FINAL POST
When I think about the whole idea of CAS, I think it is a nice way to persuade students to extracurricular activities. However, when it came to CAS in practice I have mixed feelings about it. From one hand, I had the excuse to bake in my free time, when I was in urgent need of sweets. Thanks to that I could deepen my interest in cooking and baking. What’s more, I could continue learning German, which I would most probably abandon before high school, because of studying for exams and writing IA or EE. However, my CAS blog persuaded me to continue my hobby. Also, going to Kracow for Conrad festivals was also a valuable and new experience, which I did just to complete CAS. However, thanks to these trips, I realised that such a scientific mind as I am can also understand and like literature. It broadened my horizons and changed my approach to literature and perceiving the world. Everything I did for CAS, I enjoyed, besides the ’S’ part being service. Unfortunately Habitat for Humanity was a total failure in my opinion. The meeting were frequently canceled or postponed, which results in lack of service posts. Moreover, I was pretty tired of these bake sales. I am aware of the fact that they were for Nobel purpose, but leaders could be more creative and thought of different, more efficient way of collecting money. However, I have to admit that I enjoyed participating in renovation of single’s mother flat in Warsaw, but it is a shame, that throughout 3 years there has been something like 3 renovating events in overall. In my opinion it was the only Nobel and valuable part of the service, but luckily I managed to experience that. To conclude, documenting every activity that I did throughout 3 years has been tiring and difficult. Most of the time students updated their blog one day before CAS blog check deadline, so it kind of pointless. Nevertheless, I have improved some skills - German, baking, running; or tried new things - going to Cracow, learning to dance for prom.