This year, my friends and I went on a camp down in Kalbarri. This camp came with a lot of opportunities to put our teamwork skills to the test. Some ways that our skills were shown was through team building and cooking.
On our last full day of camp, my group had a go at team building with Ms Kirkham. One of the activities we did was tarp volleyball. This game was basically just playing volleyball but instead of playing with our hands, each member of the team had to hold onto an end of a tarp and work together to hit the ball with the tarp, to the other side of the net. In order to win the game, we all communicated as a team to discuss game strategies. Our group was able to communicate that our main strategy was going to be to catch the ball in the tarp, and then rock it along the tarp back and forth to gain momentum and then on the final roll back we were to have the people holding the tarp at the back, to hit the ball so it flew off the tarp into the other teams side. This showed that our team had great teamwork and communication as our strategies and techniques almost always worked. We all listened to each other’s other ideas as well, some worked, and some did not but that was okay. Our teamwork skills obviously paid off because my team actually managed to win. We then worked together to come up with a victory dance to show off to the other team.
We also showed teamwork when we were cooking. In our cooking group, we had everyone with different jobs. Most nights we would have one person on cutting veggies, one on cooking veggies and another on cooking the meat. Then for cleaning we had someone washing the dishes and then the others drying with a tea towel and then distributing the dishes out to the carriers. We never ran into any problems with people not doing their jobs or someone slacking off, so we always managed to eat our meals happily and everyone got along. Obviously, without any teamwork skills, people would be getting frustrated at others for not pulling their weight, and it would’ve taken longer to make our food, not to mention make the whole camp less enjoyable as we had to work with our cooking groups at least twice a day.
