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

Another volunteering experience

This is follow up activity prior to my first volunteering activity, again it was for organization called "maisto bankas". I already knew what I want to do and what I will experience, but again everything exceeded my expectations. This event was for gathering food for poor and I really like the idea behind it.
Everything about this activity is wonderful. I worked together with great people to achieve a goal. Doing it I helped a one big global issue - hunger.
These kind of activities means a lot for me, since I am generous person and seeing somebody suffer to extent, that they can;t afford food, makes me uneasy and doing it I grew as a person more and everything was wonderful.
This activity, like the one before, had was of a great value and importance to me. I worked with determined people again, overcome the difficulty of the food gathering, helped to end a global issue, and learned a few things myself, that will help me to develop as a person more in the future. Volunteering rocks!!

By Gediminas Pažėra

Hundred days left celebration for the whole school

This event is similar to the one I had a few months before, but this event scale is much more bigger. Actually, I really waited for this event and wanted to participate in it, because When I was in 9h, 10th grade I always saw this beutiful event in the school and I wanted to be a part of it. This year I had a chance and I am really happy about it, it was a wonderful experience.
I done a lot of things in this event. I was the decoration maker, painter, decorator, and etc. But the most important thing, that I had done,I organized my own activity. It was chemistry experiment lab and I planned for this activity for months. Basically, I purposed the idea of it, when we were brainstorming activities for the event, and they accepted it, so I founded people who would help me and I done it.
After I event, I can say that everything, the preperations, actual event were wonderful and life changing. I now understand many things. I never thought that making an event of this scale is that hard and that to organize something yourself could be this new and at the times strange. However, I overcomed every problem I faced and succeded to be a part of the event. Of course, I was more easy when I worked with my friend and new met students.
I will always remember this event as a really great experience that taught me alot. Know I know how to deal with many different problems, how to work with other, how to organize something, and now I know a few areas how I can grow. For example, my painting skills are not the best. Ok, I'm joking, but still everything about this activity was perfect and I hope I will have a similar event again.

By Gediminas Pažėra

 





 

Hundred days left celebration for IB 2

There is an annual event that we have in our school, that is called "Šimtadienis", this can we translated to something like Hundred days left celebration. Actually, we have 2 of these celebrations in our school, one for IB, because their exams starts earlier that our national curriculum students's exams, and one for our whole school I always knewed about this event, but I wasn't really hyped when we needed to organize it. I expect a bad experience and wasted time, but overall it was fun and I didn't expect it to be a wonderful experience.
For this event there weren't many prepatations, the whole work was for brainstorming ideas, so my role was to help others with succeding the ideas. Whole prepatations and event was really cool, since I had a chance to communicat and work together with my classmates. It could be said that this event brought us more together than before and know I see this event as great celebration for the last year students.
The main values from this activity for me were doing something fun and good for our friends from IB 2, mastering "the art" of working with my friends, and realization that I need to think more about these kind of events and start actually to help with the creative aspects of it.

By Gediminas Pažėra

a similar event for us, and that it will be as good as our was.

Really cool, interesting and challenging project.

My IB classmate suggested in our Facebook group his idea of a new project. Basically, we, a group of students, will go to a kindergarten and just read them fairy tales. Seems easy, however it is more challenging that I though it would be. Of course, without any questions and investigations I signed in and our organizer found 2 kindergartens who would accept us and we started our project. Up until now we are doing weekly fairy tail telling. Actually, one of the hardest part was to do it weekly. I am kind of a lazy person and do to something consistently and same every week is not for me and I saw that this was actually my biggest weakness. However, i didn't loose myself in the moment and with a hard effort i done it consistently. I showed perseverance and commitment. It was hard at first, but gradually it became easier. I was kind of impressed that I could do it. I found also that it helped me to how commitment with other tasks and I realized that it is really important if you want to succeed somewhere. With this new insight I done a lot since then towards my personal skills and goals. Also, doing this project I developed some new skills. The most important one is communicating with children. It was a shock and appeal for me to go there for the first time, because it is hard to deal with a whole room of kids. However, I still showed perseverance and step by step learned to attract their attention, listen to them and etc. This activity also helped me to increase me fluently when telling or reading something, in this case fairy tales. It was always a problem of mine and I didn't have any practice to deal with up until now. So now I'm more confident with speaking to a larger group of people. Talking with kids actually does a lot of good things for you, however it's harder when speaking with children, because no kindergarten would let us in if we didn't were ethical. This means, we needed not to use any curse words or say anything that would result in 'infection' of a child brain. It was hard for everybody, but we were in groups of 2 people, so if someone almost stepped out of the line, the other one could catch him and save him, so we didn't have a problem with it. Actually, working together with a partner is really interesting and you get to know your mate and broaden your connection with him. At first, it was hard to collectively tell a story and to do it in an interesting way, but after some time it was done almost perfectly. Nevertheless, it was an interesting project to take a part in. Also, it showed me my artistic, because you won't 'sell' the story if you won't do it creatively and with your heart.