LO 4 – Show commitment to and persevere in CAS experiences.
Project week is a week where we travel as a group of 5 to a destination where we focus on service, creativity or activity. My group and I chose to focus on activity and started planning a trip Gopeng in Malaysia. We had a lot of back and forth about where we should go and what we should do. Our initial idea was to do scuba diving in Thailand but one of my groupmates had an ear problem and couldn’t participate in scuba diving because of the water pressure and altitudes. So we committed ourselves to do an adventure trip to Gopend where we could trek and do white water rafting. We had a budget and we needed to stay within it so we spent a lot of time negotiating with the camp and found reasonable flights and visa prices. We made daily schedules and coordinated with the camp provider. We found traditional Malaysian cooking and textile classes in a village we were excited about. We made our proposals and got approval accordingly. It was hard to manage with the budget set but we persevered, researched and found alternatives for everything we couldn’t afford. All in all, it was a learning moment for me who never planned a trip before.