CAS blog of L. G.

I constantly feel responsible to help animals in one or other way. This time I thought of doing a few postcards encouraging to adopt pets from shelters and leave them in a local library. As it wasn't the first time of me doing some crafty postcards I wanted to try something distinct this time. I looked for some inspiration online and found a postcard with a cut out dog figure representing the "emptiness" of human heart that can be filled with the love for an adopted pet. I found this idea to be exclusive and very touching and made up my mind to challenge myselft to try and recreate the online postcard.  Generally, it was something different to try and I enjoyed the process of creating a simple though full of meaning postcards. I have to admit, that at first I was frustrated when cutting out the figures because I couldn't figure out how to cut out the thin details but then I changed normal scissors to small nail ones and it was much easier. As I liked the techniqu

Not a long time ago, I tried the art of doodling and really enjoyed this type of drawing. It is traditionally drawn with only a black pen but I decided to improve my doodling skills by including some colours. To be honest, it was hard to think of the object to draw that I would be able to colour later because usually it's a very small and detailed drawings. So after some time searching of inspiration on the internet I found planets and clounds coloured in various ways and instantly thought of recreating those pictures. It wasn't hard to draw the figures but it was challenging to mix up pastel colours for the clouds. I tried mixing normal colours with white to make them the way I wanted but it didn't rea lly worked out and the colours weren't as pastel as I anticipated them to be. Despite this, I think the end result turned out quite cute which is exactly what I was trying to achieve.  As for the planets I didn't want them to be realistic in any way and tried

Today I had my last IB exam and my joy is beyond words. I will admit though that the joy is more of a mental realisation rather than a feeling itself because this week's exams were very tough for me and all I truly wanted to do is to sleep instead of jumping of happiness . However, it would have been a sin not to celebrate reaching the finish line at least in some way. So together with some classmates we decided to go on a hike in the forest near Regina's house. At first it was very relieving to share our ups and downs of the exams and there were plenty of time to listen to each of the girls. However, later it became boring for me to simply walk the path without any purpose. Moreover, I quickly became very tired and sleepy as well as hungry. Luckily we had some snacks and to properly enjoy them we stopped for a little picnic which was very satisfying after a an hour of waking. Overall, the hike wasn't as pleasant as I expected it to be but we had a great workout as we

A bus ride to school is my sister's and mine routine for nearly two years now. We usually ride two or one stop depending on the bus stop we choose to walk to on that particular day (they're pretty much equally far away) after parents drop us off on their way to work. However, we were always curious about how long it would take us to walk the same distance we ride by bus each day. The reason is that even though it seems not a far ride, the bus still takes around 15 minutes to get us to school due to usual morning traffic. Therefore, last week to decided to try leaving the home earlier by ten minutes and walking to school. Surprisingly, we discovered that walking takes at most 15 minutes, nearly the same if not faster than by bus. We both found this kind new way of starting the day very enjoyable because the weather is getting nicer with each day and 15 minutes of physical activity really get us woken up (which is our daily struggle these days...). Additionally, we get to ch

Parents always tell their children not to play with their food and my parents used to repeat this every time I was making an entertainment out of food as well. We all grow up out of this kind of childish phase; however, it's always enjoyable to remember even such silly moments of your childhood as food-play. Today I did just that and even though some might not consider fruit "carving" equal to playing with food, I still think it's more of a game rather than art.  D espite being fascinated by the concept of making different objects out of simple fruits or vegetables since I can remember, I have never before tried carving fruits. Today I finally got my hands on this activity and tried to create working conditions as much favourable as possible. First of all, to successfully carve fruits I had to have properly sharpened knives which my dad kindly took care of; second of all, those knives should have preferably been specialized for carving meaning they would have been

In the past I’ve tried a lot of various kinds of sport but came to conclusion that from the active group I like simple exercises with or without weights the most. Therefore, as summer is already near the corner, my sister and I decided to atted some kind of a fitness class in the local gym. We choose the press and back workout as it was one of the shortest ones and we definitely don’t have a lot of free time at the moment as exams are coming.  It was confusing at first because the trainer kept telling  us what to do but I was too slow to manage to follow the instructions. However, after the first 10 minutes I got kind of used to the pace and could adapt to new exercises pretty quickly. Despite this, it was still challenging to complete all the exercises for a certain period  of time due to me being physically unprepared. What helped me was that my sister and I kept cheering each other bot to give up and this motivated me to keep going.  Overall, I truly enjoyed the experience but at