On Tuesday, May 19th, my classmates and I went to Camp Berni, in which we participated in a series of trust-building, teamwork exercises. For the majority of the time, we successfully completed the activities, but on other occasions we struggled a bit. The first activity was pretty simple. We started off in a circle with everyone holding hands and a hula hoop hanging on someone's arm. Then we had to move ourselves through the hula hoop, therefore moving the hula hoop around the circle, and eventually ending up back at the person who started with the hula hoop. We slowly progressed to more advanced activities such as the croco-gator activity, in which we had to move from one platform to the other by way of planks. However, this task was not so simple as we had to blind fold three people and no one was allowed to step off the platforms. This meant we had to strategically maneuver between the three platforms so that everyone would end up on the last platform. The struggle was moving the blind folded people and unfortunately no one thought to have the blind people help in moving the planks because we thought they would be useless and should take up the least amount of space as possible. After this we continued with various other activities that helped build leadership and teamwork, ultimately helping with our final challenge- the low ropes. The low ropes required both teamwork and leadership, as spotting was a necessity because you were pretty much guaranteed to need assistance at one point or another. Overall, we developed both our leadership and teamwork qualities after various risky and dangerous activities at Camp Bernie. We will be returning to the camp tomorrow for other leadership activities.
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