Alrights, I’m officially a freshman now since I have gone for SMU’s freshman camp and well, the camp was really an eye-opener.
It wasn’t your usual lovey-dovey camp whereby the facilitators will care and shower loads of love just because you are a freshman or the super ‘tekan’/torture one; but as they put it, it is and was a learning and fun camp.
There was plenty of focus and attention on teamwork and respect throughout the activities and games and I must say that my facis tread a fine line between being difficult and nasty to us to test and stretch our limits as compared to being overboard; but they did fine, though at times I could sense the exasperations at us but they kept their cool with us.
At the end of the camp debrief, we were instructed to do a feedback to all the group members and we wrote our comments for them on a piece of paper. Expectedly, quite a few wrote that I was quiet at the start of the camp and that I could ’show’ more of myself and contribute and lead, as what they have seen of me during the final challenge at the last day of the camp. The rest wrote mainly about my crazy act during the campfire which I would rather forget about it.
It’s not that I don’t want to lead or feel uncomfortable leading, but rather, if someone is leading or giving off instructions, it’s better to listen first then act. Or give complementing suggestions to add on to the suggested plan. Rather than everyone throwing in ideas into one pot and then try sieving out a good one, I would much rather see if the current plan is feasible or not; not that I would necessary point out a fatal flaw if I see one but at times, having a not-so-good plan is better than no plan.
Or maybe I should play the devil advocate – criticising the plan if I spot a flaw or I guess, playing the bad guy.
But I guess I will do better if I can speak up more and “draw” attention to myself, but ohwell, I’m still figuring out myself.
Nonetheless, I would prefer sitting back and relaxing if possible and play the supporting leader role. I think I’m very much comfortable with that.
3 Comments
July 13, 2009 at 4:18 pm
lol i thk leadership is expressed in many ways lah,initiative is just one of those ways haha
July 13, 2009 at 4:18 pm
oh and come on wad did u do at the campfire
July 18, 2009 at 11:45 am
yeap, but at least I’m just plain lazy to initiate. Rather let others throw out ideas first and see if anyone of them have the same ones as me. haha
aiya…next time then let you know