In life leadership exists every where and examples where you must work as a team grant themselves to you in different places. During the Year 9 Camp in Kalbarri, many opportunities for growth and leadership presented themselves to us. The Year 9 Camp, where we travelled to Kalbarri, gave us the opportunity to grow our friendship circles, grow mentally and face our fears. This is best demonstrated through the Kalbarri skywalk and cooking meals with our group.
Firstly, the Kalbarri skywalk was a tense experience for me as I have a fear of heights. It was quite funny when a little 3-year-old could easily walk across the bridge while I was grabbing on to the group. Everyone in my group supported me and helped me get across to the end of the metal peak hanging off the wall. This demonstrated that we were indeed capable of working as a team and supporting those who were having trouble. In life there will always be challenges and if we work as a team, we can overcome them and push forward together.
Secondly, the cooking the food for our group was fun and helped us work as a group. On the camp we had different roles for all the people in the group. Some people would take care of the trash for the food, others would help cook the food and someone else would lead us to different locations. Using this method, we were able to divide the work into roles to get the job done and it was much easier. Later in life this would help as we would have some experience working in a group.
In the end, Year 9 camp was the best experience of my life and if I could do it again I wouldn’t change a thing.