Harutoによる5月の短期対面プログラムのWK1-WK4までの英語レポートです！
WEEK1
This week we worked on getting to know each other through team building exercises.
One of which was a tower building challenge where we were given unlimited paper and tape to make the tallest tower we could. Even though it was our first time working together, I think it went really well. Our tower itself wasn’t the best, and there were many times where it fell and we had to restart from scratch but, supporting each other through that, helped me learn so much about working in a team. Like the fact that there are things you just can’t do alone, sometimes you need somebody to hold the other side of the tower up for you.
WEEK2
In the second week, we played this game. Where one member of the group was blindfolded then spun in a circle. After which their goal was to pop our makeshift watermelon ( a balloon ) with a bat. The game was harder than expected and nobody ended up successful.
The game is based on a Japanese tradition called “suikawari” , a game usually played on hot summer days with fresh watermelon instead of a balloon. I had a lot of fun because people were getting really riled up. The game had them screaming directions at the blindfolded person, as they kept failing to pop the balloon. It’s funny because, even though it looked easy as we were telling the blindfolded person where to go, when you were the one trying to pop the balloon, it was really hard.
Afterwards I volunteered to edit the clips we took into a video to be sent to Argentina. Watching the clips it was funny to hear everybody’s reactions all over again and so I tried to use that to make a funny video.
WEEK3
By the third week, I had gotten to know everybody pretty well. The people around me who were strangers just 2 weeks ago, had become my friends and we were starting to really trust each other. This was helpful when we started to work on more of the challenges sent from Argentina. Imagine a drawing version of the game telephone
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We all stood in a line, with paper stuck to our backs and tried to draw what was drawn on our backs. I stood at the very end and started the chain. I originally drew a triangle, but by the next person it had already become a square. As the chain went on, the shape got further and further from the triangle and it was really interesting to see. My favourite part was seeing all of the drawings lined up at the end.
WEEK4
The fourth week we worked on so many things, it felt like a blur. We put together a puzzle of the Tokyo skyline, we redid the original tower building challenge from 3 weeks ago, and we did some Japanese calligraphy. The tower challenge was really interesting to do again after 3 weeks. We now knew each other better than the first week and communicating had become easier. Because of this, our towers also turned out so much better. Our group was throwing out ideas one after another and that led to us being faster at overcoming our obstacles. We worked better as a team and that led to better results. I think this says everything about what I have learnt from these four weeks, and that is just how important teamwork really is.
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