Project Week Progress

It’s easiest to condense this down into bullet points, for this process has been a long one. Long story short: Our group went from 5 girls back down to 4. I am more comfortable with my current group and am very happy with the dynamics within it. It has tested our communication and teamwork skills, right from the very beginning[…]

Fresh Start: Muay Thai @ The Jungle

I’ve recently joined a new Muay Thai fitness gym, The Jungle at Boat Quay. I wanted a change in gym because my old one was not suited to the type of individual attention and class-style I was looking for in order to build on my previous CAS experience. The new gym is more modern and approaches the discipline with a[…]

First Media Coordinator Post: Project Week

Two things that I want you guys in my group to keep in mind when taking photos or videos during our trip to Gili.  Avoid clichés. We don’t need airplane wing photos, boring ocean landscape shots or close ups of us in the reflection of our sunglasses. We need to take photos with a message and a meaning to make[…]

New Creativity: Digital Arts Club

It’s now come to Season 3 of CAS choices, and I selected Digital Arts Club from the choices given. This to me is a really important choice as it will teach me new skills using computers and technology to create art that I have previously had limited experience with. All I know are Photoshop basics, which I would love to[…]

Reflecting on Reflecting (???)

Whenever teachers encourage me to “reflect on what you took away from this experience”, my first response tends to be an eye roll. Maybe a snicker. The idea that writing about things I learned in this format made me think of a diary… of my school life. I didn’t see the point. But I am starting, slowly, to understand its[…]

Beyond Snapshots: Exhibit A

Some examples of photos taken in my Creativity for CAS, “HS Beyond Snapshots: ‘Capturing’ not ‘Taking’ Images”. Displayed are three of the areas/skills in photography that we have explored the past couple of weeks – Birds Eye View/Worms Eye View, Detail and Composition. I find myself really enjoying this activity because I am a very creative person and photography has[…]

Empowerment – Daraja Academy GC

I’ve always been a feminist. Many people in today’s society view feminism as either a one-sided issue or as a movement that has become completely irrelevant. But feminism, a movement for equality between men and women, is a movement still very much alive. It is important to advocate for feminism because the stigma that surrounds it is enough to prove[…]

Initiative – Healthserve Migrant Workers

Healthserve Migrant Workers is the service I chose for my CAS. Having had a rough journey last year, the service had been completely re-designed this year, and all the planning has been left entirely up to us. The students. An exciting opportunity, but much easier said than done. Coordinating with and organising, even getting to simply listen in one place[…]

Muay Thai – more than merely self defense

Living in Thailand offered me such a range of opportunities and means in which I could interact with the country’s rich culture and traditions. I had been looking for a sport I could really master, as I had wanted to improve my fitness and generally become less of an unproductive waste of space, so I began exploring my options. Basketball[…]

My CAS Personal Profile

To start thinking about which CAS activities and services would be best suited for me, here is a breakdown of ‘me’. My skills and strengths would definitely lean more towards the arts. Writing, drawing and visual arts, reading, photography and film directing and making are my strongest skills which open up a wide range of possible activities I could become[…]