Work Experience

During the Week Without Walls trip which i wasn't able to attend due to an ankle injury, i decided to get some work experience so as to make my week productive in terms of CAS. I went to my dads office and helped him manage his accounts and other financial issues. This was a new experience for me as it was dealing with real life and people's needs from a business perspective. This is something i have always wanted to do and this experience helped manifest that desire.

Week Without Walls preparation

In light of the upcoming week without walls trip, we were all assigned jobs to do during the last few weeks and this week as the trip is only a few days away. In my group there were 4 people in total (considerably small), so we had a lot of weight on shoulders. We were responsible for the fund raising and the gifts which would be bought with the money we raised. Since these children are under privileged, it will be greatly appreciated by them if we can provide them with some of the basic needs.

This relates to service because we were spreading a worthy cause and letting people know and by making them aware, we were giving them an incentive to donate some money. This was by no means an easy task and it required constant reminding and persistence in order to convince people to donate money.

Eventually we were able to obtain Rs. 38,000 after much persuasion. We went to a store next to our school on Thursday 19th January and we were able to order the required goods for Week Without Walls.

The next day we went back to the store after school to collect the goods and we carried them back to school. 

Semester 2 goals

This semester I hope to do more Action-related activities as that was the one thing I lacked last semester. In order to do this I have come up with a number of activities that I could do to fulfill the action requirement. Firstly I will continue ultimate Frisbee as it is competitive and requires speed as well as skill and determination. I hope to do one more sport (maybe badminton) in addition because once a week isn't sufficient for my liking. One more thing I am currently involved in is gym which I haven't spoken at all about in my blog. I hope to start blogging about gym as it is something I do many times a week and definitely a good form of action.

I am currently involved in the cleft-palette service group and I hope to continue my involvement with the group as it was a huge success during the first semester. I will also hopefully be attending the week without walls trip which will play a huge part in my service as we will be re-building schools and helping people in need of a school for their basic education needs.

For creativity I was very active last semester as I took part in the school musical and performed for the entire school on UN day. These 2 performances took hours each week to perfect and required a lot of commitment. This semester I will do some minor performances (grade 12 projects).