Jezabel's CAS Blog

Firstly, I always wanted to participate in MUN but I was always afraid that I would not be as smart as the rest of the people there or be capable of coming up with the same quality of statements and arguments as they could. However, once I heard that our school GIS was organizing our very first ever MUN, I was interested and figured I may as well try it somewhere where I am comfortable first before going to participate in the large ones. (LO1) I was already really good at debates about worldwide issues and basically about anything not science related but I realized that I only ever had a debate with people in my class or people I know, not strangers or people from other schools so I felt by debating with them I could gain wider knowledge. (LO2) The challenges I encountered were that many students were a lot more prepared than me and the people within my committee had more experience which made me very nervous, the people there were of a lot of help, especially the chairs since I had...

I have done a few Lamda exams over the years and took drama as an Igcse subject so this year I decided to do the last level exam which was Grade 8 the gold medal. (LO1)  I'm able to memorize monologues very quickly so it eliminates one of the many hard obstacles of the exam. However, what I need to develop is the range of emotions for each character as there are 3 exams so that I do not end up having the same emotion in each monologue. (LO2) Another challenge was the knowledge section of the exam where we had to choose a practitioner to learn about and be tested on. I chose Constantin Stanislavski as I remembered his acting techniques from researching about him during my Igcses. The lamda examiner questioned me about how Stanislavski turned realism to naturalism withn acting and what were his teachings. (LO3) The perseverance part was the hardest as I would struggle to split my time between homework, school work and revision that I usually do during my free periods that would be re...