Having been at Snowy River for almost a whole week now, I feel like I have settled in very, very well and I am really enjoying myself. Food, weather and classes have all been great. Yesterday I was the student leader. Basically I had to make sure everyone knew where they had to be and get them there on time. I was lucky enough to get to facilitate the evening class along with Simana - the other student leader. Being student leader was lots of fun and I’m glad I got the chance to have the role early on in this program.
Lessons so far have included bridge building (building a bridge out of wood and rope to get to a boat moored in a river); an introduction to bike riding; and looking at how we think and learn. We have formalised a community agreement with the staff and each other. Our community agreement lays down how we should behave and what our rights and responsibilities are.
Today we were lucky enough to have Darren McCubbin (google him) as a guest speaker. He spoke to us about beliefs and values and got us to challenge our own and those of others. It was a very powerful and thought provoking session. All in all, it has been a very positive start to our stay at Snowy.
David - Braybrook College |
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Yesterday was mine (Bailey) and Tiffany's first time being student leader, we both thought it was very fun and interesting. We both enjoyed it a lot and look forward to doing it again further on in the term. Getting everyone there on time was reasonably good, most classes we had everyone there and ready for their class. Yesterday we had a food and hygiene course in the morning that we had to get 100% to get a certificate at the end of the year. It was a very interesting course, after lunch we had orienteering which was really interesting and fun. We were all separated and put into groups of people we didn’t know. Then we got a map and a card and drew all the markers on to the map, we had to come up with a name and then get a time of when we left so we would know how long it took us to complete the course. Some challenges for orienteering were the massive mud puddles we had to go through to get to some of the points. For our evening class we had a guest speaker come in and talk to us about setting and achieving goals, his name was Dave. He is a former two time iron man. He wanted all of us to think of goals and stick to them and try to achieve them no matter if they were long term or short term goals.
Over the last week and a bit has been amazing and we look forward to the rest of the time here.
Bailey- North Geelong and Tiffany- Camperdown College |
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