Arwa's CAS Blog

(S) Designing the Newsletter for The Bayou Village School  This is a continuation of my working on the newsletter for Bayou Village. This week wasn't different from the other weeks that I've been working on the newsletter, however, this week was the monthly update on each of the classes! In this update, I get sent information that each of the classes teacher's sent to the director, as well as pictures of each of the classes. Then, I get sent all of this information to put in the newsletter. Usually, I give each class a page with as many pictures as I can fit, and I try to put the rest of the information in the same order that it was sent to me in. This week wasn't especially hard to format, or design, and it was definitely nice to start working on the newsletter again! I really enjoy putting everything together on the newsletter, and it's definitely been a nice way to continue learning more about designing! I also think that this experience has definitely helped me ...

  (A) Traveling to Connecticut During the summer, my family and I went to go stay with my Dad in Connecticut, since he had moved up there for his job in the beginning of May. We left at around the end of June, and to get to Connecticut, we had to fly from Houston to Chicago to Connecticut, which turned out to take more than a day. This is due to the fact that Chicago had bad weather the day we were going to leave from Houston, so our flight kept on getting delayed. This worried me a lot, since we had a connecting flight from Chicago, so I was worried that we weren't going to make it. Sadly, we didn't make it on our connecting flight to Connecticut, so we had to stay in Chicago for the next two days after making it there. Surprisingly, we weren't the only people that were stuck in Chicago at the time, as a lot of flights from Chicago had been canceled, so we were one of many families that were stuck there at the time. However, we were able to have a nice 2 day stay in Chicag...

(C) Selling some of my Music merchandise Starting at the beginning of this year, I started to sell some of the K-pop Albums and merchandise that I thought could go to a better home. This wasn't my first time trying to sell some of my merchandise, as I did the same type of business during the beginning of the pandemic, when we were all at home. This time. however, I tried starting up my business on a different app, as I thought that it might be easier for me to ship out all of the merchandise through their instead. It was definitely a better go this time, as I was able to sell a lot of the K-pop merchandise that had been in my room for awhile.  This was definitely a good experience for me, as I was able to learn time management skills, as well as money saving skills throughout the ups and downs of selling my merchandise. It's definitely something that I want to be able to continue for awhile, as I still have some K-pop merchandise to send out this week, and I'm hoping that I...

(A) Getting my Learner's Permit Getting my Learner's Permit is something that I've been working on getting for awhile now, and I thought it would be a good idea to document the process I went through in this blog! First, I started by signing up for the course I needed to complete to get my certificate for my Learner's Permit. I did the course over my winter break this year, and it took around 6 hours to complete, including the final test. It was definitely a little bit of a process, because I had to go through this course, and another different course before I could get my Learner's Permit certificate. Also, this experience definitely taught me a lot of self-motivation and time management, with finishing my courses on target and making sure to get finish up each of the lessons as soon as possible. This experience is definitely teaching me a lot of self-discipline, as well as showing me the consequences of not going through the process of learning how to drive sooner...

(S) Working with Stand With Kashmir  During 2019, around July to September, I worked with Stand With Kashmir to create flyers for their booth at ISNA. Also, I helped to hand out flyers in August during the ISNA Convention. I definitely enjoyed working with Stand With Kashmir to make the flyers, as well as helping them by working at their booth, as the Kashmir Conflict is something that I've been passionate about bringing awareness too for many years now. I was especially glad to be able to put work into shedding light on the Kashmir Conflict, while also bringing in one of my interests, which is graphic design. Also, it made me feel glad to be able to help out with the organization in some way, and I hope to be able to work with them again as soon as possible! I feel like this experience has been able to help my learn more about the global issues that surround Kashmir, as well as help me learn how to work with and meet new people! Learning Outcome 5 and Learning Outcome 6

(C) Taking Violin Lessons (1 hour/week) I've been taking Violin Lessons for about 15 years, and currently, I take them for about an hour every Saturday at The American Music Academy. Specifically, this week, I've been working on practicing the first few measures of a piece called Perpetual Motion , from Suzuki Book 4.  Violin is one of the extracurricular activities that has been a constant in my life since I was younger, so it's definitely allowed for me to express myself in another way. Also, it's something that I enjoy a lot, and I've grown to want to learn even more Violin pieces as I continue with my lessons with my teacher, Mr. Wyatt Coleman.  Learning a new piece is always hard, so this experience has given me a lot of obstacles to overcome throughout the piece. I definitely feel like I’ve been able to overcome some of them, and I’ve definitely been able to grow more as a violinist! Starting to learn this piece has also helped me learn to persevere and stay c...

(S) Designing the Newsletter for The Bayou Village School For awhile now, I've been designing the weekly newsletter for The Bayou Village School since my junior year. It's been one of my favorite things to do at the end of the week, as it's allowed for me to pursue graphic design a little bit more, which is something that I have a little bit of interest in. Also, this volunteering opportunity has allowed for me to learn more skills surrounding time management, as I usually have to work on the newsletter after school, which allows for me to still be active after school on Fridays. It's just something that I look forward to doing at the end of the week, and I hope to continue volunteering at The Bayou Village School even after my high school career. I hope to keep on designing their newsletter when I go to college as well. This position has also allowed for me to work more collaboratively with the school to create their weekly newsletters, as well as learn some new group ...