Winter Sport's Day

So on the 13th of March our Winter Sports Activity day was held. It was awesome :) Thibaut, Kirill and I were one of the groups who had to do their activity outside of the school, and even though we expected an extremly cold weather for the whole day it was sunny and nice :) So now it is obvious that our work had to be done collaboratively together. This is only one of the many outcomes done that day, because it was a really fast going day with a bounch of things to be done!
So our group agreed on a Touch-Rugby game in the meter high snow which was scary for the first time but after some of us from Year 12 tried it out we figured its fun as hell :) I mean tackling each other in the snow, running with knees up high with no other aim but to reach a goal line made our days. I didn't even know the rules before so I also increased my awareness of my own strength and areas for growth while playing a new sport and undertook some new challenges when I was playing!
So we planned our activity and set it up behind the volleyball and football course, put some poles down for endzones and sprayed the snow with lines so its obvious where the course was.
I also  developed new skills when I was being a referee and figured that it wasn't really about the rules but the fact that its supposed to be fun..so we changed the rules sometimes to avoid chaos but allow lower grade students to enjoy the game in the snow.

There were many other activities such as building different kind of animals or characters out of snow and paint them, an obsticle course was set up (and I honestly think that was the BEST activity since you could revenge all your anger when a teacher was running the course since it was allowed to throw snowballs (snowblocks :D:D) at them to make it harder to succeed :P), also there were inside activities which I didn't really get to see but I'm sure they were fun as well :)
I also uploaded some pictures and when I lokk at them I realize what a perfect day was picked to do all this. The snow hasn't been so good to build anything for a really long time and I still don't get how our teacher's picked such a good day to do all this :)
Thank God weather is getting warmer day by day in Moscow too so everyone in general is in a better mood too :)
Hope you like the pics!

In thy Gym.

I have been going to a gym somewhere around Novie Chereyomusky since the beginning of the year. Even though I wanted to take it seriously I went home to Hungary every 1.5 months and that 1 or 2 weeks of skipping made things difficult. Since the winter holiday I cleaned up my diet, I attend the gym 5-6 times a week (3days of workout then one day of rest). I struggled a bit to show evidence so I made a video but had to change format, so I decided to upload it to youtube :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5N3cUi9gCw&feature=youtube_gdata

On this video I'm showing the right form of doing a Deadlift(125kg) (this was my 'back and bicep day'). I'm pretty exhausted by this time since this was my very last bit of the whole workout routine for the day but I decided to capture it so I asked my friend (and the coach of the gym) to handle the phone. We could say this is working collaboratively together since my russian is pretty bad but we manage to talk half english half russian and solved the problem :)

By commiting myself to pretty strict diet and excersising rules now I'm undertaking new challanges, since I have been lifting weights for years now (and will be for a long time - I know it :)) I'm showing perseverance and commitment in this activity and I'm always  developing new skills  when I listen to my friend giving me advices on things such as the right form of doing a Deadlift.
I also increased my awareness of my ares of growth and again undertook new challanges by figuring how to upload and format a video (never done before :))

I hope you like the video:)

Pancake in a cake - smart

Last time I showed how I make my own protein bar I usually eat in the school during little breaks to keep hunger away and still eat something healthy.
Today I'm going to write about a cake I made for my family during my sickness. I had to sit at home for over a week and I was bored out of my mind so I made something every day. I totally forgot to take pictures of the other foods but when I make them again I will definetly not skip taking them.
To stay at a healthy level I made these pencakes from minced oat, eggs, lowfat milk (0.5%), and olive oil. I thought its not gonna taste as good as the original ones but I think there was no significant other than the size of the pencake. I couldnt grind the oat into a clear powder so it was made up of bigger oatpieces.

It didnt matter when I decided to put one on another and put some creamy choclety, yet no sugary filling and some dried pineapple pieces between the layers.
I also forgot to take a picture of the final product and eventhough my family is not really into this diet thing they ate more than half of the cake after the chrispy chicken supper. (I also cooked some chicken:) )


Here are some pictures though from the preparing and one after consuming the half of it :)

During this activity I:

• Planned and initiated activities
• Undertook new challanges
• Increased my awareness of my own strength and areas of growth
• Developed new skills

Valentine's Day

I have to make a post on Valentine's Day eventhough I wasn't present. It was part of my CAS Plan to do service and be creative by making posters and so but 10 days before the disco I got a bacterial infection which made it impossible for me to attend the disco or help selling, organizing, advertising it. Many people say it was awesome and after coming to school I heard that all the teachers and students were realy satisfied with the results of their work. The school also raised a lot of money from such things as selling food and setting up games. This money usually goes to charity supporting children or disabled people which is worth all the effort. I really do hope there is going to be another disco to fulfil my plan, but this time it was just impossible for me to be present.

CAS Plan - Term 2

Creativity:
I already made some effort towards this plan (previous post)

• To make different kind of deliciousnesses on healthy measures (like my homemade protein bar)
• I'll be helping to set up different events such as the Valentine's Day or whatever comes up.
• When I have the time I will finally start my planed club at lunch which is: Who will build the best snowman? I need teacher co-operation so we can inspire everyone with housepoints and people to evaluate the snowmen. 

Action:

• Since I returned from the christmas holiday I have been going to the local gym 6 times every week for at least 2 hours(every workout day). My main goal is to gain weight in muscle (this relates to my Creativity cooking thing) Afterwards losing the remaining fat will be my goal so I have one for the 3rd Term already!
• Taking part on Winter Sports Day in school will definetly be fun and active! Hope it is coming soon :)

Service:

• Next time I'm going home I'll be donating blood to the redcross.
• I have many clothes unused still at home(Budapest). Donation to the redcross also.
• Taking part in fund-raising actions in the school.

Protein Bars

Those who know me can support the fact that I am obsessed with food. Not only in the 'bad' way that I eat a lot, but I really WATCH what I eat. My calorie intake a day, my workout(there will be another post on that for Action soon) and how I manage to succeed.
I look up many healthy diet foods on the internet and yesterday I decided to make my first one. I read about nutritions all the time and increase my awareness of my own strenght and especially areas of growth.
Today also (because it was SO good) I made a homemade protein bar. In the future Ill make more and post pictures later :)
All I needed was the ingredients and i was commited. Theres everything what is good for your health:
Protein from nuts, peanut butter (natural one - no trans fat and added sugar) and oats, also some healthy fats and slow digesting carbs to last long during a hard.studying day and keep the brain awake. Its full of vitamins and nutritions from the oatmeal, milk and especially the honey which I use for sweetening. Good source of fast absorbing protein from a little bit of protein powder (awesome for a diet) and healthy dried fruits such as rasins, pineapples and papayas. For better amino acid absorbation theres a small amount of dark chocolate (85%) and it also gives it a really good mass besides the nice taste with peanut butter. One bar makes a perfect in-between meal for me in a short break with 200-300 calories and I also get my protein intake. :) Pictures are coming!!!
(if somebody needs recipie feel free to ask but you can find a bounch on youtube also!!!)

Xmas Party

Just before we went to our christmas holiday we organized a christmas party in the school! It was to have fun and get some work done at the same time, since a fund raising action was in process also. On the last friday afternoon all students worked hard to decorate and set up all the equipments for disco, where we worked collaboratively together. First we all learned a song or made up a play and presented it in front of the school. My group learned the Australian 'Santa bring me a Dinosaur' and  develpoed new skills  with Mrs. Grey (my Higher level English teacher) and dressed into pijamas for the performance period like if it was Christmas Eve. We had been practising for a while, a dance and the way to sing it and did it as a planned and initiated activity.After the perfonces everything turned dark, the DJs stood by their desks and so did me at a buffet stand sending chocolate bars and drinks to lower grade students during the hard bass disco.. We made really good amount of money which the school finally turned into charity money to support a trained dog for blind people to walk them. Today our school handed the money to the charity and were engaged with issues of global importance. engaged with issues of global importance. Later a woman told us about the dog even brought it into the school and made some good impressions with what the dog was capable of! We loved it :) I'll attach pictures if I get them because I did'nt make any myself :)