Visitng Wax Figures Museum

In our town recently a new museum opened doors – Wax figures museum which is unique not only for Bulgaria but for the whole Balkan Peninsula. There isn’t another such museum in the region. Its aim is to represent the life of the Medieval Societies in Bulgaria during the rule of tsar Kaloyan in particular. We visited this museum as a part of our History classes with the idea to find out more about the Bulgarian history and see it in a more realistic way. We had the opportunity to see ancient homes of boyars, artillery, different guns and ancient handicrafts. In my opinion the most interesting part was the last one – figures of warriors with traditional armors and scenes of fights. I was amazed that something so impressive was done in our country.

St. Valentine's Day Campaign

Every year our town has a campaign for St Valentine’s Day, which is called Veliko Turnovo – Love and Romantic. It also takes part in the national competition for the longest love letter and for the past several years Veliko Turnovo was a winner. Our school supports this campaign every year. This year we decided to give a part of the Love pebbles to the people who are working at the District Administration of Veliko Turnovo. When we went there we first met the governor who showed us his office and talked with us about the education on other important topics. When all members of the staff came we gave each of them a pebble and wished them to love each other and become a little bit better.

Newspaper for St. Valentine’s Day

As a part of our local project – Club Young Journalist, we were supposed to make special editions of the school newspaper dedicated to St. Valentine’s day. We decide to make it look like a small card, which might also be given as a present. On the first two pages there were tips and thoughts about love with some cute and funny pictures while on the last two pages there was a picture and on the back of it free space to write a wish for someone you love. Making something like this is not easy to achieve because you want the person who receive it to feel special and loved and you give your best to make this possible.

There are thousands of thoughts about love which made it difficult to select the best ones and to include them in our paper. Despite the setbacks we finally managed to select twenty, the best of which is: “The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.” by Pearl Bailey. However the thoughts were not the only problem – we also had to find black and white pictures which best to  express this feeling that runs the world. And still it wasn’t the most difficult part- the design had to be something inspiring and beautiful which isn’t easy to achieve. I spent hours trying to place everything in a way that when printed to be readable and look good. I wasn’t satisfied until it was printed and I saw it whit all its glory. This was the most inspiring thing I have ever done.

First CAS meeting for the second term

The meetings at the beginning of every term might seem boring and pointless for us but without them we would be unable to finish our CAS work. During this meeting we made a draft of our Personal Planning Page and Attendance Sheets  and pointed the most important activities we are planning to do. We also shared our ideas how to become more successful and how to improve the quantity and quality of our work and the life outside school. We also were able to share our experience and plans for new activities during this term. Now a few mounts later I already know what the IB program requires and I have found out that one of the most exciting parts of it is CAS.

Personal Planning Page - Term 2
Activities	Evidence	Hours	Total
Creativity	*Club Applied arts	40	54
	*Visiting Wax Figures museum	2
	* Participating in Zonta Club’s competion	3
	*Visiting Chris Norman’s concert	3
	*Visiting Ishtar’s concert	3
	*Karaoke night	3
Action	* Club Tourism	15	37
	*Club Sports	11
	*Swimming competition	5
	*Celebrating the School’s patron day: Eco green day	6
Service	*Charity club “Hope and Love”	35	53
	*St. Valentine’s Day at Veliko Turnovo District Administration	3
	*Celebrating Baba Marta at the Local Residential Home for Old Persons	3
	*EU year for solidarity between generations – planting trees	6
	*Hosting “Teacher of the year” and “Oskarius awards”ceremonies	6

                Local project: Club “Young Journalist”                    Total: 144

                   International project:  European year of the citizens

St. Valentine's workshop "Love pebbles"

 Again it was time for Applied arts club and the St Valentine's pebbles.

Most of the pebbles were having hearths and the words Love You in English, Japanese and other languages except Bulgarian on them. In my opinion we should not forget our language because it is what keeps  the customs alive and this was the reason to write it in our mother tongue Обичам те! What is more, I stared drawing lips which had to represent kisses as well as birds – sign of freedom and the achieved dreams. I also used my imagination and drew locks with keys and others which are very popular sign of love nowadays.

When we finished with the drawings and the pebbles were finally dry we had to pack each of them which couldn’t be done by only one person..I was satisfied with the final result and in my opinion everyone enjoyed receiving one of our work of art.

St. Valentine's workshop "Love pebbles"

Every year our school has its own campaign for St. Valentine’s Day which is a main part of the campaign of our town. This year we decided to make pebbles decorated with love wishes and pack them as a present which later on to be sold or given as a present.

In order to make them had to use special glitters to write on the small pebbles, which wasn’t an easy task. The glitters were letting too much of the paint out and made the whole stones covered with paint. This is why I found a very small brush and started painting with it. Although this experience tested my patience at the end the pebbles looked very attractive and everyone liked them a lot

Christmas decoration at the Local Residential Home for Old Persons

After we decorated our school we decided that the old people at the Local Resident Home need to feel the atmosphere of Christmas too. This is why we took the decoration left at school and bought some more. One afternoon we decided to go and create Christmas mood. The people there were so happy because of our visit and some of them even joined us. We spread the tasks in our group and my classmate Dayan and I had to make a curtain from Christmas lights. To be the tallest is not always a privilege because you might be given the hardest task - it required a lot of patience which I don’t have. However, after a plenty of time lost in arguments and meaningless attempts we managed to finish it. At the same time Gerry and Velislav were putting some Christmas stars and garlands around the room. There was one more task for tall people- to hang some Christmas stars at the hall but this time I did it on my own as I hopped it would be less annoying. At the end, the Christmas spirit could be felt at the Resident Home just before their Christmas celebration. In my opinion, the old people there really enjoyed what we did for them and spent one different and interesting day together with us as well as a Christmas day full of joy.