The Wonderment

gracehcas_03

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Where?

We all are searching for our place in the world. It’s hard to find where we each fit, and those who find their place are extremely lucky!

Nothing here...

Sustain

Unfortunately, Terraza has ended and won’t keep going after I move on. However during our time in Tamarindo new opportunities for teenagers opened up. The skatepark was ...

Transformations

Terraza has created and new space within Tamarindo. It’s still working to be establish it but people see its lights on and games happening. I hope that it’s leavin...

Building my team

The people who are helping me are Cata, Ashley, Jade Anastasia, Emma and Miss Amy. We are keeping each other motivated by trying to stay positive and come up with new, fun, id...

First obstacles

The first obstacle we faced was working as a team. Me and Cata had worked together before but we had never worked with Jade, Anastasia and Ashley. It was a new team dynamic th...

Getting started

It was so exciting to finally start the project. I had been apart of Terraza since it started but it was nice to finally be on the student leadership team and finally be apart...

CAS over vacation

November 29th, 2020 My current CAS project is dependent on the school year so it will technically be paused over Christmas break. We won’t have meetings or plan events b...

Global Importance of Student Government

November 24th, 2020 When I started secondary school in 7th grade, I remember looking up at the 11th and 12th graders wishing to be leaders like them. I watched them be inclusi...

Challenges and new skills journal entry

November 16th, 2020 What were my perceptions going into Student Government? I’ve played a role in student government through most of high school and some of middle schoo...

Growing through CAS _ Grace

November 4th, 2020 At the beginning of CAS, I was not very good at delegating. In group projects I naturally rise to a leadership position but would often end up taking over a...

Student Government in October

October 27th, 2020, Throughout this month we have had weekly meetings and tried to initiate events within the community. But it's been hard. We haven't had much engagement fro...

Differentiation _ Grace Herman

October 8th, 2020, COVID -19 has done more than disrupted human life on earth; it has consumed it. Ever since March the coronavirus pandemic has wrapped it’s sickly arms...

Student Government in September

September 24th, 2020 Over the last three weeks, I launched the 2020-2021 student and we have started working. We had had three meetings during lunch on Tuesday, organized a mo...

Virtual Student Goverment

September 2nd, 2020 Last year I was a part of student government as the junior Vice President but it wasn’t my main CAS focus. However this year I have a larger role in ...

Service Vacation Journal Entry _ Grace Herman

August 24th, 2020, Right now the world feels like it’s falling to pieces. The coronavirus pandemic has caused an unsettling destruction of everything from the economy ...

Creative Vacation Journal Entry _ Grace Herman

August 13th, 2020 At the being of summer, my best friend and I made a list of all the things we wanted to do over break. Super random ideas to keep us entertained. One of them...

Activity Vacation Journal Entry _ Grace Herman

August 13th, 2020, I first moved to Costa Rica when I was 8 and when I did I was super excited about surfing. I learned to surf pretty quickly and I loved it. I was in surf co...

Writing and Business

25th June 2020: Over 100 days ago our world was flipped upside-down. We were all ripped away from any sense of normalcy and we had to construct a new reality. We had to figure...

HR Project Week 7 _ Grace Herman

June 11th, 2020, The last class I had with my two students was a weird one. They both didn't show up at the same time and I wasn't sure if they were actually going to come. As...

HR Project 6 Reflection (Rewards) _ Grace Herman

June 4th, 2020 Since my last reflection, I have given my 2nd class and I have furthered my project preparing for the next couple of weeks. Only one of the students could make ...

HR Week 5 Reflection_ Grace Herman

May 28th, 2020 In this reflection, I am supposed to talk about how I grew as a learner this week. Before I go into that I feel like I need to acknowledge that this has been a ...

Focus Training Week 2 _ Grace Herman

May 24th, 2020, Over the course of this week I worked to improve my focus by meditating and exercising. May 18th: I did Miss Amy Snodgrass’ 8 minutes to calm mediation. ...

HR Week 4 Reflection _ Grace Herman

May 20th, 2020, This week I kicked off my project and start to interact with my audience, my students. Me and Ms. Amy decided to alter the project to have it be an optional op...

Focus Training _ Grace Herman

May 10th, 2020, Doing school at home requires a lot of concentration and focus and that is hard. In an attempt to improve my focus I read an article about ways to practice foc...

HR Project Week 3 _ Grace Herman

May 14th, 2020 Thoughts on Motivation and Apprasials How does feedback in the form of formative or summative appraisals make you feel? Explain. It might be different in differ...

Focus Training Day 1

May 10th, 2020, Doing school at home requires a lot of concentration and focus and that is hard. In an attempt to improve my focus I read an article about ways to practice foc...

HR Project 2 Reflection _ Grace Herman

March 7th, 2020, This week has been all about training ourselves to communicate with our mentors and to respond/meet the needs of stakeholders. I was able to communicate with ...

HR Project Week 1 _ Grace Herman

May 1st, 2020, For this remote project, I got to actively engage with the HR business content and apply it to a real project that I will carry out. Personally, by doing this I...

Strengths_ Grace Herman

April 27th, 2020 If I had a day to help someone/ something I would teach something. I would make a connection and teach something that can have a long-term positive effect on ...

Vacation Service _ Grace Herman

April 16th, 2020 Service was a hard one for me over the break. How can you make a difference when you can't leave your house? So I tried to make a difference in my house. With...

Vacation Activity _ Grace Herman

April 16th, 2020 I've had a lot of time over vacation. I can't see my friends, I couldn't go on my trip, I can't go to the beach, so I've been bored. One thing saving me from ...

Vacation Creativity _ Grace Herman

April 16th, 2020 This "break" away from "normal life" has allowed me to come back to my creative roots. For this year I made a list of screenplay competitions that I want/want...

House Journal Entry _ Grace Herman

March 23rd, 2020 What’s happening in your life right now? As the coronavirus spreads across the world everything in my life has been shut down and pushed online. School ...

Practice _ Grace Herman

March 16th, 2020 Over the course of this trimester, I've been having weekly practices with the three girls' pictures. Through this time we have picked a short script to act ou...

Community From Afar _ Grace Herman

March 16th, 2020 Spend the time writing about what is happening in the world. How does it affect your life? How does it affect your community? How does it affect your project?...

Uncertainty/Project Update _ Grace Herman

March 15th, 2020. In my last journal reflection, I talked about how Terraza was reaching an end. I was under the impression that Terraza would phase out and that would be the ...

Gratitude _ Grace Herman

March 2nd, 2020 Reflect on the people that have helped you succeed this trimester and year. What have you done that really made you proud. How did you get there and who helped...

Terraza Update _ Grace Herman

February 24th, 2020 Terraza has currently reached a transition period. It has become apparent that something has to change and that what we are doing now isn't working. For ex...

Ethics of CAS _ Grace Herman

February 1st, 2020 My assigned theory of ethics is Moral Absolutism. Moral Absolutism is the ethical belief that certain actions are right or wrong regardless of culture or ...

Scavenger Hunt 2020 _ Grace Herman

January 26th, 2020 Yesterday we, Terraza, hosted a scavenger hunt. We haven't had a scavenger hunt since June of 2019 so people were very excited. We had around 30 teens show ...

First Weeks of the Trimester _ Grace Herman

January 26th, 2020 There have been 2 weeks that have passed in the trimester. What have I done to move toward the goal that I have set? This trimester I set the goal of starti...

January Teen Meeting _ Grace Herman

January 19th, 2019 This Thursday, after school, we had our first meeting of the new year. Our manager Ashley was out of town for most of the break so this meeting was us get...

Vacation Involvement with CAS- Service _ Grace Herman

January 2nd, 2019 To serve the community over vacation we, the Terraza Team, worked to get the Youth Center open at various times. This proved to be a tad difficult because ou...

Vacation Involvement wth CAS- Activity _ Grace Herman

December 30th, 2019: Typically on vacation, I find it difficult to establish a consistent exercise routine. It is defiantly one of my weakness, I tend to forget about exercise...

Vacation Involvement with CAS- Creativity _ Grace Herman

December 30th, 2019 Over this year I have begun the process of deciding what to study in college and where to go college. As a part of this process, I went to visit colleges i...

2nd Trimester _ Grace Herman

December 2nd, 2019 Next trimester I want to further my CAS experience beyond Terraza. Terraza has been a hard project for me because even though I love the town of Tamarindo a...

Executive summary_ Grace and Cata

Terraza Youth center is located in a small town in Costa Rica where alcohol and drugs play a large role in teenagers’ life due to the lack of education, security, and ac...

Global Conversation _ Grace Herman

November 14th 2019 The following is a collection of tweets and an article that contribute to the global conversation surrounding youth and the importance of youth. Mwangi17592...

Día de las Mascaradas _ Grace Herman

My advisory during the party!

Día de las Mascaradas _ Grace Herman

November 2, 2019 I’ve been doing CAS for about 5 months now and in these last five months I’ve learned a lot. One of the biggest things I have taken from the CAS e...

Community Survey _ Grace Herman

October 21st 2019 Sara Trimarchi: Do you think teenagers are important and if so why? Because we are the future without us there’s no future. Do teenagers have an impact...

Working with others _ Grace Herman

October 16th, 2019 Does your experience make you expect more from people or less? Working on this project has made me expect less from people, sadly. The culture within our te...

Terraza Mind Map _ Grace Herman

This is my mind map from CAS class.

Minute to Win It _ Grace Herman

September 29th, 2019 This last week at Terraza we had a student leadership meeting and then a “minute to win it” game night. On Monday the 23rd we had a meeting to...

Minute to Win It _ Grace Herman

Snapshot from our Minute to Win it night!

Personal Statement _ Grace Herman

September 23th, 2019 My Motivation What’s the first thing you want to do when you get up each morning? What are the things you work on each day just for yourself? Name s...

Wonderment Path Questions _ Grace Herman

September 9th, 2019 Where do you belong? At terraza a huge part of our mission is to create a space where people from all walks of life feel like they belong. This question ...

Student Leadership Meeting _ Grace Herman

September 3rd, 2019 Today we had our first student leadership meeting of the school year. Jade, Anastasia, Cata, Ashley, myself and a new addition, Emma showed up for the me...

Student Leadership Meeting _ Grace Herman

Summer Activity Reflection _ Grace Herman

August 30th, 2019 To stay active this summer I ran a couple of times a week. I started just running by myself on the back roads of tamarindo but then I decided I would start t...

Summer Activity Reflection _ Grace Herman

Running with my dog Boulder over the summer.

Summer Creativity Reflection _ Grace Herman

August 28th, 2019 This summer I decided to engage and challenge myself creatively in a new and different way. This upcoming year I am starting IB art. I have never been very g...

Summer Creativity Reflection _ Grace Herman

Drawing I did during my summer art class.

Summer Service Reflection _ Grace Herman

August 12th, 2019 This last Friday us at Terraza in partnership with the nonprofit, Costa Rica Makes Me Happy (CRMMH) we hosted a beach clean up. CRMMH’s mission is to k...

Summer Service Reflection _ Grace Herman

Beach clean up with "Costa Rica Makes Me Happy"

Paint Night _ Grace Herman

August 9th 2019 Last night we had a paint night at Terraza. This was an idea from Sarah Trimarchi in effort to make paintings to decorate a bland room at CEPIA. She sent the t...

Paint Night _ Grace Herman

July 20th- 27th _ Grace Herman

July 27th 2019 This last week we planned and had two events. On Thursday we had surf and pancakes, which is an event we do around once a month. And the next day, Friday we had...

Game Night _ Grace Herman

Mount Everest Fundraiser _ Grace Herman

July 22nd, 2019 On July 19th we had our big fundraiser, Chad Gaston came to share his story about climbing Mount Everest. The turnout was amazing! We had around 70 people show...

Mount Everest Fundraiser _ Grace Herman

Community Chad Gaston summited Mount Everest and he came to share his story at Terraza.

July 5th-16th _ Grace Herman

July 16th, 2019 On the 5th of July, I walked around Tamarindo with my mentor Ashley putting up flyers for our upcoming fundraiser on July 19th. We want to get the word out, we...

Painting the Terraza Logo _ Grace Herman

I helped Ashley paint the Terraza Logo on the wall this week.

Dodgeball Tournament _ Grace Herman

June 30th 2019 This weekend Terraza hosted its first dodgeball tournament. Ashley has hosted dodgeball tournaments for the church for the last two years but this was Terrazas ...

Dodgeball Tournament _ Grace Herman

Video Kevin Johnson put together of our dodgeball tournament!

Scavenger Hunt! _ Grace Herman

June 23, 2019 Today we put on a Scavenger hunt at the Youth Center. Basically what we did was we had a list of things people had to do in town. For example, propose to a stran...

Scavenger Hunt! _ Grace Herman

Here you can see the turnout for our Scavenger Hunt Event! I was one of our biggest events yet! It was so cool to see teenagers interested in Terraza.

First Day on the Team _ Grace Herman

Today was my first official meeting as apart of the Terraza team. It’s inspiring to be apart of something like Terraza. It inspires me to dream big and go for it. I know...

I dream of being an actress

Every since I was little I've wanted to perform. When I was 9 I realized want I really wanted to do was act. It is pretty much my favorite thing to do in a whole world and I d...

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When I was eight I got to opportunity to move to Costa Rica. I remember at the time I wasn't too excited about it, but now I am endlessly grateful. Because of this amazing opp...

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