Activity - Gym

During last month of my summer holidays I started to attend the gym. I said myself that there is a right time to change something. Friend of mine did a huge progress while exercising in June/July, so it motivated me even more.


I build more muscles while my weight went down. I lost 4kg so I thing is a quite big achievement. My legs got slimmer and my stomach flatter. Also after a week I was able to run 10 minutes more on running machine and lift heavier dumbbells. For a very first time I decided to support myself with some supplements. I started to drink protein shakes and by that I gain more power and was boosted to do even more work at gym. 

Working out showed me also that there is a lot of areas that I have to work on. My abs are weak comparing to my legs and that is not good because they are the most important muscles in whole body, they are center of muscles.

CAS outcomes:
- Increased awareness of strengths and areas for grow  
- Showing perseverance and commitment 
-Developing new skills
-Planned and initiated activities
- Undertaking new challenges  

Activity- Handball

During those two months of handball training I surely improve my condition. I also formed relationships with members of the team. What I like about it is that actually age, in case of sport, is not that important. 

Girls with who I was training are 2 years younger than me and I was able to find common language and topics to talk about. Till now we are in good relations and still sometimes hang out. Despite our age difference we both have respect towards each other. 

The problem I met during our games was issue related to fouling and aggressive game. As I am older I have more strength. My previous opponents, when I was playing matches in middle school, were particularly girls who were professional players. Their game differs a lot from the game of girls I played recently. That is why it was though tough for me to play in the way to not hurt any of these younger girls. After few meetings I have learnt how can I play.

It was really pleasant time in my life. I will certainly reminisce that adventure.


CAS outcomes:
- Increased awareness of strengths and areas for grow,  
- Working collaboratively with others,   
- Showing perseverance and commitment, 
- Consideration of ethical implications,
- Developing new skills,
- Undertaking new challenge. 

Service - Kindergarten

My voluntary in the kindergarten end. I am really glad that I choose as my service working there. I become more open and related with how these little children see the world. I gain a lot of complacency and learn how to be patience. Actually, being a teacher in the kindergarten is a really good thing. I feel like I could become a teacher. Children gave me big amount of happiness and working with them gives fulfillment. I feel being appreciated by them. They talked with me a lot and told me lots about their lives, even about their little problems. I've learnt that if you want them to do something you have to be firm but pleasant. I think that when I will have more time after I finish school it will be good idea to start that voluntary service again just to brak away from my own problems. At the end children gave me painting which they made for me than I felt as a part of their 'family'.

CAS outcomes:
- Increased awareness of strengths and areas for grow , 
- Working collaboratively with others,
- Undertaking new challenges,
- Showing perseverance and commitment, 
- Consideration of ethical implications,
- Developing new skills,
-  Planned and initiated activities. 

Activity - Handball

Handball is the sport which was, or partially still is, a part of my life. I am not that committed to it as I was before because I had a gap year in training, but that sport is still in my heart. 

It was really hard for me to again start to train that intensive. I mention in previous posts about handball and basketball interscholastic matches, but  during those trainings we were practicing more tactic than actually felt the pain and the sweat.

In the club I attend now trainings are much different. I would say they are more complex and required more involvement from me. I forgot how it is to constantly be in move and  how it is to do aerobic exercises for more than half an hour not even having a break. After 2 hours I am literally in perspiration form head to toe.

I am really happy and glad because trainings encouraged me to start doing something with my life. I decided to try to lead the healthy lifestyle and doing workouts. Unfortunately I cannot find time to go to the gym but maybe in the near future I will try to figure it out.

Activity - Handball and Basketball

I used to play basketball when I was in the primary school. I remember it was the first sport discipline I felt in love witch and which made me entry the sport world. Then I started to play handball and it has became my passion till now. Unfortunately I had a one year gap at playing handball.

Recently there were the interscholastic games. Basically I do not know how I land in that situation where I took part in the basketball and handball competitions.
When I started to attend training I felt that I really missed the sport. That one year of not playing made a lot of lacks in my condition and skills and at the begging I couldn't catch my breath in the first minutes of a game. Fortunately with every next match I get better and my technics returns, which makes me really happy.

Also another good aspect is that I got to know new people and had to learn again how to work as a team. The hardest thing to me was to be self- confident with my actions. I always was afraid to do whatever because I thought that if I make a mistake the team would be angry at me. But after some time, when I got to know them well I'm not more afraid of anything.  

CAS outcomes:

- Increased awareness of strengths and areas for grow, 

- Showing perseverance and commitment, 

- Undertaking new challenges,

- Developing new skills,

- Working collaboratively with others 

Service - Kindergarten

Some time ago I have started a voluntary service in the local kindergarten. It is the kindergarten I used to attend when I was a child. It is really nice to go back there not as a student but look at everything with the teacher's point of view. When I went there for the first time I was afraid and didn't know what should I do to not break any rules which are set there. I didn't know how to act towards children. I might say that I was more stressed than those children when seeing the unfamiliar person. 
My first task to do was to help in decorating the hall for the masked ball. I saw that being the teacher in the kindergarten not only means to teach children but also have different work such as hang the string right under the ceiling. 
What intrigue me is that in every group, independently of age, there are same people such as leaders or the outsiders. You can watch their behavior and make some conclusion. By now I had my service in the two groups - in 4  and 6 ages group. The interesting and quirky fact is that in those two groups I immediately focused my attention on children who are somehow different, who are unique. They diverge form others. It is really strange but I feel bonded with them.

Service - English teaching

It has been 4 months since I've started to have lessons with Mikołaj.I feel that I faced that challenge successfully. It was hard for me to learn how to work with him. 

Because of our meetings I've became more assertive for sure. Sometimes he requested to end our lessons when we were only half way through, but I always tried to somehow change the subject and continue our learning. 

What's really interesting is that, when I tell him that I would give him a reward, his work was more efficient. He was more focused on what I was wanted him to do and even asked me for more information.

 Sometimes it was also difficult to manage my time and I had to plan everything out, but I handled it and I feel I become more organized. 

What makes me really happy is the fact that I hear form his mother that he started to use some words at home. It means I encourage him to English. He really improves so I guess I've done my job well.

CAS outcomes:

- Increased awareness of strengths and areas for grow, 

- Showing perseverance and commitment, 

- Undertaking new challenges,

- Developing new skills,

- Consideration of ethical implication,

- Working collaboratively with others