The carousel organised by the school on university life was very useful in preparing for university life next year. Attending different carousel about third culture kid, self-defence, dickpic and chill and safe party help me understand the different situations I can be caught in and how I can I escape from a dangerous situation. I feel it made me more prepared about university life. The teachers who were facilitating the carousel shared their experiences of their university life which gave made the amazing carousel. Though I think the carousel was very useful the time allotted to some carousel-like self-defence or dick-pic and chill was very less. I feel that the issues faced by students are most in these areas so maybe spending more time discussing this would be amazing. Nevertheless, I am looking for the two carousels after the break. I enjoyed the carousels I had attended this term and am grateful for the teachers sharing their experiences.
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Project week – Preparation
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Final Reflection Kahani
Posted onKahnai was a wonderful experience as I learned a new dance form, learnt more about my own culture. It was initially it was difficult to learn but slowly I developed the skill and learnt more about it. I really enjoyed Kahani as I learnt more about my people and made new friends. I was glad to see the whole school coming to celebrate and support an NGO. I was nervous about performing but as the final day arrived I wanted to give my best. Each UWC experience is fun and I learnt new things.
Mock reflection
Posted onThings I need to focus on:
- prioritising stuff
- being organised
- concentrating more
- having faith in myself
- making sure I plan accordingly about how I want to study
- not getting influence
- not getting affected by external pressure
I feel this mock didn’t g good because I was not organised. I need to be focused and not procrastinate as the more I would procrastinate I would be not able to complete the work. For the next term, I need to try new strategies to make sure I do well.
Kahaani 2019-first reflection
Posted onThe reason for joining Kahani was that it was fun as well as a charity event supporting the Kolkata GC. Kahnai was an Indian dance show hence this was another reason why I joined Kahani. It was really difficult to decide should I participate or not because the rehearsal would take a lot of time and I might struggle in completing my school work. Kahani meant a story and this time they were going to tell a story of Cinderella but Cinderella in this story was blind. The story was about love, acceptance and self-realisation. Though Kahani had no auditions it was scary to perform on stage because you were representing different cultures in India. Each and every culture is unique in its own way because they are so similar in their form but yet the way of representing is different. For example, Bharatnatyam and Kathak have very similar dance form but the way they represent this dance is different and the story of why the dance evolves is differnet. Hence Kahani was not just about dance but also about the way you want your country to be represented. Being an Indian I feel that I had more responsibility to represent my culture.
)Relationship- Bank account(Group 2
Posted onRelationship that has been problematic
I think a lot of relationship need trust. One of my friendship lacked trust and we had fallen apart. This has created a lot of problem as contiuosly thinking about what has been wrong
I think spending enough time to understand each others action and understanding the reason behind would have help increase trust between us . Also reflecting back on what went wrong and what needs to be improved would help us make are relationship strong and clear all misunderstanding
Making each other comfortable and understanding each others responsibility would help us increase and make our bank account rich.
Inkling- Logo , First task
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Today I was actually really excited to see the inkling logos everywhere in the school as a way to promote the school magazine. I was also nervous as now people are going to see my work online. I know people were going to read it but this was the first time I actually felt that the whole school is going to read it. There is always a fear in me that I might be judged on something and I feel sometimes it’s not good enough to be in front of people but then there was also a sense of pride as its going to be my magazine, my work.
Today we were also assigned our task about how and what are we going to do. We were supposed to think carefully about what we want to submit. Every piece should have to have a meaning on what I needed to do as it was going to be a school magazine and nothing should be offensive to anyone. I had to carefully think about my work and decided that I will try at least to submit 10 pieces of work.
My first submission was about the boarding house weekend away followed by culturama. About culturama, I had decided to take photos of Ethiopian dance and what I learnt throughout my journey.
The main problem I feel that I will face apart from my language issue is time management. I think I might face a problem in managing my school work and submission dates. I will try to complete my inkling work during the lunch meeting on Monday.
ToK experience.
Posted onMy 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.