My seventh blog : the workshop program

      My seventh blog:  a one day long workshop program

This week, the topic is the tasty and preference.  However, I prefer to talk something about the workshop program which impressed me very much.

  There were some small activities for us to train our leadership and teamwork. The first activity was to find friends. Everyone had his own value, and might be worth 50cents or 1 dollar. We could not ignore ourselves and must be aware that we were able to be more useful if we could work together to make the account larger. We also realized the saying during this game, that Game reflects reality, and game reflects characters. When we cannot reach the amount, some people chose to drag others into our group. There was much fun as well.

    The second game was the leg pyramid. First we thought we needed more people to thicken the foundation. The thicker it was, the more steadily it became. With the idea, we agreed to make many boys at the bottom. However, the idea made us the lowest with the height of 1.78 cm. after the first try , we realized that it was not heavy at all when we reached high, because each foot was lifted by others, we did not need so many people to make the foundation, which was a waste of resource. Then, the small girls were put at the bottom, and strong boys hugged the light girls to put them high. One by one, we reach the ceiling with the height of 2.80cm. Though it was obvious to show the teamwork, I want to stress the importance of it again. For us studying in NUS, we have few chances to finish something together, so it is kind of difficult to let us be united and fight for the same goal. Now we stress individual more, I think.

  The third game was to throw five balls at one time, and we must finish the circle with each one touching the ball for five times. We could not throw the ball to people beside us. Maybe it sounds simple, we could not finish the task at last. We talked much about the strategy and tried few times. The shortcoming was that we could not focus on the ball we needed to take and get rid of the bordering from other groups. The whole group created the nervous atmosphere. Talking wasted us lots of time so that we hardly put what we thought about into practice.  After that, we felt a little upset. When it was time to conclude, we came up with our feedback. I considered it important that we should focus on what we are doing.

   The fourth game was to stand in one hula hoop for all of us. Specifically, all of our feet should be put in the hula hoop. And I thought it was not very difficult. However, some people also made some sacrifice. They allowed others to lie on their back to spare more room for others.

   The last game which impressed me much was that we five groups must co-operate to move from one side to the other with feet in the few hula hoops and the strict rules. At that time, we forgot whether we knew each other or not, we just took it in heart that we were a whole group. We needed to help each other with our best. it was really hot when we hugged together, but in such a terrible situation, people showed their respect to others, especially when somebody broke the rules so that we had to start again . We could not speak, or make any sounds because of the rules. With time passing by, we finally found the useful and effective way to reach our destination.     From this game, I found a lot actually, though it was a little boring for us adults. The teamwork showed all the way along. The lesson about the leadership, the strategies, the co-operation and some feelings were all useful in the future work, in my opinion.

  Despite the fact that it is tiring and kind of boring, I enjoyed it as well.