Dalat International School: Senior Scribble

Khai Yi Khor On October 6th, Thursday, all the choir students gathered around in the choir room after school, before leaving to the airport to participate in the Bangkok International Choir Festival 2016 (BICF), which was held at International School of Bangkok (ISB). The next morning at 7:30am, Dalat’s choir students departed to ISB. It took approximately an hour to reach the destination. Inside the ISB campus, workers were driving golf carts and giving ISB students rides to school. Each of Dalat’s choir students was given a nametag to help other schools recognize and differentiate students from schools all over the world. There was a total of 400 choir students from various schools that gathered in a chevron theater to do their rehearsals. The schools who participated in this year’s BICF consisted of ISB, Dalat, Grace International School (GIS), Seoul International School (SIS), Bangkok Patana School (BPS), British School Jakarta (BSJ), NIST International School, Ruamrudee I...

Woo Young Chung “Welcome to the 2016 StuCo event, PokéOlympics !” With a thunderous voice, the StuCo president, Andrew Kim (12), alerted the participants about the commencement of the event. This event was composed of two themes, Pokémon and the Olympics. For weeks, StuCo members put their heads together and thoroughly organized this event. From creating promotional videos to decorating cardboard boxes, many hours were put into making this event one to remember. Even with many students missing the event due to the choir trip to Bangkok and the volleyball team playing a game, StuCo pulled off some exciting moments. Various stations were set-up by StuCo members, and the goal was to collect as many gold medals as one could, similar to the Olympics. Struggling to get a grasp, Jarrod Chang (12), Darby Kendrick (12), Hannah Burh (12), Christy Cho (12) and Peter Kim (11), managed to hold each other up on a minuscule surface area of the tarp that was folded in half—six times. Th...

Ning Kang Chia Armed with a tripod and a camera, Matthias Maurin (12) tread down the shoreline in search for the best spot for a late night photo shoot. Jessie Ross (12) and Ning Kang Chia (12) followed him silently, marveling at the mesmerizing waves and soothing sand. It was a Friday night and the PokéOlympics were still going on. Matthias had decided earlier that the theme of the photo shoot would be “fire.” With that in mind, his bag was filled with goodies—flammable ones. He took out a bundle of steel wool and squeezed it into a whisk tied to a long wire.  Matthias proceeded to light the contraption on fire and started spinning it, much like how a cowboy would lasso. A brightening cone of light formed and sparks began spewing all over the place. Jessie and Ning were both awed at the beautiful sight. They learnt how to do this trick soon after, and the photo shoot officially began. Matthias provided clear instructions to the modelling duo as they scrambled to strike ...

Neehar Kantimahanti                                                                   The Dalat boys’ varsity soccer team was jubilant as they lifted the PSAC Tournament trophy on Saturday, 8th October, at College General. With the grass finally trimmed and new nets installed, the pitch looked the best it ever had. Dalat opened the tournament against Pelita, who were playing on their home ground. The game started off quite slowly, with neither team creating many chances. However, as the game wore on, Dalat’s hard work started to pay off. Controversy was in the air when Ben Finley (12) managed to prod the ball into the net but it was ruled out for being offside. The breakthrough finally came when Woo Young Chung (12) dribbled past a defender before setting up Jesse Lohman (11), who struck a powerful shot out of the goa...

Dominic Fitzgerald After school, students and teachers congregate to the weight room to get strong, ripped and “wrecked” (in a good way). As Friday ends, the average person would go home, grab a bag of chips, kick back and binge-watch The Walking Dead , or some other cult TV series. However, a small group of seniors do not do this. These select few of the Class of 2017 make the journey across campus to pump iron and pound heavy metal. If you were to walk up the steps to the weight-room during this time with them, you would hear what Mr. Penland calls the sounds of “thunder and lightning-bolts.” When walking through the doors, you would then be greeted by the sight of various Bicep Society members such as Wei Sing Goh (12), Ning Kang Chia (12), and Sheldon Ang (12), as well as various underclassmen and teachers pounding iron and "building the bodies." Normally, the first person in the weight room is Dominic Fitzgerald (12), spearheading the assault with a runnin...

Anson Chin The crowd goes wild as Dalat Eagles win their game against Heng Ee. The whole stadium was filled with joy and had an amazing atmosphere to it. But without the help of Benjamin Finlay’s (12) and Woo Young Chung’s (12) amazing cheering, the stadium’s atmosphere would have been really different. The varsity team won the first set against Heng Ee with a comfortable 10 point lead against them. The team was elated at this first set win. They went into the second set with a confident mindset. Hasung Cho (12) said, “After the first set they walked onto the court pumped and confident.” The second set, however, was not the same story. The Heng Ee team, boosted by a pep talk by their coach, upped their game against the boys. Both teams traded points against each other, but in the end, Heng Ee pulled out a lead and won the second set by 6 points. Understandably, the team was frustrated and dejected at the loss. In the period before the third set, the varsity boys’ coach...

Keito Watanabe Suffering in anguish and humiliation, Noah Graves (12), Joseph Hsu (12), Daniel Munson (12), Keito Watanabe (12), Daniel Kim (11), Shion Fraser (11), and Teddy Zimmer (11) sat on the grass outside the Dalat gymnasium as they muttered quietly or simply stared into space. The boys’ varsity volleyball team faced a crushing defeat by Chung Ling, the second best team in the tournament. It was the second day of the 4 th Annual Spike & Strike Tournament, an event hosted by Dalat that consists of a volleyball and soccer tournament during two consecutive weekends. Despite it being a Saturday, hundreds of Dalat supporters came to watch and cheer the Dalat Eagles playing it out on the court. The volleyball team had won both games on Friday and had placed first on their group standings. Even with the loss of the captain Andrew Kim (12), and hitters Sam Huang (12) and Anson Chin (12), they were pumped up to defeat the other teams to win the tournament. They, however...

Sheldon Ang For weeks, many students worked hard to complete their school work and do practice problems to, hopefully, get a decent score on the SAT test. The week right before the October 1st SAT test happened to be one of the most stressful for me. Here’s why: I believe that the school system is a living being; it can “smell” stress. On weeks when a student has no other obligations, there happens to be no homework at all; however, on weeks when a student is stressing out about something important, suddenly three quizzes, two tests, and a million other homework assignments pop-up. Coincidence? I think not.  Welcome to my latest SAT experience. Coping with school work is hard enough. Throwing in SAT practices makes it impossible to deal with. It is not easy sleeping at 2 in the morning and waking up at 7:45 every single day. Every morning when I shower, I literally have to say these two prayers out loud: “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me,” and “thi...