CREATIVITY & SERVICE: BASS LESSONS

To help my youth group out I decided to offer my music talents as we were pretty short on musicians. So I volunteered myself to provide bass lessons for those who were interested. For awhile now, since my own sensei left, my proactive learning has been stagnant so taking up this role allowed me to be knowledgeable and a thinker once again as I was made to prepare lessons, and teach my students to a more deeper level as they progressed greatly at a insanely rapid rate.

Furthermore this experience taught me to be caring and principled towards my commitment. Offering my service made me accountable and therefore keeping to this commitment every week. Also being committed taught me how to be more caring as it allowed me to share my knowledge and contribute to the learning of the next generation.

Snorkelling/Sea Kayaking [ACTION]

Over the winter break, I went on a snorkelling/ sea kayaking trip with a few friends of mine from KL and Brunei as part of a camping experience. As this trip was organized by our parents, I was made to be inquirers and communicators to these friends of mine who I didn't know really well. It taught me to learn how to communicate as most of them do not speak english as their first language.

Risk-taking was also part of the trip, as I have never been snorkelling before, and even in the seemingly shallow waters, there is always something sinister about the deep dark blue void in the distance. Furthermore part of the snorkelling experience required jummping off the jetty, which was about 10 meters tall, as well as swimming out a fair bit into the sea to reach the boat at the pick up site. As I was fairly unknown to the underwater world, it also made me think about the importance in the conservation of sea life as well as the importance of safety issues.

At the end of the day we would all gather round the campsite and have reflective sessions, communicating with each other, getting to know each other better.

International Day 09 [Service]

Part of International Day 09 included the seniors, i.e. US, year 13's to be allocated different jobs to allow the smooth running of the different events. Part of my job was selling the different cusines to parents, teachers and of course the students. I believe that this experience involved being communicators in the attempt of trying to advertise and sell the cusines designated to me. This also required me to be knowledgable to the type of cusine I was selling in order to even advertise my goods! Also as part of job was to look after visting primary children, it taught me how to be more caring and open-minded, learning how to socialize and practice patience with those I would not normally associate with.

CREATIVITY: Dance

Dance was something I pursued since June 09. Gradually it became increasingly interesting and so I decided to continue this acitivity within school as well outside school.

For Ally's 18th birthday a bunch of us were required to dance, or at least learn how over the months. Over the course of six months we learnt how to dance Ballroom, sway and hip-hop. This was indeed a knowledgeable 6 months, picking up moves and a scope of different dances that required different skills and movements.

Being effective communicators was also required between our dance partners and coach in order to progress and keep the dance smooth and flowing. Most of the time I was failing so this taught me how to inqure more often and ask when in doubt or crippling my partner.

In school, I joined the Nepalese dance club. I have been really interested since 3-4 years ago when I first watched my class mate perform solo. I figured with all this contemparary dance knowledge, a change to something more culturally rich, drowned in years of tradition, would be particularly interesting, ultimately enjoyable.

I believe I proved to be a risk taker at most as there was indeed a lot of pressure on the guys who, on the whole were less capable then the girls. Some moves were particularly interesting and it required boldness and some risk-taking in order to really replicate the Nepalese dance tradition. Furthermore joining this club meant that we had to put on a show for International Day, performing to the whole school, including parents. Nonetheless we were all effective communicators which helped with confidence.

CREATIVITY:ART CLUB

To show my support this again was a method of showing my caring attitude towards my friends self-initiated CAS. What I really enjoyed besides being able to express myself freely throughout the club, was the reflective sessions, being able to interpret my artwork and describe the techniques and inspiration behind these artworks. Furthemore as we all have different perspectives and different backgrounds I learnt to remain open-mided to the various artworks produced by the different artists.

SERVICE: ISB splash

To end the school year, we had an ISB Splash which was basically an event which invovled a full afternoon packed with water based games. Some particular popular games included, water balloon volleyball, water balloon throwing, water gun wars and more.

My role in this event was to conduct the water balloon throwing store. The dominant characteristic I showed was probably being knowledgeable. Being head of the store I had to be aware of rules, pointing systems and as well as keeping track of the money. Moreover running the store also required me to be principled by sticking to the rules, playing fair and keeping the game under control. Being a communicator also proved to be essential as I shared my store with my friends, so being caring and taking turns on shifts for the store.

ACTION: Volleyball

I believe the first and foremost IB attribute I illustrated was to be caring as this was my friend's self-initiated CAS. Next as the game depended heavily on team co-ordination we had to be communicate wtih each other to get the volleyball successful across to the other side. Being a newbie, this require me to be knowledgeable, and inqurers as I did not know most of the rules and how the game works. Like every sport being principled was important to present myself as a good sportsman, playing fair and well. As most teams had a team capatain, it was aslo crucial to be open minded especially to team formations, tactics and how to get the most out of the game by not doing as much.