TCV family members all over the globe are most welcome to attend
Ten-Shug (Long life prayer for His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama) on 29th
May, 2015
For registration and Donation please contact tenshug@tcv.org.in
17th may 2015 TCV Gopalpur staff foot ball team
17th may 2015 TCV Gopalpur staff foot ball team came out as "Gopur FC"the winner of "martyr Memorial foot ball tournament " jointly organized by the leading NGO'S of our Tibetan society RTYC,TWA,SFT.
the team is through to the next GCM tournament from 31st may to 10 June 2015
the team is through to the next GCM tournament from 31st may to 10 June 2015
Special Prayer
A special prayer was initiated by the cultural committee on the evening of April 27, 2015 in the school for those who got killed in recent earth quake in Nepal, and some parts of India. All the students of senior section and staff members of the school got assembled in the school hall to offer a special prayer (མཆོད་འབུལ) to the people who lost their precious lives and prayed for finding peace for the departed souls. Prior to offering special prayer, students and staff members were shown a video clip on destruction caused by the quake. The special offering was made to express our solidarity with the Government and people of Nepal which is a home away from home for thousands of Tibetans who fled their country (Tibet) in 1959 and settled in Nepal.
The first Inter-house Tibetan Debate
The first inter-house Tibetan Debate was held on the evening of April 28, 2015. This year the Tibetan Debate was held on the topics drawn from the draw of lot and the participants were to speak on extempore basis by grasping the ideas contained in the topic. The participants were left at their discretion whether to stand for or against the motion. Each house has to send three participants, one defining and making clarification of the topic, second speaker has to speak on the main theme and the third speaker has to wind up the topic. Each house is given time to ponder after the draw of lot of topics. The topics are;
༡༽ བཟང་སྤྱོད་ལས་ཤེས་ཡོན་གལ་ཆེ།
༢༽ དཔལ་འབྱོར་ལས་བཟང་སྤྱོད་གལ་ཆེ།
༣༽ སློབ་གྲྭའི་ནང་དུ་ནང་ལས་མེད་པ་བཟོ་དགོས།
༤༽ དེང་དུ་ཤེས་ཡོན་མེད་ན་མི་འདུད་འགྲོ་རེད།
Social Service Day
For materializing one of the missions of TCV – that of making our students contributing members of the world, Social Service day was observed on April 29, 2015, a day on which His Holiness paid His visit to the TCV School Gopalpur. To mark this important day in the chapter of TCV School Gopalpur’s history, we resolved to dedicate this day as Social Service Day. Apart from the daily social service activities conducted in the school, on this day, students were taken out of the school campus to clean vicinity of Chamunda temple (a very holy place for Hindus), Dart, Chachian and Nagri town. Local Indians appreciated our students for their sense of community service and students were accompanied by their respective class and subject teachers. The local Tibetans based at Chamunda Mandir provided refreshment to our students as thanks giving for having performed community service toward Indian localities. Students and concerned teachers did their best in cleaning up the sites assigned to them despite scorching heat.
The specified areas for community service done by the students of the senior section:
Basket Ball Tournament
From April 20, 2015, the inter-house basketball tournament was started under the guidance and supervision of the housemasters and games committee. Students from different classes representing the four houses played matches among three main divisions on the basis of their height and weight. These games are important part of the physical and mental growth and development. It is also one of the important aspects of school curriculum. Many students get good opportunity to develop and exhibit skill and tactics during the practice session and tournament. We have staff members from different departments who carried out their responsibility as assigned by the games and sports committee.
English Quiz
The first literary contest (English Quiz) was held on April 17 evening. The English Department took the initiative of organizing this literary contest. Each class has been asked to send one interested student in the quiz to represent their class in the quiz contest and submit the name to the concerned English teacher. The quiz was held on the following topics: 1) grammar 2) books and authors 3) audio-visual rounds 4) rapid fire round. For each topic, there were different quiz masters. Students on the floor showed interest in the English quiz especially in the rapid fire round. This kind of literary activity evokes learning spirit amongst the students and many students got informed and exposed to different arena of competition even when they were not directly involved in the quiz contest. The winners were awarded prizes by the school principal. The names of teams are: a bunch of flowers, a cluster of star, a host of angels, a choir of singers, a school of fish and a company of soldiers. Each team was formed of three students from classes VIII through XII. The winning team was the company of soldiers.
Class XI Reporting
Students joining for + one Arts have reported TCV School Gopalpur on April 13, 2015 as per instructions given to them in advance. They were asked to join lately due to accommodation problem as the outgoing class XII students are still yet to leave the school. Furthermore, school has to organize the graduation day and farewell dinner party to the outgoing XII students. Till date there were 113 students who joined in class XI from TCV Ladakh, TCV Chauntra, Lower TCV and some students from SOS Pokhara, Nepal. A welcome tea party was organized on the evening of April 15 with members from Advisory Committee and Management Committee. A brief introduction of members of two committees was made by the school Principal. On 16 April the newly joined class XI students were apprised of school discipline by the members of Advisory committee, so that they know the rules and regulations of the school in advance and there is no breach of school discipline by them knowingly or unknowingly and at the same time school authorities expect good discipline from them in the coming months. The members wished them for achieving excellence in their academic performance as well.
Inter-House Tibetan Elocution
Below class VIII inter-house Tibetan elocution contest was held on Tuesday, March 31st by the Tibetan department. There were three contestants from each house for the elocution contest; one contestant has to recite compulsory poetry piece provided by the Tibetan department, second participant has to make presentation of speech and the third contestant of the house has to go for dramatic extract presentation. The participants of the respective houses have done very good preparation on their parts and it was worth watching and also proven to be a source of inspiration for other students. After the actual contest, the floor was left open for the students sitting on the floor while the calculation is being done. It was a wonderful opportunity for other students to come on the stage and speak before the audience to acquire skill of speaking, removing public and stage fear. The final result of house standing in the contest is as follow: the first position was bagged by Trisong followed by second in Triral, and the third position went to Nyatri and followed by fourth in Songsten. From the speech section, the individual first position was bagged by master Lobsang Tashi. From the poetry section we have Miss. Dakar Tso who was adjudged as the best poetry reciter and from dramatic section the best presenter went to Tenzin Palden from Trisong.
Dictionary
If you have any confusion,
Refer me without hesitation,
I will be there to solve,
All the problems with love,
Treat me as friend that you need
And use me daily as your own,
Carry me where ever you go
Open me whenever you go
Open me whenever you want
No need to give me thanks
So see me at any time
Even I will be there online.
Sherab wangden VIII
EMOTIONAL STATUS OF A GIRL
Getting emotional when it rains may seem weird but it really does. I am looking out of the window and I am able to hear the sounds of raindrops touch the old tin roof.
As I sat there like a frozen statue, a cool breeze started to blow and it touched my bare skin giving a chill. Just like turning the pages of a book, it took me back to the time when I’m with my guardian angel.
Days had passed and years have gone that she had left me. But the sweet memory we shared always created a smile on my gloomy face. Since the day she left, evenin this over populated world I feel so alone.
We use to have pretty fights, we didn’t had any earth shattering things to discuss and sometimes, it seems like we are speaking two different languages but still I’m so glad that we are friends.she is the one out of million and I’m never going to give on her even if the world refuses.
She lets me know that making millions of friend is not miracle but the miracle is to make a friend who will stand by you even when the millions are against you. Being her friend is like peeing my pants cause everyone can see it but only I can feel it’s warmth.
Thinking of these things again filled my eyes with tears instead of wiping it, I just let it fall like the rain that made me emotional.
So, I just shield my sweater tighter on my body and with a long sigh, I move away.
P.S: how far we may be, still we are sharing the same moon .
Lekyi wangmo (XII b)
