Christmas time: decorating classroom door!

Christmas-like door contest is a tradition in my school. So this year wasn't an exception, either. However, this year, when everyone is so busy with studying, since it's a very important year, nobody wanted to spend their time on decorating our class' door.

I'm not much of an artist, but this time I decided to volunteer in order to maintain the tradition and due to the duty-feeling. Also, two more girls joined into the creative team.

It took a fairly long time to merely come up with an idea for the door; we had many vague ideas but none of them were concrete. Ultimately, after long talks, discussions and negotiations we settled on the Christmas  bulb idea. So we prepared the materials and next day after school we met to implement our project at last. Well, it took much more time than we expected. We spent about 3 hours on making and applying the decorations. First, we needed to cut all the shapes out of the round piece of paper, which was to become Christmas bulb, and then place another round sheet of paper underneath. Well, again, agreeing took the longest, but cutting small shapes also was a meticulous and tedious task.

Finally, we ended up having decorated out class door and feeling satisfied with the good result and fun cooperation, even though we felt tired. Overall, I think this was a great creativity and cooperation demanding activity, which contributed to our school's beauty and our class' honor. :)

P.S. - 3 CAS hours

 

Singing in Jazz pictures/Musical Boxes

In such a dark and cold time of the year, the former Jazz Pictures, now Musical Boxes event is a great way to turn ordinary Friday evening into cozy, warm and artistic musical night. The Musical Boxes took place on 5th December, at 6 pm in Lyceum's main hall. The annual event invites all musicians to perform pieces of music not to compete, but in order to create an enchanting atmosphere where people can come together, enjoy good music and have some tea.

This year, I decided to participate in the Musical Boxes myself, since it's the last year in Lyceum for me and I felt like sharing a wonderful song by Coldplay with the whole school. I also found the concept of the event beautiful and exciting. So, about a month before the event, I started searching for guitar backing. Eventually, I found a great guitarist named Ignas who agreed to play guitar for the performance.

Me and guitarist rehearsed once a week for two weeks and twice a week the last week before the performance, and it took a great deal of time to harmonize and make the song ready. It was fairly difficult to balance between studying and extra-curricular activities, which can steal a lot of time, too. Sometimes it was stressful to manage both rehearsals and homework, but with aid of time planning, I managed to do both quite well. The biggest obstacle for me was stage fright, which was greatest the day before my performance. Anyway, I managed to stand up on the stage alone in front of the whole school and sing "See you soon" by Coldplay quite well, even though not perfectly, for which stress could be blamed...

Overall, I must say I am very happy to have participated in such a great event and I have not only spent a fun time rehearsing, developed my performing and singing skills, but also, more importantly, have overcome my fear of stage. I must say, for that I am very thankful for my friends and their support.

You can see the performance in the video below (sorry for bad quality).

P.S. 5 CAS hours