Today we had Robert Winson, an alumni from UBC Sauders Business School who now works for a film company in California. His seminar topic is about how successful comes from honesty. So from the start, he straightforwardly told us that the root to success is is honesty, as we cannot achieve something or know exactly what we want without being honest to ourselves or the people around us. What caught my attention is that, in the middle of the session, he told the story about him coming out to his parents, which is an example of an honesty from ourselves. He said that if he didn't came out like that and be true to himself he would never be the successful person that he is now. I got so inspired by him since now I realized that without being honest to ourselves and open to other people about our feelings and wants, we would never get to the top since in order to do that we have to be true with positivity in mind. In the awaited Q&A session, I asked him how does he keep yourself from being unmotivated from all the mistakes he had to make before he knew what he wanted and his purpose of life. His is answer is motivating to me, as this came from the person who is so positive and so open-minded about who we really are. He said that just keep being positive and be who you are not what people want you to be, that way you'll keep yourself on track on the process of being successful.
After this fully inspiring session, I met again with my GAT group to discuss about what we are going to do in the Global Village session on the last day of the conference. Basically, we were compiling ideas from all the members about the activities and how we are going to achieve the activities aimed to promote sustainability in our environment. Our GAT group is divided into two teams; the planning team and action team. What it basically is the planning team is the team who will present the ideas to promote sustainability that us as a whole had came up with the other day and explain about how we are going to bring the project further to each of our school in hope the activities can work well and bring sustainability to the school's community mind. The action team, on the other hand, is going to make a viral video, which was one of our ideas, that promote sustainability as an example on how we can apply the ideas to promote the cause. Being in the GAT group meeting, especially today, brought an important realization to me that us, IB students, even though we are still young and inexperience in so many things, we had already made such project like this that will not only benefit the school, but also the school's surrounding community as well.
After lunch, we finally headed out to the Vancouver Aquarium, a trip that we all anticipated for the whole week. Vancouver Aquarium, again, opened my eyes to such diversity in the world that even gave me more motivation to be sustainable and promote the cause to save the mother nature from tearing apart. When I went around in the aquarium listening to the explanation from the staff, I realized that even the Vancouver Aquarium has been sustainable for a long period of time in hope to save and conserve different kinds of animal there is. From this I realized, that Vancouver is one of the cities in the world that has been sustainable and this makes me want to bring all the ideas that we have accumulated in the past few days back to my country in hope I can make a big difference in my country's way of life, improving it to be more sustainable like Vancouver.
At 5 PM, we all headed out to an area near the Vancouver Aquarium to have a picnic and it was lots of fun seeing that this is the last moments we can be together before the conference ends. Then, we went to the ship dock where all 300 and more of us got to the cruise and had a really good time! We bonded with each other through music that was played all night long in the cruise, making me kind of sad that we are ending all of these meaningful and fun activities tomorrow! Even so, we can still get in touch with each other and hopefully all of our CAS ideas will work out in each of our school.
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