Badminton team

Today was the first practice Badminton team. We have formed a team in school, we will practice till March and then have matches between schools.

Today in practice, we were told about the rules and the procedure of the game and how we will plan it out strategically, for the team to do better. During the practice, we warmed up with different exercises to make our body more flexed out. Then we were split between boys and girls, and Mr, De Sliva, our coach, made us practice drop shots and see where we stand in that position. After all of that we played some practice matches in teams. I was playing single with another boy called Uthpala.

At that moment i realized that i could not play singles and that i would get tired easily. I knew where i stood and i needed to play doubles with partners. I hope to increase my skills as a single player in the practices to come.

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CAS - Cleft Clip and Palate ( Hospital visit)

The group had organized a visit to the Hospital, Lady Ridgway Hospital. There we meet up with the doctor who was second in charge, he did not do the operations. He took us (Bharat, Rithvik, Ashish, Rajindh, Rasmus and Me) to where the babies were, who were suffering form that problem. He also told us what kind of disorder it was, weather it was Palate or Cleft.

He was kind enough to let is take pictures of the kids, and get a close up. We were touched by the conditions of these children, and this definitely made us more aware of the situation, we will now do more to raise and do more surgeries.

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White Water Rafting and Cannoning ( Borderlands)

During the winter holidays my, cousins had come over to visit. We had planned a trip during the days to go to borderlands. We had been told that, there was very good white water rafting there and that cannoning. So as a part of the tour of Sri Lanka we took them to the borderlands. There we were escorted by the officials working there, to a sitting place where we, were instructed to sign some papers regarding the safety. The we were taken to a place where they pulled out the raft, the challenge was that they had to carry the raft down to the river. It took a while but in the end we managed to get it up and going on time.

There were told to do a safety exercise, it was group exercise, that aimed to make us more comfortable with the water and what we were to deal ahead. Next we all hopped into the boat and set sail towards the rapids. We hit 5 rapids on the way, and each time it was more scary and fun. Next on our list was cannoning, we were stopped in the middle of the course, there was a bridge there, we got of and walked upwards on a hill to a place where there were small water falls and water slides. Keeping aside all our tensions we focused on ourselves, over coming our fears of heights and deep water. In this trip, we learnt how to take care of ourselves while stuck in rapids, how to form a group to save ourselves from dying or drowning, also while paddling we found out how much energy we had and this made us more confident.

This trip has by far been the best trip for me and my relatives, i look forward to doing such activities with groups, to improve skills and management.

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