On 29 March, the Young Adults(YAs) were in charge of the 集合, organising a mini OJ which the Year 4s would participate in together with the Year 3s! The Year 1s and 2s were away to earn their Total Defense Badge, so they would not be participating with the Year 3s and 4s.
Here are some thoughts from the Year 3s:
Overall, I feel that we carried out inspection quite well. We were quite well organised and we laid our the logistics before the timings ended so we had more time to cross check to see if anything went wrong. However, I feel that we should be less noisy the next time we have inspection so that we will be able to listen to the person who is giving instructions. For the activity with the 配备s on the tree, we were given 10 minutes to complete the activity. However, we took a long time to think of a solution to elevate the 配备s, resulting in us having only 3 minutes to carry out our solution. Luckily, we were able to complete the activity with the given time. I felt that we were quite creative as we were able to think of the solution that required the least amount of time but still kept to the criteria. In the future, I hope that we are able to come up with a solution quicker so that we have more time to attach and stabilise the 配备s onto the tree.
For station 1, we were told to build a structure to shelter our 配备 and given 30 minutes to complete it. Our group discussed and decided to build a tripod with netting. Given that we had more than enough time to complete the structure, we did not exactly have a sense of urgency when tying the tripod as we thought we had sufficient time. However, when they suddenly threw us a unexpected scenario to 拆掉 our structure and still build it within the time limit, we then realised that we had insufficient time. In the end, although we did not manage to complete our structure within the time limit, we still learnt that we should always be prepared for unexpected circumstances or scenarios when leading and learn to adapt efficient. Although given more than enough time, we should have kept our sense of urgency throughout the activity so that we would still have completed our structure. However, one good point I think we did well was keeping our morale high throughout the activity and face each unexpected circumstance with positivity.
For the station 2 of Friday’s 集合, we had to collect post-it notes around the GSL and then build two structures while following the instructions on the post-it notes. The two groups were then further split into two and one group was to do a physical training set while the other worked on the structures and they were to swap after 15 minutes. The rationale was to help communication within the two groups however, we did not do very well. We did not tell each other the tasks often and thus lead to us being confused. We started off quite slowly due to a lack of urgency and did not 报时 or cheer enough. We did not manage to finish the structures in the end. I feel quite disappointed in our performance as I feel that we could have done better.
For station 3 we were given various tasks to do before a certain timing such as starting a fire and transporting a casualty. The tasks were to be completed on different levels and we had to send 3 people to solve a puzzle every 6 minutes. It was a challenging station because we had to juggle between many tasks and have good communication skills to organise who was going to do which task. Furthermore, we had to be able to make use of our surroundings such as using the railings to build the shelter. We also had to be very aware of the time to be able to send out people at the right times and complete tasks in time.
On last Friday's 集合, we had station games planned by our YAs. For station 4, we were to split our group into two and split that group further into two. For the station we had to do PT while searching for post its that will have instructions for our tasks. From this PT, I realised that I was really unfit and should exercise more to keep my fitness up to standard. My group then firstly had to start building a baggage rack and were to swap with another group to do PT. Between the intervals, we were given a 15 seconds slot to inform one another of our current task. However, I felt that I did not make use of it effectively as I only told them what to do for the structure without asking them what PT we needed to do. Hence I was a little disappointed in myself for this station. In addition, I felt that my sense of time had gone down as although we had constant 报时 we were not aware that we had to swap every five minutes. Therefore, because of all these, I felt that this station had given me a chance to acknowledge and realise what I was lacking and provided me with room for improvements.
Hope that everyone found this 集合 a fruitful one!
Published by:
Hoong Yu Ning
50th Batch Secretary
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