Experiences leading to wisdom-STARP2007

EXPERIENCES LEADING TO WISDOM-STARP

 

          At the beginning I was very reluctant to attend the camp as my health was not permitting moreover I was in an emotional state of mind but now thinking back, thank god I attended it. The whole camp was a learning process for me. It has given me wisdom and made me a better person.

       During the Saturday night post mortem, many said that group D consist of hyperactive students, I totally disagree with that. I think it was exaggeration .In my point of view, there were only one or two who were hyperactive (but not in English) and others were extremely passive.I would say that the facilitators were good allowing many of them to speak up .

I was the facilitator for group d ( i ) and majority of the students was extremely weak and passive and it was really tiring to handle them and to make them speak. Most of the time when the game master, gave the command, d ( i ) group members had no idea what has been said or instructed and I had to make interaction modification to make them understand. At times, I had no choice whereby I had to code-switch. It was very frustrating during the group cheer moments as I was helping them with the cheer and they showed no interest. I was the only one excited at the moment, screaming and cheering together with them until I lost my voice thinking it would motivate them but I was wrong, things were just the same and that de-motivated me but I still did not give up .Besides pushing the walls, I just leaned on it. I just followed the flow and that paid off. That situation has thought me to be patience and I have learnt that we could not change anyone. We can only change ourselves. However, we should always give unconditional love to every one and that will change them to be who we want them to be.

 

Show Off Time??

 

      Well, before the camp I did not do much was just helping bits here and there like fixing the strings for the matric cards and many more. During the camp, I was in the in the lodging and safety department. There was 2 students who felt sick and was responsibly to handle the situation .In my group, I was helping out Yana and teaching the kids to sing "If you are happy and you know it" song, in "talking in the circle." I was the game master for word idol, group cheer, the guessing game, and speaking game. I was also the one who suggested to march to the dining hall like American Indian tribe. (Laugh out loud).For the other games I was helping the game master. Oh yeah, I forgot. I did donate my red metric string to one of the student because we ran out of it. hm…what else??I guess those are the major things that I contributed.:)

 

From, AmmaniJeyaPirathaba

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