Ashikin's - POST-REFLECTION

Though there are some lacking here and there during the camp, the extraordinary teamwork spirit shown made me feel relieved. Since it was my first time to work under protocol, I was very concern whether or not I was doing it right. So far, none of the problems involved facilitators and the organizer team. Only a few technical problems showed up but the facilitators manage to attend to it very well (yay to all of you!) However, teachers’ presence in the groups made the students even more shy and demotivated because they were afraid to make mistake (in grammar, I assume). This is because teachers have full authority towards students while facilitators will act more like brothers or sisters; hence the students were rather more comfortable with us.

I hope I helped them well throughout the camp and the camp can be considered as a great success since I can see some changes in the students’ confidence. I manage to take over the group after the ‘Tandem Writing’ activity and helped them out for the skit. (My group was the one with the fish headgear.) They were still struggling with the voice projection but I told them to just speak out whatever you understand and be confident. I guess that was what they did. I was more than happy to see them walked up front and acted out because they were very shy at first. Congratulations to all facilitators for their hard work!