Goals to Go

Last year, GIN had to cancel Goals to Go due to a lack of publicity. This year, however, it happened, and it happened well.

We put up posters around school in advance, warning parents, putting it in the daily bulletin and putting posters up in other schools. We had our sign up table ready at the beginning of september.

Tan and I made the shirts last year with 2012 written on them, and as we are hosting this football tournament in 2012, we found it unnecessary to make and order new shirts for the event.

I also made the poster for this year's event.
I used a lot of colour to make sure that it draws attention to itself, as well as to make it visually appealing. However, I used a blank background so that the viewers wouldn't be overcome or overwhelmed by an over-the-top explosion of colour.

I simply used the poster to relay all the information that a participant or a spectator would need to know without overwhelming them with information and text.







The event went well, though preparation for it was hectic: creating a timetable of the tournament, slotting teams in, ensuring that everyone plays etc. Preparation was truly exhausting, and unfortunately, very few people were being helpful at that time. However, once the event finally began, everything started to roll more or less smoothly.

Thanks to this, I know what to do when organising a tournament and how to organise it, and I know that my organisation skills are not as good as I would have liked them to be, so I must work on improving them.

Knee Dislocation and Surgery

On Monday the 24th of September, I had an accident during our track and field training session: at the end of my 400m race, my left knee collapsed and it seemed to me as though my kneecap had been dislocated from its socket. When we went to see the doctor that day, she said that I would not do sports again for at least 4 weeks, if not more.

After a pair of crutches was bought, consecutive visits to a physiotherapist, the MRI hospital and the knee doctor, it was decreed that I needed to have surgery. Nothing major, of course, but I will not be able to do sports for another 8 weeks minimum. My surgery happened this past wednesday (3rd of October).

This accident and its consequences has been extremely tough, as I now have to renounce all sports for this semester, and most likely next semester too. But this won't stop me from persevering in sports: physiotherapy and rehabilitation will now become my sport, and I will 'practice' hard until I am fully recovered.