Newspaper

October Issue
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2TlpG7RQbTkU3RaS0k0amNhYVE/edit?usp=sharing

My articles:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2TlpG7RQbTkc0xwZlltUUhkdlE/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2TlpG7RQbTkNHkzdFR5cnBIb00/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2TlpG7RQbTkNDN3N1FfeXhCZm8/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2TlpG7RQbTkRjYyNVFuZG4yV3c/edit?usp=sharing

Halloween for Hunger- Evidence

 These were the routes, each colour represents a different group

These were the buttons we made so we could be identified 

I designed this poster and the group collaboratively hung them up at strategic places around the neighborhood

This is the entry we were able to have published on the community events page.

Below is a link to the proposal I wrote and took to Ms. Willis
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2TlpG7RQbTkNktJQXBoNlAyT2c/edit?usp=sharing

CAS 2014 Reflection

Hey! This is my CAS reflection, rather than write it all out i decided to just talk about it in a video. The audio is me talking about the many activities I've started or continued on with since the last reflection, while the video consists of some pictures i collected throughout my journeys. Enjoy!

Part 1                                                                        Part 2

Biking Journal

My Biking Journal

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2TlpG7RQbTkVlU5Skp6ZWh6VkE/edit?usp=sharing

Even as CAS comes to an end, I will continue biking as long as i am able. It has truly been a very enjoyable experience

Sailing

A few weeks ago i was sitting on the beach with a friend and out of nowhere she asked what that green buoy was out there in the water. I answered her saying that it marked the channel, so any boats know where the deepest and safest part to sail is. I told her that the way you interpret the buoys is to use the alliteration "Red Right Returning", so when you're returning to port then you want to keep the red buoy on your right and that way you'll stay in the deepest part. It was at the moment that i realized i wanted to really learn to sail. Sailing has always been somewhat of an interest to me, but i hadn't been that motivated to pursue it until now. A couple of years ago my mom had a tiny little sailboat and i learned to sail that, but it was very simple, very small and wasn't really much of a learning experience. However, my mother's boyfriend Rick  is a huge sailor and has a much larger and much more complex sailboat and he has offered to teach me how to sail it and we (my mom, Rick and I) might be entering in a sailing race later in the summer! Saturday the 13th was my first sailing lesson and i got to put all my previous knowledge about sailing and the water to use, plus i learned a bunch of new things! During the lesson i knew a lot of terminology like starboard (right), port (left), main sail (sail attached to the mast), the jib (the other sail located more towards the front of the boat and is at an angle towards the main sail), tacking (the process of getting the wind on the other side  of the wind so you can turn), but there was still lots i needed to learn, like when the right time to tack is and how to work your way somewhere when the wind is against you and who has right of way in the water and how to use the telltales (telltales are almost little streamers that show you when to adjust the tiller so you get the best wind, there's one telltale on each side of the sail and if they are flying parallel to each other then your sail has the right amount of wind and lift and whatnot, but if one is flopping around you have to adjust yourself accordingly). On Saturday i mainly just kept my eyes on the sail and tried to get a hang of using the tiller (apparently i'm pretty intuitive!), but hopefully next week ill be able to do some more. This is has been a great learning experience for me and it was really fun! although, i did manage to get a really terrible sunburn, so next time i'll have to be a little bit more careful.

Cycling

Day 1-July 10th
 My first day of cycling was a little bit discouraging. First of all, i had to use my brothers bike (which is a little bit too tall for me) and it had been quite some time since my last bike ride. Within the first five minutes of the ride i could feel it in my legs and by the end of the ride they were fairly jelly-like, but i managed. To be honest, i felt very out of shape, i managed to only take 2 breaks of less than five minutes, but compared to where i was last year, it was still a bit of a downer. The nicest part about the ride was that it was morning and i was alone, so i didn't feel judged when i needed to slow down or took a drink, but since it was a bit chilly and the bugs were terrible (unless you were moving) i still had plenty motivation to keep going. I started off easy by biking 4.8 km in 30 min, which is approximately 300 calories burned. It wasn't as easy as i thought it was going to be, but these things never are. So, i guess i can only hope that my next bike ride (which will be tomorrow) will be better than today's and some improvement will eventually show.

Day 2-July 11th
Unfortunately day two was not easier like i'd  hoped. In fact, it was a lot harder since I went about 1 km farther with more hills and i was still somewhat recovering from yesterdays ride. Today i biked 6 km in 50 minutes which is approximately 450 calories burned.

Day 3- July 12th
This morning i was extremely tired, so i only went for a very short 20 minute ride of 2.4 km (200 calories burned). So far i've realized that it really does take a lot of commitment to wake up two hours before work to go for a bike ride, especially on those exceptionally tiring days. I haven't really felt much improvement yet, but it has only been three days and these things take time.

Model UN

Model UN was truly one of my most favourite CAS activities. It combined my interest in foreign relations with my interest in arguing and i loved every minute of it. The conference took place in Fredericton and i met a lot of very cool people while there.
When we first arrived I was a bit nervous and intimidated by the amount of people and how amazing they all seemed to be at debate. So, my first initial speech was a little bit lacking, but once I got into the flow of things and we started forming alliances and drawing up bills i became a lot more comfortable. I learned so much about foreign policy and culture differences that i can honestly say it broadened my mind by tenfold and spike my interest even more in international relations.