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For Peace

My path is designed to make you think about how you can be an ambassador of peace in your daily life, and how you can help create ripples that will build peace, communication,...

La Paz Model United Nations

My goal is to create a Model United Nations conference at La Paz Community School that will teach students valuable life skills, foreign policy, and above all will be an absol...

Service – Winter Break

Lastly we arrive at service, which I will say was one of the most rewarding times during break, and also gained me a new admiration for certain people and their selflessness a...

Activity – Winter Break

Activity – Winter Break

To continue with activity, I spent a lot of my time doing outdoor activities such as swimming and hiking that I love, but I also found some new activities I’m interested in ...

Creativity – Winter Break

Creativity – Winter Break

To begin, I’ll start with creativity. I’ve decided to start with creativity because this break I passed an enormous personal milestone that I worked extremely hard for and...

Trivia Night!

Trivia Night!

Getting started

This log will be partially about how my team helped me run my most recent event, Trivia Night, and partially a review of the actual event and how I feel about it :). To begin,...

Email sent to Partners

Updated Journal Entry

Trivia night is this week! The price has been set, catering coordinated, decorations and prizes ready, and the word has got out on social media and among the students. There h...

CAS Trivia Night Marketing Plan

Learning Outcome Reflection

Identify own strengths and areas for growth. While this project has undoubtedly helped me better identify and understand my own strengths, I’m here today to focus on areas f...

CAS Gantt chart

Stakeholder Map

Plan of Communication

Stakeholder List/Plan: High Power/High Interest – Encourage and Influence Amy Jacobs: I plan to communicate with Amy Jacobs primarily through face to face interac...

Email to Mr. Kyle

Factual Journal Entry

Factual Journal Entry – I spent a solid ten minutes thinking about what exactly that meant, until I realized it was an indirect way for Miss Amy to tell me that I actual...

My dogs and I –

Both my dogs had major health complications when my family adopted them. These problems, combined with life in a variety of shelters and homes that we know nothing about, made...

By MU_N1

Guanacaste, Costa Rica

I am sustainable by planting!

I keep and care for a variety of plants around my home as a way of staying connected with nature, understanding its importance, and giving back to the Earth.

By MU_N1

Guanacaste, Costa Rica

The Big Question

How do you debate? How do YOU prepare for the future? Why do you debate? How will you pursue peace? How will your voice be heard? What is your resolution? Ooooh. Aaaaaahh. Yes...

More Topic Guide Research

MUN Topic Guide Research

Service Log

Ah yes, the final journal entry in the lovely Holy trinity of summer journal entries, the dreaded and feared SERVICE AND PROJECT ENTRY! (Chills spread across the room, the cro...

Creative Entry

*Just a quick heads up, this journal entry will be a little shorter so you have time to read a few of the attachments* Hello friends, we’re back with another installment in ...

Balance in Life – Gear Photo!

Balance in Life

Hello all, and welcome back to your regularly scheduled programming! It feel like its been years since my last journal entry, because naturally I waited till the 3rd to last w...

Navy Seal Photo

Navy Seal Photo

A Picture Of Ale From Mun Day!

Final Journal – Gratitude Entries And Goodbye (for Now)

Gratitude Email #1 – Amy Jacobs Dear Miss Amy Jacobs, thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I could say it a million more times and a million after that and it sti...

Cas Reflection

Tell me about something that you were not very good at in the beginning of the CAS course. Be specific! Let’s be real here, at the beginning of CAS I struggled with a lot of...

Factual Journal Entry – (more) Club Time!

Factual Journal Entry – Club Time!

Factual Journal Entry

Hello all. I am alive. Contrary to how it may appear, I actually have not been living under a rock or on a remote island for the last 4 weeks. In fact, I have been living what...

Learning Outcome Entry

Learning Outcomes Journal Entry Welcome back all for this week’s installment of semi-CAS related journal entries with Sam, a journey into my psyche, IB, MUN, and a whole lot...

Club Journal Entry

To say that things have been difficult recently would be an understatement. I have been tried and tested in ways I couldn’t have possibly seen coming, and it has not been wi...

Screenshot From The Airstrike Video

Screenshot From The Airstrike Video

Risk Management

Risk Management. When I think of risk management my mind automatically goes to physical risk, and I’m sure many of you feel the same. I’ve spent a large part of my life pa...

Two-week Schedule

Cas Journal Prompts And Reflection

Welcome back everyone! Today is a truly monumental day, as it is the first time I actually follow the prompts Ms. Amy provides with minimal historical/pop culture references. ...

My Goals And Inspiration T3

My Goals And Inspiration T3

My Goals And Inspiration For T3

Hello all! Following my slightly confusing but hopefully insightful reflection on leadership and IB, I’ve decided to write my final journal entry of break on my goals and ex...

My Goals And Inspiration For T3

Hello all! Following my slightly confusing but hopefully insightful reflection on leadership and IB, I’ve decided to write my final journal entry of break on my goals and ex...

Leaders And Ib

Leaders And Ib

Wowie! It has been two weeks since break started, and two weeks since my first official Model United Nations Conference came to an end. This conference was two trimesters in t...

Progress! – Human Rights Council Security Guide

Progress! – Picture Of The Security Council Topic Guide

Progress!

Wow, it has certainly been a while (or maybe it feels like it because IB has this strange effect of slowing down time). Either way, my CAS project has grown tremendously in th...

Selflessness – Un Peacekeeper

Selflessness

As I’ve said before, IB is a fascinating program in the sense that while we (students) become far more aware of the world around us and how it works, we also become inherent...

Someone Who Surprised Me!

I have a little present I’d like to give all my readers today, and that gift is this journal entry. For the first time in what seems like a very, very long time, I will be w...

Current Calendar (thanks To Ananda)

Who Has Surprised Me?

I have a little present I’d like to give all my readers today, and that gift is this journal entry. For the first time in what seems like a very, very long time, I will be w...

Something I Am Proud Of – My New And Improved Trimester 2 Bio Grade!

Something I Am Proud Of – My Bio Grade From Trimester 1

Something I’m Proud Of

CAS and IB are truly difficult programs, and I find that it is incredibly easy to overlook positive things and accomplishments and get caught up among challenges and weaknesse...

A Possibly Outdated Schedule

Vulnerability

CAS is 100% a process of reflection. From start to finish, you are constantly examining your personal performance and strength in everything from commitment to public speaking...

Wonderment Grant – 1 Community Interview Left!

Wonderment Grant – Current Budget

Wonderment Grant

With any good news, there will always be bad news. I feel like although it is a tad bit dramatic, this statement accurately represents IB for a variety of different reasons. C...

My Schedule!

Planning And Procrastination

A wise man once said that passing IB is nothing more than a matter of pure determination, caffeine, and strategically planned procrastination. Planned procrastination? Sounds ...

Helping With Sibley’s Project 1

My Planning Page

Activity – What Have I Been Up To This Break?

I’ll be the first to admit that while I was in northern Florida, where it was 45 – 60 degrees about 95% of the time, I spent most of my days curled up on the couch...

Another Fascinating Headline With International Implications!

One Of The Headline Articles From Today That Poses An Interesting Topic Idea

Winter Break Update – Lpmun

Howdy! Its been a while since Ive posted, and let me just say it is incredible to finally be back! This break has been chalk full of activities for me, but within those I stil...

Immigrants Scaling The U.s. Border Wall, A Popular Topic In Mun And One With Serious Ethical Implications

Ethics – Moral Relativism And Model United Nations

The question of ethics is one that occupies almost every area of society and our lives, from the news we read to the conversations we have to the handling of cultural and reli...

In A World Of Darkness

I am very excited to finally get the chance to discuss my CAS video in detail, and let me tell you it is going to be incredible! This video will provide tremendous insight int...

Cas Night #2

Cas Night!

Cas Night

Welcome back! It’s a beautiful Sunday night in Guanacaste, and I am sitting here reflecting on CAS night in all its awe and glory. CAS night was undoubtedly a success, a...

Post Pressure-washing The Youth Center!

Post Clean-up

Planning – The Key To Making Life Easier

Hello all, we’re back with another installment of Let’s See if Sam Can Keep Up with CAS. We are currently entering our third month of school and CAS, as well as nearing th...

A Sample Of My Guide To Being An Mun Chair

An Example Of My Second Seminar Title Slide

Progress Update: How Is The Project Running?

So we’ve finally passed the first progress reports, and the shock and nervous excitement that accompanied the initial weeks of IB are starting to wear off. Of course, th...