Volleyball season is now over after a tough weekend filled with games. Our volleyball team attended the SAISA girls volleyball tournament for the first time and it was hosted by our school. Six teams including our OSC team attended the tournament and our team did very well winning second place!
The tournament lasted for 3 days (Friday-Sunday)
On friday we played two games, against teams from Nepal and Dhaka and we won both. On saturday we played three games agains the rest tof the schools, Chennai, Bombay and Lahore. We won two of these three games and lost to Bombay. This meant that we were to play two games on sunday. First game was against Nepal which we won and this win took us to the finals. In the finals we faced Dhaka and lost against them leaving us the second place of the tournament.
Over all this volleyball season and tournament was a great experience for me. It was the first time for me to ever play volleyball and I am happy for how I did. I have grown and developed new skills as an athelete through out this season and I am very happy that I could be a part of the OSC volleyball team.
On Saturday 1st of October we held our first community basketball. We had 10 attending from what 4 people were from outside our school community. All players paid rs50 and many people bought drinks and snacks that were available. What sold the best was water bottles and energy drinks, which was expected. Snacks did not sell as well and this is one area that we need to discuss in our next Gecko Inc. meeting, should or should we not sell fruits and small snacks if they are not selling well? Will we lose or gain money by selling snacks? Is it worth it?
As a leader of this CAS I did most of the organizing before the actual event. I made all orders on drinks through the business office and filled in necessary paper work. I also am now in charge of all money related aspects and as well as all blue gecko cafe items that are being sold.
The first Community Basketball held was a success as we made profit and had good basketball games played. The next time Community Basketball will be held is on saturday the 29th of October. Unfortunately it is this late as SAISA is held next saturday, and the two saturdays after that are during the October break and most of our Gecko Inc. members are not present.
In the next Community Basketball we are hoping to have more people attending, especially from outside of our school. We will work on advertising this event and getting good basketball games played!
Last week I helped Tanya, the SGA president, out in sewing the spirit flags together into one big spirit banner. I have a sewing machine at home so I was able to do this after school. This banner will be hang up in the gym during the SAISA volleyball tournament to add gecko spirit to our school. This is counted as creativity for my CAS.
