FINAL CAS REFLECTION!

These past 18 months of CAS has been interesting, hard, fun and rewarding amongst other things.  From my long-term project of helping an upcoming musician to being in student council and MUN, each of these activities has taught me a lot and I am proud to have done each one of them. The main thing that I have learned from CAS is that it is good to take part in things that you would never normally do. For instance, before CAS if I had heard that there was a run, I would have normally ignored this but instead CAS has pushed me to do things such as the Rotary Cancer run which taught me that it is important to involve yourself in different things as it will help you become a more open and well rounded person. Some of my favorite activities that I did was helping out at the local NGO Kampala Kids League as I enjoyed writing their weekly newsletter and helping out with all the kids that were in the league. I also really enjoyed being the editor of the poetry anthology because I had never been so involved in something like that and I definitely underestimated how hard and time consuming it would be but it was a really nice thing to see the final product. If I were to do  all of it again I would have liked to take part in more action activities. If I were to give any advice to future CAS students I would tell them to be organised and to make sure to do all of their reflections straight after an activity as this is something I definitely struggled with sometimes. Overall, I think that CAS has been an important part in my IB course as it does teach you to be a more well rounded person, be active in your society and to do things you would not normally do. Although it was challenging at times, I did enjoy taking part in all of my activities as I learned many new skills and undertook new challenges.