Me3 Foundations – Alpha Group Day 7

Friday, July 05, 2013

Day 7

This morning started off with a punishment. The reason being: yesterday night many students were still awake after the ‘lights out’ appointed time, and this morning many were late in getting ready for PT. The punishment was extra push-ups and running. After which we welcome Tammy and Shirley our instructors for the day. They each are teaching Social Intelligence and Management respectively. It was a very informative lecture. We had debates and presentations. A lot was learned. However, during the lessons, one of our leaderships got drawing on her hand. As punishment, she was demoted from an orange shirt (senior leadership) to a yellow shirt (junior leadership). It was a lesson learnt. When the two lessons are finished, everyone got into their wetsuits and had a teambuilding activity which involves kayaks and ropes. Everyone really worked well together, had fun, and learned that communication is the key to teamwork.

Naomi Golin

Today we learned social intelligence and finance management. We also did team building in the lake with a kayak. I learned that there are three types of learned that there are three types of learners: Visual, auditory, kinesthetic. A visual learner learns by seeing an example; An auditory learner learns just by listening. Their eyes may be looking in a different direction but they are paying very close attention to you; A kinesthetic learner learns by doing, which means a hands on experience. When doing finance management, you got to first think about what you would loose and not what you gain. The reason is if you pay by credit card, you might loose quite a lot of money. During the team building experience, I learned that communication and support is the key, because without it, this amazing Monticle experience will be over forever.

Bridget Zhao

Another tiring day has happened. First of all, we came out of our cabins in the morning that every one had to do a jogging or running PT. We also had a social intelligence lesson or lecture from Tammi and a Finance Management lesson from Lemeul’s mom. After that, we had a kayak water drill and I got splashed from Billy and other people. Other than the horrible, tiring PT, it was a good day.

Tess Chau

Today was quite a dry day. (NOT in terms of weather) We did lectures on Budget Management and Social Intelligence. Luckily after the Budget Management lecture, Billy announced (YES!!!!) that we were going to do some team building activities in the water, and for the first time, we used the kayaks! But THE most amazing thing, is that both teams tied 1-1 and that the winning team would always help the losing team finish the race! Billy was so proud he cooked chicken wings for us for dinner and said “ Now THAT’S what I call teamwork!” <3 span="">

Lemuel

7 days into the camp although not much attitude change on the students. PT was particularly harder since everyone went to bed later and got ready later. Tammy and my mother came last night and taught today. Tammy taught social intelligience and my mother did budget and risk management. Afterwards, we went into the water for some teamwork training. Alpha and Charlie was one team while Bravo and Delta was the other. We managed to tie with each team winning once. Going to move on the water activities for the next few days and waiting for the arrival of another instructor.

Julian Ma

Today’s morning was boring, BUT very educational, we learnt about social intelligence taught by Tammy and budget management taught by Sherly which is Lemuel’s mom. The breakfast was fifty fifty’s curry soup was a thumbs down and hot cocoa was a thumbs up, In the afternoon we had a OP mean, surf clam, shrimp, corn and bacon bits. I also learnt Sabrina is 22 who she said so, after Lemuel’s mom taught us budget management, but Billy taught us most. The best part of the day is getting in the late, we did a challenge, we grouped up and did a race, kayaking with hand in pairs, I can say me and Eric are the fastest paddler. So, I guess we’re having curry wing.

Nathan

Today was awesome, and wet. We talked for the morning and the afternoon. Then the fun part starts. We went to play on water!

Chin Ho

Today was a really DRY DAY, 24 hours of Buisness classes and Social intelligence was not so fun. But the 2^nd half of the day got me so WET, we went to the lake and did team building. One thing I learned, never point at people. (I got in trouble.)

Tiffany Ng

Dissapointment, regret. Yes, I got demoted to yellow for drawing on my hand. And yes, I feel terrible, I feel the shame. Change is expected and most definitely will be put in action. Today was mainly lectures about social intelligence and bank/personal finance management, then we did a team building challenge where a team of 14 was to paddle across Docks to transfer all students without a paddle. That’s it for now! I hope I get my orange shirt back! IN&OUT!

Ethan Zhao

WAKE UP! Yes, we woke up late. L I am also going to write in more detail... yes Sabrina, more detail….. HAHAHhahahaha…… We were late for PT so we had extended PT, AKA….. THE JOG! Nah, it was only less than 1km. And then we had breakfast, I had waffles, well cooked and spreaded with syrup; I also drank 2 FULL bowls of chicken noodle soup. Later in the morning we had room  inspection again. Alpha was first…. J L - So so la! We cleaned the fridge, tv, and eachother……. And once again we came out on top. Boom!!!!! OKOK now. Then we took a social intelligence class with Tammy; it was like an eye-opener to me about leadership. VAK – Visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic. We need to understand whether each person in the team is a visual, auditory or kinaesthetic person; that way, you the leader will work more efficiently as a team. Nicola is pissed off at me because she couldn’t sign my cast first… WHAT!? And again as we moved into the tents during the rain Sabrina old and Nicola froze still because of bugs during lessons. TERRIBLE! And then I think there is more to Edwin J and Sabrina old than usual… LOVE? Sorry sorry sorry I said that ! I saw that! No bullying! 3 breaths ……. And then Lemuels mother was very kind to teach us about finance and money managment. And finally I cooked CHICKEN! For dinner. And yes I was oh so very hungry. oh oh ooooooooooooooooooooh!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can go for a dip tomorrow! YAY! Bye.

By THE F--- Way.-

is Sabrina Tam

16 or 22?

Next time on EZs blog….

I also learnt a new word: Itchby

Kaysha Lam

Lectures were given on finance management and social intelligence for most of the day. After that we played with the kayaks in the water. We split the people into two groups. We had to get everyone across to the other side, maximum two people in the kayak. The boats capsized many times. 1st time the other team won; second time our team won. I think dinner is going to be really good.

Rita

Today, we learned about social Intelligence, Impressions and Finance management. The lectures were a bit boring, but I learned a lot from it. Then, we did a kyak drill, where we had to go into pairs and go into the kyak and paddle with our hands, there were two rounds. We lost the first round, but won the next. YAY!

Maggie

Today I woke up at about 6:40. We got ready then went down to breakfast. After breakfast we got lectures about social intelligence and about VAK. Then we had lunch and more lectures about Finance Management. After lectures and writing notes, we got in our wetsuits and got in the water and did some water activities. Then we took showers and hung up our wetsuits.

Edwin Cheung

Today we went to stay and learn social intellenge and financial. I build a lot of kayaks for tomorrow activities on water. Can’t wait for tran-canada! Elvin help me a lot. He drink all my chocolate milk and nikkola is scare of bugs. And also Sabrina like to go to shopping so bad!!!!

Nicola Huang

Today at Monticle, I learned social intelligence, finance and effective communication as a group with my collegues. We learned how to give a good impression to others, manage our amount of money earned or given properly and with profit. This was very exciting other than all the mosquitos in those tents. I’m looking forward to more water kayak trainings in the next few days.

Kevin

Today was an interesting day, we had a “social Intelligence”, “finance” and kayaking today. Exciting. Best of all was our dinner, curry fried chicken, usually I don’t eat curry but Billy’s curry was AWESOME! ANyways, I injured myself on the leg by panicing because I failed to get onto the boat, I kicked the top of the kayak from that moment blood was flying out of my leg, like a blood fountain. The epic thing was that my friend Kelvin Pan was also kayaking and he got the same injury on the same lag, same spot, same way but different timing. Coincident.

Kelvin P

Today I had tons of fun we when onto the water with my wetsuit and for dinner billy said he’s cooking chicken wings with curry, delicious. The even better of the day was that me and kevin wong started bleading it was small but the cut was on the same leg (left) same reason and same sport, weird I know. Today at kayaking, I think in my group; Alvin, Nicole did the best.

Samson Lee

Today, I have learned about the 5 dissearatable senses are hearing, sight, smell, touch and taste. Those personal skills that I have taught were visual, auditory, kinaesthetic means to touch, easier for them to read from the blackboard and certain way to talk to them. Next, I have learned about the finance Management of how to send money on personal items such as glasses, papers, foods, water bottles and much more. Did you know that playing at Casinos are not good because you will waste a lot of money easily and get bankrupt. In the afternoon, I got on the boat and went swimming outdoors on the lake for more than an hour. I rode on the small boat by using with their moving hands. No wonder that I swam just 2 laps today. I had a huge happy day!!!

Meagan

Today in the morning and half of the afternoon was about Social Intellegence and finance. The rest of the afternoon is WATERSAFETY!!!!! SO FUN!!!!!! Bye Bye!!!!

Ingrid Zhou

I got my mark today 713 is enough for you. And I got 145 (150) in Maths. How sad! And we will do 5^th on water for 4 days

Sabrina Mak

Today, I had a very rough but fun day. We woke up at 6:30am and did PT. But then some people were late, and we had to job, for one kilometer. But really, I was running extremely hard, and at the end, when we had breakfast, I felt dizzy and tired. After PT, we had a very interesting class about social intelligence. Even though it was quite complicated, but still, I have learnt about different types of learners. At around 2:50pm, we finally got to get in the lake for a challenge. The challenge was two teams, then two people in a canoe have to paddle across the other dock. First, my team, which includes Charlie (my group) and Alpha, won the first round, but we lost the second round. At the end, both teams have a tie, of one lost and one win.

Mireille

This morning we ran during physical training. Then we have social intelligence class it was a very interesting and we play game with Tammy Co. As if it was raining. It was very good! In afternoon we have personal finance class and after we play a game AC group vs BD group. We come once and lost once. Today the game remind me that communication in a group is very important.

Pompey Leung

So tired today!! I train them so hard because some of them get out so late for the PT, some of them after the PT they puk, I feel so sorry about that L

After the PT we have breakfast, that is very great, then we have a social intelligence it is a good lesson to learn more about AFK and some communication skills, it really help me out for the future. Then my group did a good job in their presentation. After lunch we have a financial management. However this is a little bit dry on it, but it have so much fun. Then we play team game on the water. We have so much fun today!

Imaan Hirji

Today wasn’t a very hard day but there were hard parts. This morning we had an extended PT were as well as stretching we had a social Intelligence class that was actually really fun. we played Taboo and we had a debate. Even though we lost the debate it was still super fun and we learned a lot about teamwork. After that we had lunch. Then we had a finance management class. It was kind of boring but I still learned a lot. Finally the fun began. We got into the lake and we had a team challenge. Our job was to row a kayak (without a paddle) with two people in it from dock to dock. The only catch was we only had a pump a safety rope and a kayak. It was a lot harder than any of us throughout. After the first round (which we won) we tried in the army way of doing it. It didn’t really work in our group but it was still fun to try. After the kayak challenge, we had dinner and then freetime. Starting from tomorrow we’re going to be in the lake for 4 days straight. It’s going to be very tiring but a lot of fun.

Fred

Today is very very very very very fun. We got to do games on water and got very wet.

Eric Lo

Today was a bit boring, learning Finence and social intellegentes. But the mini games and the kayaking without paddles was fun. Pompey was so good at stearing the kiyaks by only using a string. Although I don’t like to play water activities, but I overcame this challenge by forcing ,myself to not afraid of messy.

Nestor

Today I had so much fun in the kayaks. We keep on capsizeing because we leaned on one side of the kayak. But the bad part is that we use our hands.

Nina Tan

Today, I woke up at 6:35AM. My group cleaned the cabin and then at 7:15 AM we did physical training since a couple of people were late we had to do 30 pushups and around a 10 minute run. After physical training, we ate breakfast and then we had a room inspection. Later on, we learned about sociable intelligence, there were sometimes when it started to rain so we went in to the big tents, we also had a debate. It was very fun and interesting! IN the afternoon, we ate lunch and then we learned about financial management. That was also interesting. later, Billy told us we were going to do a team challenge in the beach. That was super fun! Then, we ate supper.

Elvin

Sooner or later we all have to deal with our parents hard earned money, how to use it is up to us, that is why we were taught finance management today by our guests Tammy and Shirely. The information we were given on the topic was really detailed, it gave me a general understanding on how to manage my own resources, such as risk management. The visiting instructors also taught us basic approaches when greeting people in interviews or other formal meetings, such as hand shake gestures and language usage etc. Then the fun part arrived after the afternoon session, we were told to get changed into wetsuits and we completed a team based kayak challenge. The game was fun and both teams had the same score in the end. Today was a good day but I am looking forward to the following days which includes water activities.

Sabrina Tan

Only one week left! I wish I could understand Cantonese because people keep speaking it. I am too lazy to learn though so Father, do not force me to learn it because I already have enough on my plate with French. When I get back home I am probably going to stay inside and relish in the beauty of my air conditioning and lack of bugs for AT LEAST 3 months. I am telling you this because I can’t think of anything significant that happened today. Bye!

Siena Difelice

Today was social intelligence class it was very fun today because tammy was the teacher We did so much activites and learned so much also. We did activites like a debate, taboo, and that’s it about after we had class about finance management. Our afternoon was so much fun we did a kayak race and that was my great day