CAS Reflection #2 Special Olympics

This service has made me take responsibility in various unexpected ways. Firstly, I have to be constantly ensuring that my partner is pushing themselves in their running but not to the extent where they feel uncomfortable, this I was expecting. The area which was unexpected was the planning involved in running. The route we take…

CAS Reflection #1 Special Olympics

For the last term of CAS, I have decided to participate in service outside of school called Special Olympics. In this service, we get paired up with individuals with a mental disability and run with them around different places in Singapore. I think that the similar service Yoga with MINDS opened my own mind to…

CAS #4 Reflection Yoga With Minds

Finally, we got permission to meet our service partners and do the yoga activity with them. It has not been what I expected, to say the least. My expectations were that we would be doing yoga alongside our partners and give them tips from time to time, but it has been a lot more hands….

CAS #3 Reflection Yoga with MINDS (LO1)

This service has been an especially important activity for me to take part in as it has been a completely new experience for me. I have worked with multiple different types of services before, involving waste reduction,  children in poverty, and homeless animals, but working with the mentally disabled has been a first. I think…

CAS Reflection #1 Yoga with Minds

Recently I have started a new service called Yoga with minds, in this service we plan on doing yoga as physical therapy to help mentally disabled people in multiple different ways. My current knowledge of the mentally disabled is very low, especially how they live and what their situation is in Singapore specifically. For that…