Classroom Science Initiatives

It’s the last day of the Sports Camp. Closing ceremonies will be tonight. The Integrated School will have no classes until November 2 though, since they already had their report card giving last week.

There will also be at least one delegation from the provinces that will be staying one extra day tomorrow (and leaving on Thursday).

Fortunately this has been foreshadowed so they were billeted in the learners’ community one building, away from college classes.

That leaves two regular days of classes for the college later this week, and four next week, excluding Saturdays.

@@ I have been told that softball and badminton are the highlights of the Sports Camp. I noticed one kid accompanied by their coach leaving the covered court saying “the other kids are so big”.

I would also like to commend the Integrated School Student Council for coming up with a very unique and entertaining “star” scavenger hunt that I saw the kids getting their hands dirty on yesterday.

I have already mentioned it in the social networks and micro-blogging sites, but I’m very excited about the first performance of the revived Music Council tonight, which is an inter-school event at that!

I just hope that it will not be as late as originally planned, and that they will be able to finish at least an hour or so before midnight. After all, tomorrow is a regular 8 am starting day for the college.

@@ Here’s something from out of the blue: sometimes, we just need someone (and this sentence could stop right here and it would be all about the unexplored territory, but it won’t stop there) to draw us out of our shell and realize there is something we’ve been missing of which we want to be a part.

@@ Here’s something else, related to the first one, if one wants to go with the most obvious connotation: how do you land a fish?

You keep casting your line out there, and you keep reeling it in. It doesn’t just fall into your lap.

Nor does the fish follow you if you stop going to the lake. And don’t put the behavior of the fishes in a box.

Sometimes it’s random; there are days when they bite, there are days when they don’t. But you won’t know if there are days when you are not out there casting and reeling over and over again.

@@ Daily Leadership Lesson October 27 - You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. - Woodrow Wilson

My take on this: well, at least it’s a little different from what has been written in the lessons recently.

So your life in this world isn’t just about helping others, as long as it’s not only for selfish reason, but you have to think about the future generations as well and how your life (even if it’s just as a bad example in the case of the unwitting Darwin award nominees) can improve the lives of most people in the quickest possible time, and yes, that includes willingness to die for your country.