Sports Day - Like a boss

It was suggested to me to make a presentation in front of the teachers during the meeting as a question to inform them of the upcoming event which I put myself forward to organise: Sports Day. 

I made sure to be fully prepared for this by creating a presentation to make it easier for people to understand what I would be saying since visual aid is always helpful to make people understand what you are saying. For this presentation I made bullet point notes so that it would be easy to understand and not too boring. I made it explicit what each teacher would be doing and I made sure to emphasis that if teachers didn't know precisely what to do they should come to me to answer questions. I did this my repeating this many times so that I would be sure that this day was going to run smoothly and with minimum misunderstanding. 

I had prepared a script for my presentation but instead of reading it out loud, I ended up ignoring it and just spoke what came to mind from remembering part of what I had written. This helped me be more communicative since I found myself speaking with flow even though I didn't have a script in my hands which goes to show that I have become more confident in speaking and that I am not afraid to be communicative with others. 

Considering the fact that no teacher had any questions after my presentation, I can draw from this that I have ticked all the boxes in making teachers understand what exactly I wanted them to do. Some of them asked me if they could change role or informed me that they weren't here and from this I was fast to react since I allocated other teachers to the role of the teachers that wouldn't be here and I made it possible for teachers to switch to the role they wanted with minimal issues. 

If I were to do a presentation like this again, I would try and have a script so that I don't repeat myself unnecessarily and that I make sure to cover all the points I need to even though I did this in this meeting. This would help me speak more confidently since I would know exactly what to say and wouldn't be pondering on what I should say next.

Week 29- the end

This was the last week for the season contrary to what I thought last week and awards were handed out at the start which included: top scorer, best player, best goalkeeper, most improved player, and a trophy and medals for the team that won the league itself.

I was awarded top scorer, a medal for winning the league and best player which I was honoured to be awarded and thankful since every week I was trying my best and supporting my team and it brings me joy to know that my efforts were appreciated and noticed by the teachers who voted on the people who would be receiving these awards.

One could say that these awards I earned motivated me this week since the first game I played I was able to score a hat trick and score a grand total of over 10 goals so it was a great way to finish the season, however there will  still be friendlies after this week which I will make sure to attend.

My skills have really improved and so has my agility since I was able to outrun and dribble several players and then score which was one of my major strengths this week. My shooting has gotten better since I am now aiming for accuracy rather than power when I can and it has been fruitful for me, however, there are some times where I think that I should be tactful when shooting since I sometimes make it too obvious where I am going to shoot and thus I don't score as many as I could. That is why, during next week's friendlies, I will try to fake shoot so that I trick the goalkeeper and hopefully score more goals.

My team play has improved as well since I have become a lot more communicative and supportive since the beginning of the season considering I am not afraid to voice out what I want team mates to do e.g. give me a through ball, and I try to give advice to younger team mates in ways in which they could improve so that the level of football in our club increases and the competition becomes more intense.

Next week, I will make sure not to relax because it is the end of the season and I got trophies for my efforts, but rather keep my efforts high and keep achieving the level of football I think I should be achieving and push myself to be better in order to be ready for next season.

Link to the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo2U0nsMTl8&feature=youtu.be

Summer Fair Plan

A friend and I are planning to organise an activity during the summer fair at our school in order to give the money we make from that activity to charity which helps us think about world issues and ethical implications of our actions. We decided to do something based on a club that happens within school and is quite popular: PS 3. We are going to set up our activity in the Biology room since that is where the PS 3 club happens therefore regular players will know where our activity is and there is an easy access to it from outside next to where some stands will be therefore it increases the changes of people coming to participate in our activity.

We decided to always have at least 4 players playing since that would maximise revenue considering that is the maximum amount of players which can play. We decided to set a price of 50 roubles per participant for a 10 minute game since that seemed to be a reasonable price and it more suitable for change if anyone needs it. 

We made sure to print out posters in order to make people aware of our activity so that a maximum amount of people can come and that would increase the potential revenue we would earn and therefore we would be donating more to charity. 

We will make sure to set up the activity 2 hours before the actual summer fair so that if there are any technical issues, we have the time to fix it so that our activity will run as smoothly as possible. We made sure to use a game that would convene to all ages which made us think about ethical issues since parents might not approve of having their child play games which aren't recommended for their age. 

Creativity Day

Today was creativity day and I took part in the activity "Enterprise" which involved creating a product which we would then sell during the summer fair the next day. We put ourselves into groups of four and my group decided to produce a lottery which involved people buying tickets for 50 roubles each and having the opportunity to win a prize. To make this lottery more attractive to people, we created 3 prizes so that there would be multiple winners and there would be a higher chance of each individual winning compared to if there was only one prize. We decided to have the same prizes in order to same time since we would produce it all at once, however, a variety of prizes could have been won to add variety to our lottery.

We had everything planned out which is why we ended up having a lot of free time which we used to conduct market research and estimate how much money we could raise from this product so that we knew how much to produce and if we should lower the price or not if not enough people wanted to participate. This market research paid off since we were able to gather useful information including that some people found the prize mediocre and others just didn't want to use money for this product. Nevertheless, our research shows that there was a sufficient demand for this product to give us a significant amount of revenue which would then be donated to charity.

Ways in which we could have improved our procedures to produce the product is that we could have been more efficient in the sense that we didn't have a team leader in order for us to feel like equals, however this led to people not being assigned proper roles which was inefficient in the sense that some of us weren't doing anything productive sometimes when we could have been contributing to the launch of the product.

Today taught me to be more communicative and inquisitive since I joined a pre-formed group and therefore I asked them what exactly they had planned and what we were going to do so that I could help them in the making and launching of the product. 

Week 28 - the end?

I am not definite that this was the last competitive week, but if it was I don't think I ended it with a high note even though I was able to score 5 goals during one game and was able to achieve my target of a minimum of 10 goals. The reason for my disappointment in this week was because of our team's overall performance. We didn't come out as victors this week predominately because a lack of incentive to actual defend. I was one of the few that was actually defending which is why I was discontent about this week. I was unable or rather it wouldn't have been practical for the success of our team if I played my usual position as an offensive player.

Nevertheless, my skills have visibly improved today since I tried to take on players but I think I could have been more confident on the ball and run up with it more often since that would have helped me score more goals and have more chances at goal. The chances I did get on goal, however, were successful since I think that my accuracy was overall pretty satisfactory though sometimes I still try to go for power rather than accuracy which works most of the time but sometimes it ends up disappointing me. This is why I think I should practice before the matches in shooting the ball into the corners like I did this week in order for my precision to increase and hopefully I will be able to score more goals.

This week, my role as a team player was beneficial to the team since I was able to have more assists than goals and taking in mind that I was able to score over 10 goals demonstrates my role as a key player. My passing was more accurate than last week, however, I still think it could do with more practice and focus since it happens that I give away possession with some of my passes, however, I make up for this with my interceptions which I am able to do as a result of my ability of reading plays well.

Next week, even though it may not be competitive, I will play a more offensive role even though our team may be reluctant to defend since that will create an incentive for them to defend, however, I will not forget my role of also defending and marking players so that our team can get more clean sheets next week compared to this week. I will try to aim for accuracy rather than power in my shots in order to score one-on-one situations with the goal keeper and I will try to be more confident with the ball by taking on more players and trying out new moves.

Link to the video:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Oj9w41v4Gw&feature=youtu.be