I Challenge you to sort out…INJECTIONS, FUNDRAISING, TWITTER, BLOGGING
Well, what a weekend! This weekend was the first weekend training meeting for team 2011 and it was FULL ON. A jam packed schedule started at 11am on Saturday as the team arrived to the Indian YMCA in London. A little taste of India smack bang in the centre of London town! One of the greatest, most authentic and cheapest places to get Indian food around. But I digress…
Through the training we aim to cover as much as we can to help prepare and challenge our team. Have a look at the Challenges to see what specific things we challenge the team to do. We covered so much in the meeting that I don’t want to go through everything one by one, but some of my favourite bits were:
- Working with children and Behaviour Management (particularly with Yemma acting as a naughty child). We spent an hour training the team about not only how to work with children, but how to work with children who don’t speak English.
- Coming SO CLOSE to winning the culture quiz (we was robbed!) It was the same quiz as last year, and whilst I wasn’t there last year Yemma Kelly was, and frankly she should have done better on my behalf!
- Seeing the results of the life-sized Monopoly Challenge – particularly
Lydia trying to claim that a picture of her trying to get into a post box was using a method of transport! We sent the whole team out in groups to find as many of the places on the Monopoly Board as they could.
- Food.
- Cathy’s Tamil Lesson – and I was mightily impressed by the skills of our current team – they’ve already learnt 1 – 10 and their pronunciation is spectacular! A link to the lesson notes will follow shortly.
- Activity ideas – I particularly like Funfair Games. We gained new ideas for activities to do with the kids we work with in India by getting the team to pool all of their ideas.
- Social Networking – thank you Charlie Griff – who knew about how much money you could make online for MINIMUM EFFORT. He told us all about the Million Dollar Homepage. Looks like a mess doesn’t it? But the guy who made it is now a millionaire! Maybe this is how we can afford to pay for the rebuilding project at YMCA Fort School in Chennai?
- Food.
So, all in all it was fairly manic, but I don’t think we can complain. What an amazing weekend. I am now looking forward to seeing the team popping up on Twitter, and starting to Blog on the website.
That’s all for now. More to follow!
Behaviour Challenge Challenges Chennai Chennai Challenge Children India Indian YMCA Lesson Million Dollar Homepage Monopoly Tamil Twitter Weekend Working with Children YMCA