Conclusions

Creativity

1) Unfortunately I did not have much chance to improve my photographing skills. Still I accomplished photographing animals for at least one time.
2) I developed my drawing skills and I am really happy with the tiger picture (25 December 2015)
3) I learned many new songs and the ones that I have not yet finished, I will definitely continue learning them. I improved my piano skills quite a lot during these two years. I have not paid any attention to dynamics of the music and it is what I definitely want to start developing more.

Activity

1) I went to agility classes and we improved a lot. I actually competed on three instead of two competitions within 2 years.

2) I have improved my physical levels and I also decided to become a trainer and went to LesMills BodyJam initial training in January 2016

Service

1) I did a lot of hours of helping in the kindergarten and I really liked doing it. Also learned how to manage my time better, when you have to keep your eye on 5+ children.

2) I did help animal shelter and therefore improved the living conditions of the animals living there

3) I helped to organize two agility competitions and therefore also learned a lot of new things about agility

Service: helping at kindergarten (8 hrs)

Within two days during winter holiday (05.01.2016/ 06.01.2016) I volunteered again at my local kindergarten. I helped to organize free time activities for kids, served food and cleaned everything up afterwards. On the first day I was there during the evening shift and second day the mornings shift. Since during the morning they usually take the kids out, but this time the weather was quite bad and I decided to organize some games for the children. I decided to paint hedgehog with them from the stencil and draw a picture of their family also to put together some puzzles. 

Service: helping at kindergarten (6 hrs)

27.08.2015 - When I got there, children were still sleeping. When they got up they ate and later I helped them to get dressed. Since it was pretty day outside we decided to go out and played there.
28.08.2015 - Since it was raining, we couldn't go outside. Inside we played with puzzles, draw and I taught to one of the kids different types of cars. Before leaving I helped kids to get ready for bedtime.

Service: Seto Folk volunteer (14hrs)

Seto Folk (26.06-28.06.15) is a festival in Värska, that is very popular in Estonia. Music which is played there is traditional Estonian music (folk music). Mostly there are no paid people working there and instead they are using volunteers. I got a place there as being a parking ticket seller and helped also with parking regulation. On Friday I had to work 3 hours, on Saturday 6 hours and on Sunday 5 hours.

Service: helping at agility competition (8 hrs)

23.05.2015
This competition was really long. We had to be there at 9:00 and got to leave 17:00. I was again assistance to the judge. Also I had to help to measure the time and sometimes build the paths. For A0 paths I was not assistance, because I had to also took part of the competition with my dog and we won 2nd place.

Service: Helping at school orientation competition (4hrs)

Me and my friend decided not to go to run and instead help to organize the orientation competition. Our job was to at the beginning to put ready all the food for competitors and later hand them their package of food. Also later we helped to write the results in the computer.

Service: Teeme Ära Talgud 2015 (Let's do it actions in 2015) (4hrs)

I went to Valga's Animal Shelter to help them to clean up and renew the area. Since I was there early I got to choose the job and I chose to repaint dog kennel. Firstly I thought that the job will be easy but it wasn't, I had to scratch off old paint and then clean off the dust. All the dust got into my nose and airways and it wasn't really pleasant. However I really liked doing good dead and helping dogs.
Also we talked about overall animal shelters and thought it is unethical to take an animal and then abandon it. Me, as an owner of two dogs and a cat will never leave them and take good care of them throughout their whole life. 

Service: Helping at agility competition (3 hrs)

On Tuesday (22.04.2015) I firstly wanted to compete in this competition, but unfortunately I had hurt my ankle quite badly. My trainer had to organize the competition this time so I thought I could go and help her instead. She decided that I could be assistance to the judge. At first I was afraid that I'm going to mess up something but actually it was quite easy and really fun. I had to learn signs that judge gave me, when dog made a mistake on the path and mark the results and time. I also helped to create the paths and to clean up the place afterwards.

Service: Helping at kindergarten ''Kaseke'' (3hrs)

On 3rd January 2015 I went with my uncle's wife to her work (kindergarten teacher). We went there at 2.30pm and left 5.30pm. At first, until the kids were sleeping, we cleaned there a bit and then woke them up at 3pm. There were 3 kids only, because of holidays. Then I played with them and 3.30pm we gave them dinner, then we cleaned up after them and then played. First child went home already at 4pm and second about half an hour later. With the last child I played for about 40 minutes after the second child was left. Then his parents came and he also left. Lastly we cleaned up everything.
I'm not used to take care of children, but I actually kind of enjoyed it.
Also kindergartens manager talked to me why I was doing it and where I studied. She said that I was very welcome there : )

Service: Writing about DNA translation for Silmaring (5hrs)

I wrote about DNA translation for Silmaring - an Estonian study web, where students and teachers helped to create easy study material (videos, articles). I had an opportunity to write there about DNA translation and it was helpful for me as well, because I had a test coming on it. This article was controlled by our instructor (she was also my teacher and will be my teacher next year). It took quite a lot of time, because in IB we are studying in English and the material I used was in English. Article had to be in Estonian, so I had to do a lot of translating.

I learned, that when I write an easy article, what has to be understandable for many students, helped me so much in understanding that topic. I got it really clear and it was good method for studying. Also I can help with that others as well. After writing my first rough draft, I had to make some changes as well but they were quite small. 

First we wrote article for 3 hours on our own. Then there was gathering for 1 hour and we read our articles for others and made changes. Then we went home and changed our articles, which took about 1 hour. 

Service: Introduction

For my service hours in CAS I'm doing:
1) I'm going to be assistant teacher to one child in kindergarten. My uncle's wife is kindergarten teacher and she told me it would be helpful if I could go and help them.
2) Helping animal shelter.
3) Organize agility competition for dogs - in our agility group it's necessary to help to organize at least one agility competition in a year.