CAS Evidence June

It’s summer vacation, my friends and I are back on playing hockey. It’s always fun to improve along with my friends, and interesting to see how they improve so quickly. I learned the basics when I was little, the skating and stick-work, but my friends didn’t, it was their first couple of times getting into…

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End of Semester CAS Reflection

During this semester, the first semester of CAS, I’ve experienced different challenges and obstacles that were intriguing. A quick run-down of the types of things that I’ve done was, cooking, internship and athletic skills. I’ve been interested in cooking ever since I was little, but along with the CAS program, I was encouraged to step…

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CAS Reflection May

I’ve reflected on what I’ve been practicing, the hand-eye coordination training. But, I’ve also been researching for other training as work out session because it isn’t the safest to be at the gym right now. I came up with plans that are different but train for similar parts of my body every day. Some are…

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CAS Engagement May

For this month’s CAS I’ve noticed progress. I’ve gotten better at hand-eye coordination and it transferred into playing hockey. I think one of the major difference makers was that I’ve been training hand-eye coordination with both hands. I would toss a ball with my right hand onto the wall and catch with my left, vice…

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Individual Oral:DP Language Portfolio Post #6

In this unit I picked out a global issue to analyze through the works that we’ve done for the past semester. There is a lot to choose from and I chose to analyze my global issue, social injustice, with Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and Icarus by Bryan Fogel. Persepolis is an intriguing story that depicts…

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Persepolis: DP Language Protfolio Post #5

During this unit, we read Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. It is an intriguing story that depicts her childhood as well as parts of her adulthood and how she lived through the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Because it is a story that is told from the author’s own perspectives, there are a lot of connections to…

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Designing a Website

In the previous CAS blog post, I explained that I went to acquire the expertise of operating my coffee company. I had the ability to do business and other aspects, but I needed to be strong in the field that I am going to plant my business in. So after I did that, I’ve begun…

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CAS April (Internship before my own Coffee Company)

Over the Spring break, I went to a coffee shop to enhance my knowledge of coffee. Prior to this experience, I’ve already researched and learned quite a lot on my own. However, I later found out that there is so much more to explore and there are tons of details that aren’t even shown on…

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Sacrafice & Protests in Sports: DP Language Portfolio Post #4

Here are the outlines for my IO projects. I thought these reflect the unit very well because it requires us to include all knowledge from the unit and make connections with other units that we’ve done. For example, in my IO I made connections from this unit’s Icarus Documentary with the previous unit’s Antigone. I…

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Cooking for my Mom (March CAS Investigation)

I wanted to cook for my mom on her birthday because she’s usually away and it’ll be a special opportunity to do something for her. So this month, I cooked goulash for her on her birthday. I’ve been researching recipes and things to try out as a mediocre cook. I’ve found that goulash is something…

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