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

Weather Club

   This weather club has been taken place since last year. The members divided into a group of 2 or 3 and I was with Nasha and Aina. Nasha and Aina did perticipate weather club last year, so they help me to measure the maximum and minimum temperature, current temperature and air pressure. The datas all end up to a graph and it contains the average temperature in Moscow and we will mark on the graph the actual temperatures.

   Therefore, it is a chance to get the idea of global warming. In addition, it is an oppotunity to learn how to deal the equipments and I learned some for more accurate data.


- Development in new skills
- Engaged global important issues

House Museum of Tolstoy

   On October 20th 2011, I went to house museum of Tolstoy in a small city called Tula. The city was quite far away from Moscow. The travel took about 3 hours to reach the destination. While I was on the car, I heard some stories about Tolstoy. For example, how he lived and what kind of books he wrote and sometimes the summary of them. It was very impressive that even though Tolstoy was rich and high in position, he was against other nobles and their wealth. Morever, I was surprised that Tolstoy had effects on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

   When I arrived at the house, I bought a ticket to enter and to listen to the guide. Unfortunately, the guide could not speak in English so I hardly understood her speech. I saw Tolstoy's chair and his small library and they were impressive because it helped me thinking of his life. After I finished looking around Tolstoy's house, my party went to see his grave. I walked for 15 minutes and I saw his grave. I couldn't understand why he made his grave so small without any splendours. But immediately, I realised that Tolstoy was a person against wealth and remained in his will that he didn't want to have a slendourous grave.

   I learned a lot about Tolstoy as I went to his real house. Before I visite his house I did not know about Tolstoy this much. I only knew that he was a famous writer and he wrote many things about truthful lives. Additionally, I planned for this activity in a way of invastigating about him thus I could understand easier when I get the place. The learning outcomes are :

- Increased my awareness of my own strengths and areas for growth.

- Planned and Initiated New Activities

International Day

   The international day was special for me in this year because I needed to provide an international activity with other yr 12 students to please young students. I thought the activity should entertain them and also should make them feel more unified each other. So I and other Koreans in yr 12 decided to offer Kimbab making programme. We thought that this activity would entertain the students and they will get an experience of how to make korean food. Thus this activity is related to international day.


    During the period of planning this activity, we also had a lot of things to know. For example, we needed to know what kind of ingredients are included and how to roll kimbab well. We decided who would bring some specific ingredients and equipments. On international day, we were free in the first period so we used the time to set up all the materials we needed. We were sometimes not sure about the name of equipment so we just put some koreans on the board so they could even learn some Koreans. In the second period, yr 11 students who were in the house of Gogol and Pushkin came to our class. We gave them the ingredients and they tried to make Kimbab according to the example of which we performed in front of the class at the beginning of the period. The class didn't go as we planned. Students made two Kimbabs per each team and there was nothing to do after that. At last we felt sorry for them. Therefore, we decided not to save the ingredients thus they could enjoy the period more. As soon as the third period started, yr 10 Gogol and Pushkin students came into our room. This period went much better than the second period so that we were even proud of ourselves. I'm sure that the students also had fun in our class.

   On international day, I learned lots of things such as how to make Kimbab. The most impressive part of the day for me was when I talked to students how to make Kimbab then they succeeded in making Kimbab. I was so proud of them and also myself. International day in this year also provided me a new challenge because until last year I was one of the students who take the activities however, in this year, I was one of IB students who should provide other students a funny international activity. To offer them a good activity, we, all Koreans, planned and prepared a lot. As we did that, it was also an event that we could be closer to each other and we now can understand more than before. 

- Increased their awareness of their own strengths and areas for growth.

- Undertaken New Challenges

- Planned and Initiated New Activities

- Worked Collaboratively With Others