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CAS – #circuitbreaker Reflections

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In 1720 there was the plague, 1820 was cholera, 1920 had the Spanish flu and now in 2020 we have the Covid-19 outbreak. The last major pandemic was SARS which was in 2003, when most people in our grade were born.

What are you learning from your experience of the coronavirus as a global issue? LO6

Personally, I’ve never gone through an experience like this (that I remember) and I know that it doesn’t even begin to compare with the people who are on the front lines, people in places with more than 20,000 cases per day, especially those who are suffering from the coronavirus or a loss of someone important. However, we are all being affected by this virus whether it be big or small. During this whole situation, I’ve realised a couple of things. Firstly, I’ve learnt just how quickly things can change and how really anything could happen at any moment. There are probably many other ways to learn this but I’ve learnt to enjoy every moment you have with the people in your life because you never know when the next you’ll see them will be. As an only child, I quite miss my friends and people my age, so I’ve realised how important the communities I involve myself in are. Today I did an online training session with one of my boxing coaches, Sul, which was really fun because two of my friends participated as well. Had they left UWC several years ago? Maybe. But that’s not the point. Another thing I’ve come to understand a bit better now is how countries and people react to a pandemic. We were talking (virtually) about it in geography today, how the media and figures of authority can alter our perception – perhaps this is why there are such drastic discrepancies between countries…

How is it testing/prompting your ethical considerations? LO7

I’m not particularly happy with the comments that Chinese people are receiving, especially the ones who haven’t even lived in China for several years, or even EVER. In biology around February, we were talking about the UK’s response to the pandemic and how they were using the “herd immunity” approach. Yet they’re really not doing too hot. While I don’t want to judge other people’s behaviours, I’m not too sure why there are some people who seem to continue to attend mass gatherings while everyone else is locked up inside. ALAS. One thing’s for sure: the world will have definitely changed after this pandemic, whether is for better or for worse.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#LO6 #LO7 #circuitbreaker

CAS – International Women’s day

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How might your actions have helped move towards greater gender equality? Where might you have helped celebrate female achievements?

The first thing that comes to mind when I think about female empowerment in my life is in boxing. When I first started doing boxing, the ratio of girls to guys was pretty much 1:10. The majority were always guys. Perhaps this might’ve been because girls weren’t interested, but I’m quite sure that it’s because they were intimidated. I’m sure about this because I was also intimidated. Before I started doing boxing, I did Karate and I was the only girl in that class. Now, there’s a lot more girls who box at our school and that really makes me happy to see their confidence rise. For my student coach activity, my coaches initially spoke to me about the role so that it would empower more girls to join and to eventually help lead sessions. OH ON A SIDE NOTE: I LEAD THE WARM-UP ON FRIDAY, IT WAS QUITE SCARY BUT I DID IT.

Which woman in school has had a positive impact on you and why?

I’d say most, if not all of my female teachers that I’ve had in my almost 10 years at UWC. There are a few that stand out and they’re the ones who have definitely helped shaped my personality and my regard towards life and other people, just by being someone that I looked up to and idolised. I remember one of my middle school english teachers, Ms Pau, who was really extraordinary. She regularly dyed her hair and had many tattoos. I found her so cool. She inspired me in the little parts in life which add up to a big part of me.

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CAS – Two Seasons of Sustainabrew…

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As season two draws to a close and the rest of the year approaches, as a service, we thought it would be a good idea to take some time to reflect on our first ever two seasons of Sustainabrew and mark the end of the grade 10’s partaking our service. As a group, we discussed the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats that existed and what we could be striving for in the coming seasons.

For strengths, we said that we were quite good at organising the necessary resources and materials that were required for events that we were asked to cater for, as well as communicating and collaborating within our group and with the service office in terms of logistics. When it comes to weaknesses, personally I would say that we weren’t actively making an effort to talk and liaise with other services within UWC and definitely not outside of our community. This leads to me to opportunities that are available to us that we should really be taking advantage of such as more events (now that we have access to the calendar), finding more ways to be efficient, and perhaps linking to that last point, connecting more with the gardens within school so that we could set up a mutually beneficial gardening system, making us more sustainable in general. Some threats that are enabling our efficiency as a service include the latest status of the Coronavirus in Singapore and how it prevents large gatherings, the length of time required to grow the ingredients that we want to include in our drinks – whether it would be smart to buy them rather than grow them, and probably the most important one of all, awareness of our service and how we’re advertising ourselves. We haven’t reallyyyyyy made a solid and informative poster, which is on us, but that pretty much limits who knows about us and whether they use us for their events or not.

For the rest of the year, I really hope that we can use this momentum and move forwards and more effectively with our planning and, despite the newfound difficulties with the Coronavirus, provide more drinks for events because that’s what we love to do!

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