Shumbashaba Horses Helping People Proposal

IB/CAS Proposal

Candidate Name: Enya Calibuso

Activity/Project: Shumbashaba Horses Helping People

Date: 23 January 2013

Intro: I chose to join Shumbashaba because; I’ve always loved working and volunteering with animals’ great and small. My skill level working with horses is beginner/novice; however, I would love the opportunity to fulfill my goal. The college profession that I plan on pursuing is zoology. My talent is being compassionate, caring, and patient with animals.

Targeted Learning Outcomes:

By working with the Shumbashaba horses, I will be undertaking a new challenge in all aspects of caring and working around horses. I have only ridden horses a few times on trails. By volunteering my time at Shumbashaba, I am hoping to develop new skills and understandings of horses, especially the healing powers they offer to humans. I feel I have a need in all areas dealing with horses for growth, which in return will give me the ability to know where my strengths and weaknesses are.

This activity will complete my Action and Service section of CAS.

Activity Description:

My role at Shumbashaba will be working hand in hand with a skilled horse professional. Therefore, I will assist and aid where needed. Also, I will learn new tasks at the same time. My responsibilities will include caring for the horses such as: mucking their stalls, feeding, and brushing them down.

End:

There is an opportunity for me to learn a new skill, while helping people and the horses. This will allow me to personally grow in this large animal field, which will enhance and contribute to my future goal as a zoologist. I will be a positive role model and I will foster and assist with responsibilities dealing with the horses.

Supervising Adult:

Mrs. Maree

dmaree@aisj-jhb.com

CAS Coordinator:

Ms. Deanne Slattery

dslattery@aisj-jhb.com

Limpopo Reflection 1 - 13 - 14

Limpopo Reflection 1 – 13 – 14

            The American International School of Johannesburg (AISJ) Limpopo Team visited Marumofase High School in Limpopo in November 2013. We met the first generation of ‘born frees.’ Each student was able to write his or her own personal story. The AISJ team collected the stories and distributed them between ourselves to type and edit during the December break. Some fascinating and interesting stories emerged from the collection of stories.

            My observations and perceptions regarding this learning moment left me understanding the extreme life and circumstances that these young adults go through. On a positive note, they’re all reaching for the same dream – to succeed and become successful. The common terminology that a lot of the students used was to become doctors and lawyers. Weighing the nature of the motivation by the students when we gave them the task of taking pride in writing their own stories was very welcomed.

The AISJ Limpopo team enjoyed the challenge and was able to reflect personally on our own limitations when reading the stories of young adults our same age. The learning moments that I take away from this experience is on a deeper level. This was not just simply helping these students with their homework, but taking a look inside the lives of each and every one of these students.

            A problem that surfaced while editing these stories was many of the students got off track and wrote about their personal lives and hardships, rather than being the first generation of ‘born frees.’ Therefore, it was a bit difficult to choose stories that fit into the ‘born free’ topic.

The project is still going forth on producing a book as our future goal. All in all, it was a very productive project and we are now preparing for our January meeting with the Limpopo students.