For some reason unlike all the other CAS posts that I have written, this was the most difficult to write and has taken me the longest complete. Maybe in someways I just didn’t want school to end. Currently with the impact COVID19 has had one our lives is more than I can express. Classes moved…
Month: May 2020
Quarantined: learning to cook my very first Sri Lankan dish
Although I do a lot of cooking I am very bad at making Sri Lankan food. Now I am not lazy but it takes a lot of effort and time to make Sri Lankan food. However, my mother is a great cook and insisted that I learnt how to make at least one dish. She…
Quarantined: teaching, helping and looking after my siblings, a great service to my mother
This quarantine I got to spend a lot of lost time with my siblings. With IB exams being around the corner before my days consisted of me just studying, finishing up assignments and going for extra tutoring and coming home late and waking up early. Sometimes I felt like I barely saw my siblings. However,…
Quarantined: Workouts
Ahhh quarantined and having 0 motivation is very hard. Specially with the impact COVID19 has had on our lives there was a sense of no motivation and laziness that surrounded me and it made it very difficult for me to get out of it. So I decided that I will workout and I will do…
Women’s day awareness bulletin board
This year for women day we were planning on having a seminar for the secondary school students. We were hoping to have a panel of women and men and talk about current issues in Sri Lanka and in the world. Due to time restrictions it was not possible. However, we did not let this stop…
Playing Cricket with Girls from Emerge
We as a service group try to balance out indoor work as well as outdoor work with our girls from emerge. This batch was very into sports and they loved playing cricket and playing volleyball. We gave them the option to pick between cricket and badminton and they picked cricket. The service girls and I…
Creating Artworks for Senior Pages
Since the theme this year for the yearbook is a vintage theme. Shivani and I decided that it would be cool to customize the page for each senior and do something new and creative. She and I really overestimated our ability to draw using technology. It was very hard and took a lot of time…
Making Tacos With Girls from Emerge
For the girls emerge our service strives to give them new opportunities as well as new experiences. Most of the girls have never tasted food that is out of the Sri Lankan culture. They would eat traditional Sri Lankan food such as rice and curry. However, we thought that teaching the girls how to make…