Ashikin's - PRE-Camp

Before the camp, one meeting had been conducted to appoint the Team Leader, person who is responsible for food, materials, MC and so on. I volunteered to be the person in charge for protocol. I am supposed to deal with the procedures in formal situation which is throughout the camp. 

This is my first time ever to be the person in charge in protocol. I helped the leader to meet Dr. Noor Zainab and discuss the other matter that need to be done before the day of the event. I hope I can do well during the camp!

Siti Aisyah's Language Camp Reflection (PRE)

Before the camp, we were assigned into different positions such as The Camp Commander, MC and such. I volunteered to take care of the food, which I thought will be easier (never feel so wrong before) cause I don't want to be a faci this time. Don't get me wrong. I always love being a facilitators, but I did it so many times before, just trying on a new perspectives. just wanna know what it's like watching other people doing the faci-thingy. So before the D-day, I went around and ask people who are vegetarian so that we can prepare different food for them. It turns out that they are okay with whatever food being served as they can just remove any form of meat while eating. Then, I figured my job was done! Looking forward for the day!

Language Camp A: Maisarah’s Pre-Reflection

On Saturday, 27^th of September in the early of 7am, I gathered at D05 along with other facilitators. Some of the lecturers seemed to already prepare to load the materials and other stuffs.

As soon as the bus arrived, all of us hurried to load the materials and did needed preparations to ensure the smoothness of this program.  

Then we rode the bus to SK Kota Masai 1 which was the camp location. The journey took almost 1 hour and to be honest most of us were quite starving as we did not take any breakfast yet. We should have brought some buns or biscuits as our tit-bits on the bus... :(

After that, we quickly unloading the stuffs from the bus and put them at the school hall as we arrived there. 

Wan Zahidah's Preparations Before Language Camp A

Being an introvert, I am not quite comfortable doing outdoor activities or activities that includes a lot of strangers. However, being 22, I want to challenge myself and get outside of my comfort zone. Thus I decided to volunteer to join Language Camp A before it was changed to course assignment.

Before the language camp, facilitators had a meeting with the lecturer to get a brief explanation on language camp as some of us were not familiar with such activities.  We got into small group and each person was divided into smaller groups. Each group is handed a task to manage one of the activities that is going to be conducted in the Language Camp. Each group that manages certain activity is called game master.

A few days before the camp, we had a meeting at our college residence. The meeting was to do a briefing on each activity that was assigned earlier. Each group briefed on their task, starting from ice-breaking until short skit presentation. Game master also needs to prepare materials needed for each activity. All preparations from every aspects were given an emphasis to ensure the process of the camp will flow smoothly.

Language Camp B (Pre) by Afiqah Hani Bt Baharom

Assalamualaikum and good day! I want to share my experiences gained from the Language Camp B. A week before the language camp B was conducted, the committee members were chosen. Few meetings have been held in order to assign the facilitators according to the activities such as Ice Breaking, Cheer and Logo, Charade, Win, Lose and Draw, Tandem Writing and last but not least The Skit also some discussions about the program for examples materials, tentative, prizes etc. My friends and I were assigned to be master game for Charade game. We collected the vocabulary lists and make the paper strips for the game. There were a lot of issues and solutions that have been discussed during the meetings to make sure that the program could be done smoothly. The corporation between the group members is highly appreciated. 

Before Language Camp B by Yuanyi Tan

      It was actually not my first time getting involved in a language camp, but it was absolutely a new experience to get my hands dirty helping in organizing one. Also, before this, I was only assigned to facilitate either primary students or tertiary students (ELCW camp). Dealing with secondary students in a language camp was something that I had no practical idea about. Prior to Language Camp B, I actually imagined the possibility of having to handle a bunch of teenagers who are in their rebellious phase. What if they refuse to cooperate and think whatever I am doing is a waste of time or worse, childish? But luckily, that doesn’t happen at all.

       As far as I can recall, we had our first meeting right after Mr. Ghazali’s class where he informed us the particulars of the language camp that we are going to be in charge of. In that meeting, we discussed and appointed the committee members for the sake of systematic task delegation. From that point onwards, I was aware that I would be playing the role as a facilitator, of which I was happy about. After that, our director created a Facebook group to keep everyone updated with the camp’s progress and whatnots.

       Not long later, we met for the second time. In that meeting, we elected the game masters for every game. Three friends of mine and I volunteered to look after Tandem Writing. After dismissal, we straight away discussed the details of the game and quickly decided that we would only need around 200 A4 papers for the game. The materials were prepared by Language Academy but to play safe, we agreed on bringing 40 extra papers (10 for each) on the actual day. When it came to document preparation, we realized that the previous group provided themes for students to conduct this writing game. We mutually reckoned that would the better way of doing it as it would provide constructive directions for students on what to write. Therefore, we similarly fixed 3 themes which include love story, ghost story and animal story (a new theme). After confirming all the details, I was responsible for typing and printing the facilitator’s game note (consisting of Tandem Writing’s procedures and time allocation) for everyone.

        In our last meeting, all the game masters gave briefing about the rules, regulations and variations of respective games. Through the meeting, we managed to grasp the overall idea of the camp more confidently because those games had then been steadily stored in our pockets.

         A Chinese idiom has its say that “one minute of performance on stage needs ten years of practice off stage “. To a certain extent, it does reflect the efforts that we have made in a week’s time to succeed a one-day language camp. I have learnt that rigorous, careful and no-hard-feeling teamwork is crucial towards building victory in every attempt that we are making.