Being the service leader officially for the first half of the semester was a daunting task at the beginning. Personally, I love being involved in my service Hope for Kids, and especially when we were working with kids as I was rather interested in how my experience would be. A lot can come out of…
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WWW Jaffna Northern Narratives 2019
First and foremost what is Week Without Walls (WWW)? To be frank, it is a programme in the IB which gets us the students out of our comfort zone, think in different ways, communicate with teammates and make bonds of friendship that will last a lifetime. For us, in Sri Lanka, we could choose to go…
Hope for Kids Service – Semester 1 Reflection
Initially choosing my service at the beginning of the year was the hardest choice I had to make. I was stuck between SOS village and the Hope for Kids Service group. In my previous year of school, Grade 10, I was in the Care for Paws service group, which was a really fun experience, but…
Housing and Habitat – Home Run 2018
I prepared. I truly prepared. This was a run, that I am ashamed to say I failed in 2017, due to lack of training and preparation. But this year… this year it was different. I have a tool, a new tool, a powerful tool, that will certainly affect the outcome. Its name… rather his name…
Service Christmas Gift Giving
As of December, we were able to raise enough money by selling bandanas and hosting bake sales through events held at OSC in order to buy Christmas presents for the children of the CCC house from Arpico Supercentre as well as purchasing presents for their parents from the same store. Overall the gift giving was…
Hope for Kids Service 2018/19 – Starting up
Initially choosing my service at the beginning of the year was the hardest choice I had to make. I was stuck between SOS village and the Hope for Kids Service group. In my previous year of school, Grade 10, I was in the Care for Paws service group, which was a really fun experience, but…
An Orientation for Life
We started off our DP journey by literally throwing ourselves out of our comfort zones in the classroom, and into the wilderness where we braved bold jumps, waking down a face of a cliff and battling the rapids as if they were our arch nemesis. Even when all of that was happening, us, the DP1 students…
I solemnly swear that I am up to no good…
I suppose it’s easy to say I have 4 main goals right now… The first is pretty obvious, I guess I want good grades and amazing grades for this semester. The second goal I have is for the Production this year, which is Midsummers Night’s Dream by Shakespeare. I received the main role of Puck…