Watching a movie named "Ethnic kitchen'' and discussing about it

Immigration, in my opinion, is really challenging thing to overcome for many people and I see a really big problem,when other people has a  bad prejudice for other nationality people. So, I was really happy, when my classmate offered our class to watch a movie about immigrants in Lithuania.

From the start I was really determined to analyse everything about the movie and luckily it was a really interesting one. It told about a few life stories of immigrants, that lives in Lithuania. Afterwards, we had a discussion about the movei and immigration. It started slopy, but after a few minutes we were comfortable enough to talk about these problems.

The whole experience was really great and watching the movie I learned a few new things myself. I really liked the discussion and hearing other people opinions about this global problem was really interesting. The whole activity was really benefitial to me, since I learned a few things, had a great time with my friends, and discussed about this world problem, which I think will help me in my future conversations or other things. Watching films with great people is wonderul!

By Gediminas Pažėra

IB 2 exams

Finally, IB 2 exams stated. Of course, it's "a wonderful" time for last year students, but even worse, the exams were placed in our school and everyone else had lessons, so at the breaks it was really noisy in the halls. To ensure, that IB 2 students had the best time to write their exams, our teachers proposed, that we, IB 1, would monitor the halls and make sure, that everyone was as queit as possible.
At first, I looked very sceptical of this idea, but realised, that I will have the same conditions and this help of us maybe help others to have the best grades.
There was a timetable, when we needed to guard the halls, and everyone of IB 1 took a part of it. I feel better after doing a few shifts myself and knowing that I help the IB 2 students, made this experience a lot more better.
This activity maybe didn't had a big value for me, but surely it had for others.

By Gediminas Pažėra

My first running event

I always was an active person, however recently I had a big injury, so almost the whole time since summer of 2014 I couldn't do any sports seriously. Recently I started to feel better and decided that I need a new stimulus that would help me to be active again. It was the desicion to run in a running event. Actually, I never had runned before in this kind of event and I really wanted to try it. I was really lucky that my friend offered me to run in 10 km running event, that was organized by a group called "Miško trasa", translated it sounds like "forest track".
The whole event was wonderful and at the same time really challenging. I saw this challenge easy at the start, it seemed that I had all the willpower to suceed, but when I started to run I realised, that it was actually much more hard. When I runned the first 2-3 km of the track, I started feeling really exhausting and it became worse and worse with every meter. It was like a fight with myself. Nevertheless, I didn't stopped and I knew what my goals were, so I runned and runned, even if it was really frustrating. Finally, I finished, not only the race, but my goals. Of course, I wasn't the leading runner, but knowing my condition, I was really happy that I even finished.
Even though, the activity was really hard I liked it very much, because I found new strenghts within myself and the feeling when you accomplish something is wonderful. Maybe it seems that a one running event couldn't change many things, but I feel a bit changed and can surely say that this experience was really benefitial to me. I learned (maybe not learn, but remembered) how to overcome my weaknesses and move to my goals and now I know how hard it is to run 10 km. After this experience I know I will train more hard and streghten my injury ( forgot to mention, I injured my right knee) and I hope, that later I will be able to run even 21 km.

By Gediminas Pažėra