Today is Saturday. I used to sleep till 11 o’clock or so on Saturday. I treated this precious day a really perfect time to supplement my very scarce sleeping time since I found I had always been sleepy during the daytime. However, I have changed my opinion somehow. When I woke up at almost noon, I did not find the long time of sleeping made me energetic and conscious. On the other hand, I felt even sleepier and I even did not feel like start to do things. Anyway, I figured out that I should get up early at weekends and make use of the time more reasonably.
So, this service learning program just gave me a good reason to get up early. I had to get ready before the set-off time, 8:00. So, I got up at about 7:30. I had to say that I was a little bit sleepy tough. Anyway, it was a good start. I was not sure about what we were going to do this day. I only knew that we were going to take part in some activities. So I expected those activities to be interesting.
To my surprise, this whole day just somewhat sucked. We were not sent to visit some kids or some lonely old people, instead we were just sent to a park near the beach to do some meaningless activities. One of the activities was even irritating. In that activity, there was a steep slope there and a plastic carpet lying from the top to the bottom. Our group of ten must find a way to climb up the hill altogether as a team. This was nothing. But the difficulty was that someone would pour water mixed with soap and butter down then carpet so that the carpet would get very slippery. So, this game was intended to let us aware of teamwork. But, why did we have to get wet all over our bodies to show some teamwork? Could not we just do some other more friendly and peaceful activities? As for the following activities, they were also very dull and meaningless. I just thought it would be more meaningful if we went to help some lonely people.
Anyway, it was a good start for my new lifestyle.
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At least, you learn how to work as a team?
ReplyDeleteI went there as well. The activities there were very boring and made no sense. At first, I thought we went there to get some basic knowledge of how to provide kind service to the needy,but it turn out that its aim was to foster out leadership and the sense of teamwork. I think the activities failed to achieve their goals. They were too childish and the guiders forced us to use the solution they came up with, no better solutions allowed.In my opinion, next time they should teach something more practical.
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