CAS Summer 2012

During the summer of 2012 ,i have done several things for CAS.
 Creativity:  I  decided to proceed with photography and cooking,as i want to improve both of them . 
During the summer i have been to a lot of different ,new places ,so i had plenty of time and ideas for photos. I met a friend who has graduated from one of the best schools for photography in Bulgaria ,so she gave me some ideas and showed me how to capture the right moments .I bought 6 books,related to photography and i will soon also upload some of my photos .
I also faced the opportunity of cooking for 20 people for a week. During that week I had the feeling i was like a chef in a fancy restaurant ,because none of the people could cook ,therefore i was their only hope and they couldn't complain, simply because if they had ,they would have been left without anything to eat. So i learned how to make different types of cakes and pies ,also pasta and pizza ,which are both at the top 10 of my favourite food .therefore i was actually really amazed of my skills and i also enjoyed every single second of it.
Action :As the summer is usually full of nice moments and a lot of energy i also didn't miss to practice my beach volleyball skills and i have also been swimming all summer long. As the sea is without borders i was swimming through huge distances every day . 
The other thing i did for action  was to go back to the dance school i used to go before while i was living in Bulgaria and as my best friend is already a ballet teacher there,she helped me improve my dancing skills,for which i am really greatfull to her .because it is really important for me to become more flexible as i have lost that quality of mine while i was in Moscow.
Service: During the summer I decided to help my really friendly 70 year old neighbours by cutting the grass in their garden and also hose it twice a week for free. As the summer in Bulgaria this year was abruptly hot and people were fainting on the streets almost every day i decided to make home made cold lemonade and give it to the ones who were passing along my house. It was again for free and i also wasn't sure most of them would like it but it turn out that people were actually comming back for one more glass and they were saying how tasty it was. So i kept doing this for 5 days every afternoon.
Another thing i did for service was to babysit 3 little kids for a week every morning during their mother was working. I decided to do it for free and to help her because when my brother was little and my parents were working i knew how busy they were and i was helping them with whatever i could so from there i have the training.
During the whole 2 months of this summer i have accomplished all the CAS outcomes ,as i have :
- increased my awareness of my own strenghts and areas for growth as i have become more flexible and learned how to cook . Also improved my photographic skills.
-I have shown commitment to my neighbours and the mother whose kids i was babysitting
-i have undertaken new challanges every day
-i have engaged with issues of a global importance by giving and making homemade lemonade for random people from my neighbourhood
- i have developed many new skills such as cooking,swimming during a storm and huge waves and by beeing something like a nany which actually gave me the opportunity to get to know children's nature more in depth and made me more mature.