Tuesday, August 12, 2008

26th July- My own ACS(Int'l) Interact Club Installation! Matthew has now been installed as Director of Club Service! What is my exact task? Sorry I do not know! This role made my forth leadership role for this year.
1. ACS(BR) Venture Vice-Chairmain(Administration) ...butM.I.A half the time .I apologize for it.
2. ACS(Int'l) Student Council Delegate
3. Class Monitor
4. Interact Club Director of Club Service.

8th July- School's National Celebrations
Help out at one of the School's Amazing Singapore Race Competition.

9th-10th July- Preserve Planet Earth Turtle Project to Kuantan Pahang, Malaysia.
Spent half the time travelling 16hrs+ in total( to and fro). So boring! Watched Love Guru and Walle on board the bus. Released some baby turtle hatchings into the sea. Walked along beautiful sandy beaches, did a batik colouring(which I can stick into my IB art research workbook), did some shopping, Slept in a horrible hotel, proberbly to worst I ever had. The whole room smelt like smoke,the windows couldn't open to air the room, and even the toilet door was rotting. But still kinda fun Overall! In conclusion, lets conserve the living creatures on our planet. It's our duty!

Council Delegates Camp:

The Council Delegate Camp purpose was for delegates to bond together, as well to bond with the school councilors  and to learn leadership and team skills. The camp was two days and one night. Delegates were divided up into two separate groups call Alpha and Zeta I was in team Zeta. Each group had to work and stay together for the entire duration of the camp.

The camp kicked off with ice-breakers, a game where we literally had to break ice in a milk carton. Other games includes dog and bone as well as captain’s ball (but this time round, fruits were used instead).

After the ice-breaker games, we played another game where we had to do a series of different task such as a team-member commanding other blind folded members to do various tasks such as fetching a pail of water from one point to another. This simple game tests us on our hearing/listening and communication skills. Communication is a really important skill for leadership.

Following dinner, the last game we had was really similar to the childhood game of ‘hide and seek’ where we were supposed to find a councilor hidden somewhere around the school compound.

The following Morning, we had a lecture on leadership by Mr Png (the school’s Pastoral Vice-principal, who is also in-charge of discipline).  Following the lecture, we embarked on the game called ‘Amazing  race’ Each team were initially given a clue to start off with. Each clue led to a location. And at each location, we had to fulfill certain tasks singing a song. We had to go out to school into the Holland Village area to complete our tasks. Each Team was accompanied by 2 councilors who would release the next clue to the team once a task had been completed. I thought my team worked pretty well together and that we were really cooperative and enthusiastic. That allowed us to complete all the tasks and returned back to school before the other them.

Once back in school, the very last game that we had was very similar to a Obstacle course. Each one of us had to go through a series of obstacles such as crawling under a chair, sliding across a groundsheet that was covered with soap, eggs and soy sauce. The purpose of the came was the allow us to once again work together as a team and support each other.

Through this camp, I managed to learn and get to know my fellow delegates even better. Through the series of games, I believe that we bonded really well and hence achieve the aim of the camp which was to bring us together.

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