Valentine’s Day is a day to celebrate love. Hence, me and my friends decided to celebrate it with the people who needed it the most. We went to an old age home where we filled up balloons and gave them to each resident. L3- initiate and plan a CAS experience We planned and […]
Skiing
I’ve always been an adventurous person. And since I was in Central New York, I took up skiing as a new challenge. And despite my dislike for sports, skiing was a great experience since it gave me an adrenaline rush every time I went skiing. L1 – Identify own strengths and develop areas for […]
Physical Education Classes
Sports has always been my weakest area. I’ve never had an inclination towards it. But I understand its importance and hence wanted my physical education classes to be a part of my CAS. L4-commitment to and perseverance My physical education classes definitely required perseverance and commitment since they occurred every alternate day. It […]
Kathak Dance
Kathak is one of the eight Indian classical dance forms. It originated in Northern India. My mom has passed all levels in it and is a trained dancer as well. Following her footsteps, I wanted to learn this dance form. It has always been my passion. L4-commitment to and perseverance With perseverance and […]
Ballet Classes
Ballet is a beautiful dance form originated in Italian Renaissance. I’m a trained Indian classical dancer. But I’ve always wanted to learn ballet, to explore a new, completely different dance form. Hence I joined ballet classes occurring every Wednesdays. L4-commitment to and perseverance A lot of perseverance and commitment was required towards them. […]
Navratri Event
Navratri (an Indian Hindu festival celebrated for nine nights, where friends and family gather in their traditional attires and indulge themselves in a folk dance called Garba in my state, Gujarat) has always been one of my favourite festivals. But I was disheartened for not being able to celebrate it since I was away from […]
La Vie Secrète – “The Secret Life Of Teen”
The main idea will be to spread information and awareness about the life stages as a teenager. Also, make aware of the problems and situations that are faced by most of the teenagers. Few of my friends had come up with this idea and had decided to organize this event. This was not exactly like […]
Grade 12 Farewell
The most important day in the lives of Grade 12 students is their farewell. I had the opportunity to make this day a memorable one for them by becoming part of the event as a resource manager. We had a team of 15-17 people who were leading the various teams. I was assigned as the […]
Community Service
For one year on every special occasion (birthdays, festivals etc) I and my mother paid a visit to a school and institute for mentally retarded children and provided them with food and stationaries. From several years members of my family have been helping this school with financial aid and I want to continue this […]
Whakanui
Whakanui was a cultural event in which I was in the Africa group. We were assigned to create a text about one of the royal weddings in the region given to us. My text type was a facebook post and I was addressing the royal wedding of the king and queen of Morocco. We were […]