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March 11th, 2019

I finally figured out the dates for my project!! I will go today in the afternoon with Adrien, Hazel, Henry and Ana. We will start by covering up the bigger graffiti with the sealer (similar to white paint) and start painting the other wall and covering up the small white graffiti with the actual paint! I am very excited that I can finally start this project. I also bought 4 paint rollers and two gallons of paint plus one gallon of the sealer. I also bought an extension in order to paint the top of the walls. It took me some time to make this happen because of all the IB works we were doing and turning in but now that we are officially done with them it’s happening! I feel that I should’ve communicated better with my classmates because I was just listening to them and waiting for them to tell me “I’m free on this day” instead of coming up to them and be like “so these are the dates I want to do this, who is coming on Monday and who is coming on Tuesday?” I needed that push from my CAS teacher in order to get them to come. As mentioned before, the other date will be on Thursday March 14th. A problem I had was that I bought a slight different shade of color than the one the school had, but it won’t matter because I’m going to cover the whole front.

March 4th, 2019

It’s been a couple months since I came up with the idea of painting over the walls at the salon comunal of Brasilito. I’ve tried to organize the event for two dates where one of them was during the weekend and the other one was during the week. However, my classmates didn’t want to participate on it. I will propose them a new date to paint those two walls during the weekend. I just felt bad because I supported my friends’ projects when they needed help and when I asked them for help they were like “no, it’s a weekend and I don’t really want to do that”. I get that they don’t want to do it but I wish I could at least get 5 people or 6 to help me out. I also tried to figure out if I could take them out during school but because we are so close to the exams I didn’t want to lose any periods.

New CAS project and expectations

Today I decided to start a new big project!!!! My project is to paint the Brasilito school because there is graffiti on the walls. The reason I decided to start this project is because the school isn’t very pretty itself and it has low resources so when you pas by the school you don’t receive a good impression of it. It makes it look worse than it already looks.

My expectations for this project are:

• to receive help from others and make a better environment by eradicating graffitis and wrong messages

• to make a change on the image of the school, make it look nicer

• to help the community

Planning of the project:

First I need to call Joshua’s parents because they’re in charge of it and ask for their permission or who do I have to talk to in order to accomplish this (I’m working on this)

After this, I need to go there and measure the walls that are painted in order to see how much paint I need and how many people I need to help me

Then, call SUR and ask for a price (how much would I spend)

Get the money to pay for it and buy the paint

Get people to help me paint and cover the graffiti

These are the steps I think I have to do but depending of how this project goes maybe I’ll have to do more.

CAS NIGHT NOVEMBER 17th!!!!!

This November 17th CAS night happened!!!! Even though I did not present this year, I am very happy I got to help with the baby sitting of the event. It was an afternoon full of fun and definitely made so many memories that I will never forget.

Babysitting was really fun and there were over 26 kids. We played with them a lot of fun games such as ping pong, painting, we played a movie and participated in bingo, among others! There was a lot of organization and everyone worked hard in order to kee kids entertained.

We also faced a couple of inconveniences such as the movie we wanted to play at first not working out or that a couple kids couldn’t eat from Tony’s pizza so I had to go to La Baula in order to get them a special pizza, but at the end everything worked out perfectly and kids didn’t really notice that actually happed!

Also, kids were very mature and responsible, respectful and engaged with us, they followed directions and they didn’t do anything crazy. I feel that we expected the older kids to be up to some weird stuff or that maybe they would get in trouble but they were the opposite, we were very very happy with them.

At the end of the evening we played bingo and I was babysitting two little kids, they were siblings and the girl was 5 years old while he was 3 years old. I helped them play bingo and the girl got a price while he didn’t and then their parents came to pick them up and he started crying because he didn’t win anything. When they were leaving I kept playing that last round and HE WON!!! So I got him the price and run all the way downstairs to give it to him. He stopped crying and was the happiest. His parents were so happy and grateful that it made me feel so happy to see their faces and that I did something nice for him.

My last CAS night experience was awesome and wouldn’t change it.

Here we can see the price sheet and what it’s included and on the next one we can observe the different things we need to bring with us.

Overnight field trip to junquillal

This week I’ve been getting in contact with Verdiazul which is the name of the place where we will stay and do the activities on the trip that I’m organizing for my class. I have gotten the approval from the administration to make this happen and also reserved the bus. I also reserved the dates that we’re going which are the Thursday first and Friday second of November. The plan is to leave from school on Thursday at three o’clock and then come back on Friday. I still need to figure out the hour we’re leaving on Friday from there, but we’ll probably make it back by three. The total cost of the field trip per person will be around $74, varying on the change the place uses. I also talked with the financial department from the school and they said that everyone who needs financial help has to ask their parents to send an email to them so they can figure it out and see how much help they’ll give to each individual that needs it. Right now all I need to do is send an email to the parents to have their permission to go on the field trip and tell the bus the exact time they need to pick us up in Junquillal on Friday, and make sure the second chaperone is coming to the trip with us.

I am really excited because this will be a great experience for the class to bond and one of the lasts before we graduate. We will also do different fun activities that I am really excited about.

I’ll post some pictures of some of the information I’ve received so far.

CAS throughout this week

I started working on this project of making a trip with my class to Junquillal next month. I got in contact with the place and they responded with a lot of dates for us to go. My next step right now is to meet with miss Amy and make sure when we can go so that I can talk with Tatiana, get the bus, talk about prices, etc, and call the bus..... I will work on this next class.

On other note, Gerardo is out of the country for a couple of months so I don’t think that he will come to school soon. I think that I’m going to focus on making this trip happen and participate in other CAS projects.

Some more pics of the comp.

Welcome back to school! ~ 12th grade ~

This trimester I didn’t really figure out what I wanted to do, I really want Gerardo to come to school but it seems that even if I tried to contact him different times, he wasn’t as interested as I was. So that kind of demotivates me. I will try again to contact him and try to bring him to school.

Also, yesterday (Sept. 12th) we were talking as a class and about field trips, etc. And we decided to go on one night field trip to Junquillal. I am in charge of organizing it and I and super excited about it. It will be an amazing experience for all of us and one of the last that we’re going to share as a class. I have to get different contacts from miss Amy in order to organize it and prepare it well. It may be a challenge in some aspects but I really want to make this happen and contribute to my class. Again. This would be an awesome experience for us all and also make and create new fun and different memories. Then, in the future we will look back and we will be thinking that time when someone....

I think that the first step in order to make this happen is to discuss dates so we have an idea of how much time I have to prepare everything, make reservations, etc. I want to start as soon as possible.

Pantin Classic 2018

For this journal entry, I will be talking about my volunteering at the surf competition QS 3000 women - QS 6000 men organized in Spain where I work every single summer. This year was longer than the other because they also organized the European junior final (even though it was the European, surfers from around the world competed there), so it lasted 10 days in total. From the 25th to the 2nd of September.

This year I was assigned to work at check in the whole week and we worked from 8AM every day until 8:30PM. I had a lot of fun, not only because I love to be there and work there, but because due to the reason I was in check in, I got to talk to everyone there and to make new friends such as competidora and people from the staff. There is one thing that I love about being there, which is work in groups and no matter your age, you’re going to be coexisting with people from all different ages.

I was in charge of reciving the staff in the morning, competitors (men and women) and also everyone from the WSL. Besides that, I also revived all the VIP’s, sponsors, etc. And guided them to the VIP area, depending on whi are they coming with. When the competitors come in, I have to check they are on the list, then, give them a “welcome back gift”, give them the bracelet and a parking ticket, also ask if they have any guests to give them a bracelet too; them maximum of guests per competitor we’re two.

There are usually 4 types of bracelets, but this year were 6. I had a computer in front of me with lists of the staff with everyone’s personal info, WSL, VIP’s, Sponsors, Pull&Bear, etc. VIP’s had 3 different bracelets: classic family, which is a permanent pass for VIP area number 2, ABANCA, for one of the sponsors of the VIP area #1 (where only guests of ABANCA could go in there, and 1 day passes for area #2 (for the rest of sponsors that are only coming that day. In case they were coming one more day or two we would change those bracelets with the color assigned for that specific day). Each time the VIP’s wanted to go there, I would have to check if they were on the list, and if not someone that had the power to check them in online, do that so that we could let them pass, then give them their assigned bracelet and if they needed to, a parking sticker.

Besides that, I would also have to give everyone from staff and WSL lunch tickets.

I also had to give tours inside the riders area for the big sponsors families that went there and explained everything to them on what everything is, how everything works, etc.

At the end of the day my partner Lucia and I had to re count how many passes we gave that day, etc. And I would also help some of the workers clean the competitors area before leaving because it was pretty bad. They leave everything on the floor and one of them even threw two water bottles in front of one of the cleaners.

When it all ended, I took time to reflect on how much I wait for that week if the year to happen but how quickly it passes by and once you noticed, you’re waiting again for the next edition. It’s something really special that I feel so lucky that I get to do that and to experience it. I get to work on many different characteristics such as communication, leadership, organization and many more.

Creativity during summer vacation

While I was volunteering in Afal, we worked a lot in creativity by painting drawing or making calendars. We worked on calendars for the month of September and even though I wasn’t able to be there for when they hanged them up, I was there in the process of starting them and helping out the older people.

On this same note I want to explain more about what I did there.

As can be seen on the picture attached to this post, that’s a paper in which you can see the different numbers on the left bottom; they each correspond to an activity that are chosen by the volunteer where they want to work. In my case, I chose numbers 1, 2 ad 6.

Numbe one stands for direct attention, so basically being with them and do activities with them as a group, small groups or individually with them.

Number two stands for the cafeteria help I was providing them. I sometimes just had to watch them and make sure they didn’t leave it if they needed help with something, and sometimes I had to actually feed them. Wait for them to eat, help them drink and give them their food, yogurt, etc.

Last but not least, there’s number six, that stands for the computers; in this activity I had to be with one at a time and the workers would have to put a game on the screen (memory, reading, complete sentences, etc). My job there, was to guide them through the different levels of each activity and help them if they were stuck in some part.

May the beginning of the volunteering, they ask you to do a little quiz just so they know how much you know about Alzheimer, how would you respond given a concrete scenario, etc. And they ask you to repeat it at the end of your time there. When I got there I only knew the basics even though I have a direct contact/ case because of my great grandmother that lives in my grandmother’s house. When I did the quiz right before leaving, I got every single one of the questions except one that I chose an answer really similar to the right one except for one aspect.

It was definetly a volunteering that I enjoyed and lived so much and got to spend some quality time with many people. I went one a week for four hours (Fridays, from 10:00hrs to 14:00hrs). I’m glad I chose that as one of my two projects for the summer and I would do it over and over again. I’m really looking forward for next year and do it again!!!

I had had more pictures on my phone but due to the fact that I ran out of space I don’t know if they’re still on my media. However, I’m going to take a picture of the contract I had with them.

Activity aspect of CAS in summer vacation

During this month in Spain I have been going to the beach and went surfing a couple times. I had a lot of fun and it was so nice seeing everyone I know in the water and share time and waves with them!!! A lot of people that I’ve known since a long time ago have been surfists , mostly because of my mom, uncle and their surf shop. While I was surfing I had the chance to free my mind and reflect about school, vacation and my plans. I even decided to change the topic of my bio IA while I was waiting for the set to come in.

I also remembered about when I used to live there and all my memories in Pantin. Those years when I went to my uncle’s surf school were amazing. I used to go the whole year and I wouldn’t change that because every week I was enjoying one of my favorutite things in the world. After that I questioned myself and asked myself, as usual, why I stopped for a while.

It has been a year or two since I surfed there and if it was up to me, I would’ve gone every single day of vacation.

Reflection period

During this year I’ve learnt a lot of new things and I also got to practice my skills. I got to help my peers on their projects, I helped in CAS night babysitting, I worked on organizing my projects for the summer, I had to figure out many things thoughout the course of 11th grade.

What did I get to learn and practice more?

1- Patience: This is a really important skill to have, there are and will be many situations in life in which having this skill is super important: when something goes wrong, if there’s an emergency, if someone is bothering you and it’s not on purpose....

2- Language and communication: Communication is one of the biggest skills because you have to be clear when speaking to someone so that both of you are in the same page, etc. And I feel like I can communicate pretty well but it’s something that I will need to be working on.

3- Organization: I am not as organized as I would want to so this is one skill that I definitely will work on. Without organization everything takes longer. Everything is a mess and you’ll have to waste a lot of your time in getting everything you need. I don’t only need this for CAS but for everything else.

4- Leadership: This is an aspect of my life that is hard for me because I don’t like to tell other people what to do but I know that if for some reason any day I have to step up for whatever the reason it is, I will. The skill of leadership is important because some people need someone to direct their work or whatever they’re doing and if you have this skill, you can help them. I really want to work on this skill and I will over summer break.

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