Week Without Walls

WWW is coming up and i've selected to do the dry zones trip. The trip consists of about 8 of us going and exploring the ancient city of Ritigala. Activities include climbing the mountain NEXT to the famous Sigiriya, snorkelling, night walks and pigeon island.

There are ethics involved in tourism, especially when visiting an ancient city. We need to treat the area with respect and not be "drawing our names on the floor" as Mr. Lockwood says. Besides the city we need to also show respect to the hotel/rest house we are staying in and to the people running it.

Another important thing is to get to know the people in our group. Learn their strengths and weaknesses, learn now to use that knowledge to complete activities at prime efficiency. More importantly however, learn about my own strengths and weaknesses. I've been on a lot of school trips and learnt a lot about myself, but for some reason i tend to always learn something new about myself on every trip. I guess when i'm put in different situations i tend to adapt.

Anyway, i'm really excited about the upcoming trip and i think i need to go shop for some new stuff :)



Mr Lockwood's blog

The place we are staying :)

Saisa Boys Basketball

So this is season 3 and i'm doing basketball. It was pretty unsure whether or not i would be able to do this season because of my ankle fracture. Now after an 8 week out of action period and 3 weeks of physiotherapy i'm almost back to a 100%. Since i wasn't in school for the last 2 weeks of the last semester I was unable to register for a TSSL card. So I wont be able to play in the first tournament that our teams in. This actually might be a good thing so i don't rush my ankle into full contact play.

So practice is starting tomorrow and will be on Tuesdays, Wednesday mornings, fridays and Saturday mornings. I'm not planning on doing full practice tomorrow but ease into full practice over the next two weeks with clearance from my physiotherapist. I think this relates to undertaking new challenges and showing perseverance and commitment in my activities. The new challenge being to keep myself healthy for the next 3 months. The perseverance and commitment being the constant icing and taking care of my ankle after practices because it's going to be sore and not giving up on any practices and not letting the team down in any way. There is a chance that we will lose one of our star players and the rest of us need to step up.