Soon christmas holiday!

Yaya! There is around  a week until christmas break! I can't wait to relax, chill, eat a lot of food, hang out - WUHU.

Anyway, this week a lot of things about CAS has been going on - biology teaching, shadowing a doctor, photography - my brain is a little tired of CAS know that you know, haha. Oh, and also this is my last of Yoga today (for this year) - I will continue after christmas break, so I can get my actions in CAS (Haha, even more CAS). So far, I have a pretty track of what I am doing on my CAS, so there is not a problem with that. (Much more CAS now)


Guess I'll leave you to something else. I managed to mention CAS 6 times now. 7 times now.

Snow, please come!

Ho, ho, ho!

1st of December. I can tell, 'cause it is getting really cold lately (mornings especially). 2 weeks until holiday/vacation, what a relief.

Well, since I'm back to school after the MUN, I have to say that I have a lot of things I have to do. Right now, we're doing or starting up on our IA in History. (Exam) It is due until April, that is a long time, hopefully no procrastination! After christmas I'll be doing my IOP in Danish and my TOK presentation as well. Yeah, I know 3 exams during/after holidays, woohoo.

Otherwise, I forgot to post this post yesterday, so now it is here Monday instead. Have a nice 1st december, everyone :-D

xoxo.

Back from MUN!

Hi peepz!

So, I might've mentioned in my last post, I might've not, but the thing is, I just got back from my first real MUN conference!

I tell you! It was awesome! We were 6 people representing The Oriental Republic of Uruguay on behalf of currently occurring world crisis. (We had to discuss ensuring the enforcement of human basic rights in Tibet, etc.)

So the conference was called EGMUN. It is annual and there were people from Turkey, Germany, Ireland and Mauritius. I sure met a lot of people, and gosh, they were soooooo nice! :-D

Anyway, we had to be away for 5 days. I can assure you that we had to talk about politics and world crisis from 9-17 everyday! NO TIME TO RELAX. Except late nights, where most of us ate candy and chips and drank sodas, while doing our homework.

I was actually not supposed to go, but then a girl couldn't go for a reason, so when my teacher asked me, I said YES. I didn't regret it.

I can happily say now, that I have gained a lot of knowledge in just 5 days. I now love politics even more, so much that I trying to find a small committee of young UN delegates around my city to join. I  follow news much more - not that I didn't do it before, of course I did, but now EVERYTHING catches my interest. I can now be happy, that I have developed a so called "Political Jargon" - Formal Register. IT'S THE BEST.
EXPERIENCE. FUN.




Cheers xo

Late blog!

Hi!

Sorry, I forgot to write last week, so this update is for last week.
Well, I didn't really have anything to talk about, except that I was celebrating my sister's birthday Wednesday and Saturday ( we also had my three cousins and my Auntie over by my house)

Other than that, it wasn't really anything exciting during the week!

Getting started!

Yup, here I am! It was a lovely week, I had to meet up late for all my classes, which I simply couldn't be more thankful for :-). Now, tomorrow monday, is going to be rough on me, have to wake up very early. Gosh. It will be over soon, y'know, monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday... BAM weekend. Then the whole cycle over and over again.

I feel like winter is soon embracing Denmark, don't hate, I love fall, but shh.. it's getting really cold! Especially when you have to wait for buses and trains. Then minutes will turn into hours. More buses and trains will be cancelled. But hey, it'll be nice for cozy, sleepy times when the it's storming and raining! [That's what I love about fall]

Hope y'all having it great! :-)

Last day of my holiday..

Heya.


My last day of my vacation! It was a pretty relaxed vacation, Århus, home, and looked after friends cute cat.


Now, it is time for school tomorrow. Oh don't we love Monday mornings? :-)


Fall is a pretty season to me, really cozy (includes drinking a lot of coffee)
Have fun y'all!

Week with CAS-project

Hello to you, again!


So this week has been a bit different. My class has gone for a study trip in London, and a few of the student, that couldn't go for different reasons, were supposed to do a CAS video.

Now, in this CAS-project video, we had to portray the life of an IB-student in Ikast. (This video suites exactly my blog :-)).

We ended up doing a video that was a doodle/draw my life inspired!


Needless to say, it was fun to make and the video will shortly be put here!

 - OH, and next week there is holiday (Efterårsferie) ! Soooo excited!
Enjoy a nice sunrise in my city!

Bye Guys.

How To: Take Perfect Notes

As promised last week, I told you that my next blog post would be something helpful for you IB'ers!

So, here it is!


1.  Read your material before taking notes. 
Make sure you read your WHOLE material before taking notes, as you might not understand the overall content of the material. Then, read the material(each section) and annotate the important words/sentences. By doing that, you will not only understand the material better, but you will know what to write down or highlight. This brings us to the next step!

2. Know your method of taking notes
Now, taking notes is different from person to person. Here, I am going to state the ways I take notes, which can be helpful to any of you!

 -  Cornell note taking:   Beneficial when you have to understand a subject, for example in biology
if you have to write about i.e. Prokaryotes.
You will have to state an overall title (Prokaryotes) - and summarize what a prokaryote is and its functions.  The last part of this is a summary of your notes in your own words.

Source: internet/google

 - Highlighted notes: This is good, if you need to quickly highlight important terms as done here, or even a particular sentence. This method of note-taking is a good thing to do, especially when you are given a text in printed copies and you want to highlight certain events, dates, words, etc.

Get funky with all kinds of different highlighters!

- Online note-taking: When you're out of paper, or simply want to save your paper for later important uses, what is better than online note taking?!

Personally, I use OneNote for my school, just as many other people do and it is fantastic! 

You might not be able to see the content of the picture (but you get the idea)

This method of note-taking is brilliant because:

• It saves time
• Notes are constantly saved (no worries)
• You won't lose your notes! (in the air storage)
• Nice, if you bring your computer everyday
• It is simply amazing!

Evernote is also one of my favorite, but since I do not use it school-wise, I therefore cannot elaborate on this one. You have to try it out yourself!

And to the last method...

- Mindmapping: I use this one a lot for history. It helps establish an overall picture of the topic you're encountering. The super good thing about this, is that it can be done in the beginning of your topic (before you learn anything) and it can be done after/during your study of your topic. (So like a comparison between your knowledge prior and after)

This I used using an app called "SimpleMind Free" - I think it is only available in the App Store for Macs. (There is one similar for the Windows Store called " NovaMind")
The app is not free, however you can screenshot your result and then use it for whatever you want!

3.  But is it readable? And understandable?

There is nothing like waking up in the morning on your Physics Exam, taking out your notes written over the past 2 years, stand there and think: 

"What kind of state was I in, when I wrote this?  These aren't even COMPLETE sentences! ARGH"

 - Let me tell you this. Just by showing my ways of taking notes, doesn't mean your notes are going to be perfect! Remember, when writing, write mainly in your own words! In that sense, it will be easier for to understand the topic better. 

"But what if there is a sentence, that perfectly describes how I would've said it?". 

Yeah, yeah you can include that. As long as you understand it! Otherwise, there is no point in writing it?

Most importantly, write it, so you can read it. I have heard bad excuses for failing an exam, such as: "Hey, I failed because I couldn't read my own freaking notes!"

4.  Check upon your notes

Once in a while, look back at your notes and check if they still make sense! If they don't, you probably haven't written down enough or any important information. Also, try to add more and more each time, so that you're sure that you aren't missing any important points. 

5. You're simply good to go!

There you have it! Have fun note-taking!

Yay for IB!

Okay, so as I probably mentioned before, this blog is keeping up with me being an IB-student in Denmark. Though, I still have to get into the routine of writing a blog every week :-)

My week started quite nice and peaceful, until I remembered that this week, I was having 5 assignments and 1 upcoming test. It has been awesome, anyway, because I studied with my friends for test. (It helped each other in so many ways)

We, in Denmark, do not have fully english-speaking high schools/colleges.  We are a small amount of people (approx. 200 on my school). Our nationalities are different, yet most of us are danes.  The language policy is of course speaking English as much as we can, all the time, to help us improve our abilities in speaking in English. 

Okay, back to what I was talking about! Today, I was off at 15.05, which is normal. I had to stay at school because I had MUN (Model United Nations, and I had a meeting in Young Enterprise).

Sitting back home now, and doing my assignments and homework!

Next time, there is gonna be  little How To: keep your notes organized, assignment tips, and how to remember important things for tests.


Oh, and there might be pictures coming soon!

Calling all IB'ers....

Hellow fellow earthlings! 

My name is Yasmin, and I am an IB-student in Denmark. I will show you how being an IB-student in Denmark is like,  my personal ways of going through IB, and tips for you on how to succeed IB.

Hope you are staying tuned for upcoming blogs, and feel free to contact me!