Jogging

   On every Saturday, when I feel like I need some exercises to reduce stress on me, I usually go outside and jog for about 30 minutes. I like jogging because after I jogged, I always feel good even though the whether condition is bad. However, as the weather changes a lot and snow are covered everywhere, I need to be careful while I'm jogging. I sometimes go jogging with my sister and it actually provides me a chance to talk to her more than at home. I have shown perserverance and commitment in my activity because I jog on every Saturday. Moreover, in some way, I also increased my awareness of my areas of growth as while I'm jogging now, I feel more comfortable than the first time that I started to jog.

   I'm planning to increase the jogging time to 40 minutes if the snow has gone and spring comes because I thought that I will make me more healtier and stronger than now. The jogging time will be increasing gradually untill it becomes 1 hour. I also think that I will be a good idea if I find a friend to jog with me then it will be easier to jog as we encourage each other even if the jogging time increases.

Weather Club

  I have been doing weather club since I started year 12. I have given an opportunity to investigate the weather of Moscow this winter. In the beginning of the winter, it wasn't snowing much. However, as time passed, the weather got colder and snow started to be covered with snow. I worked collaboratively with others because I always worked with my partners to measure the current temperature, air pressure, the maximum and minimum temperature of the day and the cloud cover. Also, I have shown perseverance and commitment in our activities as I went outside in every break if our turns comes despite the fact that the weather was really cold and so much snow covered outside that made us hard to walk. Mostly, weather club is an engaged with issues of global importance. I sometimes also drew the weather club graph which consists of the information that weather club students found out on every break time and it allowed me to see the difference in detail between the average temperature of Moscow and the real temperature that we measured. To conclude, this activity is also an planned and initiated activity because we have a schedule for the club.

Winter Activity Day

   On 13th of March, our school had a winter activity day. Thus, IB students were divided into groups of 2 or 3 in order to provide young people some winter activities. I , Nasha and Matanat decided to provide them a snowmen making activities. We brought some decorations such as scarves and carrots moreover, we also took some stuffs which had left after jumble sale from CAS room in BIS3. On that day, we had 4 groups untill we finish the school. We had year 9 and 7 students and we gave them some decorations so that they can enjoying decorating snowmen. I also helped kids making snowmen with sprays. There were a lot of ideas which was not based on the basic snowmen with a carrot and a hat. Especially, yr 10 was really passionated in making a snowman for their houses. One of them was a mouse and the other one was a face scrupture. After students have done making a snowman for their group, they were graded and some students had a photo time with their fellows.

   I undertaken a new challenge because I have never made a snowman in a big size before as it is not snowing much in Korea. Also, it is a new challenge to provide kids a snow activity. This snowmen activity was a planned and initiated activities as well. Our group prepared some decorations and planned what we will act when kids come to us for the activity. As we haven't got many decorations we could not let them choose what they want. We gave them about 3 to 5 decorations per each group. I worked collaboratively with others as I had 2 members - Nasha and Matanat. When we needed to get some stuffs from school, one stayed outside managing kids and others went to get the stuffs that we needed. I developed new skills which were getting well with young students and making snowmen well.

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