Surviving In The Middle of The Ocean - PDW Reflection

A boat stranded in the middle of the dutch sea. The task: feed the crew and your boat squad, keep the boat clean and somehow keep it moving. For our PDW this year we went on an adventurous journey from Switzerland to the Netherlands to go sailing on the Waddenzee for 1 week. Whilst cooking together, working together in order to survive and not get food poisoning out on the water all of us grew as people and as a group. In order to enable this sufficiency and success of the trip we very much did use the IB Learner Profile in action.

The goal of this trip was to make friends, be more open minded, increase your ATL skills and work sufficiently as a team. Personally, I think that this trip made all of us use the Learner Profile without even realizing it. Said profile is about creating mindful and open minded international students and includes the strands you can see in the picture on the right. Whilst all the fun we had on bike rides, napping and just hanging out together was definitely the main part of this trip, in the background there was the profile and a development in all of us there much like on previous PDWs to Lake Garda or France.

Through being stuck with the same people on a boat for a week long and being very independent we started developing strong bonds with each other, making us more caring, open-minded through the activities, thinkers through having to solve problems and even more. In conclusion through PDW we make use of the IB Learner Profile and it’s brought to action.