Global Issues Service Summit 2013

This news has been confirmed for a while now: in February 2013, ISK will be hosting the prestigious Global Issues Service Summit, which is abbreviated to GISS.As I am now co-leader of GIN, I am also co-leader of GISS. I understand that this is a great responsibility, and that I will have a lot more work and stress going on due to this event, but the annual GISS conference is a conference that I have been going to for the past few years, and once this one comes around, I will have attended 3 of the 5 African GISS conferences.I am therefore accustomed to the constant (and elevated) demand that this event will require from me. 
Even though I have never been truly in a position of power or leadership as great as the one that I have now, I am hopeful that I will be able to deal and efficiently manage the stress and my time. 

The committee that I am student leader of, the Human Resources committee, deals with the ‘people’ aspect of the conference. Along with Mrs. Zents, who is the teacher leader of HR, we will be carefully selecting keynote speakers, expert panelists, Golden Hearts Scholars and sustainability teams. 

Not only will this organization help me in the case of future large-scale events such as this one in my time-management and organization, but it will also improve my communicating skills, whether it be on the phone, with a video conference or face to face.

Football and Shangilia

 The children at Shangilia love to play football, (American 'Soccer'), with us whenever we come around.
They have their own team, and they play in small-scale local school tournaments.

As I wrote in a previous post, the GIN club wanted to organize Goals to Go for the Shangilia kids, because football is such a huge part of their lives, and something that they all love to do.
Sadly, we weren't able to go through with Goals to Go, so we decided to find another way to let the Shangilia children play football with us: instead of us going to them, they would come to us.

Next week (May 17th) is our last trip to Shangilia, and so we thought that it would be a great idea for them to come and play at ISK, as an end of the year 'party' sort of event.

For these children, football is a way out of poverty, which is one of the reasons that they take it so to heart: if they manage to get spotted, they could be offered a scholarship, or a place on, let's say, the Kenyan National team.
That's why we thought that if we could give them the opportunity to play competitively on a real field, then it would give them a great experience.

However, before I get too caught up in this idea, I first need to talk to Ms. Redler, one of the teachers at school who is in charge of CAS activities. Let's hope she says yes! (After all, the GIN supervisors have already agreed, and the Shangilia director is also excited at the prospect of them coming to ISK.)