Subbotnik - Weekend Service Festival in Moscow

This weekend for my service part of CAS I decided to volunteer on the Subbotnik day in Moscow. It was a great opportunity for me to develop new skill and undertake new challenges. Subbotnik is a day where people can volunteer to clean up parks and help keep Moscow tidy. I was there with about 80 other volunteers who also helped in the cause.

It was fun and a great opportunity to improve my gardening skill as I cleaned the park. The best was that we didn’t have to bring the tools as they lended us the shovels and rakes. First I cleaned the part next to the road and then I moved onto cleaning the inner parts of the park.

I saw this opportunity to help when I was travelling back from school one day and I saw it on a billboard, so I decided to help. The park I helped at was next to the Kutuzoff Avenue.

I feel really good and proud because I could help and provide a service to the city I currently live in. Not that I only helped in cleaning but I also worked collaboratively with the other volunteers (helped to hold bags and organised which parts we are going to clean) but I also considered the ethical implications of my actions. I also found out one of my strengths, it being that I am quite good at gardening.

Though it was tiring I think it was very worth it and I am ready to do it again any time. It also made me realise how important the environment we live in is. We have to keep it clean in order to live healthily and happily.

CAS Plan Number 3

Creativity
I will cook a Hungarian dish ( with potatoes and salami but hard to explain the name.)
I will try to write a poem.

Action
I will go to math club every Tuesday.
I will go to literature club every Monday

Service
I will go to the Weekend Service 'Festival' which is this week Saturday.
I will help out in a hospital if I get the permission. Probably in the next two weeks.

Easter Egg Painting

This weekend it was Easter so I decided to do something creative for this special occasion. I painted eggs with acrylic paint. In Hungary it is a tradition during Easter to paint eggs which then become Easter Eggs. It is a great way to be creative and it is also very enjoyable.

I took a few eggs and painted different sybols and patterns on them which are connected to Easter. It was fun to paint them and I felt like I was improving my artistic skills. But sadly I have identified that it is still not my strongest skill. So there are still some improvements to be made in my artistic skills. Though I am not very good at art, I still feel that my creations are pretty decent and I like them very much.

This activity meant a lot to me as being creative nowadays is essential to a good career in the future as people always look up on others who have the talent to come up with infinite amount of ideas and never back down. Furthermore from the activity I learned that I should respect artists as what they do is as hard as me doing calculations. Painting is not easy and it requires passion, patience, and discipline.

The Grand Spring Clean

Last weekend I arrived back from Turkey on Saturday. It was fun but I still had some charitable spirit within me. I live in a flat with my family in the centre of Moscow and wouldn’t quite like to say that it is a nice and pleasant and tidy block of flats. We Hungarians quite keen on spring cleaning so I decided to offer my help and provide a service in cleaning up the block to the landlady.

It was a long winter and the cleaners were occupied by the tonnes of snow which fell since    November. So it was a huge mess in the block. The spring break was quite handy as I had the time to do the work and help with the cleaning on Sunday in the end of the break.

It was tiring work but I was handling it well and finished in barely over one and a half hours, I developed my skills and increased knowledge in what I am capable of. Though I was tired I knew I did something good and felt quite proud of it. Also the stairwell which was my part of the job looks much cleaner now and better to look at than before. Furthermore this helped the neighbours aswell so I considered the ethical implications of my actions.

Though it was much easier to do the spring cleans in Hungary as we live in a detached house and have a garden which I used to regularly help clean and water. However in Moscow that is not possible, it is a shame I could only help with the stairwell and the halls but I undertook new challenges and now it looks much nicer and I am willing and able to do it next year too.

Conference work in Turkey

In the spring break I got an offer from my father to attend a company conference and provide a service rather than staying at home and not doing anything useful. Well, not as a participant but as a supporter.
The conference was held in Turkey on the Mediterranean coast, not far from Antalya, in Tekirova.
The theme of the conference was about pharmaceutical issues. Mostly doctors and pharmacists participated in it. The conference lasted five days, but I could stay for a week. The deal was that I had to support the conference in the morning hours, with organisational and administrative issues. In the afternoon I was completely free. I could have rest, swim, read books in the fresh air outside in the sunshine. I was very lucky with the weather. The temperature was about 25 C degrees, though it wasn't quite like summer yet. Though it was fairly warm, it was not possible to swim in the sea, the sea water was still cold. I went knee-deep into the sea, but I did not swim in the 14 C degree water. Only the indoor heated swimming pool was good for swimming.
I did not receive any payment just the flights tickets, the accommodation in this very nice hotel with recreation facilities and of course I could gain experience, too. I did not get paid extra for it, but still was worth it as I could undertake new challenges.
I could use my knowledge of Russian language, as the conference participants came from Russia. Approximately 300 participants were there and my job was to work at the information desk to help people adjust them en route. Emerging issues (like lost key, lost way to the conference rooms, etc.) were expected to be settled by me and also help the participants to proceed towards the hotel reception with different issues, because they did not speak English at all.
I never before attended such an event but I was happy that I could aid my father and his company with such actions (showed commitment in my actions). It was interesting to see how it works, what people do there. I had the chance to develop new skills and increase awareness in my areas of growth. If in the future will have the chance again to go to such a conference as a supporter I will be happy to undertake this task. First, take my time usefully and secondly you may meet beautiful new places and new people. And then once I arrive as well as participating in such a conference.