13-05-2011 Movie Night

Me, Josh, Niamh, John, and Luis organized a movie night for the primary school in order to raise money for educations towards kids living in the slums. We were supossed to organize and raise money for the children individually, but we got together and started working as a group. Time wise, we were about three weeks behind, and we needed a way to raise money fast. We ran around talking to different priniciples, supervisors and other teachers to think of ideas in which we can raise the money. We talked as a group and came up with the idea of organizing a movie night. We know that the primary kids all enjoy movies and so, we found that the most effective way to raise a lot of money in a short amount of time. Me and Niamh went around to every grade and had a vote of three films to determine which was the best to show
the movies were
-Cats and dogs II
-Despicable me
-Megamind

Cats and dogs was the most voted movie amongst all grades, so that was the one chosen to be shown. The movie would take place on Friday the 13th of May 2011. We planned to have the grades gather in the cafeteria, eat their paid for popcorn and juicebox and then bring them to the PMPR afterwards. No food is allowed in the Primary Multi Purpose Room, which is why we decided to let them finish in the cafeteria first. Each of the kids paid 200 rupees for the movie, one popcorn and one juicebox.
The total amount of money we raised was about 20,000 rupees.

CAS 06-06-2011

During the second semester I joined the Temple School community service program. Like last year, the puropse of this service program is to entertain preschoolers coming in from a local school. Each week a different pair of people organize an activity for that school. We have to organize something creative and try to make it edducational. The kids come every thursday for one hour where 15 minutes of that is drinking milk and having a snack. The actvities that I had helped organize consitsted of finger painting, and musical activities. The cas students really enjoyed the musical activities. First we got them to stand up, and dance around according to the music. Then we played the game musical chairs, which they enjoyed quite alot.
There were some instances where i was not able to do the cas because of other school work, there were also instances where the local school did not come due to new years and vesak celebrations, or any other local holiday.
I enjoyed doing this service program this year aswell as last and will probably also take part in it next year.