Valentine's Day

  By 14th of February, our school organised a disco for Valentine's day. One week before we had the disco, I made 2 kinds of posters to inform younger students that we would organise a Valentine disco. There were a letter box for students who wanted to send a card to someone who they like. It costed 30 rubles to send one card. There were a lot of students who sent cards and I also got 2 from my friends. Some students brought their cup cakes to sell them to others. I also tasted some and it was good. We raised money in this kind of way to donate for an organisation called 'Moscow dogs'.

  On the day, the disco began from 4 pm to 7 pm. Before the disco starts, we decorated the hall with some decorations which we all needed to bring in. During the disco, young students came in and seemed they enjoyed the disco. However the most pitifullest fact that I thought was there weren't enough songs and familiar songs for young students so I thought it might have caused an unexpected boredom. Younger students would have liked the disco if there were much more familiar songs that they could sing out loud. Thus, it came to my mind as the way how we can improve the disco next time. Additionally, at the disco we provided students a snack bar so that they can buy some snacks and some other students sold sandwiches with different ingredients in the next room. Sandwiches tasted good and evantually yr 12 and yr 13 earned huge amount of money for donation.

- Undertaken a New Challenge as it was my first time organising a disco.
- Worked collaboratively with others
- Considered the ethical implications of our actions
- Organising a Disco was an initiated activity

Running An Art Club

  I and Matanat had decided to run an art club on Wednesday lunch time. We talked with Mr Giddens and I suggested an activity of making a trophy for house competition. Mr Giddens gave an idea of paper mache which is a substance made from paper pulp that can be molded when wet and painted when dry. Yet we are making up the basic structure for the trophy but I think that on this wednesday we can almost finish structuring the trophy. 4 boxes are used for the base of the trophy, the big piece for chess which is not necessary anymore is used for the pane and for the top of the trophy, we decided to use wire to make a hemisphere.

  On the one hand, I was quite worried to do it at first because I have never done paper mache before. On the other hand, I was also excited to do paper mache. It doesn't look really hard to do and I was quite proud of myself making house competition trophy. Thus I wanted to do as well. I am really looking forward to seeing the completed trophy.

• Undertaken new challenge
• Planned and initiated activity
• Shown perseverance and commitment in the activity

Playing the piano

    Since I came to Moscow, I started to have more free time. And these days I often spend my free time on playing the piano. I usually play new age musik and sometimes K-pop. As I started playing the piano again in Moscow, my piano skill has improved. Also, I actually didn't like playing the piano when I was in Korea. However, I became aware of my interest in piano and so piano is the one of my favourite hobbies today. I play an hour a day and the piece that I am practicing is Wedding dress from Korean singer. 

  After I finish playing this score, I am planning to play other K-pop songs and new age songs from Yiruma who is my favourite Korean pianist. To improve my piano skills more, I will try to read notes faster so that I can play a score faster as well and as my hands are small that I cannot usually play clearly if there are lots of octaves, I need to figure how to play clearer without ruining the songs like pushing unnecessary note while playing.

• Increased awareness of own strengths
• Shown perseverance and commitment

CAS Plan 2

Creativity

• Baking a chocolate cake
• Practicing playing piano
• Making a homemade cocktail
• Continuing cooking food

Action

• Badminton club
• Jumping rope
  

Service

• Running an art club on Wednesday lunch time
• Try to visit any charity to help outdoor people who need my help
• Probably helping decorating school for Valentine Disco

Cooking Cream Spaghetti 'Carbonara'

  Rather than cooking Korean food which I can access easily at home, I tried to cook an italian spaghetti called Pasta alla carbonara.
  As it is a cream based spaghetti, the most important ingredient was cream and the sub-ingredients were bacon, egg, mushrooms and some of onions. Actually when I cook a food, my mother always supervised me next to me but this time I all did it by myself when my parents went outside for an appointment.
  At first I needed to boil noodles for 10 mimutes and at the same time, I needed to parch vegatables and some of becon that I already chopped up. Then I poured cream into the pan and boiled for some minutes.10 minutes later I took out the noodles and washed with cold water. After that, I put noodles into the pan where cream and other ingredients were and blended together.


- Undertaken new challenge
- Shown perseverance and commitment
- Developed new skills

Christmas Poster

  As I needed to leave school early I missed the school event, christmas disco. Thus, I thought how I could help the school event and It came to my mind to make a poster for christmas disco. I made the poster for 4 hours. I planned to draw and thought about the material that I could use for it. I came to a decision of using 2 A4 papers and paints. I decided to include silhouette of reindeers and houses and in the middle, the title - 'Christmas Disco',date and time.

  I thought that I should join more activities to make posters for other school events so that more students can be attracted to the school event in order to motivate younger students.

- Undertaken new challenge
- Planned and initiated activities
- Shown perseverance and commitment

Charity

   The school have provided me an opportunity of charity which relates to CAS service plan. I was hard to find what to do for service but as my school offered me the chance, I tried to contact 3 of non government organisations. However, as my Russian speaking is bad, I should choose the organisations with English written on their websites.

   First of all, I looked though the printouts giving some of non government organisations and the contacts of them. I chose three organisations which attracted me most - Russian Orphan Opportunity Fund (ROOF), Moscow Animals and Operation Smile Russia, Moscow.

   ROOF was an orphanage graduates in Moscow and beyond. I visited this website and I was impressed by a phase 'Less than $1 a day helps one of Russia's forgotten children. How many can you help?'. I think that this phase made me more responsible as a person who has everything needed.

   Moscow Animals is the organisation which aim was  to help find new homes for DOGS and CATS that have been rescued from the streets of or elsewhere in Moscow and to support a small number of shelters through donations. As I am one who loves animals, I would like to support the organisation.

   Finally, I visited the website of Operation Smile Russia, Moscow and I found that the organisation described donation as a phase of 'Your gifts transform lives'. It attracted me a lot and I also liked the name of the organisation with smile.

   As I visited each website, I donated some money to those organisations. It was my first experience of donations, thus it was quite unfamiliar for me. But after donations, I thought if I have more time and more money, I would like to spend on donations again to help other people.

- Undertaken New Challenges
- Considered the ethical implications of actions