Action: 5 hours

Helping out in the Under 15 Fobissea Games

On the 19th to the 21st of november the IB students were told to help out in the Under 15 Fobissea games when were hosted in Brunei as we were able to gain more Action ours from it.i have participated in the fobissea games for 5 years so this was really exciting to bring fobissea back into action where i can see the actual competition. The actual competitions lasted for three days where students compete againsteach other in Basketball, Football, Athletics and Swimming. I helped out on all three days doing the girls and boys basketball and the Athletics high jump.

On the first day there was the boys football and the girls basketball. I was helping out in the girls basketball doing the score sheets, timing for the timeouts

and also holding out the amount of fouls people had. Before this however we had to go to the hotel and bring the teams to their destinations. This was so that they would know where to go for the next two days. There were two courts so there were two different groups. the winner of each group would play the runner up of the other group and then the winner of that would be

able to proceed into the finals. During this i had to communicate with many people including the players and the coaches. Since we were the once in charge of the table, all the any complaints or problems were given to us to handle. We would either let it go with the teacher or solve it ourselves. I think that this was good because it really showed that we were thinkers and also very open minded to the peoples comments.

The second day was the athletics day. This was when we all got separated into doing different athletic events like the high jump, long jump, javelin, timing for the sprints, shot put, etc. Me and Hafizah were both delegated to do the high jump. During this event we had to change the bar at different levels according to the jumpers jumping height. Many of the people jumped really high and it really amazed me on how talented these students were. This was very reflective as i learnt many skills from the jumpers. As you can see in the photo it got really dark and started raining. This meant that the jumpers were not able to jump because the surface would be too slippery and they might fall. Luckily the rain only lasted for a while which meant that the events could continue after. After all the events finished we had to clean up the stadium and made sure that the equipments were put back properly and that there were no rubbish lying around on the field or on the stance. On this day there was also the swimming events that took place in the national stadium at night time. i was not able to attend this because i had a dinner to go, however i would have liked to see the swimmers swim as i was a competitive swimmer in the younger years.

On the third and last day it was the boys basketball. Basketball is one of my favorite sports and in the last three years i have won two silver medals in basketball. I was really looking forward to how the boys played and seeing whether some of them have improved. it was also exciting to see how much we helped the under 15 boys while we were playing them every week in the basketball trainings. i really wanted the ISB boys to win because i knew that they trained really hard. on this day i was allocated to do the same job as i did on the first day. it was a really intense day as ISB was really close into getting into the finals but at the end they had to settle with third place. the runner up were regents from Thailand and the winners were the Taipei European school(the picture on the right) . They were really good, but then again they train almost everyday so I guess they are prone to be good at basketball. There is also a basketball culture back in Taipei so this is more beneficial to the students. This whole experience has made me become a inquirer as i had to ask many questions at the beginning because i was not that sure what to do at certain situations. The food was also really good for all three days.

Action: 15 hours

Mentoring

On the third week of school, we were asked to mentor year 7's because they needed help in fitting in to secondary. since they were introduced to a new system of school, they had lots of questions to ask about how everything around work. The boy i was mentoring was Azique. If Azique had a problem of any kind he would be able to go up to me and ask me the question which we would then be able to talk about and sort out. through mentoring i learn how to be caring for other people. this also made me feel happy because i was able to help and solve peoples problem. We go into tutor class with our buddies every Wednesday and talk to them for 10 minutes from 7:15 to 7:25. I think that this is very limited because not much is being able to be said in 10 minutes and most of the time the morning bulletin is being said so therefore our time gets cut down to 7 minutes. we are however still able to help our biddies and give them advice. i always ask my buddy about how his week is going, and if he had been doing his homework. Azique is a good boy that doesn't get into trouble at all so i am glad that he is coping well in the lower secondary. sometimes i would check his diary to see if he had written his homework properly and also to see if he had ticked the boxes when he finished his homework.

Service: 10 hours