During the lockdown, I started focusing more on my physical fitness and health. Personally for me, by focusing on my physical fitness and health, I would indirectly improve my mental health and fitness. One way of doing that was cycling for +25 kilometers on weekends from 22 July 2021 to 22 September 2021. Specifically, in […]
Month: April 2022
Learning German (Creativity)
For the past 1-2 years, I’ve been learning French in my school and Spanish from an app called Duolingo then to further learn a new culture, train and enhance my cognitive skills and ability of my brain, to improve my memory, creative thinking capacity, and verbal & spatial abilities, I decided to learn German. Adding […]
Volunteering for Mass Tree Plantation (Service)
Climate change is a devastating global issue, one of the main leading factors of it is deforestation. In India alone, in 2020 India lost around 132 hectares of forest. That being said due to my subjects like ESS and Global Politics, I’ve been aware of this issue for the past 1-2 years and I’ve been […]
Cooking
Cooking is basically a survival ability and all of us ought to at the least know a few objects which they can cook dinner independently. I, in my opinion, become very naive whilst I got here to cooking because I turned into born with a silver spoon, a totally nicely-settled own family which is why […]
Baking and Cooking (Creativity and Activity)
Description of the experience: Baking and Cooking has always been my way of letting go of the mundane routine of homework, deadlines, and assessments. CAS offered me a platform to exercise my love for baking and cooking more frequently and thus I obliged. I baked cakes and an array of other items over the course […]
Peer Learning Assistance Program (Service)
Description of the experience: Peer Learning Assistants(PLA) is a program that requires volunteers of grade 11 to have one on one sessions with students of grades 9 and 10 regarding the subjects they are struggling or need help with. I had volunteered in this and was allotted a student who needed help with the subject, […]
Learning Bird Photography
I have always had a soft spot for birds. They always make me calm whenever I see them in the wild. Due to pollution and deforestation, however, it is getting more and more challenging to see them in the urban landscape. So when I was in the 3rd grade, my then-principal, Mr G.R. Sivakumar, took […]
Eco sparks volunteering (service)
I volunteered for Paryavaran Mitra, which is a Gujarat based non-profit organization working on socio- environmental issues. It was a one month long internship where we worked as a team to raise awareness for waste management in our society as well as the school. We were given tasks like talking to our society members and […]
Voulenteering for Farewell preparation
The students of grade 11 had decided to plan the farewell celebration for grade 12. According to their plan they had activities, dances, DJ and some games. They were looking for volunteers from grade 11 to help conduct this event. That’s when I volunteered to dance, at first I was very frightened to sign up […]
Learning Basketball as a part of the Holistic Development program.
I have been playing basketball since the past 4 years, I’ve been on various tournaments as have since my graph upscale as a player. However, there is always a scope for improvement, and I want to become a better team player so that I can contribute in a better way to the game. Basketball, is […]