Fitness club

    Our plan to run the fitness club on Mondays and Tuesdays didn't really work out as we planned. Actually it worked out a lot better than we thought. Instead of doing it two times a week, the club is now running every lunch time. We have about ten to fifteen people showing up everyday, most of them from Year 12 though there are some younger students as well. What we do there is simply group workout sessions. We have a workout playing in the background telling us what to do, when to stop and when to start again. Since the gym is not that big and doesn't have that much equipment, we do exercises which require no equipment at all. Running this club is a new challenge for me. I run this club with a couple other students, so in order for this to work I have to work collaboratively and of course plan and initiate activities, for example prepare next days workout. Since this club started and until the end of the school year I will show perseverance and commitment not just in running it, but participating in it myself.
     Not that I just run the club I also get fit myself. Over the couple of weeks I increased my awareness of my strengths and areas for growth. Over the upcoming weeks I hope I will develop new skills not just in my body itself, but in running activities like these. Through this club I have also considered the ethical implications of my actions.

Badminton Club

    I consider myself quite an active person and I enjoy all kinds of sports, from basketball to badminton. That's why I'm part of both of these clubs. Badminton takes place each Tuesday after school. There are quite a few students showing up and sometimes even teachers. What I like about badminton, is that it's not like football or basketball - it is not a difficult (physically) sport, meaning you don't need to run around and so on. Instead it requires concentration and precision and that is a kind of sport I have not played before. The way the games go on in the school is in the beginning we choose a partner (we play doubles) and keep rotating around to play teams that we have not played that. Once we played all of them we simply change partners. I have joined this club in the beginning of the year and I'm in it since then. Throughout these months I have shown perseverance and commitment, I increased my awareness of my strengths and areas for growth and because of that I definitely developed new skills even though it was a completely new challenge to me when i started playing badminton in the beginning of the year. 

Weather Club (Continued)

    The winter comes to an end and it will not be as cold to go outside to take readings. Year 13 will soon have their exams and leaves this noble task purely for us, Year 12 meaning that we will have to spend a bit more time with the club. Throughout the months I have shown perseverance and commitment, worked collaboratively with my partner and of course engaged the issues of global importance.

Winter Activity Day

    Even though winter is over, there is still plenty of snow in Moscow until.. a long time, so while the snow is still here, we had a winter activity day. All IB students split up into different groups and had to work collaboratively to plan and initiate an activity for the lower year students. As you might have already guessed, there were no classes that day and all the students could enjoy the 'last' snow all day long in many various activities like an obstacle course, winter music quiz, hiking or for younger students snow castle building, which that my group and I organised. The students were split into two groups and in certain time period had to build a snow castle and the team with a better and bigger one wins. However it was extremely difficult to say which castle was better, so there were no second place in this activity. Even though snow castle building was organised for lower year students, some teachers as well willingly joined in the fun.
     It was quite tough commanding over 15 little children and that was definitely a new challenge for me and I believe that I have developed some new skills in doing so. I have shown perseverance and commitment in my activity. During this event I have also considered the ethical implications of my actions.

Papercraft

    My new awesome hobby - Papercraft (Cubeecraft to be more precise). This is a completely new challenge  for me and hopefully I will develop some new skills. My first project was Danbo -  cute little paper robot created by Azuma Kiyohiko. To complete one project it takes a lot of time, perseverance and commitment. I am still doing a lot of other cool cubeecraft characters like Bobba Fett, Wall-E, Billy Doll and a few other ones. This is a really awesome activity that I will definitely will carry on with.-