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CAS Blog (2/27/22)   C = Exploring and extending ideas leading to an original or interpretive product or performance Learning Outcome 5: Demonstrate the skills and recognize the benefits of working collaboratively. This week I had a great idea to help out my job by using my talents in another way. Social media outreach. Truthfully, being active on social media nowadays is more of a negative thing rather than a positive, however, in the lens of business, it is a great way to reach a large mass of potential future customers. Because my restaurant's social media activity has been minimal in the last few years, I came up with a proposal to manage all the accounts for the various socials (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, etc.) as both a hobby I enjoy and a way to highlight the food. Instead of the dull captions and poor-quality pictures, I would use catchy messages and vibrant pictures to give a truer perspective of what we do there. As screens and social media prominently dominate the mod...

CAS Blog (2/13/22) A = Physical exertion contributing to a healthy lifestyle Learning Outcome 2: Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process. During the last week, I began my first shifts at my job at Samurai Noodle. From day one I realized this would be a big jump from all the forms of work experience I have had in the past, such as volunteer work and internships. This job required me to work in a fast-paced environment, performing an extensive number of tasks independently. For example, I had to memorize acronyms to write down orders faster, learn how to set up the restaurant, take orders from customers and seat them, clean tables, and many more. It needed a lot of focus to keep track of so many responsibilities, especially as the restaurant would hit a full house and my co-workers left me to handle all of them since we are short-staffed. However, despite this new challenge, I was surprised to say that I enjoyed it a lot. Time passed quickly...

CAS Blog (2/6/22) S = Collaborative and reciprocal community engagement in response to an authentic need Learning Outcome 4: Show commitment to and perseverance in a fieldwork experience. This Saturday I had the opportunity to volunteer at Asia Society's annual Lunar Festival Celebration which was hosted in their own building. The event had a number of activities, ranging from arts and crafts, live performances, and the famous dragon dance in the plaza. As with last week's blog, this event really strengthened my connection to Asia Society, and I'm glad I agreed to do it. However, there are some key things I learned today regarding perseverance.  I was assigned the task of helping to "print" buttons in the Houston Public Library event bus; an activity that was very popular among the children. The task in itself was simple, operate a button printer of sorts and guide the children to make their own creations to immortalize in a button. However, the volunteer who was ...