And two years later…

This is my last CAS entry. It has been two years since I started CAS. There has been ups and downs and long breaks away from CAS but writing my final entry means that it is finally over and it is time to focus more on the final examinations. I remember our CAS coordinator always saying, "CAS is not about the hours, it is about you meeting the learning outcomes, so please stop asking me how many hours you have to complete for the next two years!!!" I remember him saying that often during the first year, but soon everyone caught on and everyone started working on completing the different learning outcomes.

There were a number of difficulties during the two years. One of them was meeting some of the learning outcomes, especially "engage in issues of global importance" and "consider ethical implications of your activities." On the other hand, I had plenty of learning outcomes like "work collaboratively with others" due to my participation in different sports activities. The hard part was trying to balance all these outcomes, avoiding to have too much of one, but even with that, some learning outcomes always kept coming back.

I mainly had one project over the course of the programme. My project was the Wobulenzi project. It started in the first year of my diploma programme when the whole class took a compulsory trip to WTA (Wobulenzi Town Academy), and it all started with my group and I doing a workshop that involved teaching the students of the school rugby. It was hard at first, they would most times get carried away and kick the rugby ball and play football with it. But when they got the hang of the game, it was sometimes fun to play. The real project started in the 3rd term when we got the idea of teaching the students french for one month. Although the classes only lasted 1 month, I am proud of what we accomplished.

There are many things that I learned during the last two years doing CAS, but most of what I learned can be summarised through the learning outcomes I achieved.