Jezabel's CAS Blog

I was at home, feeling hungry during the weekend and my maid told me she was too tired to cook me food so I decided to cook food myself which I rarely ever do as I never know what to make. However, I decided to cook a burrito. (LO1) I felt like it was quite challenging as I had to learn how to chop vegetables correctly, to slice chicken up to cook it, when the food was done cooking and so on... but it has helped me through the fact that now I realize I am capable of cooking food for myself and this will help me a lot when I go to university in 1 year and a half. (LO2) I already knew how to cook a bit because I watch members of my family prepare meals but as a skill for me, it had not been developed until recently due to this activity. (LO3) It was really tiring to be preparing the ingredients to make the food then having to go through the process of cooking it at the same time but I didn't stop because I wanted to be able to cook my own meal all by myself. (LO4) As a strength, I...

"Jezabel along with several others worked on a project to translate materials from Thai to English. This was a project identified by students support the Hand to Hand Foundation in Pattaya. In relied on Jezabel using her language skills in a service capacity" - Mr Croft CAS Coordinator  The founder of Hand to Hand foundation came to our to discuss about their school and foundation, including what we could do to help them raise money and improve their facilities. The main issue they had with their website was that they would need a person to translate everything on it, not only that sometimes the google translate on the website itself is inaccurate. Sometimes they have volunteers who do it for free but those volunteers are hard to find so me and other people in IB decided to volunteer to do it. Firstly, we decided to split up the areas of the website. Each pair would be translating at least 2-3 sections of the website. (LO1) As my friend Nokweed is doing Thai A and I am doin...