Aerobe Training ...Continued

I started doing weightlifting and aerobe training about half year ago and was practicing it almost every day so I have perseverance and commitment to my actions as it is healthy to move a bit nowadays since nobody cares about fitness only about food.

This activity really means a lot to me as it made me feel better everyday and I felt and feel fit when I keep practicing it. It also let me develop new skills and undertake new challenges such as types of training I have never tried before.

I learned from these activities what my limitations in strength were and tried to shrink them so that I can achieve more and I only did this by doing these aerobe exercises every week at least 3 times. You might wonder what aerobe might mean, and it is not aerobic but similar but it does not involve music or any type of "dancing". Basically it is when you try to control your heartbeat during you workout sessions so that you can be more efficient in your training. For example in running you can do 10 minutes of fast heartbeat  and then 15 minutes of slow heartbeat. It needs lots of focus to keep it going.

I personally think that this activity can be really hard and demanding especially when you are lifting weights or running and controlling your heartbeat at the same time but it is very healthy to the body and makes you really fit but also tired :).

Thursday and Friday Football ...Continued

I started playing again in the indoors football league in my school as I said in the beginning of the year and I have done it throughout the year so I have shown perseverance and commitment to my actions. However the league has ended and the best team was our team which I really proud about and it is great that we won. Football is a great value to me as it makes me relax and think about something other than school during the year which is a really good feeling, especially if I can play collaboratively with my friends every time. 

Though the league has ended, there is still matches for fun on Thursdays so I will be trying to attend them as much as I can and play. This football greatly improved my skill of reflex as I am one of the goalkeepers and I finished second on the chart which is very good for me as an unprofessional. 

I hope that this football will continue on next year as it is a wonderful event each week which I hate to miss. 

However there is also the Friday football session for which I have the scoreboard and I print and organize the sign up list every week. It is solely dedicated to practice that day and anybody can turn up if they want to sharpen their football skills.

Cooking Chinese Chicken

Last week when I was at Istra reservoir I got the chance to volunteer for making Chinese chicken with one of my teachers and as I like cooking I volunteered and it proved to be a great creativity opportunity.

We started at cutting the vegetables and then moving onto the meat which was chicken and we had to bone it which I have never done in my life so I have undertaken a new challenge and developed a skill of using a knife in the kitchen as it is very important how you use a knife and I have just come to realize that when I was being introduced to it.

After we prepared the ingredients we could start the frying of the chicken which I helped with but I did the side dish instead which was the chinese vegetables and I found it quite easy to make as I was not that bad in the kitchen at all.

Preparing a meal in the kitchen can be tough, but not if you have friends to help you out and that is what happened there as we worked collaboratively with my friend to make that delicious chinese chicken with vegetables. The best part was actually the tasting part. Everybody would have guessed that one. It tasted very nice and it had a real Chinese flavour taste.

Sadly I do not have a picture of it but I have my friend and the teacher as evidence.

Jet-Powered Boat Building

Last week when I was at Istra Reservoir doing the course work, we were given a task to build our own miniature ship and propel it by only using citric acid and bicarbonate of soda. This gave us the opportunity to be really creative. My friends and I formed a group and worked collaboratively to achieve the goal and build the ship which goes the furthest.

I came up with the idea of using jet propulsion and using a flask as our engine which will hold the fuel. We started building it and it was so much fun, and also we gained experience as we have never designed a boat which was going to be propelled by a chemical reaction. Therefore we undertook new challenges and also developed the skills of planing and constructing from anything we found.

It was really exciting and after we succeeded at building the boat, we took it down to the reservoir along with the rest of the boats and started to compete. It was thrilling as we started the "engines" and our design was quite good. It propelled itself forward using only the gas the reaction was releasing rapidly. We were on the first place until the last contestant who just barely beat us with a few centimetres.
However, we were awarded second place and that is also quite glorious and we found out that we were not that bad at building ships from scrap.

Citizen Science

A few weeks ago I have started to do service to a scientific research website which researches Supernovae, Solar storms and even galaxies. It is an amazing experience to me. The site is galaxyzoo.org

I feel like I am really involved in the scientific research. 

This is really important for me, as in the future I am intending to go to a scientific university and also do a job which relates to science. Furthermore, I also learn many scientific terminology from the sites I am using. In addition, it is not hard, for example: there is a site where you have to identify and classify galaxies. It is really easy as you only need to tell its shape and if there is something wrong with it. It might sound as wasting time and you might ask why is it useful, well there are many many galaxies and even more stars in the universe they do not really differ from each other my that much and we are looking for some which do and that would propel physics and chemistry forward.

By doing these activities I have achieved many values along the way for example , I have undertaken new challenges as I have never identified galaxies and solar storms before. Furthermore, I have engaged with issues of global importance by providing this service and also increased my knowledge about my strength in the areas of science.