THE END…not really (final reflection)

Creativity, Activity and Service have been apart of my everyday life for the past two years. If I’m being honest, at first it was challenging and it felt unnecessary but along the way I realized how important it was to keep me sane with the insane workload and I truly looked forward to some of…

CAS Project

As the service leader of the Temple School service group which primarily focuses on helping less fortunate children from the local Temple School in Thalawathugoda to help teach children aged 3-5 learn English. This year, I decided to change the goals of our service. Instead of only focusing on improving only the English knowledge of…

Should I have mentally prepared for this trip?

All IB geography students have to do an Internal Assessment (IA) related a topic discussed in class. To do so, students have to come up with a research question and gather primary and secondary data, analyze this data and come up with a conclusion to the research question. Our geography teacher, Mr. Lockwood, takes the…

Concert band and playing percussion in the band for Oliver

I have decided to continue with concert band in my final year of high school and this after school activity counts as a creativity activity for CAS. The school Music Department organizes two annual events, the Spring Gala which is held in April and the Winter Gala which is held in December. But this year,…

Just dance!

Zumba this semester has been great! It felt good to move around again and break a proper sweat after some time, and especially since I’m doing it with my friends, it made Zumba become much more entertaining. We have been working out to more South American music this semester and the instructor taught us some…

Zumba

Zumba is a fitness class that combines dance and fitness moves inspired by latin dance and music. It is a great way to get fit ! The school Zumba teacher Ms. Jade Jiggens  has taught us some intense Zumba workouts but it’s fun because we dance to up beat music. Zumba has helped me to…

Fun Basketball

I am not a sporty person and I say this because I have tried many sports at my previous school but I haven’t been good at any. I was in the school table tennis team for two years but I wasn’t very good so I played for sometime and got selected to the team.So I…