Jumble sale

In november 25th of 2011 , our year 12 students organized a zumble sale for the charity. All the profit that we had for this sale was planning to go to the charity .

 Before the zumble sale we advertised it for persuading people to come to the jumble sale. And all year 12 students were involved in the jumble sale, so they brought something that can be useful. They brought many old stuff such as dolls, toys and DVDs. I brought my scarf and a korean book. There are many koreans in my school so it didnt really matter even the book was written in korean. During the lunch time, I went to the place where the zumble sale was going on to help students. I stood behind the table and sold the products. I changed the money if the teachers or students wanted .
I tried to bring more and more people for the sale so I went out and advertised the sale.

From this service activity there were many learning outcomes.
First , I have undertaken new challenges - selling goods, and we planned this activity about 1 week before the zumble sale so I have planned and initiated activities.  And I have considered the ethical implications of my actions since this activity was engaged with the charity.

Volunteer work

The CAS programme provides me with an opportunity to challenge myself, to help others and to gain some invaluable life experience in the process. For the Service, I tried to contact with non-government organisations to help the others. I chose 3 organisations - Friends of Bitsevsky park, Russian Orphan Oppertunity Fund(ROOF) and Moscow animals.
Here's an example of an email that I sent to 'Friends of Bitsevsky park'

Dear Sir or Madam,

 I am interested in volunteer work at Friends of Bitsevsky Park. I have experience cleaning the park. I can do rubbish collection for the park.

If the Friends of Bitsevsky need a hard working volunteer, Im willing to work as the hard working volunteer.

I would be available to volunteer anytime during the weekends.

If you want me to work as a volunteer please reply this e-mail. I will wait for the reply

Yours faithfully,

Sang-hoon Lee



Weather club

The weather club is organized by Mr.O’connor , and this club is organized for measuring the the precipitation and climates in my school. The global warming is becoming a serious issue, and the average climate of the globe is rising. For proving that, the weather club is measuring the temperature of our school and then we compare it to the average climate of Russia.

Every day at 11 o’clock we measure the maximum and minimum temperature, temperature, precipitation, air pressure and clouds. We record it at the same time every day because if we do it at different time the result is not going to be accurate.

By doing this activity there are some learning out comes.

I had shown perseverance and commitment in my activity. Because this work is not finished just for several times, this work should be done through the whole year. Also I am developing new skills by using unfamiliar equipment, such as the max/min thermometer, the barometer and the rain gauge.
Also, I had engaged with issues of global importance.  Because We are doing this project because of the gobal warming.

visiting tolstoy's house

On october 20th 2011, I visited the tolstoy's house. Tolstoy is a very famous writter in the world. It was a very good chance to visit his house and  see his desks and chairs that he used 200 years ago. The house is located in tula which is quite far away from the moscow, therefore I needed to leave early. I woke up at 7 o'clock and prepared everything for going there and I met my friends before I went there. It took almost 3hours to go there, me and my friends ate the lunch and we bought the ticket at 2:00 p.m .

 We could not enter the house with out a guide, so we paid money for the guide and we traveled as a group of 15. Actually, I'm not good at russian but the guide could only speak russian, so it was quite hard to understand russian. But one of my friends was good at russian and she translated it for me. The grave of tolstoy was quite small and too simple. There was no decoration or something.

There were some learning outcomes from this activity. First, It was my first time to understand the explanation of guide in russian so I can say that I had undertaken new challenges, also I have planned and initiated activities.

International day 2011

14th of oct 2011 was my third internaional day since I came to the british international school of moscow. The international day is one of the biggest event in my school. Students wear their own traditional clothes and we have lunch with foods that students brought. IB students were supposed to prepare activities for students in my school. So koreans in my year group decided to teach students how to make kimbab.

 My group was organised with 4 korean IB students. we came to school before the school starts and we set up everything . At 9:40, year 11 students came to our class. I was so nervous because it was my first time to prepare activities for students in my school. We asked students to wash their hands before they come to our class. First of all, I explained them how to make kimbab. I demonstrated infront of them and it was quite successful. Other korean students in my group gave the ingredients to the students and they started to make it. We helped them to make kimbab and it was successful.

I can say that I undertakennew challenges and increased my awareness of my own strengths and areas fo growth. Also I planned and initiated activites with my classmates in my group. Also I worked collaboratively with others to help students to make kimbab.

Learning how to make kimbab

I learned how to make a kimbab to prepare international day. IB students were supposed to prepare some activities for students in our school . Korean students in my class decided to teach students how to make kimbab. So I learned how to make it before I go to the school on international day.

My mother teached me how to make kimbab. It was difficult than I thought and there were so many things to prepare. For the ingredients, I needed kim,rice,bal ( which needs for rolling the kimbab), cucumber, danmuji (asian pickle) , odeng( dried fish),ham,egg and tuna. For making kimbab , first I had to put 'kim' on the bal and spread the rice on the 'kim'. And then I needed to put ingredients one by one and roll it. I had to be careful because the kimbab could explode if I dont do it right way.

By this activity, I Undertaken new challenge. And also there were so many things to prepare for international day so I can say that I planned an initiated activites.  Also I developed my new skills

Presentation of IB

On september 20th 2011 tuesday, I did presentation about IB with my inter-house team. I was in chechov and our team was supposed to introduce IB learner profile to the audience. The audience was year 10 and 11 which are studying IGCSE now and going to study IB in year 12. So we needed to change the vocabulary to easy words so that year 10 and 11 students can understand. We had 6 members in our team and each of us had our own roles in the team.

 Everyone had to speak during the presentation and I was supposed to introduce what the principled means. Not only introducing the word but also I explained every word that could be difficult for year 10 and 11 s to understand. Basically what we wanted to say to the audience is that they should be like the IB learner profile after they finished their IB curriculum in the future.

By this work there were several learning outcomes. All of our members had their own role, we planned and initiated our presentation. Also we work collaboratively. And this was my first time to speak in front of many students, So I can say that I developed my new skill – to speak in front of the crowd.

Badminton club

Badminton club is an activity that I don every week on tuesday after school with a teacher and students from all year group. I started to play badminton in the badminton club since year10, I have been playing for the tuesday badminton club for 3 years now and this shows my commitment and perseverance towards badminton club.

We always choose our partner and play together as a team. One team has two members and one team plays badminton against one team. For each game the point is usually up to 15~20 points and we play collaboratively. Even if one player is really good at badminton, if another one doesn’t support the partner the team won’t be successful in the game. So the teamwork in badminton is also very important.

 I can say that there were many learning outcomes. I increased my awareness of my own strengths and areas for growth by playing badminton in the club. I also worked collaboratively with my partners. Also I showed my perseverance and commitment in my activity by playing badminton in the club for very long time. Also by playing the badminton I developed my new skills such as smashing.

10Km fun run!

On the 18th of september I ran for the 10km marathon. Our school students gathered infront of the basil's cathedral at 11:00 and we got our numbers for the marathon. At 12:00 we started running. It was a very big event in Moscow and about 5000 people who are from all different countries ran for the marathon. I was really pround of my self that I was one of them. I was supposed to run about 10km but I misunderstood the course therefore I ran about 12 km for this running. Although I was really tired, it was one of the best challenging experience. For me it was the first time to run for the marathon. This activity meant alot to me, it was one of the biggest challenge in my life, and It was really good to run with my friends, encourage each others.


 There were many learning outcomes. First, I increased my awareness of my own strengths and areas for growth. Also I've undertaken new challenges. Because it was my firt time to run for the marathon. Also I can say that I worked collaboratively with others because I ran with my friends and if someone couldn't follow us we encouraged each others and finished the running. Also I've shown my perseverance. Also I've developed my new skills by running. I learned how to breathe when I run for the really long distance.

My C.A.S plan

• Help in enviroment day ( service/creativity)
• Help in international day (service/creativity)
• Help in sports day (service)
• Attend in badminton club tuesdays (action)
• Run for 10Km running (action)
• Help with school discos(service)
• Visit art museums(creativity)
• Learn how to make cakes(creativity)
• Learn how to make sushi(creativity)

Sports day

On thursday 15th of september we had sports day. It was the first sports day since I became the IB student. We were supposed to do many tasks.

First of all, all of our team 'chekhov' was gathered in the gym and IB students organised teams for playing football,basket ball,volley ball, dodge ball and the relay.Also we were supposed to choose a mascot , a song for the interhouse and the celebration. The first game that we did on the sports day was dodge ball. All of our team played dodgeball and we learned the rules of the dodgeball. After that, we played foot ball,basket ball and valley ball. For winning the game we worked collaboratively with each other. Except these games, we did several activities. we ran around the school and also we had a game which defend and attack each others. For winning the game we had to communicate each others and make the strategy.

After lunch time, we had relay. 5 people from each teams (Tolstoy, Chekhov, Pushkin and Gogol) ran for the relay. I didnt run for it but I cheered for the game. After the relay the whole students standed on the line and passed the ball to the back and the last students came back to the front with their balls.

 We did a lot of activities therefore, I can say that there were many learning outcomes. I can say that I increased my awareness of my own strengths and areas for growth. For running, it was really hard to run over 200m fast but I did my best for my team and I think I increased my awareness of my own strengths.
Aslo I undertaken new challenges. There were several games that I haven't played before so I learned about new games and so I can say that I undertaken new challenges.
 Also we planned and initiated activities. There was a game which we defended the ball and for attacking we brought the ball to our safety jone. For playing that we had to communicate each others and planned strategy. I played new games that I hadnt played so I can say that I develoed new skills.

The firstday of the school

 The frist of september 2011 was the first day of the school. Also it was the first day as an IB student. We did many activities. We did not do it as individuals. we were devided in groups and we worked together.
There were manythings that we achived. We tried to make the hightest tower with papers and for doing that our communication skill was needed. We needed to make strategy to complete the mission. We made a kite. That was a new challenge for me. We need more creative ideas for making the kite to fly high. For doing that we communicated each others and worked together. We went out of the school to test the kite and we ran for making the kite to fly.
 Therefore, I can say there were at least four outcomes. Undertaken new challenges,planned and initiated activities,worked collaboratively with others and developed new skills.