Day 23: Leadership / Bonding Activities

Day number 23. Had a whole day of leadership / bonding activities today near campus today. Woke up at around 6plus in the morning, prepared and went off to meet up with the rest at around 8am in the morning before proceeding to the place where we will be having our activities.

Upon reaching the place which we will be having our activities, we were brought to place where we had our first activity of the day, coming with up group name, flag as well as our "tribe clothes". We had this activity in our own respective division and MDE gathered together for this activity. After some discussions, we decided to have our "tribe name" as dragon or 龙 in traditional Chinese characters as Xanier was from dragon boat. We also decided that Xanier will be our "tribe leader" for our MDE division. Here are some of the photos!

MDE Group Photo

Brainstorming

After deciding on these, we started working on our tribe flag as well as our tribe names. As the tribe leader has to choose 4 people to be his / her closest husband / wife. Thus, we have one Dragon Tribe Leader, 4 Dragon and the rest of the MDE are the commoners. Put up a short skit and proceed on with our next activity, Rock Climbing! Here are some of the photos!

Tribe Leader and 4 of us
Polim, Edy, Xanier, Me, Jarold

Rock Climbing


Our Rock Climbing Belayer Instructor & Us
Roy, Junru, Xanier, Jarold, Me, Ming Yu

Stayed with Rock Climbing till around lunch time before we headed out for our breaks and lunch before heading back for the second half of today's leadership / bonding activities such as the trust fall and the leap of faith or sort of. Here are some of the photos!

Little games to perk us up!

Trust Fall


Trust Fall


Making my way up


Making the jump!

After having all the activities, we had mass group photo taking sessions with all the divisions as well as our own divisions and our own sub groups at the rock climbing wall before we headed out for dinner. Here are some of the photos!

Mass Group Photo


MDE Group Photo


Group Photo


BPQE K01 & K02
Siti, Anyu, Me, Junru, Gloria, Mingyu, Jarold, Polim


BPQE K & J Classes
Siti, Jarold, Chin Kuang, Adrian, Polim, Mingyu, Erwin, Me,
Junru, Edy, Gloria, Zhong Rong, Anyu

After dinner, we headed back to our rooms to rest as we were all rather tired after a long day. That's all for today!

My Reflections:

After today's leadership / bonding activities, I realised that trust and the bonds which we have in our peers are rather important. Usually, it is this group of people whom we turn to for help when in need. This is the group of people whom we rely upon to give us support, show us care and concern in times of need, other than our families. By building up strong bonds among one another, it shows that and let us know that there is always a group of people at our back and beside us, supporting us, assisting us and helping us as we move on in life. This is usually the motivation whereby is strong and kept us going.

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
- Aristotle