International Baccalaureate: CAS

Date 11/11/2022 Duration 15 h In our school, we have a tradition called TJ100. TJ100 means 'tänään jäljellä 100 (päivää)', which roughly translates to '(we have) 100 (days) left today'. TJ100 is often associated with military training, how many days they have until they step into the reserves, but nowadays upper secondary schools have joined the tradition. For us, it symbols the days left until the start of studying break for final exams. It is celebrated by the seniors, either wearing pyjamas or togas to school as a symbol of being tired of school or 'seniors are gods'. We also have a procession, where we march around the school yelling TJ100, as a 'prank' or to annoy the younger students. The national line seniors had their TJ100 day earlier in the fall, as their study break starts in February. We decided to create the IB style TJ100-party when we had 100 days left. We got the idea before leaving for the summer holidays and started planning as soon as ...

14.12.2022 -> 15.3.2023 Series: about 11h I've always wanted to learn Arabic, and now I decided to start. I found an organization which offers free Arabic lessons to girls, which was a sign for me to join. The course entails learning the letters and harakat , 'vowels', and learning to read random letter combinations and easy words. I've studied the letters before, but I don't remember them that well anymore, and I'm not familiar with harakat either. Thus, my goals is to learn to read in Arabic. The course lasts for 11 weeks, 1 h a week as distance learning. We have a YouTube video to follow, we must make notes (studying the letter and its' harakat), tracing exercises and homework. I'm grateful that I finally found the chance to start studying Arabic, as it is a language close to my heart <3 As this experiment will last for 11 weeks, it will contribute as the last bits of this 18 months.

11.12.2022 Single: about 1h Even though I don't celebrate Christmas, my family always does. My mom requested me to decorate some gingerbreads, which is always fun. I found new decoration styles, which I wanted to try. As an experience, it was fun to develop my creativity and get my head off of school work.