My Reflection & Contribution

 

My Reflection

 As I reflect back, it's been a real learning experience for me. It's my first time really being part of a language camp and see how it's executed. For me, I did not use much language games in the class during my practical teaching because I was afraid that I would not be able to control the students because of their rowdy behaviour. But I've learnt from this camp that, it's through activities like most of the language games that really help the students to come out of their shell and really speak up. I can understand the passiveness of the students at the beginning because I myself am a passive person. And what's more, to use a language which they are not comfortable in makes it even more difficult. But, due to the fun environment and peers that are of the same level, they start to open up and have fun. After all, why not have fun while you can? I observed the students as they began to switch into full gear and take part in the activities.
As for me, I was quite passive but I've learnt how to adapt to different situations. As the schedule kept changing, we had to keep modifying the game, like for me, I did not use all the cards in the Who am I game because of the lack of time and also, the game almost ended in a tie, but we had to come up with a solution to to break the tie. Also, I learnt a lot about teamwork. The facilitators in Group D were fantastic, need I say, we have the best mini-director, Fadhli!! We worked together perfectly :)
It was definitely a good experience for me.

 

My Contributions

Before
 Before the camp, I helped Sumi prepare the materials for the Who Am I Game. As you know, there were 4 categories and I had to print 12 sets of the names within those 4 categories while Sumi photocopied them. A day before the camp, me, Sumi, Ruby and Salveen helped Sumi put the names into envelopes of different categories.

During
 During the camp, there were 2 girls who fell ill, one on Saturday and the other on Sunday morning(right before the morning exercise). One girl had severe migraine and so Ammani and I went to her dorm to take a look. We stayed with her while the activities went on as usual. At first, we did not have the first-aid kit with us, but thanks to Izzati, who brought not only the first aid kit, but also some biscuits for the girl. Hehe..thanks Zati! In the end, the girl was brought to the clinic by the warden.The other girl(the one who fell sick on Sunday) was less serious, and just needed to rest, so we gave her room to have some rest.
Other than that,  I was in charge of Checkpoint D in the Treasure Hunt activity. It was fun as I got to see the excited students rushing to and fro and having fun! Another thing that I enjoyed was being Judge 2 of the drama presentation. It was a first for me and although I had to make some painful decisions, I did enjoy the experience.
And last but definitely not least, I was a facilitator of Group D and together with Liana and Fadhli, we were in charge of Action Kamen. It was an awesome time!

 

I would like to say a big thank you to all the facilitators who made the camp a sucess!

That's all from me,
Grace