The entire week was definitely one of the biggest highlights of my time here in UWC. It felt like a successful culmination of our group’s effective collaboration with each other for the past few months, and even though we had a couple bumps along the way (like someone forgetting their visa upon arriving at the airport and having to drive back home to get it), we knew that having a…
In my group, I had the shared role of logistics, along with Angelina. The process of getting our service was very troublesome, as our first plan was to go to a dog shelter that a previous year’s group had gone to and loved. However, the service department rejected that idea and recommended we go with Buddha Tzu Chi instead. At this point, we were a bit behind in organizing our…
I took initiative in forming a project week group with people who I knew I could work very well with, and who had similar goals they wanted to achieve during project week (LO3). I personally wanted to go to a country in which I could practice my Chinese speaking skills, and formed a group with three other friends who had that similar goal in mind, and we all take Chinese.…
The samba band always has two big performances each year. One in the From All Corners concert, in which we always open the show, and the other when leading the procession of graduating seniors around the plaza on their last day of school. The From All Corners concert is one I have been in for many years and for various music ensembles, but I always find that this is…
I signed up for the UAC college essay-writing workshop “Finding Your Voice” as a way to prepare myself for a summer of writing university essays. I’ve always liked writing, and I thought that this would be a good opportunity to develop a new style of writing (LO2) suitable for US university essays. In this 6-week-workshop, we were in a room with 8-10 students (depending on who showed up that…
Samba band is one of the activities that I have committed to since Grade 9 (LO4). I started out not really feeling confident about playing the drums, as the piano is my main instrument. However, having a strong foundation in music gave me a good grasp of the rhythm. Initially, I was playing the surdo, the largest of all the drums in the band, which keeps the beat for the…
