Final CAS blog – end of the DP years

It has been a year and a half since I joined OSC, at the start of the Diploma Programme. Sri Lanka to me was a brand new place, and I wasn’t eager to come here. Now when I look back at the time that I spent here, it has been the best two years of…

CAS project – Making a website for Housing and Habitat

Over the past couple of months, I had thought of some ideas that I could do for my CAS project. I wanted to do something that I had not done before and wanted to learn something new. I asked one of my friends for some suggestions, and he suggested that I make a website for…

Hindi Diwas

The author reciting the poem at the Indian Cultural Center (ICC) on 10th January, 2020 (Credit: ICC staff members) During the winter break, I had been preparing for the Hindi Diwas (Hindi Day) which is an annual event celebrated in the Indian cultural centre (ICC) (LO #3). This year’s Hindi Diwas occurred on the 10th…

OSC Room to Read Semester 2 Reflection

I feel like this semester was more fun than the last one because we were done with the planning for our projects and were ready to take action. Even though we were not able to go to the Vidya Wardeyna school and finish the library because of the unfortunate incident that took place in April,…

Small Bites

Cooking is an essential life skill that we all should possess. It teaches us about planning and patience, gives us a greater degree of independence, and most importantly we know what is going into the food. Cooking is not easy, and there are so many things that can go wrong. Did you mistakenly put in the…

International Mother Language Day 2019

      ‘The International Mother Language Day (IMLD) is a worldwide annual observance which promotes cultural diversity and multilingualism. First observed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on February 21, 1999, this day reminds us how words empower us and help us communicate with one another. Languages create our basic…

OSC’s Room to Read – Semester Report (pictures coming soon)

OSC’s Room to Read is a service that promotes the love of reading by helping maintain and improve the libraries of schools in the local communities. We have almost finished our first semester, and we have made some progress since we started. Even though I was not here last year, our service completed the primary…