When I was on my Year 9 Camp in Kalbarri, the capability that I improved on the most was teamwork. For the 6 days that we had in this camp, there were going to be quite a few problems that we will have to face and try to overcome. One of the first main problems was, packing all of the necessary amounts of food, clothing, and tools. This was a tedious task to complete, as for it would change the whole dynamics of the trip, but after communicating with my colleagues we found the perfect way to spread the shared equipment evenly acrost the group. This was very helpful because not one person would have an extra 8 Kgs added to the weight of their bag due to having all of the equipment, also increasing efficiency when building the tent and other various tasks.

Another main problem was, creating the teams to do certain things. We needed to make teams that would do certain roles, for example we had a team for, Cooking, QoL (Quality of Life), Camp setup and pack up, Overviews. Each role would have approximately 4 people in them. The problem that we encountered in this was giving and nominating people to do these roles. Some people did not want to do QoL, but really wanted to do cooking. So, what we devised using teamwork, is to give everyone the role at least one in the entirety of the camp. This means that everyone would get a fair turn on each role but would not be set to one task for the whole camp. This also gives people the chance to gain experience in each area, greatly improving their knowledge on how to camp. I can easily say that this was definitely an advantage as for it did help me to improve my way of living in.

My name is Dylan, I have been at All Saints College since Term 4 Year 7. I have a younger sister, Mother, Father, and a pet dog. I have quite a bit of free time, it usually spent playing video games, doing after school sports, helping around the house, and building mechanisms with wood, cardboard, and tape. When I build with cardboard, I can make amazing mechanisms that are, structurally sound and awesome aesthetically, I have indulged into many co-curricular activities at All Saint’s, some of these are, Robotics, Swimming, ACC Swimming (selected) and Rowing. I have tonnes of friends in this school and in all grades, all though I have many friends, I am always trying to expand the friendship circle. I was elected in 6^th grade to be a peer mediator, who helps people when they would get an injury, or if they would be lost, stops or prevents fights from happening and mainly a source of comfort for the younger students. Now days I have still retained that ability, also that younger people still come to me for comfort.

My Strengths

I have many social strengths, and a lot of random other strengths. Probably my most valuable strengths are Creativity, Friendliness and Determination. Creativity has helped me a lot in life as I have solved many problems using this ability, at home I would create contraptions and small objects, also when I would build things I always search what I am working on to see if there is any weaknesses in the build and if there was then I would be able to solve it usually easily. Friendliness is another major strength that I have, evidenced by the number of friends that I have. But the friends that I have are reliable and are real friends. Because before I try to be friends with someone, I make a decision about how they are and act, If they are not nice or related to bad people (friends with or admire them) then I usually ty to stay away, Because if you gathered all of my friends, they are genuinely nice people and have the ability to elude temptation to do bad things. Another one of my strengths is determination, I can set my self to one task and do that task even though it might be hard.

My Future

I plan to make my future fulfilled with excitement and fun moments, also to work in a job that I love and enjoy doing. For example, Engineering (mechanical or structural) as I love to do this also as stated before, I am terrific at this subject and already have knowledge in this area. If I do not make it to being an engineer, I will revert to computer security companies, or the ASIO as I believe that I could support the nation in this area.

Dylan Baker