DANCE marathon in Lyceum

Finally, we completed it! Alright, everything from the beginning. The Dance Marathon is an important event in my school- Vilnius Lyceum. This is like a dancing festival, where teams have to be formed. Every team has to prepare a dance.

Here you see some members of our 11 classmate team!

Since I love dancing, I thought of creating an IB1 dance group for the Dance Marathon. In the end of September, I asked all the classmates if somebody wanted to join the team and at first there were about 15 people who willed to dance. However, after some meetings and rehearsals the crew number decreased...

However, there were 11 people left. We had many ideas and suggestions for the dance style, moves, music etc. but we had to agree on one concept. 

After about four meets, we finally had chosen our music and started building the dance. There were three people that were designing dance moves and I was one of them. Believe me, it is extremely difficult. Another difficulty was organizing meetings since our group was big... We had rehearsals one or two times a week, from October until the November 15th, when the marathon took part.

So, the Dance Marathon took place in Lyceum on the 15th of November, you can see we had been practicing for more than a month! (well, there were 2 week holidays during that period) During the event, we showed our dance, then groups were mixed and had to make a new dance to the new music within 15 minutes! That was crazy! After that dance was performed, there were battles taking part. All these experiences were quite scary because the whole school was watching. However, it was a big challenge that I overcame and also it was a lot of fun!

P.S.- I would estimate this activity for about 10 CAS hours.

Here are some photos, later I will post the dance video. 

Trying LIMUN

Last Friday, on November 8, I participated in LIMUN. 

This is an acronym for Lithuanian International Model United Nations. Here students try to solve international problems, conflicts and other issues. During this conference, which lasted three days long, students debated, investigated problems and wrote resolutions. 

Well, I joined LIMUN spontaneously. My classmate, who was going there invited me to go too. All the participants had prepared for the debates and discussions, since every participant represented one country and its interests.  I hadn't prepared anything, so it was a little confusing for me at first, I didn't understand the system. My country was Germany... But after an hour, I joined the discussions and participated fully as well. Everything was being held in English. I took part in LIMUN not all the time long- just from hour 14 to 19. 

To sum up, this activity was a real challenge for me because of political backgrounds, serious discussions and specific vocabularies used in the conference. I think I gained some experience and met many interesting people from other countries during the conference, so this was really worth it!

Next time, I am planning to take part in LIMUN full time!

P.S.- I would estimate this activity for 5 CAS hours.

I am not very prominent in these photos- I am the blonde girl in blue sweater... I didn't find other photos with me in facebook. :)

Taking part in BeePart

On October 19th, the international light festival 'Beepositive' took part.  The day before the festival, me and my friend Ieva came to BeePart to volunteer. There we met a couple of Swiss artists who were making an installation called 'Sun Shower'. This installation was created for Lithuanians who miss sun in autumn and want to get tan. If you want to try this installation, you will have to lay on the table and pedal. While you pedal, UV rays are emitted and you can pedal until you get tan. :D

So, we came to BeePart and asked what we could help. They told us that they need ladder to be made. And we said we can make it! Believe me, this took a lot of effort, since we hadn't done this before and had almost no skills. This was a challenge, but, finally, we fixed the ladder and the artists were happy for our help. In the photos you will see the moments of our work, the installation and photos with the Swiss artists.

P.S.- I would estimate this activity for 2 CAS hours.