Jezabel's CAS Blog

(LO1) Many challenges were undertaken in this activity as we had to make sure that our timing was good so that we could properly scare the students and make sure we were not seen. The skills that I developed was better planning in terms of making sure the assembly was set up properly to make it appear as a haunted house and fix the lighting as well. (LO2) Initiating and planning this activity was not that tough as the teacher was very helpful in providing us with the materials we needed. For the planning, my friends were always there to make sure we knew our roles in this activity. (LO3) Working collaboratively ensured that everything ran smoothly and that there were no issues regarding the activities as there were several groups of students that came to do the math challenges we had prepared for them in the haunted house. (LO4) The issue that rose up was that due to the math challenges, a lot of water had spilled around the tables and on the floor, making us worry that it may b...

My strength was the fact that I have been studying Spanish for over 8 years so I am quite good in terms of reading and writing. However, the areas that I can develop for my personal growth  would be my grammar skills and tenses, which I figured I could practice and revise while teaching my friend as I would need to review all the tenses and understand them thoroughly to be able to explain them easily to my friend. It was a great challenge and made me feel like a risk taker as teaching a language that is not my native language is quite hard as I would need to revise and work just as hard to understand what I would be teaching. The new skills I developed in the process would be better grammar as well as better understanding on the writing section in Spanish as at times, the different tenses would be very challenging for me. This service required a lot of commitment as sometimes I would find it too hard to continue teaching my friend as it was quite time consuming to not on...

Although I have been studying Spanish for around 8 years and I am taking it for IB as standard level which is my strength , it is quite challenging to read and entire book in Spanish as the vocabulary is much more advanced. Reading the novel 'Del amor y otros demonios' that translates to 'Of love and other demons' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a book that was extremely challenging to read. The story line is so developed that it was hard for me to keep track of the events occurring in the book and the emotions of the characters. I read this book on my phone using Amazon Kindle as I could not really find any Spanish books online elsewhere. The new skill I now have is that I have developed my reading skills in Spanish , this is helpful when we read articles in class. In terms of personal growth , I have developed as it has made me aware of the literary structure of other languages. I wanted to stop reading the book so many times, it was dark but also complicated in na...

In the Alps last summer, I went trekking with my Mum in Grand Bornand, we walked into the forest and hiked up the mountain to go hunt for mushrooms. The strengths I had was my awareness of my surroundings and my good attention to detail. For personal growth , I need to learn how to properly pull the mushrooms or cutting them out of the ground while keeping them fresh. Surprisingly, mushroom hunting was more challenging than trekking as I needed to research and study which mushrooms would be edible and which grow the most during the summer. The new skills I learned was my knowledge on poisonous and edible mushrooms this would be a helpful skill if I go camping in a forest in the future. However, trekking was also challenging  as we walked up to 10km in the forest and up the hill, it was very tiring and painful but I had promised to do this activity with my Mum once or twice every week for a month. I persevered and committed myself to this activity although I wanted to back out ...

  Painting was quite challenging as I had not done art in about 4 years now but it was always something I loved to do but was never good at. This was a challenge I wanted to overcome and take on. While painting I was surprised to the amount of research I needed to do to find out which colors I needed to mix together to get the color I desire. This gave me new skills when it came to knowing which colors match well together. My strengths are drawing and doodling so it was quite easy for me to do the outline of the painting but the areas I need to develop was the actual painting, to make sure I did not paint outside the outline and that the colors properly blended together. It took over a week to do this painting and there were other paintings that I did but had thrown away because I was not satisfied with them. I had continued to practice a lot until I did a painting that I was happy with. Painting little by little everyday was hard as I needed to find the time for it, it a...

As a kid I would water my plants by myself every weekend and would try to grow plants but they would always end up dying because I was not home a lot. I figured I would start trying to garden again after planting flowers in the Alps during the summer. The development in my personal growth is that I am able to take care of a living thing and be responsible for it. The challenges were that I did not anticipate to what point plants required extreme attention and care. Where it dies just as easily as it grows which was scary. The new skills I developed was the ability to pay attention to minor details and the fact that I was planting multiple plants made it more challenging as I had to make sure I could split my attention between these plants. The commitment was to water them everyday and it was quite hard as I would be constantly worried about my plants if I am coming home late so if I am going to the gym or leaving the house somewhere I need to make sure I water my plants first w...