Friends of Marich BOOK DRIVE!

Friends of Marich is having a book drive to collect books for the library we have built. Please bring in some of your old books, as many children’s books as possible, but really, any kind of book that you can spear. So if you’ve got any unused books laying around, bring them in over the next couple of weeks and they will be put to a great use! There will be a box in which you can deposit your old books in Mr. Robins room!

For friends of Marich, I am in the PR committee, and for this book drive, I volunteered to make a poster to help the teachers and the students around the school notice this good cause and project. 

BETA 2012

BETA is a Lebanese registered non-governmental organization (Charity # 205/AD) established to improve the lives of animals in the region. We provide rehabilitation and a safe haven while striving to find the loving, permanent homes these animals deserve. Through education and direct action, we work to prevent animal overpopulation and cruelty, and encourage a society that treats animals with compassion.

"We exist solely on the kindness of your donations, adoptions and assistance".


Last summer, some of my friends and I had volunteered  to go to an exposition for dogs and take care of the Beta dogs and also sell food and drinks in order to raise money for the association. It was in my opinion a really good experience, just to know that we were doing something for a good cause and for poor dogs, trying to find them a new home, a new family, it was just a great experience.


This winter break, some of my best friends and I went to this christmas exposition in Beirut, (Lebanon) because we volunteered again, to sell accessory that some shop had provided to help the Beta organization. We sold as much as possible and explained to all the customers what Beta is about and convinced them to help us and it really worked. We also had around three or four dogs in our stand that we were taking care of and showing them to the people.

And once again it was an amazing experience and I could honestly do it again and again, because helping a good cause, with friends around you, is just a great experience.

Tennis IITT tournament in Ethiopia 2012

This year, since I was in the school's varsity tennis team, I got picked to go with seven other players of our team to Addis Ababa for the International Invitational Tennis Tournament in Ethiopia's International school: ICS (international community school). We travelled there for 5days, and we played three days total. In the competition there was our school, ISK, ICS red and ICS white, the greek school of Addis and the Pilot club of Addis, so five teams in total. I was playing at the seed 3, just like last year, so some of the people I was playing I already knew.

I already went last year so I kind of knew how it was going to be and even some of the other players from the other school. The only difference is that last year I wasn't very prepared for it, but this year I think I have made a lot of improvement, and I could see that through the results of the games. 

 I was hosted with a really good friend and really good player, Cheryl. The first day we were all, well especially me, sort of nervous for the games, but it actually turned out pretty well for all of us ( us the girls, because the girls were separated from the boys this year so we didn't really spend much time with them). But after the first games, we saw that it was really fun and we enjoyed it as much as we could.

We, overall as a team came third out of five, but as the girls, we came first and I honestly think we killed it, we won every single game except for me, I lost one tiebreak and was really disappointed, but even so, ISK girls came first easily but at least 60 points. We also as a team got a trophy for sportsmanship. 

As individuals, we all got medals. I got first place for my category which was awesome, and for doubles, my partner Shivy and I came third overall and we were really proud of ourselves because we had to play our own girl double team from ISK and did the best we could, even though we were laughing all the time. 

The tournament was really really fun and I enjoyed it a lot more than last year, we laughed and played as best as we could. I learned that the score doesn't matter, but how much fun you had during the game mattered the most. I also think that I have improved since last year and I really hope that I will be coming back next year and play even better.

Tennis AISK 2012: Varsity blue team

 

-AISK:  

Every year, the tennis teams of different schools in Nairobi play the AISK tournament locally. I was part of the varsity team this year, which was great because I was in the junior varsity last year. 

This year, for these games against the following schools: Rosslyn, Hillcrest, Peponi, West nairobi and RVA, I played single sometimes which was tired and intense but fun as well, the other times I played first doubles with my partner and good friend Binoy, who was the captain of our team, he was the best player on the team so it was kind of a challenge to play with him. It turned out to be so much fun and we got a lot closer as well, we would always not only play as best as we could, but enjoy the game and laugh and even the coach said we were a great combination! 

We got to the semi-finals this year and had to play our team's biggest rival, Hillcrest. I played doubles with Binoy again, but we lost even though we had practiced a lot earlier. The whole team lost as well. We were all quite disappointed but I thought that overall the season was really fun, I enjoyed it and made new friends which was awesome and I knew that even though we didn't win, we did everything we could and at least had fun which is the most important thing.