CAS blog

CAS gave me numerous opportunities to learn new skills and master the old ones. I found myself initiating many events which regarded cooking or doing sports together. Thanks to that I could check how good of a chef and a teacher am I to the others - not so good. I found an area which I can improve - leading and worked on it. The Creativity part encouraged me to keep cooking despite lack of time and also try new recipes and evolve in this direction. The Action part motivated me to keep going to the gym and doing sports despite lack of energy on gloomy days. The Service part taught me to work in teams and draw my attention to the importance of voluntary work. It was a great experience doing all that.

Hospital childcare team This time we performed a show that revolved around the topic of air. Again with Mr Miszta and IB students we were explaining physics phenomena to the children, meanwhile trying to entertain them

Again we went to the hospital with Mr Miszta and IB1 students to make a physics performance for the children. This time it was about light. So we brought lasers and made a show. They were delighted. In total it took us about 5 hours with the preparations

Signatures confirming my entire hard work

Creativity: Cooking Sport: running, gym workout, yoga, zumba Service: helping at Oncological Hospital

Running workout in a gym It’s motivating to run with people who seem to be hating it, but instead of complaining, get up in the early morning and work out anyway, because they know its good for their health!

Lately I’ve been helping Mr Miszta organize his storage room and prepare some physics toys and tricks for the children at the hospital. Since Mr Miszta has an eccentric attitude regarding storing strange objects, it was quite a hard job to clean the mess that was created.

Gym workout Gender doesn’t determine physical strenght. The fact that I am female doesn’t mean I should be weak. Therefore I decided to work on my strenght and exercise my muscles a little bit more

Workout: running on a threadmil I usually try to integrate jogging into my workout routine, because it significantly boosts my metabolism, in contrast to yoga, which is a much more still form of exercise

CAS PROJECT BAKE SALE Whenever there is a bakesale, I always try to bring some sort of cake or cookies to help earning money for the aula. This time I made the same kind of oat cookies as the last time, because they are the quickest and easiest to make when you are tired and remind yourself about the bakesale the previous evening

Yoga Since it was a really cold week, i stayed at home and did some yoga workouts. Generally, i do about an hour of yoga, practicing the asanas I learned at yoga classes

Work out I regularly do different sports. This time I went to a gym and made some exercises that I know. I focus on the muscles on the stomach and usually i download some sets of exercises from the internet

Onion quiche It’s a french dish, full of onions and cheese. I made it couple of times already in my life and I still make mistakes because every time i take different recipe. Never so far i managed to found one that would satisfy me. It is important to make the dough not too soft but not to hard and crispy. This time the filling was a bit to watery and softened the dough so it was not cooked perfectly as I wanted. Also the cheese was not the right kind because I did not manage to buy it and I used a regular gouda. Because of that the filling had too little taste and required more spices. It was good though.

CAS PROJECT The cas project that I joined revolves around the aula and the furnitures that it lacks. In order to make money for new furnitures such as sofas, tables and chairs, we organize bake sales. I helped baking oat meal cookies and a brownie the other day, which we sold later on. On a facebook group we follow each other and make decisions. Our leader Julia Kulczycka coordinates it all. So far we managed to earn enough money to buy a new furniture and ordered it.

Pasta with zucchini and saffron sauce I found pasta with spinach in a shop so this time this pasta is more green (just how i like it). Also, since I want to cut on meat, it’s only with zucchini without any other ingredients apart from some onion and garlic but these are basics. Also I had a good quality saffron that comes in stripes so this one is definitely better.

Zumba with my sister I dance zumba since summer and I love it so this time i decided to take my sister with me and show her how fun it is. It’s so quick and chaotic though we got red and tired. She loved it almost as much as I do though.

Valentine’s Day risotto with leek This year’s valentines I spent with my boyfriend making risotto with leek and pumpkin. It was his first risotto and he really loved it. I taught him how to make it and explained all the basics that I described in my last risottos, so maybe he will do it himself one day. But for now he is playing with leek