Service Sessions

My first CAS experience was service session. I have been a learner all my life until the day of the service session where I was the teacher with a group of my other friends and we had to teach underprivileged students how to cook basic food items with basic resources. I and the rest of the team were very fortunate enough to have a school didi to help us and guide us so that we could teach the students how to cook.  In a way, I was a student and a teacher at the same time, I was learning as they were learning by doing this the Learning outcome 1 (L1) was completed. It was a team effort as none of us could do the entire session without each other for example if one of us was doing something incorrectly like chopping the wrong way or mixing the wrong ingredients we would help each other by doing this we completed the learning outcome 2 and 5 (L2 and L5)  as we learned new skills while helping one another. The part I really liked was that we were not only teaching girls how to cook but even boys. In my country there is a stereotype that only girls should know how to cook and breaking this stereotype was much needed by this I completed the learning outcome 6 (L6). During the 12 service session, I learned how to cook, how to manage a big class of students. I will always be grateful to my school to give me this opportunity to meet such wonderful little kids and to help me learn the most important survival skill that is cooking.

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