Interact bonding
On Saturday 3/Sep/11 there was an Interact meeting which was for all
the people who were accepted to join Interact. In the beginning we learned
about what our goals for the first semester were and who the heads of each
committee was. When we finished we were split into our committees and those committees
were split into two because there were too many people, so then one area of
the room would have two separate tables and both would have the same
committee groups but for the games we were competing against each other for the
time being.
One of the bonding game options was
to build a Lego tower with all the pieces the fastest and the tallest. We had
to estimate the time we thought we would build it in and how many pieces we
could use, and every person in the group had to be assigned a segment that they
would complete. The second game option was to figure out which patient out of 6
should live depending on their circumstance, and when the group choose who
would live they had to give a reason why. I choose to do the Lego tower, and our
group built a pretty tall Lego tower but
since we didn’t understand the rules properly we wrote down that it would take
us 10 minutes to build it when in reality it took us less then a minute. We
were disappointed when we came last because the judges were judging us on how
close our estimated times was. Even though we would have won if it was judged
on how fast we built our tower. I felt that we were a pretty good group even
though we misunderstood the instructions.
We were able to assign certain specific Lego pieces to each person who
could build it the fastest and we were able to communicate well with each
other.
The point of the Lego game was to
show us how in certain situations in Interact we will have to assign each
person a job and a responsibility and
each member has to contribute to execute
the project correctly. If it is done correctly then we are capable of creating
something good with the help of every team member. The other game was to teach
us that choosing one person to live would have many disagreements because everyone
has a different opinion but in the end
they had to choose someone and that’s how Interact club works, many people have
different opinions but in the end you have to work together to solve a problem.
When it was
around 12:45 we had a lunch break and we our group was sent out last because we
lost but we felt that it was unfair since we didn’t understand the rules
properly, but it was ok because we thought we were winners inside and we did
our best. J After the short lunch break we went outside
to play another game. The object of the game was to have our separate committees;
service, finance, international and club.
We competed against each other in a potato running game. We had to put a
potato on a spoon and run to the other side of the field then around a chair
and back to the starting point the fastest without dropping the potato. It was
fun but unfortunately the 1st service group lost but the 2nd
service group came 2nd and I felt proud of us!
After the
game we went back inside and we got into our whole service group and we got to
know everyone and we talked about what things the service committee does and
what our goals for this year were. By the end of this I became the secutary of
attendance. After our small get together it was the pinning ceremony time. We
all got up and were given our new pins and finally we were officially initiated
into the club, it felt good. Even though I thought that the pins were really
small and I was pretty sure I would lose it, and if we did we would have to pay
about 500 sh. and if we didn’t bring one
to the meeting we would have to pay 50 sh. We finished around one and I was
excited to be part of this club which does so much service and interactive
things with our community.
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