Luxury Gapahuks

The week in Helleviga was interesting in different aspects. For the first time during this semester we planed activities, which were for students outside our group. Moreover we were in charge of the program so that we had to organize ourselves and look out that everything went well. Another aspect was about our group development because it was the first time after the Snow hole trip that we went on a trip as a whole group.

I was never interested in teaching children or adolescents. My plan was to do recreational work with adults and elderly people. During this week I started to like working with young people. In comparison to the work with adults it is more spontaneous and people are more exploring their possibilities.

A Shelter?

THE Shelter

Additionally I had some new views on leadership and leadership behaviour during these days. The first session I was responsible for shelter building. As the majority had never built a shelter, our influence on them was rather high. The smallest comment or gesture had a huge impact on the shelter that was to be built. When we wanted the next group to do something new, we just supposed another spot or gave them another idea or tip and the shelter turned out to be, as we wanted it. Furthermore the less information you gave the students the more they got into talking and thinking. Especially one group impressed us by building an igloo like shelter within 10 minutes.

The other days were not as interesting because our responsibility changed. We played some group dynamic games, which were funny however the learning outcome was rather low.