ToK experience.

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My first ToK class was on 24th August, 2018. I was really excited as well as nervous at the same time. A lot of questions going in my mind. I did not know what to expect at this was my first time in an international school so I was an alien in front of everything . I was excited also because almost everyone around me was done. with one ToK class and students were sharing there experience be it in the library or canteen so my excitement reached an apex. After attending the first lecture I feel more excited about whats going to happen in the upcoming year. I was amused by the activity we did of different perspective. How everyone has different perspective and how we should understand it. Respectfully listening to others views and then sharing your views and then reasoning it out. The biggest thing I learnt is that you honour others view and once you asking each other about why do you feel about that answer, your are challenging yourself. You are challenging your views and the things you believe  . Not only that you also reflect upon your view s=and think over your believes.When I did activities , I realised that I was making myself reflect on my views.Earlier I would rarely think about what I am talking to people about but this time I did.

I am very excited to attend the other ToK class and what I will learn from it and how do I implement this learning in my life. Looking forward for the next class.

Conceptual Ideas

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For me the first Tok class have been full of exposure to new ideas and concepts .I learnt about reasoning out my opinions or others reason. Understanding the how, why and what of everything. I learnt about taking into consideration others opinion and their thoughts. You don’t need to have a right answer to every question.

Conceptual ideas:

Religion is based on faith and believe but is rationalised through various ideas and perception .

Arts give stronger claim fo human nature and behaviour more than human science

First reflection- football

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Football has been a very important part of my life since childhood. I had been playing football in my previous school for the past six years but last year I had to drop football due to academic stuff. The connection between me and football was completely missing since the last year and a half. After coming year through CAS I had to choose one activity and my very first choice was football. I cannot imagine myself playing any other sports better than football.

Through my tryouts, I realized how out of form I was. I couldn’t run enough with the same speed and energy. I was actually very upset and more than upset disappointed as I was not able to give my best at times. I was trying to give my best but I was not able to. I think I was not able to accept that fact and was giving up a point but at the same point, I knew I wanted to be in the teams and play football. After a week I got into the B team and I am actually very happy about it.

I had been playing football for my school team and representing my school but this time it was a school which I am new too. The feeling is so weird of transforming your identity from being known by other school and know I was going to be identified by another school identity. It is change and shift of identity has always been raising the question.

Football has always been my passion and I will always love playing it be it representing one school or other. All three of them are part of my identity.  I am going to play with new people and it’s going to be a new experience and also a difficult journey as I have always been communicating using Hindi in my previous school but here it’s going to be constant use of English. This is going to help me improve my communication skill. It’s going to be a good, learning, enriching experience.

 

 

Inkling- First reflection

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The decision of joining inkling was made as I like writing, as well as drawing for self-satisfaction. I feel writing is a way of relaxing stress. Writing gives me self-satisfaction and makes me feel better as a lot of negative thoughts are released. Writing has always been an important part of my life. Till now I have been writing in Hindi that’s my first language for self-reflection. I have been writing in English but it is used more formally to write either essays or letter in school.

Inkling for me is going to be a challenge as English is not my first language. When it comes to writing personal reflection I am more comfortable using my first language. Writing in English makes me little uncomfortable as I feel short of words and I cannot express freely what I want to speak.

I feel inkling will provide me with a great platform to express my opinion in front of a lot of people. It is also a great platform to raise my opinion on certain things that I feel strongly about. Its a great way of my expression as I don’t, like being in front of the camera. It will help me solve my language issue and I will be writing for my own enjoyment and I will have an audience to refer to.

Start of Journey

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10 August 2018,

Akansha the student of grade 11 has given a look into her life through her blog. After reading her post I learnt that grade 11 is going to be full of learnings. You are going to learn something that you never learnt in school. You will learn something different from academics.  Something that will stay with you life long.  You are going to learn to push your limit.