As I’m the kind of people who likes to have everything planned out and well-organized before writing, this is definitely way outside my comfort zone. I’m under a time pressure right now to simply get as much of this intro done (not really, but I just wanna get over it as soon as possible). With this being said, I self-identify myself as a thinker. I contemplate about life a lot – how I did things, how I would’ve done things, how I should’ve done things… it goes on and on. Whenever I’m not occupied by work, I’m occupied by thoughts, which is hence I tend to learn to write, instead of write to learn. In contrast, I’m definitely not a risk-taker, though taking risk is what I’m doing right now with this essay: typing down everything that comes across my mind and hoping that this thing turns out nice.

 

Quite frankly, though I do pretty decent in school, I do not enjoy it at all, at least not yet. For me, the best part about school is the people, and of course, sports 🙂 I love playing basketball, I guess it’s not only one of my rare skills but an interest of mine. I don’t think I’m born with any talents. I’m one of those typical and boring human beings that you can’t expect anything from when I’m born. Besides sports activity, I also enjoy drawing in my leisure time, but I usually just end up getting frustrated at my own drawing skills and giving up. Furthermore, I enjoy the feeling of giving back to the community. Every half a year or so, the Red Cross Club from our school hosts charity sales. I’ve always enjoyed taking part in it, and I believe it’s one of the best activities to strengthen bonds with friends.

 

I hope to become a more reflective, balanced, and caring person from taking part in the CAS program. As I’ve mentioned about how I usually end up giving up drawing from the frustration of my drawing skills, I hope CAS becomes a motivation for me to persist and achieve one of my greatest but unaccomplished interests. Through the extra community service hours that CAS students are required to complete, I also hope to develop a stronger sense of community and become a globalized citizen who is aware of what’s happening around the world.

 

As someone who has always struggled with time management, one of the challenges I’ve set forth for myself entering into the IB Diploma program is nonetheless to be able to cope with stress and sleep early. Apart from that, as you can probably tell that I’m really into sports, basketball particularly, another challenge/goal I hope to achieve this year is also to win the ACAMIS champions 🙂 Let’s go Dragons!