With the summer now officially over and school back in full swing, I think it's about time to review on how I've kept up with CAS over the holidays, especially as I spent 3 weeks away in Mauritius and Hungary. This meant that my activities had to be applicable on a global scale and easy to do with limited supplies.
Creativity
- Photography. As both Cailin and I were running out of quality photographs to post on our photography blog, we decided to plan a trip to a European city to improve our lineup of posts. After much discussing, we decided on Budapest, which is only 1.5 hours away by plane. Even though we only spent two days (and three nights) in the beautiful city, we managed to take over 1,200 photos between us. Sadly, I couldn't take my DSLR camera with me because we wanted to keep the trip cheap and therefore, we travelled with only hand luggage. Fortunately, I was able to take my camera with me to Mauritius, which also meant that I managed to take many pictures.
- Drawing. This was definitely more sporadic than photography and I would only open up my sketchbook when I 'was in the mood for it'. Somehow, over the holidays I managed to fill up nearly the whole sketchbook. I finally started to do some more experimenting with different media, such as fineliners.
- Video editing. From the two trips I went on, I took short video clips of exciting moments/events and then later compiled them into a few minute video. To this, I added music into the background. All of this was done using iMovie, although I'd be able to do much more with the Final Cut Pro software, but it is far too expensive to splurge on it for videos that are made only for myself as 'memories' rather than for sharing.
Activity
- Hikes. Admittedly, I do not enjoy hikes in themselves very much, but it is undoubtably the best way to explore new places whether that be a city or forest.
- Tennis. I played tennis regularly when I was much younger, but haven't picked up the sport since, so it was very exciting to see that the accommodation where we were staying throughout the course of our holidays had it's own tennis court and gym for us to use. This meant that we played tennis almost every night and went to the gym every morning. My tennis skills are definitely completely gone, but I'm hoping that with more practice in the future, I can regain my cooridation (or at least some of it).
- Swimming. Aside from the tennis courts, we also had a huge swimming pool available for us to use and with it being my favourite sport, I couldn't resist swimming a few laps every morning.
- Running. With the charity run coming up quickly and large gaps in the time since I last went running, I decided that summer would be a good time to get back on track. Unfortunately, it became harder to fit it into my schedule with the travelling I was doing and I didn't manage to go running as much as I wanted to initially. I am not feeling prepared for the run, but I'm hoping to still practice some more closer to the date.
- Cycling.
Service
- Planning for more Cystic Fibrosis projects. At the beginning of september, we will be running in a race in support of Cystic Fibrosis. Over summer, we spent time planning the details of the run, as well as many other future projects we are looking forward to doing.
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