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SERVICE

On this day,

I was assigned to media/tech team in the worldwide know program called Dancing with Stars in Polish version. My job was to surveillance lighting, colors and they had to appear on time, everytime after someone’s speech, dance etc. We had to be observation and be focus all the time, since the whole program was showed live on the POLSAT. At some moments our team wasn’t so sure, since the direct lighting maked the room at so moments so brights we could’ve lost the sight. I felt the anxiety all the time fearing I’d make a visible mistake or that the power could run out. Fortunately nothing of those happened.

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SERVICE

On this day I attended my school’s Open Day for future students(cadidates). The tak given to me was about registration of the attendance for coming candidates. I had to skim quickly for student‘s name and number. The job itself didn’t last long, however it required a lot of focus from my side since there were many students queening and every of them were in rush to head to their assigned room, where later on that they they’d take an exam. The exam that will tell if they’d be accepted into RASZ IB.

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ACTIVITY

I headed to mountains during winter holidays. Along my brother he took a try to hike on Zermatt’s summit. We took the safest path even though both of us are experience hikers. However the weather conditions on that day were very bad, surface was too slippery due to the layer of melted snow. The morning mist also caused the visibility to be very low. The mist was very thick. We had to descent earlier than we thought. The wind on that day was specially very dry as well. It was hard to breathe at some moments. I got a nosebleed at 2000 m.n.p.m. Nearby hikers helped me later with accenting as I couldn’t feel my leg later on. We safely arrived later in our accommodation.

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SERVICE

On this day, like every week on Thursdays I attended kółko fizyczne supervised by Mr. Miszta. This week we decided to make ice cream with nitrogen, cream and jam for the participants of kółko fizyczne. It required lots of hand work as well as patience from the side of students. We had to be careful, since liquid nitrogen may burn your hand, freeze it to the point where one smash could destroy your palm. However everyone enjoyed it after the hard work. Along with my other friends we made 3 rounds of making ice cream, so every student had equal portions.

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CREATIVITY

This past month my father and my brother took me hunting, and they taught me how to shoot a gun. I learned how to aim and load a gun, and then fire it at birds (the ones that can be hunted anyways). I found the experience really fun, although shooting at birds brings about certain moral dilemas. I dealt with that easily though. After the shooting lesson, my father showed me how to take apart and clean the rifle that we used for the hunting.

To reflect, I think that shooting birds is quite fun, even though it is slightly immoral. It was a hard thing to learn and I am sure that I still need to improve my aim significantly in order to be any good, and I am looking forward to that.

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ACTIVITY

The last practice before the winter break. The season has already ended. However we got, an offer for a movie, like our coach described ,,The balance as a Ballerina” in the meaning how we balance studying with ballet. We try to find our best angles and they best dance moves on camera for us all. I’m still finding mine, my sister is helping me a lot with it. Since she’s doing the modeling, she is much more knowledgeable than me, when it comes to shooting photos with myself smiling and looking at the camera. I am always akward in front of cameras. Usually when my parents force me to take a photo with them. I just show a thumbs up and fake my smile. In this case it would not work. I have to be proffesional. Compare to dancing in front of audience I don’t think about how I should look like in from of the audience, I gather all my focus on my movements and feet work. There’s a long way for me to go through.

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Creativity

I started on editing the photos I had taken in Paris few months ago. They’ve been waiting for me for a quiet long time. I tried to bring the life in my photography, trying to portray what our eyes see instead of what camera catches. I changed the temperature from cold and greyish to warmer, like our eyes went picturing the picture we long to see and our mind enhancing it due to the vibe we have with it with the place we wish to be in.

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SERVICE

On this day along with my family we were invited to banquet made for the arrival of the Prime Minister of Vietnam in Poland after decades. Thanks to my dad invited as one of delegates I had the opportunity to prepare the room (Lunar New Year’s Theme) . With the teams I worked with we were under lots of pressure and stressed since the ballroom was in Presindential Hotel, which was huge. However the staff of the hotel help us a lot. Additional hands make it possible to finish the decorations within 6 days(not counting any project on how to decorate the room). It ended with success. Everyone was amazed with how the room turned out.

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Open’s Day

On this day our school organised Open’s day for future candidates in our school. I volunteered to work in Physics’ room under Mr. Miszta. I was working with dry ice and liquid nitrogen. My task was to show how dry ice and liquid nitrogen work under various circumstances. Many of the 8th graders were very positively surprised and convinced that physics is just not about equations and calculations, but real life experience. Many of them were so curious, they wanted to touch some of this experiments. Fortunately all of them were safe enough to have an interaction. Unless if it was touching directly dry ice or nitrogen. It would be extremely dangerous, may be even causing losing a limb.

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SERVICE/CREATIVITY

On this day along with my sister we organised Christmas Eve for our closest friends. However sudden plans came along so I was left only with one friend. We had to do huge groceries and prepare food for 20 people + decorations. We started with groceries, given budget by father we carried 4 bags of food. This year, we’d chosen Greek cuisine. Since it was only two of us we also decided to prepare something similar to Tapas, simple meal yet filling and you can share with others. From what I remember we prepared 2 plates of Tzatziki, 15 portions of Suvlaki (some of girls were vegetarians), Hummus based on Olive oil, Halloumi Cheese for 3 and pita bread to eat it with. After all cooking and cleans the dishes (Mela was the one cleaning them). I decided to start with decorating the dining room before guests will arrive. At first I want sure how should I decorate the dining room, Hovewer at this very moment I searched up the typical holidays’ dining table in the Hollywood. Simple, yet warming. I didn’t have few thing, so I improvised with candles. I had only 2 candle holders to distribute. However with 2 candles the table would look somehow lacking, I put them in the glass cups and filled them later with water. The whole preparation lasted 6 hours. It was very exhausting day. Furthermore from what I heard the food was great and the vibes were cozy.

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ACTIVITY

Due to extreme and intense rehearsals I had before the performance, lots of pointe shoes were destroyed in the process. Just right after every mocks exams I had back in my school, I headed immediately the studio and practise until my last breath. Our coach, Ms. Lukasenko and Mr. Vanrovy didn’t let us go until our movement were perfect enough. Also I remember specifically on this day we started to practice on the actual scene where the floor was much more slippery than the wooden floor we have in the studio, as well as the raked floor are sloped toward the stage to give the audience the better view. It’s much harder to coordinate the valence specifically standing and dancing on pointe shoes. We had to put much more force on hours feet, well almost whole pass so the upper body could be still.

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CREATIVITY 31.12.24

I started on editing photos I’d taken during my family’s trip to Iceland. Raw photos were much more brighter and the colours weren’t so intense, rather dull. Out of 200 photos taken only some look decent because of how how dark it was back when I took these photography. I wanted to somehow through images show the beauty of northern lights, I tried my best to enhance them in photoshop (Adobe CC), yet it’s still lack a lot compare to what I’ve seen in reality.

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ACTIVITY

20.12.24

On this day, I had the last practice before my performance. I’d been given the role of the Sugar Plum from the famous Nutcracker play. It was my first time facing as a Sugar Plum. Never had I ever performed in front of so many people. After school’s Christmas Eve (apx. 12AM) I headed to theatre immediately and rehearsed for straight 8 hours, with so minor breaks. It was very intense, it’s common to hear that the rest is needed before the big day. However in case of ballet, the more you rest the more you will feel muscles’ aches. Due to extended practices I’ve been participating to, I surely felt less stressed on the next day, before the performance.

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23.12.24

On this day we headed to Senior’s house to prepare mulled wine enjoyed by many on these Christmas days. Given budget by the headmistress of the house we bought necessary ingredients to prepare it. Due to huge amount of mulled wine we had to prepare ( apx. 90/100 people) we sat in the kitchen whole afternoon. However its was a great to see people enjoying the beverage made by us, enhancing more Christmas’ vibes.

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SERVICE

23.11.24

RASZ IB’s OPEN DAY

Mentioned in the previous post I worked for Physics team, more precisely for Mr. Miszta’s team. I was taking photos in both rooms(because Physics team was given two rooms), as well as I was presenting Newton’s disc build by myself day before to upcoming school’s candidates. Younger peers were not very much interested in what we were saying(presenting), but rather they were stressed about the school and were pilling their question about IB studies and its pros and cons.

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29.11.24

ACTIVITY

After school usually on Friday I have ballet classes. However on these days students such as me have performances and rather dancing and tiring our muscles we try to relax time as such as possible. So on the show time we will not get any surprise cramps. My teacher told me today I had to warmup my back muscles as well as arms. I am not fond of these exercises, usually I avoid them as much as possible. However the more I spent time dancing, the more I realise how it is important to take care of my body, even if I hate certain exercises. Even a minor torn muscles may cause a permanent damage.

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CREATIVITY

On this day I had some of the free time after school. I’d decided to not waste it and start editing photos I’ve taken in NYC this summer. I’ve been postponing this task for few months now. I’ve taken altogether about 3 thousand shoots and had to choose the best of them. My camera also doesn’t shoot with the best colour(vibrancy and gradient) so I had to take it also in my hand.