Sports Day

It was nationally decided that all students must go to school on the 12th of March, to compensate for the 4th, when we had a short holiday. But our college decided to organise a "sports day", to free the students from a tough day behind the desks. I am very happy that I spent the day outside, not at school.

We went to the newly rebuilt "Sveta Gora" park, where there are many fun things to do, like walk up the ~300 stairs. It was also good weather for pictures, and some people, with the professional cameras, did quite a lot photographing. Sadly, very sadly, not the whole IB was there, but at least Ivonka brought her dog.

Laying Flowers for National Liberation Day

The 3rd of March is the National day of Bulgaria, our Liberation day. It is a tradition that student from our institution pay tribute to the heroes that fought for our freedom. As a way to show our appreciation of their feat we laid flowers in front of the Maika Bulgaria monument in the center of the city.

This year we were a big group of 8th and 11th graders and the day before - the 2nd of March, we went to lay the flowers. We were one of the first, but later on thousands of flowers adorned the monument. We chose the 2nd, because the 3rd is a holiday, plus the day is so important and there are many official celebrations.

Surprise for the Students and the Teachers

Because in March we celebrate "Baba Marta", we, the voluntary club, decided to do something as a surprise. It is a tradition, as old as one can remember, that everybody puts a martenitsa on their hand. The martenista is a typical jewellery on white and red threads, knotted together. For so long, thousands of different kinds of martenitsi have been made and there is no Bulgarian, who does not appreciate the holiday.

Our surprise was in two stages - firstly, we gathered at the entrance of the college quite early and tied a martenitsa, previously made by the arts and crafts club, on every student's hand. Then, during the second big break, we went to the teacher's room and gave one specially made, fancy, awsome martenista to every teacher. After that, I asked, in order to be sure, and understood that most* of them were really surprised and actually nicely.

* Now looking back, I realise - some certain teacher(s) were not happy, but this might have nothing to do with us, or our deed at least.

Mid-term Art Exhibition

As a part of our Visual Arts class and in connection with CAS, me, Polya and Teodor curated the annual "Mid-term" exhibition. Firstly and most importantly, we chose the best artworks, made bay 8th and 9th graders. I am free to say that there are some very talented kids there. it sure took us a lot of time to reach a consensus as every one of us has a slightly different taste, but we ended up with a nice collection of different in technique, size and meaning paintings.

We chose the college's entrance for the exhibition - a place, where everybody could catch an eye when they go through. The curating process was not easy, plus we had to do it all alone, so that it was more like an exercise. The whole process took nearly two hours. At the end we completed a quite nice exhibition, especially given that it was our first try.

First CAS Meeting 2nd Term

The first CAS meeting of every term is very important. At those meetings we structure the whole ongoing of the upcoming term. We talked about the Art Trip and the one-day forms in the next months.

Of course, we filled the Planning Page for the second term and we started the attendance sheets. Plus, we now understand and do everything almost alone, unlike how it was in the first term. By we I mean me and the few other people that care about CAS and thus about their education in the IB programme.

Bansko Ski Trip

Earlier, it has been a tradition, that there is a ski camp, organised by the college. In recent years, due to lack of interest, there was no such. But this year, for the first time since 2011, enough people were interested. And so our trip began. 11IB were there, of course, we are everywhere, every time.

We were quite the small group, but had one very loud bus ride. This is understandable, given that everybody is so happy when you have a nice, long holiday before you. This is the first year we have such a long mid-term holiday.

After a few thousand changes, we went to Bansko, the Skiing capital on the Balkans. Bansko has these super cool and quite long slopes, that we enjoyed every day. The hotel was not a top notch one, but was ok. Food was excellent though. All in all, we were ver happy with the experience. Something strange was that not everybody skied, even though they went on a ski trip, but I did and it was certainly one of the best holidays I've had.

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Please excuse the typos in the first/third line:  *changed their childhood  *book's first