Hot week!

It's been hot this week, but I actually managed a bit of bike riding at the beginning when it wasn't 'I'm gonna melt away' hot yet. I rode my bike to work, but it's about 10 km to town..so that makes 20km there and back. That's more than my usual bike ride.

I wanted to go for a bike ride tonight as well, cause it's finally cooler at like 22:30, but the lights on bike weren't working so that didn't really work out.

So yeah, basically this week was another 'activity' week. Can't wait to see what next week brings on.. even though I'm pretty sure any week of summer holidays is activity week :D

This week: CREATIVITY

I feel that during this past week I really developed my creative side. I haven't had much time for the other sides of CAS really (well other than the 24/7 babysitting of my cousins), but I really got to do a lot of creative stuff. It was my mom's birthday party this weekend and I had all week to prepare for it. I was in charge of making the decorations and cupcakes for dessert. I took pictures of everything, because I wanted to show it off and I was really proud of everything.

 

 Here are the two main decorations that I made:
One is a hanging 'slideshow' of pictures from the past few weeks. There were a bunch of pictures of the children and all the things they had done here.
The other one is a pompom hanging thing. I found the instructions for making the pompoms on pinterest, and after I made a few I decided that I wanted to make like a hanging solar system-looking kind of thing out of them. It turned out awesome!

Then the two artsy presents that I made for my mom. One was a flower pot, which is supposed to have a picture of my siblings and I on it. I painted it..it was pretty..close? to reality. I mean, I was content with my work (which doesn't happen all that often). 

The other thing that I made, was a painting of my dog's face on a piece of wood. Haha. It sounds terrible like that, but I thought it was pretty cute. 

 And…last but definitley not least, my beautiful cupcakes. They turned out AMAZING this time and I was really happy with them!

Another week of summer..

Doing CAS in summer is so much harder..in fact doing anything productive in summer is a lot harder. But I really enjoy this about summer, by this I mean the fact that everyday isn't exactly the same as the one before or the next day coming. It's exciting and fun and helps relieve stress..unless you're in the IB and you have way too much work to do over the summer and those deadlines are constantly beeping reminders to you from your head and various technological devices.

Anyways, CAS this week..well I rode my bike to work on a few days, but for most of the week the weather was really windy and my parents said they could drive me. I'm pretty sure that everything I do during the summer could probably go under CAS though. I do a lot of sports…from riding my bike to swimming. Also, my nieces have been here for the past two weeks, so I've been doing a lot of babysitting. I know, that it doesn't count with family members and what not, but I don't really care. I haven't written any of this down in my CAS log. I'm just saying that my summer pretty much consists of numerous CAS-like activities. 

Summer Camp

Wow. I just had the most fun 10 days of summer that I've had in a very long time. I went to an estonian learning camp. I actually went as a supporting youngster (tuginoor), and my role was to help the foreigners learn estonian. I'm sure that I pretty much did every part of CAS throughout the whole 10 days, like 24 hours a day. I learned so incredibly much at camp and I made so many new friends. It was amazing. I feel like I don't want to write about it yet, because I'm still processing everything. Camp is also the reason why I didn't post anything last week.
Today I also went for a bike ride. Well, I'm actually going to be riding my bike to and from work from now on, so I'll get plenty of sports done.