In DP1 I was presented with the opportunity of joining the ISTA TaPS trip. This is an immersive high school theatre symposium which offers training workshops over the course of three days. This is usually a trip taken by IB Theatre students, I, myself am an IB Visual Arts student however, because of my great […]
Since last year my service group: Room to Read has expanded, we have gained new members and because of this, we wanted to start the year well. We have been continuing our popular and successful Books N’ Cookies which aids in bringing the community much closer together by sharing our interests in short lunchtime sessions. […]
While swimming was a sport which I had been doing on and off for the last four years I never built consistency or routine till 10th grade. It was at this point I felt like I needed more variety so I decided to continue with volleyball, which I had started in the last quarter of […]
Over the summer I got the opportunity to work at the Maldivian Embassy in Brussels. I spent most of my time working on reporting EU and Maldives relations specifically through documenting the benefits being presented by EU-employed connectivity strategies such as the Global Gateway. I also worked with some of my dad’s coworkers in planning […]
With DP2 just starting it is clear that many of my initial goals have either been achieved, remodelled or changed completely. While I still plan on thriving in all aspects of CAS (Creativity, Activity, and Service) I will develop new goals, shaped by my current interests and pursuits Creativity: Last year I developed much as […]
Former service leader to Room to Read, Zoe Pringiers had the idea of using existing book donations to benefit our cause by making a second-hand bookstore. This initiative allows us to establish a regular source of income for our objects while also promoting sustainability as the initiative leads to a reduced environmental footprint. Our service […]
I got the chance to go to a national park called Jathika Namal Uyana with some friends and family. At the very end of the park there is a rose quartz mountain you can climb. We visited at noon so it was very very hot, despite the immense heat the sun was valuable as […]
Three or so weeks ago one of my friends Senaya, who was to participate in the Spring Gala 2022 managed to get me involved in the concert’s backstage crew. I thought this would be a good opportunity to gain experience in something I hadn’t done before. Me, along with a few others (Diyath, Pep, Stefan, […]
My service, Room to Read has been doing a lot these past few weeks in preparation for book week. We recently held a book drive where people donated books we plan on giving to the school we’re helping, The Bapajaya Vidyaloka Maha Vidyalaya School. Some weeks ago we organised some of the donations we had […]
Wednesday was another travel day for us, we headed out to the Rainforest Ecolodge, a lodging located in Eastern Sinharaja. To get to the parking lot we had to drive up motion sickness inducing mountains. I was so happy to finally see a toilet, I ran to the bathroom as fast as I could. […]
