Swim4Life was an annually held event that raise funds for the global concern, SurfAid. This year on October 3rd 2018, it was reinvented as Swimdonesia, a collaborative event held by 3 different GCs: SurfAid, Jakarta Street Kids, and Gili Eco Trust. The event was based of the previous idea of sponsored laps swimming but this year […]
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TTS Merlions Meet at OCBC Aquatics // Swimming
Recently I attended the annual TTS Merlions meet, this was held at the OCBC aquatics center. I overall thought it was a good early-season meet for myself as I don’t usually swim early season meets well. There were some disappointments, but my 50m breaststroke was really quite good scoring 2nd place and making a new […]
Half-Term Check-in
Half Term Evaluation As we have just finished the first 8 of 16 weeks of term one, I’d like to reflect on all my current activities and services which I’ve decided to partake in. In relativity to previous years, I’ve taken a lot upon myself, but my organization skills has also significantly increased. They have […]
Culturama 2018 Photo Opportunity
Recently I was given the amazing opportunity to take photos at the schools annual event, Culturama. Culturama is a dance showcase that students can sign up for and dance to represent a certain school nationality, there are dances from: Spain, France, USA, Japan, Cambodia, and much more. As an amateur photographer, I haven’t had a […]
Photographing Sports Teams
Team Photographing Opportunity I was given the opportunity to take photos for the school team, just by chance. It was quite random, I was talking to a friend about photography and one of the activity coordinators within the activity office asked if I had a portfolio in which I directed her to my flickr. After […]
Visit to Tampines MINDS // Yoga with Tampines MINDS
As part of the local service, Tampines Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore (MINDS), we during service hours went to visit the actually center itself. Our main objective was to learn more about “what they do” and “how they do it” and ask questions regarding both the center and how we can best assist […]
Hougang Visit // Tech Tinkers
For the CAS leaders we were given the option of a side trip involving a off campus investigation to the Hougang Care Center for the college service, Tech Tinkers. Tech Tinkers is an activity based on 3 basic steps of action: acquiring tech , renewing tech, and finding new homes of need for tech. The […]
Swimming Goals // Beginning of the year
Goals are important, especially in a sport in which require a lot of training. Its easy to forget what it’s all for, goal setting sheets help keep focus through the tough times. It’s early season, so these goals will be an insight into the rest of the year (in terms of swimming). Being specific to what […]
Mentor Video
I was tasked with creating the 11GPs mentor video, the point of the activity was both to team bond in our mentor class and also introduce our mentor class to the grade. At first glance the task seems simple, we (as a mentor class) quickly found that it was not. Our first challenge came with […]