tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72605888960796463712024-03-19T05:44:36.706+02:00CAS @ Didzdvaris gymnasiumA journal about creative, active and serving students from SiauliaiPauliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15197279325126716587noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7260588896079646371.post-12420027146116737932015-04-20T15:59:00.001+03:002015-04-20T15:59:33.033+03:00[IB9 & IB10] A traditional Food Bank activity for the DG IB students - 2015 Spring<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Food bank is a charitable activity
that was first established in US in 1967.
In Europe, it has been gaining in popularity since 2006. Therefore, Food
bank is a well-known and significant project all over the world with Lithuania
being no exception. This organization collects and stores the donated food and
sends it to homeless shelters, orphanages and other places, where people are in
need. Parents, who are not able to feed their children, can turn to Food bank
organizations to request for assistance, especially under circumstances of
unemployment and disabilities that prevents individuals to secure sufficient
income to feed the families. In Lithuania people can leave a small amount of
money using special donation boxes in 214 stores all over the country. According
to statistics in 2010 people had donated 33 000 Euros.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Our school also takes part in Food bank.
Basically, participants of this project are International Baccalaureate
students. Classes are divided into small groups of students (usually 2-3
people) who are allocated a certain time to volunteer. Last time we have
volunteered in March. Although for most IB1’s students it was the second time
volunteering in supermarkets for Food bank, while for IB2’s it was their fourth
time. As usual DG IB students felt grateful for being a part of something
special and being able to directly help the organizers to efficiently make
arrangements. Having talked to my classmates we all agreed upon participating
in organizing Food Bank in the future as soon as there would be a possibility
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Personally to me, Food bank gives an
opportunity to help people in need. Furthermore, I can volunteer, meet new
people, collaborate and spend time with my classmates. Food bank made me see that
a lot of people are ready to help the poor. However, I have some communication
problems due to language barrier, because I am from Latvia and I do not speak
Lithuanian, yet through volunteering opportunities like this I am able to work
on improving my communication skills. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In conclusion, I can say that these
kinds of projects should be developed in all countries, because each country has
people that need help and those are able to help. Food bank involves us into
solving or at least helping to solve a global issue of poverty. Food bank
unites people. Food bank is turning to other people to open their hearts. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Each year on the 25th of January a midwinter
hike is organised by the “Aukuras
club”. This is a hike in which people get together
and walk around the Kurtuvėnai
regional park. The aim of this hike is to celebrate the midwinter’s day - a day when there’s only half of winter left till spring. This
year eight students from the IB1 class with their teacher Ligita participated
in this hike on Sunday. All the participants gathered at 11 o’clock a few meters away from the Geluvos lake.
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Firstly, we headed to see the lakes. One of
them almost cracked and scared us a lot. Fortunately nobody got wet and we
continued our hike. During the hike the leader of the group showed the group a
badger. This was not an ordinary badger. There’s
a myth, each midwinter that badger gets out of its cave. If he leaves a lot of
footprints around his cave, then this winter will be short. On the other hand,
if there are no footprints - the winter will be long. Unfortunately, my
classmates and I could not see the cave of the badger because of the amount of
people standing around its<span style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;">’</span> cave. Thus we cannot tell you guys the
predictions of this winter. Then we visited the biggest oak in the whole Kurtuvėnai regional park which is called Zuikiškės
oak. It is 32m high and the diameter of its trunk is 1.5m. It made us realise how small we are in this
world. Lastly, we managed to visit even 10 lakes that are situated in the
Kurtuvėnai regional park
(Geluvos, Šermukšnyno, Raudoniuko, Barsukyno, Dubuko, Širvos, Butiškės, Bijotės,
Juodežerio and Niaukos lakes).<o:p></o:p></div>
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This journey took us approximately 5 hours to
finish but the hike was worth every minute. This was a really interesting and
challenging hike as we had to walk a long distance in order to see these
beautiful nature creations. Fresh air, great people made this event even
better. So without a doubt I recommend everyone to participate in this hike next
year!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01955295282935422921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7260588896079646371.post-41030449911433915802015-01-07T17:18:00.000+02:002015-01-07T17:18:42.531+02:00[IB10] Business simulation in Didzdvaris Gymnasium<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ieva Poškutė - </span></b><br />
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Poskute became the ambassador of ISM University at our school. One of the tasks
as an ambassador was to organize an event related to the university, in this
case - a business simulator.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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help to understand the main principles of the business world. It helps to
experience how the market works, one learns to analyze the situation and make
fast and relevant decisions in a team. These kinds of simulators are widely
used in the university, for students to try the business methods in practice. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This business simulator was in the
form of a game. There were six teams participating and each one of them took a
random envelope with the equipment they needed for the task. There were three
types of envelopes, each representing a type of country: developing, averagely
developed or developed. Each envelope had a certain amount of money, paper, scissors,
rulers, geometric forms, and pencils. The task of each group<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>was to cut out as many geometric forms
as possible from the material given and to sell them to the bank for the
highest possible price. The bank was open during the whole simulator and it was
changing the prices of the forms depending on the amount of them already bought
from the groups.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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closed and the group of participants, who earned the highest profit, were
awarded with books given by the university, which were about business and
leadership.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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event, that it was fun and that they would like to participate in a similar
event again. Due to the success of the simulator there might be more
events of this kind at our school in the future.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01955295282935422921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7260588896079646371.post-53216183358666783262014-10-30T15:31:00.002+02:002014-10-30T15:31:48.579+02:00[IB9 & IB10] Cleaning K. Donelaitis cemetery<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Before All Saints Day we all remember
those, who passed away and to keep connected with them, we visit cemeteries and
light a candle for their remembrance. All cemeteries are like the markers of
human history; of all the love, joys, tears, toil, triumphs and sweat of the
past. They link to family we never know or to people, who were an important
part of our lives. They are the sources of our history, reminders and symbols
of the best moments spent with the loved ones and they tell us a lot about
ourselves culturally and socially. Maintaining cemeteries shows respect and
creates an important link with the past. Yet, many cemeteries have been
abandoned and fallen into neglect. There is nothing sadder than come across
crumbling, decaying and near gone relicts of cemeteries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On 29<sup>th</sup> of October some of the IB1, IB2 students and first-graders organized a voluntary action in which we cleaned
neglected graveyards by raking leaves in K. Donelaitis cemetery. We divided
into groups of three or four people and each group cleaned different areas of
the cemetery. By working in group, not only did we gain communication, team
working and organization skills, but also we learned to be more patient. It
required a lot of commitment and perseverance, because as we worked, the number
of leaves did not seem to decrease. However, I would say that this work was
really joyful, we were happy of the results and we felt proud to help to regain
the remembrance of people, who passed away and who seemed to be forgotten.
Before the work we even asked ourselves: should people ever be so forgotten
that the cemetery is no longer cared for, no one visits, no one remembers? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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for your loved ones but also for those, who seem to be forgotten.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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charitable organization that distributes food to those who have difficulty
purchasing enough food to avoid hunger. The action is being organized all over
Lithuania with alternatives to donate not only food but also money. Food Bank
and a sister action “Inviting guests” were two main events that IB students
aimed to join in October.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">„Inviting guests“ action‘s idea is
to gather people and offer them treats in return for a donation which later on
is sent to Food Bank. This event was held in Didzdvaris gymnasium, initiated by
CAS coordinator Ligita Ivanauskait</span><span lang="LT">ė </span><span lang="EN-US">and
organized by IB students. IB1s was preparing sweet treats for this event – we
were baking cookies, while IB2s were preparing savory snacks and the venue. As
IB1s we were separated into two groups which baked cookies after the lessons
prior the event. This activity was very cheerful and fun, because some of the
students were baking for the first time in their lifes. Furthermore, this
activity brought us together, we needed a lot of cooperation if we wanted to
make tasty cookies. After all the preparation, the event was held. Invitations
have been spread to all students and teachers in the gymnasium. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A lot of teachers and students came
and enjoyed the cookies and other snacks. During the event Edita Gumbaite,
student of IB1, introduced everyone to the Food Bank action, its goals, history
and methods. A few students from Didzdavris gymnasium were performing and made the event cozy and calm. The guests were also welcomed to participate in activities that involved creativity. The organizers chose to </span>incorporate autumn together with the Food Bank action, hence to some extent it was a meaningful greeting for the autumn season as well.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> For us, IB1 students, it was very pleasant to see that
people were donating and eating our cookies, saying that cookies were
delicious. There were some leftover cookies from the event, which were sold the
next day during the breaks. A total amount of 310 Litas (around 100 EUR) was
collected which later was transferred to Food Bank.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That same week, IB1s and IB2s
continued their volunteering in grocery stores and collected the donated food
for people that are living under a poverty line in Lithuania. While for the
IB2s it was a third time participating in Food Bank activities, for the IB1s it
was a first time having to volunteer for Food Bank. Comparing this time and
previous there was not much of a change, yet again there was a timetable that
divided us into a group of 3 people with each group having a specific time to
volunteer. Then the groups themselves would assign each person a responsibility
– mostly a combo of 2 people that would greet people and advertise the food
bank while 1 person would be left to log the products that were donated. The
groups also included a supervisor from Didzdvaris Gymnasium – usually a certain
subject teacher. Since IB2s had previously participated in the event, some of
the experiences and tips were shared to the IB1s in order to make their first
time as successful as possible. This included the most basic tips such as
reacting to various reactions or how to properly distribute the workflow. However,
such feelings as anxiety or uncomfortability were something that IB1s had to
overcome on their own, nevertheless the negative feelings faded away together
with people inquiring about the Food Bank action. This experience kicked IB1s
out of their comfort zones and turned out as a positive experience for them in
the future. Hence, the first time for IB1s turned out to be a success as well
as for IB2s. For IB2s having to participate in Food Bank for the third time is
starting to become like a routine as well, because of the gained experience, it
should be easier for the IB2s to volunteer or even organize Food Bank actions
elsewhere after having graduated Siauliai Didzdvaris Gymnasium. Due to the
success of IB1 and IB2 during the 2 days of Food Bank in Siauliai, over 1000 of
food items were collected. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In conclusion, this action has
helped the students to develop in many ways. IB1s gained more knowledge about
the action itself as well as gaining experience that will help them in future
CAS activities. However, most importantly we believe that this action helped
IB1s and IB2s to create a stronger bond as fellow IB students in Didzdvaris
Gymnasium, which in return should promote better teamwork and probably more
collaborated events. Nonetheless, in the end after Food Bank activities every
IB student felt happy and a little bit proud that one has done something that
can could help other people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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purposes, not only the product. We all shared the same goal to prepare the
play, however, the journey we had connected, improved us as more creative and
artistic people, and forced us to look at this play's subject, which is
bullying, with much more importance and significance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The main meaning of the play was
clear from the beggining - to spread awareness about the current bullying
problems in schools and our environments. Furthermore, creating the play also
had the same purposes as the idea of CAS. Meeting and making new peers,
experiencing and learning something new to you and getting out of your comfort
zone, and creating a product that would somehow influence the people around us
in the best possible way. Since we are working together for about a year, most
of our goals and purposes have already been achieved. We became great friends
with not only each other, however, we met amazing students and teachers in the other
school. Majority of us had never experienced or faced drama or acting in
general but due to this project, we all improved English language skills,
learned basics in acting and how to handle the audience and overcome the fear
of stage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in the group of young actors were working hard all semester towards one goal -
making the play “Bang bang You’re Dead”as effective as possible. We were always
meeting twice a week, to try and polish the text, movements, and emotion, which
we were aiming to send to the public. After working on this project for almost
half a year, everyone of us were excited to share our piece of work with a
wider public. The first performance took place in the Didždvaris Gymnasium on
the 29th of May. It was shown to the MYP students of the school. Later, in the
evening the play was shown to the closest friends and family of ours in the
Šiauliai Art Gallery. This September we were informed by the English teacher A.
Chvostova, that she is very interested in helping us to share this play that we
were working on for so long with other schools and cities in Lithuania. We
immediately started the rehearsals, to prepare for upcoming performances. Then
we found out, that we do not need to learn the words again, because we could still
remember them after the summer holiday, except from one person, who, because of
changed circumstances, had to replace one of our actors. We got involved into
the process, and when we were finally feeling confident about our acting, the
play was once again performed in Šiauliai Didždvaris Gymnasium, for the first
graders, on the 23rd of October. The next day was the first time, we ever
performed “Bang You’re Dead” out of our home city Šiauliai. Our English
teachers A. Chvostova and T. Sviatkina travelled together with us to Panevėžys
Juozas Miltinis Gymnasium. The school was celebrating its birthday, and our
performance was a part of its programme. Before the play, the actors and
directors were given a warm welcome by the school director. After we had finished
the performance, there was a discussion between the students of Juozas Miltinis
Gymnasium and us about sensitive youth problems, bullying, violence in schools.
We also got some feedback on our acting from the director of this school’s
theatre performances, about what he liked, and what could still be improved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to Panevėžys was a great experience to each and everyone in our group of
people. We gained experience from performing in front of people we do not know,
also, made the importance of the message, we are trying to send through the
play, more clear for us after the discussion with the students. The feedback
from a theatre class director gave important ideas of what could be improved.
However, this certainly was not the last time we were performing “Bang Bang
You’re Dead”. We still have great intentions ahead of us. With the help of
teacher A. Chvostova we will be planning performances. One of ideas is to show
this play to all the English teachers in Šiauliai. Another plan is to go to a
school in another Lithuanian town, Tauragė. Now the only important thing is
avoiding letting these goals to only stay goals. All together we can work,
communicate, and spread the message of this play to as much people as possible.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On the 25th of October students
from IB1 and IB2 were volunteering in animal shelter “Šiaulių letenėlė”. The main goal of this organization is to save
all animals from Gruzdžiai since they are euthanized there immediately and also
to give a shelter for all lost and homeless animals. However, this animal shelter opened just on
August and still haven’t settled down fully so they can’t fulfill their goals
one hundred percent. The main reason for
this is that the building is still not prepared and there is not enough
equipment so the personnel of the shelter can’t take care of more animals.
That’s why every weekend volunteer work is organized.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This Saturday we were cleaning
the surroundings of the shelter. Firstly, we carried boards from outside to the
inside of the building so that they would not rot. After that we collected all
waste that was left in the building and outside. And then we carried those
garbage bags to the tractor trailer. After this the surroundings looked
significantly cleaner and next time we’ll be able to focus on different jobs
that needs to be done. After volunteering, I realized that there isn’t enough
support for animal shelters and that without volunteers like us and the
directors of the shelter the situation would be even worse. So if you’re able
to somehow support this or others shelters please do because there are plenty
of animals that needs your help.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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has never been about collecting the hours or doing something that has to be
done just because somebody says so. The idea which, I believe, all IB students
at this point can agree on is to combine having a great time and getting out of
your comfort zone, as well as discovering hidden talents. This is what we had
in mind when we started putting up posters of “Bang Bang You’re Dead” play
auditions on the walls of Didzdvaris Gymnasium and figuring out a plan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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friend of mine, Zivile Matjusaityte (IB1), once randomly suggested to direct a
play at our school. She already had experience working on some plays in Hawaii,
so did I – both acting and directing. Without waiting much longer, we talked to
some people at Didzdvaris Gymnasium who gave out the permission to carry out
the plan to direct this controversial and thought-provoking play without
hesitations. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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wasn’t too long before we gathered a team of charismatic, fluent English
speakers who were adventurous enough to try themselves out in the field of theater
or just revive their acting skills. We were all eager to begin taking this
bumpy road, which at first appeared a piece of cake to most.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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started meeting several times a week in a classroom after school, just reading
out the script of “Bang Bang You’re Dead” out loud. The actors were assigned
the task of learning their lines within the first month or so, which, of
course, was way easier to say than to do. This appeared to be one of the
biggest problems we encountered and it seemed as if we were not getting
anywhere closer to our goals. However, slowly but surely, we all started
overcoming these obstacles and moving forward, as well as getting closer to
each other. At that point we started understanding how important the process is
– being scattered and unconfident were the main things holding us back. Even as
things were starting to get better, problems would find their way back –we could
barely fit into the time frame, there were thoughts of delaying the premiere
and so on. The lesson we learned here was how important confidence, teamwork
and proper organization are. We often had to encourage each other not to lose
the motivation, which was our key to success.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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week before the premiere of the play, which is often called “hell week” was not
too big of a hell after all. We seemed to have gone through the roughest
patches, the lines had been memorized, and nobody made excuses or missed the
rehearsals. Zivile and I had the job of deciding where and what time we will be
ready to let others see and feel what we had been working so hard on for the
past several months, what the audience should look like and run all the
possible scenarios in our heads. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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time had come. Thankfully, we had all the support from our teachers and school
administrators to show it to some of the students of Didzdvaris Gymnasium
during classes. After that, we have been given a hall in the Siauliai Art
Gallery and performed to the closest people – friends, family members and such.
Both performances happened on the same day and we had never felt closer to each
other and more accomplished. We had not imagined the audience, especially at
our school, would be so concentrated, serious and understanding during the
play. The moment we saw how moved some people were and how much they appreciated
our dedication and the actors’ talent, we knew our hard work had paid off. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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having the summer to slow down, we’re not ready to stop - we’re back at work.
There have been some minor challenges already, but this only shows there’s
still a lot of room for improvement. At this moment, with the help of out
English teacher Alla Chvostova, we are getting ready to give our very best to a
school in Panevezys. We have planned a bit more than that, but only time can
tell what is possible and how much further we will go, especially with the
majority of us being seniors. This year we are striving for a performance more
polished and professional, as well as hoping to learn even more not only about
theater, but about ourselves, too. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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bank is a charity organization, which collects donation in food products and
allocate it to poor families, elderly and other people in need. The aim of this
“Food Bank” organization is to provide people with information about those poor
families, lonely mothers and elderly, suggest to donate any of long-term
products for them, to grow mercy feeling in citizens hearts. As far as I know
Food Bank action in our school’s IB history is quite a long time. In this action
IB students participate twice a year and annually. Namely our generation, my
class mates and I, participate in this action second time. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and previous time there was a made-up timetable, which divided us into small
groups and each group had their own period of time to volunteer. Then when
particular group’s turn came up to work they are separated into different
roles. Up to two persons share booklets for comers. Firstly they welcome people
with nice greetings, then comes suggestion to participate in Food Bank action
and in the end answering their questions or other reaction to buyer. Another
role of volunteering in this action is to stand with boxes and thank for
products that are donated by people. There is needed up to 4 people. One should
take products and to sort them in boxes, another should mark what products were
donated and third person should thank in appropriate way for products donated. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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mine expectation of 2014 Food Bank was positive, keeping in mind that it was my
second participation in this action. Had it was my first time I participating
there, I would have had more suspense feeling in my heart. I was expected to
have opportunity to meet new people, to be useful in collecting food donation
for poorer people, to advance self-confidence in encouraging people to be
lavish, to spend more time with our classmates in social activities, to improve
communication skills. And actually I was successful in taking part in this
volunteering event. Next time most probably I would participate for a longer
time, not only for several hours, but may be for two days. Not only I would
donate more by myself, but also invite my friends to collect some money and to
buy any of those long-term products. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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after those two times I have participated in Food Bank I could summarize
several of advantages and lessons that it gave to me. First of all, it gave me
an experience on volunteering, gave an opportunity to meet new people, to find
out how little do they know about products donated to this action and to
introduce them with action more widely. I developed my communication, people
understanding, team work skills. I improved my tolerance and debate skills and
I believe so did my classmates.</span> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"> In the end of March me and my classmates - <b>Anelė Brazaitytė </b>and <b>Gabrielė Baristaitė</b>, were invited to go and help to clean up the Didzdvaris park. We were assigned
with different tasks such as raking and taking leafs away, thin out the bushes,
pick up the litter from the ground. Over-all we, as a group, did pretty well
because after our help in the area we were assigned to, was cleaned out and
looked a lot better than in the beginning. Also we have benefited from this
activity by learning more about the park of Didzdvaris because there was a
person who told us about the park itself. Furthermore, there were supposed to
be tea and porridge but it was not there. I think that the next time it could
be organized a bit better and clearer. Over-all the whole cleaning up was both
– beneficial and fun for us. We got the chance to clean up the park and listen
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On February 15 the first ever
Lithuanian IB convention was held, which was 2 days long and as the school
which has the IBDP for several years now, we got invited as well. Seven students
from IB1 were chosen to represent the school. But before we went to the event,
we had some preparation to do, namely, we had to create a short film about the
IBDP in our school. Me, Kristijonas Lotiukas, August<span lang="LT">ė Bagdonaitė, Kamilė Inčiūraitė, Dovydas Jokšas,
Greta Timaitė and Tomas Bilkauskas</span> rounded up some people from our class
and did a little questionnaire, which we taught was the quickest and most
effective way to gather information. Questions such as “What is the IBDP to
you?” “Why did you choose the IBDP over the national program?” and “How to
spell International Baccalaureate?”(My favourite one) were included. We used
our school’s radio club, because it had the best acoustics for recording the
answers. All in all, it took us about 2 hours to film the answers and another 2
or so hours to make it more appealing. In the end, I was really happy with our
final result, the short film, because it turned out really entertaining and I
think showed the IBDP students opinions about the program really well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When I thought about the IB
convention as an event, I expected and event of 50 or so students sharing their
ideas, opinions and experiences about the IBDP. I got what I expected, though
perhaps to a lesser extent. There were only about 20 of us, which is not bad,
this made the atmosphere cosier, at least for me. Once we all checked in, we
were shortly briefed about the activities that are to take place. The plan
included such activities as a creative workshop based on the IB learners
profile, a meeting with an alumni, the planning of a CAS activity to unite all
the IB schools in Lithuania and various lessons, discussions Also, in between
the discussions we had some games and a tiny bit of free time to get to know
each other better. What was really surprising for me, is that at the night of
day 1, Kaunas Jesuit Gymnasium held “The battle for independence” to commemorate
the events that happened on February 16 in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Lithuania</st1:country-region>. We often referenced to
the battle of independence as to “the hunger games” and the whole idea of this
game was interesting to me and I believe I may use this idea when organising
future events in our school. Because I was really tired after the creative
workshops and discussions, I wasn’t in the mood to play this game. Despite
this, my team won the first place!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Although there were a lot of good
moments, there were also some awkward and confusing moments. The free time that
was given, at least for me was not enough to get acquainted with other participants,
which for me was really sad. This caused an awkward situation at the end of the
convention when we played a game, where you basically have to tell the chosen
person’s name and tell him what you liked about him and what you wish for him.
I had to tell something about a person who I saw only 2-3 times and never
really got to talk with. What I found confusing during the discussions is that
quite a lot of people are still switching subjects, are not sure about their
universities and overall aren’t planning their future as much as I think me and
my classmates are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On the other hand, remembering
the best moments of the convention, the first thought that comes to mind is
definitely the sleeping bag fights right before sleep on the first night. Boys
and girls had to sleep in different rooms and the guys got quite a lot of
mattresses. We laid out all of the mattresses and we saw that it covered the
whole floor. So we thought of doing a sleeping bag fight tournament, where you
have to remain in your sleeping bag and get your opponent on his back. Just
like real wrestling… just in sleeping bags. Another fun moment was when we were
discussing our subject choices, university choices and the different approaches
to CAS. We all comprehended CAS in a very similar way. During day 2, we were
split into random groups and had to come up with 2 ideas for CAS which would
include all of the IB schools in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Lithuania</st1:country-region>. There were a lot of
really good suggestions and I hope at least some of them, with our
contribution, will come true. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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interesting to say the least. There was a lot of fun moments, interesting
people and different perceptions of the IBDP.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01955295282935422921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7260588896079646371.post-61575709492218087792014-02-24T08:30:00.001+02:002014-10-27T12:31:37.120+02:00[IB9] A hike to Kurtuvėnai Regional Park<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The 25th of
January is known as midwinter. This day marks the middle of winter, it means
that there is half of winter left till spring. There is one myth about this
day. It is known that on this day a badger comes out of its cave and if the day
is sunny he recognizes his shadow and goes back to the cave. It means that
spring will come later. But if the day is foggy, the badger comes out from the
cave and takes a walk. Thus, we can expect that spring will come earlier. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Each
midwinter “Aukuras club” organizes a hike to commemorate midwinter and to check
whether the myth has some truth in it.
It became a tradition to do this every year. This club aims to protect
and handle the heritage of nature. Club does this by organizing hikes, seminars
and competitions related to nature preservation. Also, club contributes to the activities of
Kurtuvėvai Regional Park. The midwinter hike is organized annually in the
Kurtuvėnai regional park because the park has a lot of beautiful lakes and
hills. During the hike twelve lakes are visited and also people attempt to find
out whether the spring will come earlier or later.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This year my
classmate Eglė and I have decided to participate in the midwinter hike. I have
not known what I should expect because it was the first time when I went to the
hike. I thought that the hike in winter time is very unusual but also it is a
great chance to try something new. The hike has started from the early morning.
The morning was sunny, so following the idea of the myth we expect that spring
will come later. The people who wanted to join the hike had to be in the car
parking near Pageluvis Lake. The coordinator of the hike introduced the plan
and we started the hike from the first lake Pageluvis. National and local television were also interested
in the predictions about spring. They decided to create a coverage of the hike.
During the hike we have visited twelve
lakes, we have seen some boars and also we had one incident on the lake. </span></span></div>
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we were standing on one of the lakes, and while our coordinator was talking
about the lake, suddenly everyone heard ice breaking. Some of the group lied
down, some ran to the shore. Fortunately, it was only a sound of ice breaking,
about which we had quite a laugh each time we went on different lakes. I have
learnt that lying down is the best and safest way to keep safe in emergencies
of ice breaking. I think this was the most memorable event during the hike for
everyone who participated.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This hike helped
us to get to know more about Kurtuvėnai Regional Park; we have seen striking
nature scenes and the amazing lakes in winter time. During this activity I,
personally, have improved my collaboration skills and also have increased my
ability to deal with emotions in unpredictable situations. I am very happy that
I had an opportunity to join the midwinter hike in Kurtuvėnai Regional Park
because of the amazing moments we all shared on that day. Next year I will
participate too, and I advise everyone to join it as well, to experience
moments that will be remembered for a long time!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01955295282935422921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7260588896079646371.post-61592035456520859742014-01-22T21:26:00.001+02:002014-10-27T12:31:45.500+02:00[IB9] Fundraising for the victims of typhoon Haiyan in Philippines <div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The human‘s nature is
to look only around himself and care only about his own environment. CAS tries
to make students be different by developing caring and open-mindedness in everyday
life. The activity that I am going to write about is closely related to the IB
mission of intercultural understanding – me Dovydas Jokšas and my classmates –
Vaiva Zokaitė and Karolina Vitkevičiūtė - were doing fundraising for the victims
of typhoon Haiyan in Philippines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Two months ago Vaiva
Zokaitė, my classmate, offered me to organise a fundraising action in
Didzdvaris gymnasium to help victims in Philippines. Typhoon Haiyan hit the
islands of Philippines on the 8th of November with the speed of 300 km/h. Many
big cities in the country were destroyed, including the infrastructure –
transport, healthcare, education and many other systems. It was the deadliest
natural disaster in the history of Philippines, because at least 6000 people
were killed and few thousands are still missing. Over a million lost their
homes, many have lost their jobs and families. The damage of millions of US
dollars was made. We thought that it would be a great chance to help those
people. We searched for the information what would be the best way to help the
victims. The organisations that were working there (particularly – Red Cross
organisation) announced that financial
help would be the best, because sending products to the Philippines where the
transport system was mainly destroyed would be complicated – the aid had to be
centralised with the help of money. Therefore, we started to brainstorm what is
the best way to collect as much money as possible. We thought of charity boxes
which would be placed in the corridors of our school, but we abandoned this
idea because the previous practise in our school shows that it does not attract
much money. Finally, we decided to make presentations in every class, so that
students would get enough information about the tragedy and would decide
whether they want to contribute or not. The organisation that we decided to
donate to was the Red Cross of Philippines. Its’ goal was to ensure food, clean
water, shelter and medicine for 100 000 affected families.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In Didzdvaris
gymnasium there are over twenty classes, thus it was not easy to organise
presentation for every one of them. With the help of four our gymnasium‘s class
coordinators we arranged the time of presentations in every class meeting – all
coordinators accepted this idea very well. From the 18th of November the
presentations started. At first we were not sure if the students in classes
will be interested in these presentations and the idea itself. As we started
the presentations, we were pleasantly surprised how nicely students accepted it.
It was great to see how willingly many students were donating the money to help
the people who are over 9000 km away from Lithuania. After few days from the
start of our action, due to the huge load of work, our classmate Karolina
Vitkevičiūtė joined to help us. After four weeks of hard work we have made an
extra presentation for the teachers of our gymnasium and by that ended the
fundraising. The very last part of our project was to count the money and send
it to the Red Cross – we have counted 950 Lithuanian Litas which was a huge amount
of money taking into account that it was donated by the community of school.
Just after the Christmas we sent the money to the Lithuanian Red Cross from
where it was transferred to the Red Cross of Philippines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Such events as this
are a great way to help other people. After this voluntary action the three of
us were really happy of the result we achieved. It was a great example for us
that with a lot of effort so much can be done – for the money that we donated a
few thousands of food rations or a few hundreds of medical kits can be bought.
We understood how easy it is sometimes to improve the life of others.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01955295282935422921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7260588896079646371.post-13831917804772230862014-01-16T10:30:00.003+02:002014-10-27T12:31:53.331+02:00[IB9] Annual Siauliai Didzdvaris Gymnasium IB community meeting.<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
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December at Didzdvaris gymnasium</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">is a special day. </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> DG
IBDP</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">students</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">gather</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">together</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">at the annual IB
Meet.</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"> This year, 2013, the</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"> event was organized for the sixth time. </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">Traditionally, not</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">only</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">do</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">present</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">students</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">participate at the
meeting, but</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">they also help at the preparation</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">process. Some of us</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">got the assembly</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">hall</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">ready, some</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">prepared</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">snacks, others</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">greeted the guests,
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hosted the Diploma</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">giving</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">ceremony.</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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IB Conference. We heard inspiring stories by:</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Vilnius University), who told t</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">hat people shouldn't be
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Vilnius Gediminas Technical University), who told about the importance of
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finished Bachelor of Science in Psychology in Royal Holloway University of
London, now teaching Psychology in DG IBDP), who told about a research on
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student) and Vykintas Jasaitis (7th IB generation</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">student, now</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">studying</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">Jazz</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">in</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">Klaipeda</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">University)</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Economics in New York University</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"> of Abu Dhabi</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">)</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Tamošiūnienė</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"> (Diploma Program Coordinator),
who gave the Diplomas to the 7<sup>th</sup> IB generation students with the
help of school principal Vitalis</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"> Balsevič</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">ius.</span></span><span class="MsoBookTitle"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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former students and we are glad that we got a chance to be a part of this event
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Knowing that basketball is considered Lithuania‘s second religion and mostly all students play it, me and my classmate Haroldas wanted to organise Didždvaris basketball tournament a.k.a. VB CUP. Initially, the tournament was set up as a director of Vaidas Bacys Cup, but he left the post and honorable Vitalis Balsevičius took his place. For identical Vaidas Bacys and Vitalis Balsevičiaus initials tournament name did not changed. The tournament is being organised for many years, so we wanted to extend its existence and also to raise it into a higher level. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Did we make any adjustment? This year every team had to pay 20 Lt if they wanted to compete in the tournament. The amount of money collected was – 160 Lt. For the money that was collected we will buy 3 sets of medals, 3 trophies and 1 trophy for the most valuable player. Also, every team that plays needs to have a referee, that way students are not only competing with each other, but they also are learning how to how to referee in a game. The biggest innovation this year was that, we are filming every game that is played and we make highlights of them. Every highlight and match recap you can see on “Youtube” in “DG VB CUP” account. So, these were the major adjustment that we did this year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> I myself am playing in the tournament for class IB1. My goal this year was to get teachers involved in the tournament. Luckily, I have two amazing history teachers Paulius and Žydrūnas, who were happy to be a part of our team. They both played in one or two games and they both average about 16 points per game. It is really fun to see, when teachers and students are in the same team and competing together towards one goal. The goal is to win the cup. I myself am looking forward to see more teachers playing basketball with students. This kind of after school activities strengthens the bond between the teacher and the student.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I suggest that all students should do more and more activities with their teachers. It does not matter if it is VB CUP it can be any other activity. Operating with your instructor can strengthen the bond between you and him/her. Teachers are not only people who are correcting your work and educating you. No, they are also people who want to have fun just like us. Remember, that the person who is teaching you can also be your friend. </span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCXa1C9xJTwNFBPuaDBxLZA?feature=watch" target="_blank">YouTube channel where all videos related with VB CUP is located</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">There are a lot of things happening in the school that
are usually left unseen. Take the internet site </span><span lang="LT"><a href="http://www.dg.su.lt/"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 115%;">www.dg.su.lt</span></a></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">, the two TVs that show the latest information at the entrance, also the
electronic bells. Ever wondered where all of this information comes from? If
you go up the stairs to the top floor you will soon enter the Radio Club. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Radio Club 89.7FM is an official radio station that
can be tuned on to in the Šiauliai region. It is one of the first radio
stations in Lithuania that is developed by students. The radio station can be
reached via internet or a radio receiver 24 hours a day. Radio Club 89,7FM
first aired back in 2003 and is running successfully for more than 10 years
now. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">I
am a part of this team since the first days I am a student of Didzdvaris
gymnasium. Throughout the years, I have photographed most of the school</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">’s events, edited and
published the photos onto the school’s Facebook pages or the main internet
site. I and my colleagues have anchored many radio shows. After being taught
the basic audio-editing skills, I was able to edit the audio tracks and even
put the result on air. As the Radio Club is the headquarters of the volunteers
from the European Voluntary Service (EVS), I had many opportunities of
communicating with people from other countries, different religions and social
and academic backgrounds. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This year the Radio Club is organising the most
popular weekly event among students – DG Brain Games. It requires team work and
great responsibility. Also, this year’s Halloween movie was developed in the
Radio Club. There was a period of time of a few weeks when the head of the
Radio Club, Rasa Zvilnait</span><span lang="LT" style="line-height: 115%;">ė,
was away and I was in charge of administrating the school</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">’s internet site. It was a
challenging task both technically and emotionally, having in mind that all of
the information from teachers and administration flowed into my e-mail box. I
believe that the most ambitious plan for this academic year is to create a new
representative video abut Didzdvaris gymnasium, which would be shown to guests
or would have the role of “visit card”. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Radio Club is not only a great place for IB’ers to
fulfil CAS requirement, but also for self-development or developing skills in
team work, audio/visual work, public relations and other domains. It is a place
that I would say is unique in the school because of its warm environment and
smiling people that have a good subtle sense of humour. I strongly recommend
not only IB</span></span><span style="line-height: 18px;">’</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">ers but all of you to visit the Radio Club on the 3</span><sup style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">rd</sup><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">
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is not possible to get the IB diploma without completing Creativity, Action and
Service hours, it’s not something students of Did</span><span lang="LT">ž</span><span lang="EN-US">dvaris feel like is
mandatory or tiring to do – helping others is incredibly rewarding and
volunteering becomes a good sort of addiction. Therefore, we’re always seeking
for new opportunities to help and in the mood to do well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US">“Food Bank”
(lith. “Maisto Bankas”) is an organization we’ve started collaborating with not
so long ago. Their mission is very simple – help those who need help the most
and fill their fridges with food. The project we volunteered to take a part in
that my classmate has already written about turned out to be a great success,
so it was exciting to find out about a new one. It is called “Kvie</span><span lang="LT">čiu į svečius“ and</span><span lang="EN-US">
it involves two types of people – hosts and guests. The hosts, who are usually
people fond of cooking, prepare and serve meals to the guests, who (after they’ve
enjoyed the food) express their gratitude by giving some money that goes
straight to the “Food Bank”. This way the organization can carry on
distributing food products to those in need and stop worrying about the
expenses of doing charitable work. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We brainstormed
ideas on how we could do this project so it involves as many people as possible
and everybody in our group gets to cook. There was one thing we knew for sure –
we were going to bake cookies. It was an interesting and rather educational
experience as some of us had never done it before. The work was distributed
among 3 groups in our class, who came to bake the cookies after classes were
over. It was way more fun then we’d expected and I can affirm that cooking with
someone does help to create stronger bonds between people and it was some true
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done and we were ready to share them. There were some last minute change of
plans, but that didn’t throw us off at all – one of the 3 groups took
initiative and used their creativity skills to come up with a new plan. It
turned out to be simple, but genius and some of us spent the entire day at
school selling cookies to the students and teachers of Didždvaris. The idea
went hand in hand with International Day for Tolerance and positive vibes were
floating around the hallways of our school. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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achieve? 136Lt in cash only for selling mouthwatering cookies. In fact, the
money we raised will be multiplied by 16, thanks to the organization, and used
to provide food for those in need. What did we learn? We learned, once again,
that giving is a zillion times better than receiving. Oh, and we all know how
to bake cookies now.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Welcome to the CAS blog of
the 9<sup>th</sup> generation of
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in Didzdvaris gymnasium. We, the
IB‘9, will post our written blogs from our CAS related activities during the
years of 2013-2015. But firstly, what is the IBDP? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">International Baccalaureate
Diploma Programme, or IBDP for short, is a programme which students attend
during their 11<sup>th</sup> and 12<sup>th</sup> school years. Students are
able to choose the IBDP programme instead of national school programme, which
is what we did. An IBDP school has to choose one of three languages, which the
school could teach the students in. The languages are English, French and
Spanish. Our school offers the IBDP in English. Each IB student has to pass
exams from 6 subjects that they chose and they have to submit a ToK (Theory of
Knowledge) essay, an EE (Extended Essay) and they have to have 150 CAS hours.
Now a bit more formally, the IB mission statement states: “</span><strong><span lang="LT" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; padding: 0cm;">The International Baccalaureate aims to
develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a
better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.</span></strong><span style="line-height: 115%;">” In short, we are students who are willing to learn,
to express their ideas, to widen their understanding of the world. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">You probably are now
questioning what CAS is. Well it is one of the compulsory components of the IBDP
in order to get a diploma, not a certificate. CAS – Creativity, Action and
Service – is a very interesting thing where each person is able to discover
himself in different activities, improve a lot of his skills. IB students
organize events, volunteer in organizations like “Food bank” (you can read a
blog entry about our voluntary work at this organization), help out at their
school or in the city, etc. You will find our entries about our experience in
different CAS related activities here. So, if you are interested, I invite you
to check out our blog, read about our experiences, maybe learn from our
mistakes and widen your world just a little more. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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