Teamworks

Hey!! Welcome back to Glimpsing My Life! I hope you have been enjoying my posts so far.

Anyway, as I said in my first post, I’ll be sometimes be writing about my school life (and if you forgot or didn’t read it, they include field trips, ongoing/upcoming events, and maybe about clubs that I do).

So, I decided to write about our 8th grade trip to Teamworks.

What’s Teamworks?

All of you who have already gone on the trip, know what it is and why we go there.

For those who haven’t being on the trip yet; Teamworks is a recreational center where family or a group of friends could go to have some fun and/or learn to work together. There many activities where teamwork is highly required, without it you won’t be able to succeed.

Why Do We Go There?

We go to on this trip in the beginning of the year, just when everyone is starting to get to know each other.

These are the few reasons we go there (I’m quoting my teachers for some of them):

• Communication
• Listening to others
• Participating mindfully
• Working together (the whole time!)
• Going out of your comfort zone
• Respecting others (which also means not laughing at them)

Skills such as working together as a team, listening to each other, and participating, are very important, especially when it comes to group work. But most importantly, at Teamworks, you are able to go out of your comfort zone and have some fun!

For example: Just by working as a team not only was my group, and many other groups, were able to succeed in most activities, but we were able to have lots of fun!!

The Activities

There were a variety of activities/courses in Teamworks. All of them required coming up with strategies on how to solve it, finish the course, or in some cases, defeat the other team.

Acid River

In Acid River, you have to get your whole group from one side of the “river” to the other by setting up planks on stumps to walk across on. This is a really fun activity, and it is not impossible. It’s just everyone has to squished together, like really close, and try not to fall off, which would mean your whole group would have to reset.

Rock Climbing Wall

This is pretty self explanatory

Catwalk

For this activity, you have to climb up a ladder and, pegs to reach the horizontal log, and basically hug the pole to get onto the log. This was probably the scary part for people. Thought, once you are on the log, you just walk across and at the end jump backwards. Jumping backwards, in my opinion, was the best part, I just found really fun.

Dodgeball

We played two games of dodgeball, Revenge and Doctor. The first was normal dodgeball, people whipping balls at each other and waking up the next day finding their arms really sore. The second game (Doctor), however, was basically normal dodgeball, but you had a doctor who could “revive” people who were out.

Speedball

I think all of us know what speedball is, right? You basically have two groups, and it’s like soccer, except you can’t kick the ball, instead you have to throw it. Halfway through the game, we started playing with two balls instead of one.

Kai Zhan

For this activity, there are numbers placed on the floor, which looks to be placed randomly. Teamwork, communication, and participating (mindfully) is very important if you want to succeed. “Name of activity* is where each person in your group gets a number and we have to step on our number (in consecutive order) as quickly as we can. The goal is to try to do it as fast as you can. It sounds hard, but after some hints are given, it gets easier and we can do it way faster.

Biggest Fan (card game)

Many people have played this game before. It’s where each person gets a card and you compete against another person to find a similar object on their cards. If the other person loses, you become their “biggest fan” and cheer them on when they are competing, vice versa.

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The Catwalk ropes course

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Overall, I thought Teamworks was really fun and I had a great time there. My favorite activity was probably Acid River and I learned that sometimes, going out of your comfort zone can be a really fun experience 😉

What was your favorite activity at Teamworks? Comment your answers!

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