Football after school

This term I have continued to play football after school, however there have been a few changes. Due to some students taking study leaves we have decided to finish the competitive league and play ordinary games, non- competition just for fun. The Dynamos(reds) have won the cup of the year, which is mainly because of their magnificent passing skills and strategic planning. The second place was taken by the Maestros(blues), where I played before being transffered into the Galacticos(greens). The Maestros had the top scorer in their team however due to their goalkeepr leaving they could not hold the first place any more and finally Galacticos(greens) have secured the third position, however in my opinion we were the most balanced out and fair team. We had some unexperienced, new players , which other teams did not have, however we managed to increase the skill level of the new players and although many changes have taken place we still played as a team and I am happy with our result. After all the most important thing is to learn from our mistakes and hope that we will do better next year. We were only about 10-20 points behind the winners and if next year the teams will not change in the middle of the year and players will not leave unexpectadly then we will definately win.
The following cas objectives have been met:
-Working collaboratively with others( playing as a team and winning)
-Shown percieverence and commitment to my actions( attended the club regularly for the whole term)

Gym

I have continued to attend the Gym which is situated on the first floor of my appartment block. After taking one lesson with a professional bodybuilder(trainer) I have devised a training programm with his help and have continued to follow it 4 times a week for the past two months approximately. I start with a core warm up and muscle stretching and then in order to lift my maximum weight I start with bench press and from my first go i manage to lift approximately 70kg in the begining, however if I execute other exercises before benchpressing then I only manage to lift about 60-65kg. After doing this exercise 3 times to my maximum I do star a series of differently positioned dumbell exercises. I do each exercise 3 times with 8 repetitions. After that I do an abs workout, a shortened workout of the Asylum program. And finally I finish with exerceses for legs, which involver lying head down and pushing a platform with weights upwards. I enjoy my bodybuilding programme and hope to be fit for the summer;)
The following cas objectives were met:
-Showing percevierence and commitment in my actions( attending the club regularly 4 times a week)
-Developing new skills( understanding how to use training machenes and growing muscles)

Learing to sow

Throughout the IB course I have noticed that I tear lots of clothes in and outside of school and instead of going to the clothes repair each time I decided to learn to sow. My mother has an lod soviet times sowing machine and I asked her weather she could teach me to use it. It was on our dacha and when we went there I had time to experiment and even sow two of my pieces of clothing. The main challenge for me was to get the machine running again and buying special new threads. The one I worked on was a pedal one and it has about six different neadles for different purposes. After I have learned to correctly insert the thread into the needle and after spoinling a fair number of socks I decided that I could try to sow my t-shirt and if that would work then I would try my school shirt. The pictures below show what I have done after about 2 hours of practice, however it is not purely me work because obviously th emachine helps not to mess up and in general this was more about learning to use the machine, however anyways this wa sgreat fun and was quite timeconsuming but now I am comfortable with the fact that I can sow myself without paying tailors and asking my mother to do it for me;)

The following cas objectives were met:

-Increasing awareness of my own strengths and weeknesses( fixing old equipment and understanding how precisely and concentratedly I can work)

-Undertaking new challenges( doing something I have never even tried before!)

-Developing new skills( skills concerning sowing and fixing machinery)

Coaching in the fitness club

For the past two-three months until the igcse and ib exams havw started a couple of others and me have been running a fitness club on the second floor of the school gym. We have divided our duties amongst three people. We had a program for abs, core muscles and weghtlifting. I concentrated on the weight lifting part, which mainly involved training the arm, shoulder and chest muscles of students. The student who were interested in this area were coached by me and the exercises I have devised were pull-up exercises, bench press and exercises with dumbells. The tactics was to do the maximum you can with three repetitions and then I gave short lectures about the diets, for example the most important aspect of weightlifting is protein in the diet, so I advised the students to eat chicken and other meat of if they wanted they could purchase gainer protein powder, which would not require them eating that much food. The club was conducted on mondays, tuesdays and sometimes wednesdays. We have observed results in some cases they were not so noticeable visually but the amount of repetitions that could be done by students has definately increased. Students liked it due to the friendly atmosphere but unfortunately due to the igcse and ib exams most of them decided to concentrate on revision and the club eventually stopped working.
The following cas objectives were met:
-Increasing awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses( in the role of a coach and in terms of understnading how to convey certain ideas to other people.)
-Undertaking new challenges ( working as a team and trying to achieve results in terms of gaining muscle of the people who attended the club.)
-Planning and iniciating activities( advertising the club and then keeping it running for several months)
-Working collaborately with each other ( dividing ares of bodybuilding amongst my fellow 'coaches')
-Showing percevierence and commitment in my activities ( giving up 2-3 lunch times a week in order to keep the club running)
-Developing new skills ( mainly communicative skills)

CAS Plan

creativity:
-learn to sow
-draw car front parts

action:
-gym
-football after school
-fencing
-learn to drive

service:
-help bitsevsky park charity
-coach in the fitness club.

Elada Club

Summer is close, so I decided to work out 4 days a week in the sports club, which is situated on the firsе flat of my flat building to be fit for the summer sports, like football, and beach sports. I have started going to the fitness club staring from 4th of march. I do not use all the equipment but I do the most important things: Bench press, ab workouts( Asylum Insanity), running, biceps work out, dumbells and pull ups. After working out for this time I have increased my weight in bench press from 30 to 50 kg. The abs worout lasts 30 minutes and I try to do the entire 30 minures but at the moment i find it difficult. With the pullups my aim is to be able to do a 'power exit'. It is an extension to pull ups. It includes placing your body above the bar with straight hands.
CAS objectives met:
-Developing new skills
-Showing percevierence and commitment in my actions
-Making awareness of my own strengths and weekneses

Mig-29

The Mikoyan MiG-29  is a fourth-generation jet fighter aircraft designed in the Soviet Union for an air superiority role. Developed in the 1970s by the Mikoyan design bureau, it entered service with the Soviet Air Force in 1983, and remains in use by the Russian Air Force as well as in many other nations. The NATO name "Fulcrum" was sometimes unofficially used by Soviet pilots in service.

The MiG-29, along with the Sukhoi Su-27, was developed to counter new American fighters such as the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, and the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon.

I have bought a model of scale 1:64 which is illustrated on the photograph on the left. The model is built out of plastic (168 pieces),which are stuck together using special modelling glue (Revelle). This is something I have been interested in when I was about 13-14 years old but its quite a pleasure to return to old hobbies,especially because I learn some history from this and it is quite time consuming and amazing. Amazing in the sence that you are able to build such an accurate copy of a real plane out of such little random parts.

The folowing CAS objectives have been met:

- Developing new skills

-Making awareness of my own strengths and weekneses