Final reflection

With each ending comes a new beginning -Buddhist proverb I remember when I was in grade 10 and a senior was telling me about how fast the two years of DP fly past. That didn’t sound quite right to me. After all, two years have 730 days and those are definitely not going to just…

Football

  Success isn’t owned, it’s leased. And rent is due everyday. -JJ Watt For the third quarter I decided to play soccer. The last time I played soccer was in grade 8 and I had to stop for quite some time when I severely injured my knee and ruptured ligaments in my foot. Since then…

CAS Project

It’s not what’s under the tree that matters. It’s who’s gathered around it. -Anonymous RCCI stands for the Rehabilitation Center for Communication Impaired. For my CAS project, I decided to organize the Christmas party for our last meeting. I planned the party beforehand with my co-leader, Jordan. After that, we met with the other members…

CAS Project: Christmas Party!

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that? -Bob Hope Our last RCCI meeting for this year will be on the 6th of December. Hence, my co-leader Jordan and I decided to have the Christmas…

Learning the Balance Point

Sports do not build character. They reveal it. – Heywood Broun Engaging in creative pursuits such as Model United Nations hones my mind and allows me to express myself freely. Engaging in community service molds ethics and morals, allowing me to broaden my perspective, remain down-to-earth and inculcate various qualities such as patience. However, it…

Rehabilitation Center for Communication Impaired

This year as service leader I worked with my co-leader, Jordan Wright to make a plan for the year. One of the problems with coordination last year when I was a member of the service was that we did not know what we were doing every Thursday. Often we had to decide that very day…

EXCO Interviews

To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest…

DP 2 CAS Goals

Goals give you more than a reason to get up every morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. -Harvey MacKay My DP 2 CAS goals are divided into three categories: Creativity Activity  Service Creativity: Colombo Model United nations or COMUN for short is the 5th largest student run MUN in the…

Looking back at the year

Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice. -Anonymous Reflecting on progress made so far always makes the path forward clearer. At the beginning of the year I set some goals for my two year journey. There were hurdles along…

Community service with COMUN

You have two hands. One to help yourself, the second to help others. -Audrey Hepburn Colombo Model United Nations prides itself in being not only one of the largest student led conferences in the world but also because of our wide ranging community service programme. Since the aim of COMUN is to come up with…