INTERNATIONAL FOOD DAY 1

"You have to taste a culture, to understand it" 

Deborah Cater

BY far, International Food Day was our, IB1s, best planned event and also the very first, which I think pretty much everyone enjoyed, even after all the pre-sale confusion and difficulties. We were able to work as a team, enjoy, sell and taste new food and cultures and fund-raise for good cause (charity)!!!

LET me show you, how it was...... oh and I forgot to say, the amazing amount and variety of food was just delicious and fascinating to watch!!!!!

The Learning outcomes derived:

1) Increased my awareness of my strengths and areas of growth

2) Undertaken new challenges

3) Worked collaboratively with others

4) Shown perseverance and commitments in my activities

5) Engaged with issues of global importance

6) Developed new skills 

AND I also forgot to mention that I COOKED something traditional for the first time ever!!!!

REuse, REduce, REcycle

ONE of the school projects for CAS involves two clubs that are somewhat conjoined: THE ECO CLUB and THE RECYCLING CLUB. These clubs initiate activities that help our global and local environment and surroundings by coming up with new and creative ideas for inventions that develop the level of how we use our 'waste' and protect our society and probably on a bigger scale, the world!

SO far the activities we have undertaken are:

- Recycling cans, batteries and bottle tops

- Making 'Eco' Bins for paper and plastic recycling

- Designing posters for advertising recycling and the eco club

- Making an eco/recycle 'totem' or 'tree' out of bottles and bottletops as a container for recycli

ng small objects

- 'Recycling' Club decorations for the recycling area at school (work in progress)

- Making creative crafts out of recycling or recycled material and selling them for fundraising (in future)

FROM the 8 learning outcomes, I have fulfilled:

1) Increased my awareness and areas of growth

2) Undertaken new challenges

3) Worked collaboratively with others

4) Shown perseverance and commitment in my activities

5) Engaged with issues of global importance

6) Considered the ethical implications of my actions 

7) Developed new skills

Dance, Dance and Dance

DANCE FOREVER

TODAY I want to introduce you to one of the most important and magical thing in my life (and it is also part of my CAS project, but I will talk about that later on in the article)!!

DANCE was part of my life ever since I was a baby, not only that, it also plays a big role in my culture (Indian) and the traditions we follow. I wasn`t a trained dancer, all the techniques and the steps I learned came either from me or my surroundings and the people around me; my friends, family etc. In the middle, while we were moving to different places and different countries, I lost a part of me that used to represent me as an artist, a dancer. However since last year, I started off once more: researching, searching, learning. Learning more than I had ever learned anything about dance. I learned about the technical and practical part of dance of course but with that I found the opportunity to involve myself into the various forms of dance and the cultures they represent. The most important thing I learned about is the philosophy of dance. What is dance? What makes dance? Dance taught me and is still teaching me how to feel, fall and fly at the same time. It has evolved me as a human and as a more confident individual can listen to her heart and follow out its command , who can be open but closed shut like a book at the same time. Dance has come into my life as a gift, it has transformed my life in several ways, it has supported me through my ups and downs, I have also faced problems and failures with it but I feel that it has given me something, a talent to treasure, cherish, nurture and preserve. Dance has allowed me to grow and that is why today I present this THANK  YOU as tribute to Dance and hope that I accomplish what I have set out to do in this field and give all things back to it as a big present!!!

AS I have already pointed out I am involved in dance as activities for CAS as well. So allow me to introduce my dance schedule for a week. Firstly, as school project, I am one of the managers of the dance club (the other manager is my friend Maeva). We are almost 10 people. Together we come with choreographies, and different routines, individual and team routines, and plan on giving performances at school and outside school. Also, this dance club allows and represents diversity in itself, therefore we try our best to involve as many cultures and dance forms as possible. We also attend dance workshops, together or individually. Every one gets an equal chance to express their thoughts and show their preferred talent. 
file:///C:/Users/Vedika/Downloads/CAS%20Dance%20club%20projects%20and%20tasks.docx
The above file is a summary of the projects, ideas and events that will tale place in our Dance Club.
The name of aur Dance Club is DOUBLE HELIXX!!!

I have also joined Dance lessons, more specifically Ballet classes at the CENTRE DE DANSE ALESIA. I usually go there once a week on Wednesdays for about one and a half hour. Although, if I find time on Saturdays, I join the 1 hour ballet class then too.

All these activities bring together a lot of learning outcomes:
- Increased awareness of my own strengths and areas of growth.
- Undertaken new challenges
- Planned and initiated activities
- Worked collaboratively with others
- Shown perseverance and commitment in my activities
- Considered the ethical implications of my actions 
-  Developed new skills