Summary of 2009-2010

This is where I give an overview of what's happened this year and what'll happen next year.

Creativity:
I've engaged in band practices, improving my bass playing skills and my creative writing (mainly poetry) skills. Next year, I will continue most if not all of these on a weekly basis. My approach towards these three things has been rather stagnant, I've been active whenever I felt like it, but I think overall I probably put in more than the 50 hours that were prescribed in the past. I feel accomplished, because I've managed to meet all of my goals in all of these areas.

Now I need to set myself some goals for next year:
Despite the increasing workload, I will continue playing the bass in a band and on my own, just as much as I will continue writing. By the end of the year, I want to be able to play at least 10 songs on my bass by heart. One of the bigger goals I will set myself is to try to go further with my poetry. I no longer want to only have it on a blog, but much rather get it in book form. I don't quite know how to be realistic, but maybe I can even find a publisher!

Action:
This year, I've trained girls for football, played football myself, was part of the wallclimbing elective and participated in weekly pilates classes. I've met many challenges, especially in pilates and wall climbing, because I had never done either before.
Next year, I will not be doing SAISA football, because my parents want me to focus on my studies. I will however continue going to pilates class every week, as well as I want to start going to a gym once or twice a week to build up external bodystrength.

Service:
For service this year, I have lead a football CAS activity, as well as the DAWG (Dog Awareness Welfare Group) elective, which also is a CAS activity. I've encountered numerous challenges along the way, because I was new to dealing with kids who couldn't speak english (football) and new to dealing with kids much younger than myself (DAWG). In the end, I think that DAWG turned out much more successful than the football activity, because I had more help from others, especially our supervising teacher Ms Huijnen. Thanks!
Next year, I will continue to lead DAWG, the goal for which is to complete another sterilization campaign and improve some of the conditions I discussed in earlier post.


Altogether this year has been very successful. I am proud of what I've accomplished. I've faced uncomfortable decisions and fought through them and am looking to continue this next year.

Have a great summer Mr Lockwood and thank you for all the patient guidance!