Welcome to My CAS Journey !!

Throughout my DP years, I’ll need to do CAS. CAS is basically showing elements of creativity, activity, and service, which is important during these 2 years because the DP and IB journey is not at all easy and it’ll help us become more balanced by also focusing on academics in the meantime. My general goal is to make sure I can have many opportunities for activity and service like I do with creativity, so my CAS journey would be more balanced and equal. I also want to be a risk-taker, so another goal would be to try new things and challenges whenever they come to me. Now onto my separated goals:

Creativity:

Theatre: Performing in theatre is one of my biggest interests. Even though I’m not in Senior Production this year, it will always be brilliant to me ! My goal is to be a risk taker when it comes to acting (eg: auditioning for plays, joining a drama club outside of school, etc.). Another goal is to improve my acting skills, which I can do by understanding the character’s emotion and watching how other actors portray characters for inspiration for example.

YouTube Video: To look back on memories, I started a YouTube channel to post vlogs for the fun days (whether in school or outside of school). They will be also known as little scattered video diaries since I vlog depending on the day. My goals are to remind myself to record anything I feel is worth recording and to not procrastinate on posting.

Photography Instagram Account: @narascameraroll is an Instagram account where I post photos on the family camera (Canon IXUS) that was made after Highlands Week Without Walls, and it has 54 posts and 41 followers currently. Like the YouTube channel, it was made to look back on memories for when I can’t have my phone on trips … but now, I realized I can take photos whenever I think would be fun to post. Same like my YouTube channel goals, my goals are to remind myself to bring my camera to certain trips or events and to not procrastinate on posting.

Activity:

Workout: To make sure I stay healthy and fit, I can follow workouts on YouTube that work for me. Whether that’s yoga, cardio, stretching, HIIT, etc., anything would really benefit me. I also need to realize when to have rest days so I don’t overwork myself. My goal is to stay healthy and fit by doing some workouts.

Learning to Skateboard: Like I said above, risk-taking is a skill I really want to achieve, so I decided that learning how to skateboard would be the best way to show that. I always wanted to learn but couldn’t because I didn’t have anywhere in my house to practice. But hopefully during these 2 years, I would be able to learn once I find a space. As you can tell, my goal here is to learn how to skateboard to be somewhat good at it (as long as I don’t fall, that’s fine by me).

Service:

Recycling and Sustainability: I decided to switch my service to Recycling and Sustainability this year because I realized that I feel that interests me the most and will help me with ESS and Geography. Recycling and Sustainability is one of the service groups in OSC and their goal is to reduce the ecological footprint by spreading awareness on consumption and help recycling in school. My goal is to contribute to the group in any way that I can. Also, if possible, I would like to be a service leader when I’m in DP 2.