Reflection on ELC '07
Alhamdulillah… ELC '07 has over. Too many sweet memories to be shared with my fellow friends. My heartfelt thanks goes to all of you for making this event the marked history in my life.
I have been working in a lot of organization before this. However, this is my first time working with a crew full with energy and enthusiastic people. Never during the camp had I felt the energy is decreasing. You girls are a bunch of bubbly and bouncy individuals. I felt proud to be given the opportunity to be on this team. I can never successfully delivered my task without the help from each and every one of you.
What I have learned the most from this camp is how to compose myself when any unexpected thing happened. I learned how to calm myself and this is new (you can ask my beloved roommate…huhu…).
Apart from that, I also learned that every decision I made should be informed to other facilitators since I am working with a team. This is to avoid any confusion and misunderstanding of plans (Fatin - this was what happened on the last day of the camp. I was shocked till I can't explained to you what happened).
Last but not least, I have only one regret – I wished I had enough time to build good rapport with the participants. Luckily, during Last Letter game, I had that extra few minutes to have a chat with them and I managed to exchange ideas on how to learn English. I also found out that the biggest problem they had was not because of lack of interest in English but they did not have the opportunity to practice the language.
** Something to share with you guys: - A week after language camp I received a text message from one of the participants. She said that she just had a presentation in English and she can present better compared to before she went to language camp. How about that guys?... Feel good?... I do...
*v*v*v*v* WANI *v*v*v*v*
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yeah...i think we should know our participants better n closer. i think we have created an environment where everybody was eager to speak and communicate in english. wani, it is okay for that last day. maybe you have overlooked the thing.yeah...it feels good to know that we actually helped the participant to speak better english after the 3-days camp..lalalalala ..
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waahhh... i'm so touched!!!
ReplyDeletetq because acknowledged me as your beloved roommate... cheewaahh..
i think all of us had learnt something from the camp although we had joined many other programme before. but this camp is totally different because of the jovial atmosphere and the teamworking between us... rite?
It's really touching when somebody appreciates our hardwork.And having the participants respond to us in such a way makes us feel we are useful to them somehow. At least now people will see that TESL students are not stuck-ups like they think we are...
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~~~Aida~~~
Shazwani Abd Rahman..
ReplyDeletea lot of people think that we are a twin..but i think..nuh...!they must be mistaken becoz of out height..eheh..u are a hardworking person and sometimes i felt emberassed working with u becoz u want to do most of the job and left us little work..but thats a advantage for us heh..huhu..!
Fareza "Jaja" Yahya
hai wani,
ReplyDeletei think, if there is an award for dedicated facilitator, you will get it. you work very hard to complete both facilitator and participant manual with awer. thanks a lot.
-siti haida-