St. Valentine's workshop "Love pebbles"

Every year our school has its own campaign for St. Valentine’s Day which is a main part of the campaign of our town. This year we decided to make pebbles decorated with love wishes and pack them as a present which later on to be sold or given as a present.

In order to make them had to use special glitters to write on the small pebbles, which wasn’t an easy task. The glitters were letting too much of the paint out and made the whole stones covered with paint. This is why I found a very small brush and started painting with it. Although this experience tested my patience at the end the pebbles looked very attractive and everyone liked them a lot

Christmas decoration at the Local Residential Home for Old Persons

After we decorated our school we decided that the old people at the Local Resident Home need to feel the atmosphere of Christmas too. This is why we took the decoration left at school and bought some more. One afternoon we decided to go and create Christmas mood. The people there were so happy because of our visit and some of them even joined us. We spread the tasks in our group and my classmate Dayan and I had to make a curtain from Christmas lights. To be the tallest is not always a privilege because you might be given the hardest task - it required a lot of patience which I don’t have. However, after a plenty of time lost in arguments and meaningless attempts we managed to finish it. At the same time Gerry and Velislav were putting some Christmas stars and garlands around the room. There was one more task for tall people- to hang some Christmas stars at the hall but this time I did it on my own as I hopped it would be less annoying. At the end, the Christmas spirit could be felt at the Resident Home just before their Christmas celebration. In my opinion, the old people there really enjoyed what we did for them and spent one different and interesting day together with us as well as a Christmas day full of joy.

  

Christmas charity bazar

During the classes of the “Applied arts” club we made very beautiful pegs decorated with Christmas motives which have to be sold. The money from the pegd will go to our charity campaign,

The mayor of our town organized a Christmas bazaar in one of the local parks. One of the pavilions at the bazaar was given to different charity organizations for limited period of time. This pavilion was given to our school together with the Local resident home for older persons “Venta Boteva” for two days. During this period we had to sell our pieces of art and collect money for charity.

Despite the cold weather it was very interesting and we had a lot of fun. I think it was also very useful for us because we developed our skills for working with people and also our trade skills

Decoration of the hall at school

It is almost Christmas and the Christmas spirit is already everywhere around the town so it was high time to decorate our school. Together with the eight graders we found the decoration and the artificial Christmas trees. The trees in our school are not real aren’t real because that way every year we are saving at least one pine or fir form being cut down. When we started decorating we distributed the tasks between ourselves. The boys had to hang some stars from the ceiling while we – the girls had to decorate the Christmas trees and the reception of the school. Most of the decoration was red so we decided the biggest tree to be decorated in red and gold while the surrounding smaller ones we made red only. The rest of the trees we distributed between the entrance of the school and its auditorium. We decorated the trees at the entrance in golden and those in the auditorium – in silver and blue. The reception was covered with purple tull garlands. In my opinion this is the best decoration that our school has had since I came to study here. What is more, the decoration brought the Christmas spirit in our school.       

Making Christmas card for a competition

This year the District of our town organized a competition for Christmas cards. We decided to take part in so we took a group picture of our class together with some of the eleventh graders.  But the photos didn’t have a Christmas spirit at all except the hats and the Christmas tree so we had to use different programs in order to convey the Christmas spirit. I decided not to change the background but to make it look more Christmas like. With the help of one of my friends and Photoshop we made it look as if it is snowing instead of sunny. I also made the black and white. Together with the Christmas message it was transformed into a nice Christmas card. I think it became a card full of  Christmas spirit and I felt satisfied with my job.    

European week for waste reduction

From 16^th November until 24^th was the European week for waste reduction in which our school took part. We participated in an International project called “Don Quixoteans”. Our aim was to make a model of Don Quixote using wasted materials such as newspapers, magazines, brochures and many other useless things. We separated into three groups each of which was responsible for different part of the project. One of the groups that consisted only of boys had to make the sword and the other group – the body of the fiction character. The third group consisted of me and two girls from eight grade and we were responsible for the background of this piece of art. It wasn’t an easy task because we had to cut lots of colourful pictures from magazines and brochures and after that to do the most awful part – stick them together. Fortunately the 8^th graders were very enthusiasted so I didn’t have to this and I only had the task to cut and organize the photos. I think we had a lot of fun together making this project and at the end we had something really satisfying.      

Sports club - Shooting

During this meeting of the sports club there weren’t so many people and we weren’t enough to play team sports so we decided to practice shooting. In our school we have shooting range with targets on 50m and rifles with pellets. The aim is to shot with 5 balls and reach the center of the target or to hit five plates on a tripod. Although I have enough knowledge about guns I am not very good in shooting however I managed to hit the bull’s eye and a few shots reached around it. I wasn’t very satisfied but it was good enough for a person who hasn’t been shooting for years.