Hello, my name is Lavanya Dev-Kauffmann and this is my personal statement. This is my first year at UWCSEA East and in Singapore, where I moved after 12 years in Dubai. I am both German and Indian but I was born in the UK. I have one goal of which I want to work on,...
This week is week 4 and composting week! What I found most surprising is that Southeast Asia produces the most amount of waste after the market which was very impressive and reliving and made me proud to live in Singapore. My only experience with composting would be...
We are currently in a lockdown period but that doesn’t stop me from reconsidering my subject options. When I first chose my options, I was confident that I was making the right decisions, that I knew what I wanted. But now upon reflection, I realized I was too...
Before writing this, I was trying to find the numbers for when we went into lockdown and I struggled immensely because not only are we not actually in an official lockdown, just a circuit breaker, I was in lockdown, long before it was recommended, for safety reasons...
Over the past three weeks, we have been working through a sustainability unit during mentor sessions where we have discussed everything from Earth day to sustainable composting. It has been especially insightful as being at home more often, I actually have the...
