Locomotion was pretty fun... if you minus the feeling of being in a tight room with 1000 others.
I think that day, i pushed my self to limit, cause i mean, i felt like i was going to throw up. Not only that i feel accomplished because i worked all the way to the buzzer. My legs hurt from the one minute lunges, whatever, i worked all the way to the bell :D
It was somewhat fun to have tje two band classes to compete... somewhat because in my team we had too many leaders. I found i a problem, because when theres more than one leader, it gets crazy. At the time a handful of them kept talking over eachother, sharing their ideas of defense or offence. Personally, its nice to see a handful having that kind of drive during a game like this. but in a team so big, we have no time for listening to ten different ideas and debate which one's best to execute.
In a team where everyone wants to be a leader is not great; every team discussion we get so many people talking over eacher to tell their idea, and because of that, we get disorganized.
In a game like this i care about how we all work together, and seeing this i think it needs some work.
To be frank, tbis is my first time going to the y and my first time to a public gym.
At the time, it was nerve wrecking for me, be it felt intimadating, yet motivating.
Thank heavens i was with my friends that day, i couldve had anxiety and lasted only 5 minutes in there if they werent there
Anyways not only i went to the gym on that day, right after that i went to rugby practice, so it was a fitness filled day. I smelt gross and grassy after that, but the calories burned to crisps were worth it.
Ps. I would love to do this again.
On the second day of our buddy project we had to lead our buddies and teach them how to play charriots, just like john and mr. Neuf. When i got fist hand experience on leading, i was suprised at how hard it was, but how rewarding it was in the end. Not only i was pretty bad at explaining the rules to my buddies, i was rather swell at couraging the little ones to try to become that charioteer. Also i was able to keep them motivated when ever they felt discouraged.
It was rewarding in the end, because with all the motivation i gave them, i feel like i was closer to my buddies.
One day we did a team buding game called chariots.
Basically wat youre supposed to do is to get into a group of 4-6. In this group, you will require a jump rope or something that can keep the team together at all times. So with the jump rope one person (the charioteer) has to hold the rope with both hand, while the rest of the team members hold onto the jum rope with one hand; representing the horse of the charriot. All together, in a game the whole teams goal is to grab as many pinis from other charioteers of other chariots. The fun part is the carriot wears the pinis like tails, but cant grab pinis, so who has to get the pinis? The horses.
The team building aspect was the amount of comunication that one has to put. First of all, in a team every one cant be the leader;there needs to be only one, so how my team resolved it was that the charriot is the leader. i think i did a good at it, i mean i was pretty verbal (i hope i wasnt bossy though), and so did Shiraz, Tulin, and Sarah.
At last i finally met my buddy, and my buddy was pretty shy at first, but thats okay it takes time.
Anyways for the first day of the buddy project, we played dragon tails, and i was happy to see the enthusiasm that the kids had and how we conducted the activity. First of all, i was glad to see that my buddy was really involved in the game and how she went out of her by herself to be the one to behold the band, because when i was her age i couldnt do that, so i was proudof her. Also, the positive and energetic athmosphere is another thing that i love so much about being with children, and i look forward to day 2 or our project.
