Have you ever experience a situation where you should deliver something but then you find out that you should be doing something else? I haven’t experienced that yet, and I hope you don’t either hehhe.
Well what happened is that at that day (the fourth day) there were some technical difficulties, but what the heck don’t worry we handled it pretty well. After all we are members of Mexp, right?
Small changes have been made to the path of the project but what I could say is that we are on the right track and plus more fun will be waiting for us.
I know I haven’t posted anything about the schedule, but finally after all what was happening backstage, here is the time table:
Wed 6 | Thu 7 | Fri 8 | Sat 9 |
Boot camp | Social activities (tourism) | ||
Sun 10 | Mon 11 | Tue 12 | Wed 13 |
Projects in SCHNELLER school | Projects in AL-MAFRAG | ||
Thu 14 | Fri 15 | Sat 16 | Sun 17 |
Projects in AL-MAFRAG | Day off!! 🙂 | Projects in MADABA | |
Mon 18 | Tue 19 | Wed 20 | Thu 21 |
Projects in MADABA | evaluation | Eval+ Party | Good bye kiss!! |
After having this problem solved we turned into something also important in every camp or gathering which is putting some rules, nooooo not restriction, but more like a guide book for our stay. No don’t say “aahh, now you remembered that?”, because in every place, you can’t put rules on something you haven’t experienced it, so 3 days before were the best timing put make it more clear about the do and don’t.
So every team suggested some rules and punishment (yeahh punishment, “I’m the law”). The wrap up of this session was a signed contract as following:
You have to | If not you have to |
Be on time | You will get a dot on your face for every minute late |
Clean up after yourself | Clean up after having a meal |
Speak english | Count from 1 to 10 in danish for arabes, in arabic for danes. |
Pay attention in meetings | Give a friend a two minute massage |
Respect the dorms | Go to a meal with your eyes closed |
Aaaahh yes, very hard punishments, so hard the project coordinator after signing the agreement started to do the third punishment by learning how to count in another language that they know.
The third section of this day was the introduction of “How to evaluate” methods by our lovely ladies Elizabeth and Riema (it’s rima or reema but I don’t know why she write it like that). The first method was by doing a chart that the participants will fill it by pointing out the times where they were excited and other times where they was bored.
The second method was “KAD” (yeah there is a word in danish like that but it’s with a C instead of K) and KAD is an acronym of “Keep, Add, Drop”. The hamburger method where you have the “good stuff” as bread and the “could be better” in the middle. The third method is doing a table of “feeling, observation, advice, interpretation. And just to see if we were paying attention to these stuff (no we were really paying attention.. really!) we have tried the “KAD” method, and some of the results were amazing, such as:
Keep: the fruits at lunch, parties, good food,serving the water melon, water and coffee.
Add: Turkish coffee, soap, tourism, more WiFi service, more toilet paper (HUH!), more sleep.
Drop: Mosquitoes, dots on the face, the outside donkey’s “Good morning” voice.
Yeahh, see? Very productive ideas hehe..AAHH, well what matters is that we got the idea of what evaluation is all about.
And that was it for the day, why? Because we had some free after-noon time, to go to the pool and swim or to do something else.. shhhh.. I won’t tell you where I was. Hihihi