Migicovsky

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Creative, Active, and Service Hours: The Ultimate Ultimatum

Eric Migicovsky

D-0277-093

April 13, 2004

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The extraordinarily important Creative, Action and Service volunteer component of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme has forever ameliorated my personal experience of life.  Prior to my inauguration into the glamorous field of the International Student, I rarely participated at all in school or community based activities.  On a normal basis, my sole pursuits comprised of sports, such as soccer and ultimate and/or clubs at my erstwhile locale of lofty learning, the High School of Kitsilano.  I entered the Creative, Active and Service environment empty-headed, and open-minded, ready to embrace the wonderful challenges that it would bestow upon my ever-deserving psyche hungering for personal growth and enrichment.  My personal goals for the Creative, Active, and service increasingly important component were basically to disintegrate those preconceived boundaries I held that blocked me from participating in school activities, and instead, to integrate into the school environment and participate heavily in everything to which my involvement would be of benefit.  I believe that through the activities, clubs and teams, the involvement in which I will detail in the coming paragraphs, I have clearly enriched my life, and helped enrich the lives of others, to a much higher degree than before my entrance into the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme.

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I began right away at Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School with my new goal of 'Participaction.'  My first major Creative endeavour was voluntarily aiding the oft-neglected Theatre department of our school.  I teamed up with my fellow student and eager participant Edward Ou to volunteer our precious time and effort into the bettering of the many productions that Theatre Churchill produces every single year.  I was delegated the job of organising and melding the small group of willing volunteer stage-crew members into a invincible strike force of able-bodied workers, ready to jump at my command and perform tasks with split-second ...

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