CAS update May 16th, 2011

- Library service                                           (15 hours)

- Yoga w/ Mrs.Laney                                   (20 hours)

- Student Council                                         (20 hours)

- December 1 &2 dance (Doorman)             (10 hours)

- MUN                                                        (14 hours)

- MUN Paris Conference                             (17 hours)

- Blind benifit fundraiser                                (4 hours)

- Combat training clases                                (8 hours)

- Combat Survival Test in Normandy             (20 hours)

- Baby Sitting                                                (0 hours)

- Soup kitchen                                               (6 hours)

- Ameasty International                                  (7 hours)

- Self Defense                                                (10 hours)

- Short film club                                             (13 hours)


Total______________________________167 hours_




Creativity: 8+20+8+13         = 54

Action::     17+10+14+17    = 50

Service:     15+20+4+6+7   = 63

Update for CAS hours January the 27th

- Library service                                           (14 hours)

- Yoga w/ Mrs.Laney                                   (15 hours)

- Student Council                                         (10 hours)

- December 1 &2 dance (Doorman)             (10 hours)

- MUN                                                        (11 hours)

- MUN Paris Conference                             (17 hours)

- Blind benifit fundraiser                                (4 hours)

- Combat training clases                                (5 hours)

- Combat Survival Test in Normandy             (20 hours)

- Baby Sitting                                                (0 hours)

- Soup kitchen                                               (6 hours)

- Ameasty International                                  (5 hours)

- Self Defense                                                (2 hours)

- Short film club                                             (2 hours)


Total______________________________121 hours_

Soup kitchen (On January the 5th and 12th)

On both these days I helped a group with giving out warm food and beverages to some of the more under privileged members of Parisian society. It was very interesting for me because I was able to exchange words and partake in conversations with the many SDF or sans abris (french for without a home).  There was a clear difference  from one man/woman to the next. Each had interesting stories and some were angry or upset but, most were very kind with me and our group and enjoyed our international backgrounds. Our establishment in Paris eased access to may visitors and made it less awkward as it was a general 'food give-away'. As long as you waited kindly in line, you received generous amounts of food with no questions asked. The experience also tested our comprehensions of many different french dialects and languages as many of these sans domicile fixe were from exterior nations of France and this allowed a odd and yet enjoyable mix of origins and people. The experience was overall very enjoyable and I assume many within our group felt the same way. I gained a sense of pride in my work whilst helping the SDF and soup kitchen staff alike. I gained patience and a larger sense of the worlds people as an added bonus. Some of us also had to learn a new sort of tolerance to more aggressive and upset members amongst the people there.

Pity was never felt among our group but, those nights allowed us to see more into this growing group of people in France who cannot be imaged solely as 'homeless' but, as the few french residents left who see eating and sleeping as an act of survival and not comfort. An amazing experience.

Combat Survival test in Normandy

On this trip we went to Normandy (specificlly a place called 'Caen') to go practise our newly harnessed combat/ survival skills and put them to the test.

We left on Friday the 19th of November and shortly after arrived at our destination. We arrived later that afternoon and quicklly got down to practicing and revising our skills obtained in class so as not to die the next day. You see for saturday the 20th, we were planned to split the group in two and have one time hunt for a green poncho in a forest with an area of about 12-15 km (outragous, right?) while the other time was to hunt us down at the same time. I was prey, so I definittly needed to learn these skill ahead of time.

When Saturday came we were woken up at 5 in the moruning by our ''drill sergeants''. The prey team was completilly domolished as we had stayed up till 3 in the morning that night. So we staggered out with our 30 pound backpacks and stated our journey to get the green poncho. We went through all kind of hell us prey to avoid the predetors and sooner or later we found ourselves split up, I walked through the rivers as not to be seen, Peiter and Shewan hid in the trees, while Nick and Anna crawled unbareblly slow through the mud

Out of pure skill our team managed to find the green poncho at around mid-day (sooner than expected) and so the teams met up and told our stories and started to build our camp for the night. We all made different sleeping arangements to survive the cold and rainy Normandy night. Some made make shift tents, some slept on grass, I slept in a frsh dug whole w/ Eric and Peiter. It was horrible.

We woke up on the 21st and left promptly at 1:15 to catch our train and arrived in Paris at 15:30. 




* Keep in mind that I just wrote a mini essay 10 minutes ago describing this trip and it was suddenlly deleted by some fool, so I agologise for the lack of detail this time around

Update on CAS hours

This is now my current CAS hour holdings (It's nicely organized to make it easy on your eyes):


- Library service                                           (9 hours)

- Yoga w/ Mrs.Laney                                   (4 hours)

- Student Council                                         (4 hours)

- December 1 &2 dance (Doorman)             (0 hours)

- MUN                                                        (3 hours)

- MUN Paris Conference                             (0 hours)

- Blind benifit fundraiser                                (4 hours)

- Combat training clases                                (5 hours)

- Combat Survival Test in Normandy             (20 hours)

- Baby Sitting                                                (0 hours)

Ameasty International                                    (2 hours)


Total_______________51 hours

The various things I am doing currentlly

I'll chot them dowm quickly with the amoun of CAS hours done for it... so far.



- Library service             (6 hours)

- Yoga w/ Mrs.Laney     (2 hours)

- Student Council           (2 hours)

- MUN                          (2 hours)

- Blind benifit fundraiser  (4 hours)

- Combat training            (2 hours)

- Baby Sitting                 (0 hours)

Ameasty International     (1 hours)


Total_______________19 hours

This is roughly what I have done now, I might have left somethings out.

Journée nationale des aveugles et malvoyants (Blind Collection)

On October the 3rd I collected money to give to the JNAM organization to benefit their help for the blind. We, Peiter, Jamal, and I, went around my secter asking for money donations to help the blind. We raised a good 20-30 euros in coins and, at largest, a 5 euro bill in a total of roughly 4 hours. We gave our money over today. The whole experience allowed me, peiter, and jamal to not only bond more but, also allowed the two of them to visit my area of Paris for the first time all the while they practiced their french with locals. It was a nice experience for not only the intentions behind gathering the money but, also the fun we had while completing this task.