Grade 8 Retreat

Grade 8 day was a very good opportunity for us. The most important thing that went well with our group is that they started suggesting activities they wanted to play. This helped us because we got to now more of what they like and prefer to do and gave us more ideas. What didn't go so well was the fact that they were going out of control and hard to get their attention back. The strengths I found out about myself was that I more confident in front of new people when I am working with my friends, which helped me with my speaking skils.  I learned that everyone was different because there were people who listened and were doing what they were told and others did what they wanted to do , which gave us more experience on how to handle older students rather than what I saw in elementary. The moment I really thought I was leader was when I was trying to get the small groups into one big group and when we would finally get their attention to listen to us. The challenge for us was that both of our grade 8 groups would not listen and have their attention as fast as we thought we would. They wouldn't like any game we planned out and wouldn't participate at all. Amrit and Sahar were both very good at getting the grade 8 together and controlling them. Gagandeep and Kajol were great at explaining the rules and helping out the students.