That's How You Do It!

Hey there!

I'm writing to express my joy of winning the badminton match! It was on 3rd of February. I'm really happy about this, since me and my partner had lost the previous one. To be honest, we had been crushed. But not this time! We have been practicing before this match and showed a really good game out there.

 

Since me and Martyna have been really disappointed of ourselves, we've decided to have some practices. My personal task was to learn how to serve. It was not easy at first, but I managed to do it finally. I also wanted to learn to hit the shuttlecock right so that our opponents could not beat it back. Those were really useful practices. And, apparently, successful ones.

 

Me and Martyna and our opponents, who were 10th garders, gathered at school at 8 a.m. We did a warm up at first and then started playing. There were 3 games in total and the score was 2:1. We lost only the second one of three games. I guess, we started to feel too confident. However, we pulled up and won the crucial game.

 

I'd say it was a deserved victory, since we have been practicing for it. And yet, it was only one match, we cannot start feeling too confident again and try and win the other ones.

 

This activity included one aspect of CAS - Action.

 

 

Forget-me-not

Hello!

I'd like to tell you about the "Forget-me-not" initiative that I've participated in on 13th of January. It was already the second time that me and my classmate brought this beautiful event to our school. It was an honor for me to be the one to encourage people to remember and be thankful for Lithuanians who made huge sacrifices for our country to become free.

 

Just like the last year, my classmate Martyna was the one who offered me to join this initiative. We gathered at the school at 7 a.m., prepared flyers as well as forget-me-not flowers, the symbol of this event, and started giving them out to people.  We encouraged them to stick the flowers on their clothes and this way pay respect for brave Lithuanians.

 

It was amazing to be the part of this initiative, since people seemed really happy and enthusiastic about it. Of course, not all of them took our offer and fastened the flowers with a pin given to their clothes. Nevertheless, I'm still feeling really positive about this initiative as it served its main purpose - to show gratitude for living in a free country and having many wonderful opportunities because of it.

 

This activity included one aspect of CAS - Service.

A Ball and a Racket

Hello, you all!

This time I want to tell you about the sport that I did this semester. It's funny, that all the sports I've engaged with have one thing in common - they are all played using a ball and a racket. These are tennis, squash and badminton.

 

The sport that I've started to do first, in the beginning of the summer, was tennis. I've never done that before, so I was really interested when I found out that a new group of people who would like to try out this sport was being gathered to play in the tennis court just near my house. In order to understand this game and to learn whether it's worthwhile for me to even start play it constantly,  I had a personal lesson with a tennis trainer. I was surprised how fun it was. To be frank, I was not so bad at it as I expected. At the end of the lesson the trainer even commended me about my playing. That was how I've decided to start doing this sport constantly. During the summer, I used to go to these practices twice a week. However, when the school year started, I didn't have enough time to do that two times a week, so now I go to play tennis only on Saturdays. I enjoy it really much and I've became pretty good at it. It allows me to blow off some steam after a hard week and to stay in shape.

 

Another sport that I've tried about four months ago was squash. My classmate Martyna used to tell me about it and she was the one who offered to try and play it sometimes when we had free periods during lessons. Since she had been playing it before, Martyna was like a trainer to me. Pretty good one, I could say. As I was already playing tennis at that time, it was no that difficult for me to readjust my skill to this game. However, we only had four squash practices as it turned out to be a little bit hard them with lessons. And yet, I really liked it and Martyna taught me some valuable ball hitting techniques.

The final sport that I've tried was badminton. Since me and Martyna have already tried playing together before, we've decided to sign in a badminton tournament. We had one practice where we readjusted our skills from squash and tennis and then, on 6th of January, we had the first match. It was against two 11th graders who turned out to be really good at badminton. So, we lost this one. Yet, it was probably for the best, since we have learnt our mistakes and we are going to work on them. There will be another match soon and we will be ready.

Trying out these new sports made me realize that I can be really good at games with a ball and a racket if I put enough effort in it. Also, I really enjoyed them all and understood that I have to learn from my mistakes. As they say, "practice makes perfect".

These activities included one aspect of CAS - Action.