Since the school went into lockdown, everything related to CAS has changed. Before the school closed down, I was doing SAISA Badminton along with Gecko Net which both were going great. However, after the school closed down I had nothing to do to fulfill my CAS. At the beginning of DLP, I would spend all day sitting on my desk doing school work and nothing else. I realized that I still had to do my CAS in some sort of way therefore I needed to make the best with the situation I was in. I would exercise in the gym located in my apartment 3x a week doing full-body workout which I found on the internet. For Creativity, I was learning about the stock market along with doing some photograph courses by Nikon which were made free during the lockdown. For Activity, I helped my mom in cleaning the dishes, my room as well as making my bed.  I was pretty happy with the things I did for CAS, not only did I become stronger from exercising consistently, but I also learned to appreciate the hard work my mom does every single day. My experience during the DLP(Digital Learning Program) was far better than I would have thought. I got more sleep as the school started later at 9:30am, I had more free time to do other things. Since the school and DLP ended, I would spend my whole summer studying for the SAT and doing the EE  that I was unable to do anything related to CAS except the occasional exercise. Now that summer has ended and I am in DP2 now, I will have to put more effort to fulfill my CAS requirements.

Looking at the CAS  Goals I had set up at the beginning of DP1, I have been able to achieve most of them. I have become better at Volleyball through the improvement of my footwork, agility, strength, as well as knowledge of the game. Although I was not able to do go for SAISA Badminton due to COVID, I was happy to be able to get some practice in which I had not done for a long time after coming here. My Goals for service were achieved to some extent as I did learn some new skills in lightroom however not to the extent where I wanted to be.

As I am in DP2 now, I will have to work even harder to do my CAS considering that I am far behind as compared to others. Therefore I have made some CAS goals which I plan to achieve by this year.

Activity

-Now that the SAISA seasons for the rest of the year have been canceled along with the inability to play sports in school, I will have to fulfill my service requirement by doing at-home workouts. My goal by the end of the year to build muscle and strength as well as become leaner. Quantitatively, I would like to be able to do 20 pullups,20 chin-ups,50 pushups in a row, and perhaps if possible 1 muscle-up. I plan to achieve this by doing Calisthenics(Body Weight Workouts) which I can do at the comfort of my home. Through this, I hope to achieve the learning outcome 2(Demonstrate that they have undertaken challenges , developing new skills in the process)

Creativity

– I had realized that I have been lacking in terms of my creativity section from the beginning of last year. Therefore, I aim to learn some new skills such as drawing and joining meditative coloring if after school activities resume later on. However, if this isn’t the case I will make some amendments and try to make the most of the situation.

Service

-My experience in Gecko Net has been pleasing however I want to create a bigger impact and help the community as most of the school events have been canceled and as a result, the amount of work that would have been done in Gecko Net will be reduced.I plan to switch my service to Reef Keepers to have a new and more enjoyable experience.I hope to achieve the learning outcome 6 and 5 by doing this.