Contributing in the "Šimtadienis" feast

The "Šimtadienis" is the biggest event of the year in my school Lyceum. This is the day when there is exactly 100 days left till the exams for the 12th graders.
This celebration lasts all day and includes decorations in the whole school, dance and musical performances and making other interesting and amusing stuff! :)
This year, the theme of "Šimtadienis" was dreams. My contribution to this event was decoration making and hanging all around the school, helping with undecorating and cleaning the school after. To add, I danced in a dance called "Teeth".
Decoration making was a rather difficult task for me since I lack patience and accuracy... Dancing was extremely fun for me but rehearsals were also extremely exhausting. It was a challenge to cooperate with so many people and to manage my time as I spent a part of my Fridays and sometimes Saturdays at school for about two months. All in all, the results were worth our effort!
Below you can see the photos to understand what I was doing there... :D Also, the performance!
P.S. - 30 CAS hours

 

Rehearsal:

Here is the link of our performance video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk57bW-9x5o&list=UUBQ1OtQlv3YdKR-rm999jMg&feature=c4-overview

The February 16th's choir

On the 16th  February, the day of Lithuania's independence is celebrated. For this occasion, a united choir of IB students and 12th graders was formed. 

I joined the choir and that was an enjoyable experience! 

We started rehearsing three weeks before : during the first two weeks, we had rehearsals two times a week for about an hour and we had rehearsals every day the last week. There were many people in the choir, so is was not easy to cooperate, sometimes some people did not come to rehearsals and so on... Therefore, this activity required patience and time. 

The song we were singing is called "Baltas paukštis", which was sung in four voices.

Here you can see moments of our rehearsals and the result of our effort!

P.S. 8 CAS hours

Here is the link of the video of our performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF9nyqWCBKs&feature=c4-overview&list=UUBQ1OtQlv3YdKR-rm999jMg

Birthday Committee :)

This is one of the most unusual CAS activities I have participated in so far; nonetheless, it is one of the most cheerful and rewarding. In the beginning of the school year, me and my classmate Živilė came up with an idea of "Birthday Committee", which would organize common birthday greeting from all the IB students of our course for every person. This was as a joke at first but later we decided to implement our idea.

At first, me and Živilė introduced this idea to our classmates and since everyone supported it, we started to take action. I collected 5 LT from every person in the class (this means that we spend 5 litas for every person to greet what seems very little but since we put out handwork and creativity into action, everything is just fine). :) We also recruited one more member for the birthday committee- that was my classmate Ieva. Then we started our work!

So, our birthday committee consists of three people: me, Živilė and Ieva and we all have our roles. My responsibility is to inform the birthday committee about the upcoming birthday, to bring balloons and candles, while Ieva creates a hand-made birthday card and Živilė buys a small sweet treat such as a bar of chocolate, a cupcake or a pack of lollipops. Then we warn our classmates about our classmate's birthday and give everyone to write their wishes and greetings on the birthday card. Finally, we organize everyone to come and great the person. We usually come unexpectedly singing "Happy birthday" and carrying a flaming candle and balloons. These moments are the best part of birthday committee.

This activity takes about an hour of time for a person, since we have to agree about the greeting details such as time, place, birthday card theme etc. Sometimes it is not easy to agree of one thing... :) This activity requires responsibility, punctuality, creativeness and teamwork. It is essentially important to do your responsibilities so that every person would be congratulated.
PS.- about 30 CAS hours per year.