What CAS taught me ...(Final Reflection)
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The 12th IB at the 2017 Christmas Charity Ball |
We are near the end of our education in the IB programme, and it's high time we did some revisions on what had happened and what could have been avoided or changed. As time flies and everything changes progress or regress may occur. In the situation of my classmates, after the two years I spent working with them I was left with mixed feeling, and a lot of lessons learnt.
For a project or campaign to be successful, the people conducting these works should have mutual respect, team-working and wish for improvement and place for critical thinking. We lacked most of the characteristics I mentioned above.
At the very beginning of the first year, we created projects and campaigns, and all of us participated until the second year came. I don't believe that the rejection and denial of some classmates to cooperate was triggered just by stress. We are stressed, so it is not an excuse, especially coming from a person that claims to be well-organised and believing in themselves to achieve incredibly high results. I think that the main problem came from the supreme ego some of my classmates suddenly achieved. But it served as lessons for me. I learnt that being dependant on someone for projects and receiving no feedback and moving on as fast as a snail is beneficial because I will need to be prepared to work with people in uni and no one is going to ask me if I like my teammates or not.

Nevertheless, we had moments of pure happiness even though it was during the first year of our diploma education. Personally, the 'Break the Stereotype' project is my favourite because it showed the whole class with our mentor in a more mature way and fighting under an international agenda. I enjoyed it the most, because not only was I one of the three people that suggested it but also I took and edited the pictures. Having an incredible team-work then, if someone had told me that the group will turn out to be like it is right now I wouldn't have believed it.
All in all form all of the activities, projects and campaigns I have participated in, I would love to continue my voluntary work in the sphere of helping out children and youngsters fighting illnesses caused by stereotypes and labels and make a change.
Farewell CAS.
I won't forget about you!
- Dessi
26/03/2019
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