Yearbook: 27th of Aug. '14

Today we had a meeting after school. Again, we talked about our event for Youth Camp. We have to hurry because Youth Camp is coming up in a few more weeks. We are only given time to do our fundraising during the bonfire time in Youth Camp so what we do will be limited. So far our ideas are to sing during bonfire and our free time based on requests, sell glow sticks, bolster pillow, food and drinks.

I think that the main problem we have in our team is communication. We discuss our ideas in a google doc while we don't really talk much in our meetings. I hope that in the future we will improve on our communication skills. I hope that after this event is done, we can get to talk in the meeting about how to improve our communication within the team.

Yearbook: 22th of Aug. '14

Today we had a meeting during lunch time. During the meeting, we decided to just focus on the Youth Camp proposal because the event is coming up soon. So for those who have any ideas for the event, we have to tell the person in charge about it ASAP.

Just a quick update about the yearbook proposal on the other hand:
We now have a sample yearbook proposal from last year. This will greatly help me to make this year's yearbook proposal. We will be making the proposal in google doc.

Yearbook: 20th of Aug. '14

Today after school we had a meeting about the yearbook proposal. I think we are all still confused about the structure of the proposal. We don't have a budget for the yearbook and when it was discussed the leaders too said they don't know. One of them said to just don't think about it and we will know about it as we go through our events. Hmm.

Yearbook: 15th of Aug. '14

Today we had a meeting during lunch time. We talked about how we really need to get our proposals done. We have to prioritise on getting the design of the yearbook. I believe that we could make this meeting more effective honestly because we didn't really talk much but we took quite a lot of time for it. We spent the whole lunch time to talk about two things. It was also kind of vague. I mean yea we have to get the proposals done but which proposals should we prioritise first and which can wait for later? I tried to ask many questions during the meeting but they weren't answered in detail. My friends also tried to ask too but they got the same result. I really hope in the future meetings the leaders in the team will be more prepared so that the meetings can be more effective.

HFH Project: 15th of Aug. '14

Yesterday I couldn't help sell the milkshake because I had a meeting with my English club. I trusted the others to sell them but apparently they didn't. So today we were planning on finishing all the milkshakes in stock. However apparently they weren't selling well today. This might be because we sold them during lunch time. They were either full already or they are not in the mood to drink milkshakes as they prefer to eat. I'm not sure of the reason but this means that we will have to sell the milkshakes again next week. Actually, we have to keep on selling the milkshakes until they finish. We put them on the freezer so they will not go bad. All we have to do is blend them again so that they won't solidify into one block of ice. How practical is that right? Thanks to Kak Erika who gave us this idea.

HFH Project: 13th of Aug. '14

Today we made the milkshakes. We stayed after school to blend all of the milkshake powders that we have in stock with the hope that they will be finished by Friday. We also sold some of the milkshakes today. I think they sold pretty well, remembering it was an after school when a lot of people were home already. So I'm expecting that the milkshakes will sell faster and better tomorrow but today's selling was okay in my opinion. Overall, I think today's activity went well. It was a lot of fun making the milkshakes actually. It was not so hard to make them but I made a looot of mess. I find difficulty to not drop the powder on the table or on the floor. At the end, I had a lot of cleaning up to do. It was pretty yucky. Oh well. At least the result is sppecctaccullar... hahah well that's a bit of an overstatement. But they do smell and tastes really good. I personal favourite: the Bubblegum flavour.

HFH Project: 12th of Aug. '14

Today's meeting was really urgent and crucial. As yearbook activities are becoming our, grade twelve's, priority now, we have to work the scheduling out. We have to make sure that our project here does not clash with our yearbook activities. After a long discussion, we feel that it is our obligation to prioritise our yearbook event over this project. So we regretfully decided that we have to stop this project. Since for this week's fundraising Calvin bought some milkshake powder already, we will finish those first then after that we will close down our fundraising activity. The money that we've collected will be donated to the Habitat For Humanity organisation and as our last CAS meeting, we will join the build with the 2Build event, which will be on October.

HFH Project: 8th of Aug. '14

Today most of the group members helped sell the bracelets. We got a really big hit. More than half of the bracelets are gone now. Sold. I was surprised that someone actually bought the bracelets that I made out of wool. The colours were okay but the strings are so big that it doesn't look like a bracelet anymore. Well, everybody has different preferences. Like what I learn in BM class, there are a lot of market segments. Different market segments prefer different things. When I count the earnings that we got for today, I think it was about Rp. 200,000. It's really unexpected that we got a lot of money for this. In just one day too! I wonder now how much the vendors in my school's canteen make everyday (:s)

HFH Project: 7th of Aug. '14

Today I sold some bracelets. I didn't get any help from my group members and this is getting annoying. Thankfully there is the attendance list. So they won't get the CAS hours for today's selling. I really hope that the attendance list will take effect on them. Not everyone in the group knows about it yet because yesterday not all came and some went home before we got to talk about the attendance list.

Besides that though, the selling went well. We got quite a lot of customers. I didn't really expect that they would buy the bracelets as expensive as 20 thou at first but apparently they are happy to buy them at that price. We also have a couple bracelets and we sell them for 35 thou and apparently they are selling well too.

HFH Project: 6th of Aug. '14

Today all of us got together after school to talk about ideas for this year's fundraising. We needed a plan. What are we going to sell next? etc. We're selling bracelets tomorrow and the day after. So what are we selling next week? After a looong talk, we decided to go for jello.

Today we also talked about having an attendance list because a lot of people are now getting so lazy in attending not just meetings but also the selling time. So we decided to not give those who didn't come to a meeting any CAS hours. We thought that this was fair and so we will start implementing it from today. Febie will be in charge of this. To put some control, the only ones who can edit are Febie and me.

I now truly understand that within an organisation, rules are really important. Sometimes I feel like school is just making people's life harder with their rules, because I mean they put rules on the smallest thing that I didn't even think about. But now I truly understand that it is important to have rules on everything. It is even impressive now that when I think about it that my school thinks about things as detail as that.

Yearbook: Service Proposal

Please comment on how this activity will help you to achieve the Learning Outcomes as IB CAS requirement?

The twelve graders have always organized the yearbook. As one of the twelve graders this year, I get the opportunity to be a part of it. We, the yearbook committee, are required to plan and organize programs in order to fundraise enough money to make the yearbook. Through the programs, we will be providing the students, teachers and staffs with different goods and services. We aim not only to gain profit from the programs that we will be hosting, but also to give enjoyment to others. Through the programs that we will have, we hope to lift up the mood and tighten the bonds of the SPH Sentul family, thus living up to our class’s name, Σxv, which emphasizes how the SPH Sentul family is altogether, without any preclusion.

Learning Outcomes:

• I will increase my awareness of my strengths and areas for growth

Even though I hold the secretary position in the yearbook committee, it doesn’t mean that I will be working on the same task for the entire year. I will be assigned to do other jobs and I will need to help my teammates in their jobs. I will also need to understand the nature of the other jobs in the committee in order to work in the dynamic of the team. Thus, I will be exposed to different tasks in the organization and learn the many different strengths and weaknesses I have.

• Undertaken new challenges

I have never worked together with some of the members in the yearbook committee. Thus, I will need to learn and adapt to the unique ways of how each of these people work, and I will surely face new challenges in doing so. For example, I have a hunch that some of the people in the committee work to their last minutes (literally). I have never worked together with this type of people before, thus dealing with them will be a new challenge for me.

• Planned and initiated activities

We have to create a proposal in which a detailed plan should be attached. We may also need to initiate some events in order to fundraise more money.

• Worked collaboratively with others

The yearbook committee will have to work together efficiently and effectively in order to succeed in creating the year’s yearbook.

• Shown perseverance and commitment in my activities

Throughout the academic year, surely we will face some problems and difficulties. It is then up to us to persevere and commit or not.

• Considered the ethical implications of my actions

All of the decisions that the yearbook committee makes have a great impact towards everyone, especially our community at school. Thus, all of the decisions that we as a group and we as individuals make have to be thought of first: if they are ethically okay or not, if they will create problems to other people or not, etc.

• Developed new skills

Through this activity, I will surely develop new skills, particularly skills for teamwork. One of the examples has already been mentioned previously, which is the skill of adapting to people’s different dynamics of working.